The Minor Prophets: The God of Our Salvation

Worshiping and Witnessing: The Minor Prophets - The Village Chapel

August 4, 2024 • Tom Yarbrough • Habakkuk 3, Romans 10:17, Philippians 4:4

Worshiping and Witnessing The Minor Prophets: Habakkuk 3 The Village Chapel - 08/04/2024 Habakkuk 3 opens with Habakkuk saying that he has heard the report of the Lord. What is the report you have heard of the Lord? What is the story you have been told about God and where does it come from? Why does this matter? What if the true story of the Lord found in His word could transform us from wondering if God cares to fully worshiping Him and rejoicing in Him, even in suffering? Join Associate Pastor Tom Yarbrough as we conclude our study of Habakkuk. The Village Chapel exists to glorify God through the teaching of His word, through heartfelt worship, and by connecting people with opportunities to live lives of real significance, serving God and their neighbors as a local community of faith. To find more resources like these, follow us: 🖥️ Website: https://thevillagechapel.com/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ucqvtzdbaixvuam_mubdctjahttp://www.youtube.com/channel/ucqvtzdbaixvuam_mubdctja 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tvcnashville/http://www.instagram.com/tvcnashville 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tvcnashvillehttp://www.facebook.com/tvcnashville 🆇 X: https://twitter.com/tvcnashville To support the ongoing mission of The Village Chapel go to https://thevillagechapel.com/give/. If you are a regular giver, thank you for your continued faithfulness and generosity!

Watching and Waiting: The Minor Prophets - The Village Chapel

July 28, 2024 • Pastor Matt Pierson • Habakkuk 2, Psalm 115:2–8

Watching and Waiting The Minor Prophets: Habakkuk 2 The Village Chapel - 07/28/2024 The Old Testament prophet Habakkuk asked God some sincere and hard questions in chapter 1, questions like, ‘How long, Lord? How long will you let evil prevail?’ Now, in chapter 2, Habakkuk has positioned and postured himself to watch and wait for the Lord’s answer. God does indeed answer, but his answer curiously is…wait for it! What can we learn and apply from Habakkuk in our own lives? How do we embrace the long journey of faith, and give all that we are both ambitious and anxious about to the Lord as we wait for his answers? Join Pastor Matt as he points us to the faithful God who speaks, who answers our hard questions, and who promises to make all things finally and fully right. The Village Chapel exists to glorify God through the teaching of His word, through heartfelt worship, and by connecting people with opportunities to live lives of real significance, serving God and their neighbors as a local community of faith. To find more resources like these, follow us: 🖥️ Website: https://thevillagechapel.com/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ucqvtzdbaixvuam_mubdctjahttp://www.youtube.com/channel/ucqvtzdbaixvuam_mubdctja 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tvcnashville/http://www.instagram.com/tvcnashville 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tvcnashvillehttp://www.facebook.com/tvcnashville 🆇 X: https://twitter.com/tvcnashville To support the ongoing mission of The Village Chapel go to https://thevillagechapel.com/give/. If you are a regular giver, thank you for your continued faithfulness and generosity!

Wondering and Wrestling: The Minor Prophets - The Village Chapel

July 21, 2024 • Pastor Jim Thomas • Habakkuk 1:1—2:1, Psalm 18:6, Psalm 22:1–2

Wondering and Wrestling The Minor Prophets: Habakkuk 1:1-2:1 The Village Chapel - 07/21/2024 Habakkuk was an Old Testament prophet who lived in a time marked by acrimony, wickedness and violence. With that difficult context and yet, given what he believed to be true about God, Habakkuk had some honest questions about God’s silence and God’s sovereignty. What did Habakkuk do with his questions? He took them directly to the Lord and then waited expectantly for God to answer. Just what were those questions and how did God answer them? Join Pastor Jim as he opens up chapter one of Habakkuk to show us that even in our times of greatest difficulty, God is neither inactive, incapable nor indifferent; God knows and cares about our times of wondering and wrestling. The Village Chapel exists to glorify God through the teaching of His word, through heartfelt worship, and by connecting people with opportunities to live lives of real significance, serving God and their neighbors as a local community of faith. To find more resources like these, follow us: 🖥️ Website: https://thevillagechapel.com/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ucqvtzdbaixvuam_mubdctjahttp://www.youtube.com/channel/ucqvtzdbaixvuam_mubdctja 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tvcnashville/http://www.instagram.com/tvcnashville 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tvcnashvillehttp://www.facebook.com/tvcnashville 🆇 X: https://twitter.com/tvcnashville To support the ongoing mission of The Village Chapel go to https://thevillagechapel.com/give/. If you are a regular giver, thank you for your continued faithfulness and generosity!

The Tyranny of Pride: The Minor Prophets - The Village Chapel

July 14, 2024 • Pastor Tommy Bailey • Obadiah

The Tyranny of Pride The Minor Prophets: Obadiah The Village Chapel - 07/14/2024 Obadiah, the smallest book in the Old Testament, vividly depicts one of the biggest enemies of the human soul: pride. This prophetic book sheds light on the deception and destruction that pride of heart can bring, yet it points forward to the hope of a Kingdom that decisively reverses its tyranny. Join Pastor Tommy as we study the wisdom in the warnings of this prophetic book. The Village Chapel exists to glorify God through the teaching of His word, through heartfelt worship, and by connecting people with opportunities to live lives of real significance, serving God and their neighbors as a local community of faith. To find more resources like these, follow us: 🖥️ Website: https://thevillagechapel.com/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ucqvtzdbaixvuam_mubdctjahttp://www.youtube.com/channel/ucqvtzdbaixvuam_mubdctja 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tvcnashville/http://www.instagram.com/tvcnashville 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tvcnashvillehttp://www.facebook.com/tvcnashville 🆇 X: https://twitter.com/tvcnashville To support the ongoing mission of The Village Chapel go to https://thevillagechapel.com/give/. If you are a regular giver, thank you for your continued faithfulness and generosity!

Living for What Will Last: The Minor Prophets - The Village Chapel

July 7, 2024 • Ryan Motta • Haggai, 1 John 1:9, 1 Peter 2:4–5

Living for What Will Last The Minor Prophets: Haggai The Village Chapel - 07/07/2024 What does it mean to live a life of significance? In a recent study, 1/4 people in the USA said that they feel their life has no meaning or purpose. In a world where people are starving for meaning, what hope does the letter of Haggai have to offer? During the time of this letter, the Israelites have fallen under one of the great enemies of a meaningful life, distractions. Though this letter is over 2,000 years old, the problem of a distracted life is more prevalent than ever. Join us this week as we unpack the message of Haggai and learn what it means to truly live a life full of meaning and purpose.

The Prodigal Prophet Encounters God’s Lavish Mercy: The Minor Prophets - The Village Chapel

June 30, 2024 • Pastor Matt Pierson • Jonah 3—4, Exodus 33:19, Ephesians 2:13–17, Genesis 18:25, 2 Peter 3:9

The Prodigal Prophet Encounters God’s Lavish Mercy The Minor Prophets: Jonah 3 & 4 The Village Chapel - 06/30/2024 What happens when a reluctant prophet delivers a word from the Lord to a group of people whom the prophet despises and wishes God would destroy instead of save? For that matter, how do we relate and respond towards those we regard as “Other?” How do we treat people who are deeply different than us? How would God have us treat those who we classify as “them” and not “us?” Join Pastor Matt as he leads us through the final two chapters of Jonah, and we hear from the Lord on these issues.

The Wideness in God’s Mercy: The Minor Prophets - The Village Chapel

June 23, 2024 • Pastor Jim Thomas • Jonah 1—2

You probably already know the story from when you were growing up. It was probably called “Jonah and the Whale,” or “A Whale of a Tale,” or something like that. Well, the fact is the OT book of Jonah is not primarily about a whale or about whether or not there was a fish big enough to swallow a full-grown, adult human being and then hold him in its stomach for three days and three nights. No, Jonah is about a prodigal prophet. It’s an Old Testament version of the parable Jesus told about the prodigal sons and their father in Luke 15. But in this case, Jonah looks like both the younger son who ran away from His father, then squandered his life, and the older prodigal son who refused to rejoice at the return home of his brother. What is this wideness in God’s mercy all about? Why does the grace of God become such a scandal to so many of our hearts and minds? Why do we so often want justice for others, but grace and mercy for ourselves? Join Pastor Jim as he helps us see the real message at the heart of the story of the petulant, prodigal prophet known as Jonah and the way it points forward to the greater Jonah, Jesus Christ.

Joel 2:28-3:21 - The Day of the LORD, Part 2

June 16, 2024 • Pastor Jim Thomas • Revelation 21:1–3, Joel 2:28—3:21, Matthew 25:31–33, Joel 2:12–13

Have you wondered whether there will come a day when evil will be eradicated, justice will be done and everything broken in the world will be set right? We have and that’s why we believe you will love studying the book of Joel, especially this final segment in our series of studies in Joel. Here we read about what God intends to do about all that is wrong in the world. Five times in three chapters Joel mentions “The Day of the LORD,” describing what will happen, to whom it will happen and implying its historic, imminent and ultimate fulfillments. Join Pastor Jim as he helps us unpack the meaning and hope we find in the ultimate Day of the LORD!

Joel 2:1-27 - The Day of the LORD, Part 1

June 9, 2024 • Pastor Jim Thomas • Joel 2:1–27, Joel 1:15, Hebrews 10:23–25

Events like the locust plague described in the book of Joel are often classified as “natural disasters.” But natural disasters often lead us to ask questions: Why did this happen? Where was God when this happened? Why did this happen here and now? Why did it happen to those people, or to us? Have we done something to offend God? Is God trying to get our attention in some way? Joel framed his answer using the phrase, “the day of the LORD,” five times in three chapters. What did Joel mean by that phrase and why should it still be important to us in our own day and time? Just how does the prophetic book of Joel apply to us today? Is it about eschatological predictions, eschatological promises, or both? Join Pastor Jim as he walks us through most of Joel 2 in Part 1 of this two part series on The Day of the LORD.

Joel 1 - Spiritual Sleepiness

June 2, 2024 • Pastor Tommy Bailey • Joel 1, Mark 13:35–37, Romans 8:1

The Book of Joel, one of the twelve Minor Prophets, opens with a devastating scene. A swarm of locusts had invaded the land, decimated crops and shriveled up the resources of God’s people. As the story unfolds, we see that the people's hearts had become spiritually dull. The worship of God had dried up. Even before the locusts had come, the people of God were spiritually asleep. Join Pastor Tommy as we see God's extraordinary grace in waking His children up from the dangers of spiritual sleepiness, complacency and lethargy. The loving heart of God the Father never leaves His children to languish on their own, but offers newness of life to all who call on Him.

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