Trinity Bible College Chapel Podcast: Recent Episodes
trinitybiblecollegechapel
Welcome to the audio podcast for the Chapel services at Trinity Bible College & Graduate School in Ellendale, ND where our mission is to train and educate students with theological reflection and missional passion. We trust this podcast will encourage you in your pursuit of Jesus and His calling.
President Dr. Paul Alexander provides updates about Trinity Bible College and Graduate School.
North Dakota District Youth Director Aaron Phoenix
Matthew 13:10-12
“God make me content with what you want me to do”
What’s love got to do with it?
- A new command
- A new kind of love
- A new kingdom
John 5:13
Romans 5:8
Matthew 5:44
Chair of Biblical and Theology Department Professor Aaron Thurber shares today in chapel.
GO Week Academic Debate with Hope Danzl & Josiah Leibe. The topic is: Holism & Prioritism: How Should the Church Do Mission?
Members of the Trinity Bible College & Graduate School faculty share nuggets of wisdom.
Music provided by Luke Jacob.
Judgment
- The other side of Jesus
- Do not judge I'm confused...
- Planks, Pearls and Pigs
- Deliver us from evil
Exam Day
- This will affect your eternal record.
- First century imprisonment
- Philippians 1:18-30
- Rejoice in all circumstances
- 2 Corinthians 11:23-28
- Let your manner of life be worthy...striving side by side for the gospel
Jesus, It's Raining
Mark 4:35-41
- In order to receive the promise you have to go through the process.
- If you need help talk to somebody.
- It is so sweet to trust or living hope.
- Once you get to the other side tell somebody.
A number of Trinity Bible College & Graduate School students share their stories from the summer.
The Student Life department announces Brother/Sister groups and goes over some campus rules.
Trinity Bible College & Graduate School welcomes the new class!
Panel Discussion
- Dr. Bill Hennessy
- Shawn Hirst
- Garrett Freier
- Dr. Carol Alexander
The Trinity Bible College & Graduate School class of 2020 has the opportunity to receive their diplomas.
Trinity Bible College & Graduate School provides a panel discussion regarding health on campus.
For the first chapel of the Fall 2020 semester President Dr. Paul Alexander shares a powerful message asking the question, Is This the End Times?
Living Sent
- John 20:21
- God as sender
- You are God sent ones
- Are you living every day sent?
- How are you sending others?
Psalm 105
- Remember
- Remember the story
- Remember how God works: Not how we expect
- Keep Remembering: Correctly
Get Your Crazy On
- Genesis 15
- The story of Abram
- Get crazy for the will of God
- For your own life
- For family and friends
- for your future
- Get crazy for the land God has for you
- Your unique calling
- Your place in a community
- Your love for God's world
- Get crazy for your legacy
1 Peter 4 (NIV 1984)
- Who is Peter?
- Who is the book written to?
- We need to be done with sin.
- Your love can be deep enough.
The Future Starts Today
- Connecting to our source
- Living for more than yourself
- The quest for fruit
- Growth Tools
- Heres to the past
Final Chapel of Fall 2019
- The Safe City
- Joshua 20:1-2
- The safe city of viable thought.
- The safe city of plausible actions and lifestyles.
- The safe city of miraculous stories.
Innovation
- Colossians 1:13-14
- What's new in the world of innovation?
- The disrupted world we live in.
- The movement of people
- The environment and manmade disasters
- Technology and the internet
- The restorative God we serve
- loves people
- Fixes brokenness
- Forgiveness
- The transformative kingdom we are a part of
- Global
- Local
- Internal
Power Turned Upside Down
Acts 12:1-19
- Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have.
- We pray even when we do not know what the outcome will be.
- Peace is the result of earnest prayer.
- God's plan always surprises
- Believing and trusting are not always the same.
- No human can thwart the plan of God.
- Colossians 1:17
Fundraising
- Daunting Task or Ministry Opportunity?
- What does it mean to raise funds as a pentecostal?
- Definition of Pentecostal Fundraising.
- Pentecostal Fundraising Priorities
- God provides money as you...
Calling: God's Specific Purpose for You
Hebrews 11:8-9
Genesis 12:1-7
- God's calling can take us out of what is familiar.
- God's calling is for you to be a blessing.
- Ephesians 1:3
- God's calling requires faith and sacrifice.
- God's calling starts now.
- What is God calling you out of and into today?
- Matthew 3:16-17
- God cares more about who you art to Him than what you do for Him.
Church Multiplication Network
Highly Unlikely
"God is calling unlikely people, to go to unlikely places, to do unlikely things."
"The calling of God is greater than your preferences."
Church Multiplication Network
Church Planting
2 Kings 7:3-10
- "If you have a pulse, you have a purpose!"
- Salt - Matthew 5:13-16
- Salt was never meant to stay in the shaker.
- Hope - Carry hope
- Act - They realized that if they did not do something, they would die doing nothing.
- What miracle is on the other side of your action?
- Romans 10:13-16
- Real - Colossians 4:5-6 - People are not projects
- Every - Take every moment, think through every season.
Key Points
- Countless memories seemingly lost in one ominous screenshot
- Loading moments are any moment where circumstances threatened your memories
- Israel as a people of memory
- Deuteronomy 6:4 - 9
-
What law does
-
It defines what society will and will not allow
- It provides order and justice
- (More to the point) it defines what kind of people will inhabit and be allowed to thrive in any given society
- Law defines the identity of people
-
Memory = Belief
-
“Every community that wants to last beyond a single generation must concern itself with education” (Walter Brueggeman).
- Israel’s memory invites conversation because it believes that what has happened will happen again
- Joshua 4:1 - 7
-
What do these stories mean?
-
Memory = belief = hope
- Joshua 1:9
- …….because he knows that throughout life one needs reminders of what God has done to believe in what he will do.
- In choosing to mark this moment they took more stones and made them into something holy
- Mark this moment take a mere stone and make it into something holy. Build an altar.
Supernatural Series
An interview regarding their journeys and understanding of the gifts and power of the Spirit.
Key Points
- Ministry Journey
- Tell us about your experience in being baptized in the Holy Spirit
- Why is the power of the Holy Spirit so important?
- Why is the work kingdom so important?
- Some significant stories that have happened through the holy spirit.
John 16
- Word of God
- Spirit of God
- People of God
Read, feel, see, think, and dream the word of God.
Life Controlling Issues
- Is Sin really a big deal?
- If we are saved by grace can we continue to sin?
- This is serious stuff that can lead to spiritual death.
- God loves you too much to leave you in your destructive patterns.
- God wants you to be free!
Ways to Overcome Sin:
- Confession
- Stay in Community
- Get help
- Disciplines
- Remove yourself from temptation
Prophecy
- Prophecy is a gift of the Spirit
- Prophecy as especially noted by Paul
- Prophetic information does not come from cognition, it comes from God.
- God works with us; He does not "possess" us. He gives us boldness to exercise gifts. But, there is still human involvement.
- We can "experiment" with prophecy, because if it's wrong, you won't be stoned (like in the OT). People can weigh the prophecy.
- Prophecy can be planned or spontaneous. It can be the Bible or other words in agreement with the Bible.
- Prophecy can cause the Word of God to be rediscovered.
Three Kings of Judah
- Hezekiah: good king, followed the law of God
- Manasseh: evil king, followed the law of God
-
Amon: evil king
-
Josiah (boy king): 2 Chronicles 34:8-11
- Men found the Book of the Law
- Josiah leads a national revival
- Prophecy is here to wake people up and rediscover the Word of God.
Student Ministries Director Garrett Frieier shares a message about the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
The Third Wheel
President Dr. Paul Alexander shares a powerful message to the student body, staff and faculty.
Supernatural Series
- What does it mean to be spirit-filled?
- What supernatural moments have you encountered?
- How do you discern what God is peaking to you?
- What is a healthy view of the supernatural in the western world?
South Dakota District Youth Director, Tyler Tufte
The Finisher
- Created to be a finisher
- God the finisher
- At the end of your life, you will definitely be done. But will you have finished?