Chi Alpha Uni - Sermon Audio

Last night Pastor Jon Griffin kicked off our Right to Live Missions series that focuses on the importance of reaching others with the gospel. He emphasized that our relationship with Jesus should be personal but not private. Jesus' presence changes circumstance and perspective.

Our former Chi Alpha director Pastor Daniel Quinby and the pastor of Sent Church came to campus to continue our Right to More series. He shared what life can practically look like after the move of God that students experienced through fall retreat last weekend. He emphasized the importance of becoming a friend of the Holy Spirit and how to keep the fire burning after we experience Him.

This week Pastor Derek continued our series, Right to More by diving deeper into how the Holy Spirit can operate in our daily lives, emphasizing on the gift of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Encounters with the Holy Spirit take time, intentionality, and are meant to change us.

Last week Pastor Derek talked about the character of the Holy Spirit and how He works in our lives. We can have confidence knowing that when we follow Jesus we have access to His Holy Spirit that can help us bear fruit.

Pastor Derek wrapped up our series Right to Family with a message that encouraged vulnerability within community. Confession of sin within community creates an opportunity for freedom and accountability. If we hide our struggles, we may feel alone in our sin, but if we express them, we can help one another gain freedom.

Pastor KC started our Right to Family series with a message that emphasized the importance of having vulnerable community. She shared that when your family is dear to you, you will lay down your life, be there for each other, and fight for each other. She referenced 1 Thessalonians 2:7-12 to paint the picture of what this practically looks like.

This week Pastor Derek wrapped up our sermon series, "Right to Royalty", with a message about our Birthright. In this message he emphasized that God knows the best way to live in this universe, which is following His commands for our life. When we sell our birthright for the things of this world, we are saying that living for God is not worth it. We must trust God with our lives and know that He has what is best for us. This allows us to live in His freedom.

Pastor Derek continued our "Right to Royalty" series with a message titled "Royal Presence." The story of Mary and Martha painted a picture of what it looks like to simply be with Jesus instead of doing things for Him to earn His love. Derek showed us what it looks like to grow in intimacy with Jesus through intentional relationship and communion instead of adding Him to our checklist.

Pastor Derek continued our Right to Royalty series with the second sermon last night, Royal Water. He preached on the story of the woman at the well in John 4 and shared what it means to receive living water from Jesus. We must find our satisfaction through the living water of Jesus and not momentary fixes.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek kicked off the school year preaching over the parable of the prodigal son. Through this series we're going to be looking at our birthright as a son or daughter of our King.

For our last Tuesday of the 2021-2022 school year, Pastor Derek sent our students off with vision for their lives and this coming school year. We got to spend time before the sermon to celebrate our 19 students that are graduating, most of them moving into the workplace mission field. The rest of our students are coming back next with a vision to make disciples who make disciples who live a life of real devotion, real community, and real responsibility.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek spoke on our third life within our sermon series, the life of Daniel. Going through the book of Daniel, Pastor Derek showed us how Daniel remained firm in the Lord while the culture around him was shifting away from God. We can look to Daniel's and the three brother's faith as a model for resisting ungodly culture when we are away from our community on the campus.

This week, Victor continued our newest series, where we are walking through the lives of people in the Bible. We looked at the life of King David and how even though he made critical mistakes, he got to experience God's grace. Through humbling ourselves, we have the opportunity to accept God's grace as well.

This week, Pastor Derek started our last sermon series of the school year, where we'll be walking through the lives of people in the Bible. We started off by looking at Joshua's life and how he consecrated himself for the Lord. Remaining reliant and obedient to the Lord, Joshua saw victory over Jericho.

This Tuesday, Pastor Katie finished up our sermon series over prayer with a timeless message over intercessory prayer. She spoke over Moses interceding for the Israelites in Exodus 32, and we learned that we engage in intercessory prayer because we want to see God move in the lives around us. Our prayer is that we wouldn't sit around worrying about things instead of praying for them.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek taught us how to pray like Jesus through dissecting the Lord's Prayer and applying the P.R.A.Y. acronym to it. The main idea for this sermon was praying like Jesus means connecting to our Father. This looks like pausing and silencing our thoughts, rejoicing in what the Lord is doing in your life, asking him for your needs and the needs of others, and yielding to his will over your life.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek started a new sermon series titled Pray Like This, with the first sermon teaching us how to pray like children. We went through Mark 10 to see how Jesus responds to children and then looked at how children act today. They’re honest, they ask, and they’re talkative and we applied these to our prayer lives to grow in praying like children.

This Tuesday we ended our love series by having pastor Jon and KC take us through the topic of marriage. We looked at the first marriage relationship in Genesis 2 with Adam and Eve, and we talked about the four purposes of marriage taken from John Mark Comer's book Loveology; Friendship, Gardening, Sex, and Family.

This week, Pastor Derek took us through Judges 14 where it tells the story of Samson and the lion. We learned that we need to run away from "the cliff of sex" and run towards Jesus. Pastor Derek taught us that we must trust the creator of sex over the creation that is sex.

This Tuesday, Pastor Derek continued our love series by speaking on the topic of dating. We looked into the relationship that the man and woman had in the book song of Solomon, and we looked at what our relationships should look like on the way to marriage using John Mark Comer's four marks; the chase, the line, the friends, and the journey to the day.