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Chapels from the Spring 2013 semester at Biola University.
Chapels are presented in chronological order, with most recent chapels at the end of the list.
Chapels are presented in chronological order, with most recent chapels at the end of the list.
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Katelyn Beaty, managing editor of Christianity Today and co-founder of Hermeneutics, shares the stories of prominent women who helped found Biola. She explains that the stories of these women as well as women in Scripture are critically important to share with women today. Beaty shows that Christianity has a strong history of valuing women, and encourages her audience to continue to show honor between the genders.
Associate Dean of Spiritual Development, Lisa Igram, leads her listeners through the prayer of examine. She encourages her audience to identify the small things that remind them of God's love and to consider the responses of their hearts as more significant than their circumstances.
Dr. Nancy Grisham shares some of her testimony and urges her audience to realize the importance of their mission as Christians. She explains that the work of Christ is finished and the sins of the world are forgiven, but only if the world hears and accepts Jesus will they be saved. Grisham urges her audience to move boldly in the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Spiritual Development staff lead their audience in practicing three types of prayer: a prayer of honesty, a prayer of recollection, and a prayer of reception. The speakers encourage their audience to consider the states of their hearts and to lay their anxieties and preoccupations before the cross. To close, Dr. Todd Pickett asks his audience to receive the truths that God has been pressing into their lives.
Dr. Todd Pickett, the Spiritual Development staff, and several students introduce the various chapel opportunities that exist on campus. They explain the focus of each chapel and urge their audience to take advantage of the many opportunities to connect with God.
After a brief introduction of the 2013 Ruby Awards recipients from President Barry Corey, Dr. La Verne Tolbert addresses Biola's student body. She shares her testimony of being healed of a deep wound from a difficult mother situation as a child. Tolbert encourages her audience to identify the lies that the enemy tells them about themselves and to live with the knowledge and freedom of their true identity in Christ.
Dr. John Coe explains that the Great Commission is not about leaving one's culture, but about making full-fledged disciples of people everywhere. Jesus' command to "go" and make disciples, Coe says, is not so profound a command; it simply means to go forth, and to make disciples wherever one is.
Dr. Peter J. Williams, Warden of Tyndale House and member of the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University, analyzes the gospels' continuity with other historical documents to support their validity. He demonstrates that the gospels withstand stringent tests of the personal names, geographical names, and botanical names they employ.
Dr. Andy Draycott considers the significance of prophecy to love, as they are closely linked in 1 Corinthians. He explains that Christians must not be cynics, who are "done" with their acquaintances; or consumers, who measure truth against situational needs; or cybernauts, who try to live outside themselves entirely. Rather, Christians must be prophets who proclaim the good news in love right in their immediate situations.
Members of Biola's International Students Association share their testimonies and experiences of engaging with unfamiliar cultures and backgrounds. The speakers encourage their audience to look into the deeper significance of cultural diversity. They exhort their audience to love others as Jesus did by valuing the broad range of stories they have to share. To close, Ivan Chung, Director of International Student Services, relays his moment of realization that God embraces and values all nationalities, cultures, genders, classes, and ethnicities.
Dr. Todd Pickett, Dean of Spiritual Development, leads his audience in a reflection on the preceding Monday's chapel by Pastor Alistair Begg. He echoes Begg's main point, that believers can rest assured that God is in control of their lives. Pickett challenges his audience to consider how dependent they are on things beside God to bring them peace, happiness, and security. At times these will be taken away, he says, and the anxiety people experience is a good indicator of how attached they are to these external things.
The Spiritual Development staff lead their audience in a reflection on the preceding Monday's chapel by Pastor Laurel Bunker. Dr. Todd Pickett echoes Bunker's call to know the gospel in one's deepest self. The staff continue by leading the audience in corporate prayer for those hurting in the world.
Pastor Khristi Adams of Azusa Pacific University encourages her audience to engage the world with the self-sacrificing love of Jesus. She admits that love and kindness are difficult because it is human inclination to respond to injustice with injustice, but Christians must exercise love in spite of this because Jesus' love was unconditional.
Dr. Everett Worthington discusses forgiveness and presents what he has termed "REACH." REACH is an acrostic of five steps toward forgiveness that can be applied toward forgiving others and even forgiving oneself. Worthington explains that people cannot simply choose to forgive themselves, but must seek out forgiveness from God and others as well as heal the damage they have done to themselves.
Rebekah Davis and Keaton Tyndall of Biola's Student Missionary Union introduce the 2013 Missions Conference. Sharing testimonies from the international mission field as well as the vision of SMU, they encourage their audience to walk as empowered servants of the almighty God. They share their own visions of participating in a movement filled with the power of God, and urge their audience to aspire after the same.
President Barry Corey considers why hypocrisy is so damaging to a Christian's spiritual life. He defines hypocrisy as "self-inflicted, degenerative, spiritual blindness." Corey looks at the gospels to see how Jesus contested hypocrisy with the pharisees. He also relays his experiences of recognizing his own hypocrisy and encourages Biola students to actualize their faith. To close, Corey ties his message to Biola's ongoing conversation with the LGBTQ community.
Pastor Alistair Begg discusses the implications of God's sovereignty. He explains that with God in control of all things prosperity cannot lead to self-assurance, uncertainty cannot lead to panic, and adversity cannot lead to self-pity. When Christians are assured that their times are in God's hands, Begg says, they have he confidence and security of knowing that God's plan works all things together for his greatest purpose.
Johann Christof Arnold relates his life experience of being born to German refugees, coming to an American high school after growing up South America, and participating in the civil rights demonstrations of Martin Luther King Jr. He explains that he and his wife, during their time as counselors, became very aware of people's need for forgiveness. In response, Arnold began writing books that relay extraordinary stories of forgiveness that he believes will inspire people to do the same. To close, Hashim Garrett relays his testimony of forgiveness for a firefight that left him paralyzed when he was young.
Andy Crouch begins his message by leading his audience in a gospel spiritual. He explains that the spiritual came from the oral tradition of African-American slaves. Crouch goes on to discuss idolatry and explains how idolatry and injustice are the same issue. In both cases, God is substituted for something inferior.
Andy Crouch urges his audience to embrace the very beginning and very end of their Bibles: where God creates a good world, and where God creates a beautiful new world. He considers the tendency of Christians to pit themselves against culture and explains that humanity needs culture to have meaning. Using Scripture and the music of Bach, Crouch shows that it has always been humanity's responsibility to turn the raw materials of creation into something beautiful that glorifies God.
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