The Sojourn Chattanooga Sermon Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sojourn Chattanooga
The Sojourn Chattanooga Sermon Podcast captures the preaching of the pastors of Sojourn Community Church in Chattanooga, TN. For more info visit https://www.sojournchattanooga.com.
Sermon Summary: We all long for safety, security, and having our needs met. Psalm 16 gives us a portrait of what it looks like to trust God for our safety, security, and provision.
Text: Psalm 16
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: 06/04/23
Title: A Portrait of Trust
Sermon Summary: All of humanity is searching for some connection with the transcendent. Psalm 15 brings us to wrestle with the question, “To whom will the God of the Bible extend the hospitality of his home?”
Text: Psalm 15
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: 05/28/23
Title: With God on His Mountain
Sermon Summary: The second thing worst before God behind idolatry is to overlook people in their distress.
Title: A Call to Love Mercy
Text: Matthew 25:31-40, 45
Speaking: Pastor Néstor Gómez
Date: 05/21/2023
Series: Stand Alone
Audio Block Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more Sermon Summary: This small letter of Paul points urges us to show the same love and forgiveness God shows to us to those around us.
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: May 14
Text: Philemon
Title: Put That On My Account
Series: NT Postcards: Walking in the Truth
Audio Block Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more Sermon Summary: Jude is full of warning against ungodly men and women who claim to follow Jesus, but twist grace into lawlessness. It’s full of reminders about the ability of God to judge such individuals. But it’s also filled with much comfort for followers of Jesus who may be rattled by apostasy. How are we to contend for the faith and avoid apostasy? We enjoy being kept, we engage in the keeping, and we exult in the keeper.
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: May 7
Text: Jude
Title: The Kept, The Keeping, The Keeper
Series: NT Postcards: Walking in the Truth
Sermon Summary: In Jude, we see a picture painted of great evil at work to shake the faithful. However, we are reminded that a greater Savior is also at work and there is a better way to live than the lies thrown at us.
Speaking: Gustavo Formenti
Date: April 30
Text: Jude 1-16
Title: A Better Way to Live
Sermon Summary: In 3 John, we get a window into a moment in time. We meet multiple people; we are introduced to a problem; we are given a pattern; and then John makes a point: posturing for a platform is evil.
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: April 23
Text: 3 John
Title: The Evil of Posturing for a Platform
Series: NT Postcards: Walking in the Truth
Sermon Summary: In 2 John, we are given some action steps in order to walk in the truth of the gospel. We open our hearts, sit ourselves down the truths of the gospel, and shut the door to false teachers.
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: April 16
Text: 2 John
Title: How to Walk: Open, Sit, Shut
Series: NT Postcards: Walking in the Truth
Sermon Summary: Isaiah 25 is quite a chapter: A Tale of Two Cities… A Feast, a Foe, and a Final Outcome… a Context, a Center, and a Call. What does it all mean? It means there is a Feast-giving, Tear-wiping, Disgrace-removing, Death-Swallowing Deliverer ready to welcome you into his family.
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: April 9
Text: Isaiah 25:6-9
Title: The Feast-Giving, Death-Swallowing Deliverer
Series: Stand Alone
Sermon Summary: As Jesus enters Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, he is declaring his kingship. You should worship Jesus as the King of your life, because Jesus is King of Kings.
Speaking: Pastor Jeff Lynn
Date: April 2
Text: Matthew 22:1-17
Title: King of Kings
Series: Stand Alone
Embed Block Add an embed URL or code. Learn more Sermon Summary: Prayer is how we practice partnership with God in this world. But our world is an “in-between world,” in which we have the promises of God, but those promises have not yet been fulfilled. In this middle space where there is much brokenness & sorrow, God has given us the gift of a particular form of prayer--the grace of lament.
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: March 26
Text: Lamentations 3:1-24
Title: The Grace of Lament
Series: The Lord’s Prayer: Practicing Partnership with God
Sermon Summary: Prayer is how we practice partnership with God in this world. Where did this benediction come from? And what is so compelling about it?
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: March 19
Text: 1 Chronicles 29:10-13
Title: The Eternal, Majestic, Almighty King
Series: The Lord’s Prayer: Practicing Partnership with God
Audio Block Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more Sermon Summary: Prayer is how we practice partnership with God in this world. But what should we pray for? The 6th petition reminds us that we have enemies and that we can’t deal with these enemies on our own.
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: March 12
Text: Matthew 6:1-14
Title: Lead us Not into Temptation, But Deliver us from the Evil One
Series: The Lord’s Prayer: Practicing Partnership with God
Sermon Summary: Prayer and fasting are both difficult and misunderstood spiritual disciplines. Immediately after teaching on prayer, Jesus corrects misunderstandings about fasting. This week, we interrupt our study on the Lord’s prayer to dive into the theme of fasting: What is it? Why should we consider fasting? And when will the need for fasting end?
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: March 5
Text: Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 9:14-14
Title: “When you fast…”
Series: The Lord’s Prayer: Practicing Partnership with God
Sermon Summary: Prayer is how we practice partnership with God in this world. And life in this world means we experience guilt, both earned and unearned. What are we to do with our guilt, or with the guilt of others who have committed sin against us?
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: February 26
Text: Matthew 6:1-14
Title: Forgive our Debts as We Forgive our Debtors
Series: The Lord’s Prayer: Practicing Partnership with God
Sermon Summary: Prayer is how we practice partnership with God in this world. But what should we pray for? The fourt petition brings us to an uncomfortable reality: we are needy. We often respond to this need with denial, in self-reliance, with anxiety, and eventually, defeatism. But provision is always grace, and God is The Provider.
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: February 19
Text: Matthew 6:1-14
Title: Give us Today our Daily Bread
Series: The Lord’s Prayer: Practicing Partnership with God
Sermon Summary: Prayer is how we practice partnership with God in this world. But what should we pray for? The third petition brings us to a reckoning with our desires.
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: February 19
Text: Matthew 6:1-14
Title: Your Will Be Done
Series: The Lord’s Prayer: Practicing Partnership with God
Sermon Summary: Prayer is how we practice partnership with God in this world. But do we long for God's Kingdom to come or our own? We are reminded that only God's Kingdom is eternal and worthy of our longing.
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: February 5
Text: Daniel 7:1-14
Title: Your Kingdom Come
Series: The Lord’s Prayer: Practicing Partnership with God
The Christian life can quickly become monotonous and exhausting. We lose sight of the purpose of the Christian life. However, the Apostle Paul gives us a clear aim of Christ’s character formed in us and our participation in God’s sanctifying work!
Sermon Summary: Prayer is how we practice partnership with God in this world. But what should we pray for? The first petition on our hearts and minds ought to be the glory of God.
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: January 22
Text: Matthew 6:1-14
Title: Hallowed be Your Name
Series: The Lord’s Prayer: Practicing Partnership with God
Sermon Summary: Prayer is how we practice partnership with God in this world. But to whom do we pray? And how do we pray? The preface to our Lord’s Prayer answers that question: We pray in faith to our Father in Heaven.
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
Date: January 15
Text: Matthew 6:1-14
Title: Our Father in Heaven
Series: The Lord’s Prayer: Practicing Partnership with God
As we dive into the Lord’s Prayer we need to understand the context in which it was given, the Sermon on the Mount. There, we discover that prayer is how we practice partnership with God in this world.
Speaking: Pastor Isaiah Lewis
What does it mean that we were dead in our trespasses and sins? We look at how God's grace and the power of the new covenant is revealed in Ezekiel 37.
Paul calls the Colossian Church to private obedience that is rooted in devoted prayer and winsome wisdom in their interactions with non-Christians.
We believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, but often, just to a point. Will we live out the fact that “Christ governs the entire universe, including the mundane affairs of the household” (to quote N.T. Wright)? And what does this look like in the parent-child relationship?
When Paul says that we are to work out our salvation, he doesn’t mean that we work for our salvation. But what exactly does he mean? God works in us and we also work!