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Harbourside Church PodcastS18E4: Going To God and Going To The King - Caleb SchutMessage: Going To God and Going To The KingSermon Series: Ezra/Nehemiah - What Were You Made For?Passage: Nehemiah 1Preacher: Caleb SchutSunday Service: 29 June 2025Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2025-07-0149 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS18E2: Confrontation, Conviction, Resilience - Caleb SchutMessage: Confrontation, Conviction, ResilienceSermon Series: Ezra & Nehemiah - What Were You Made For?Passage: Ezra 4, 5, 6Preacher: Caleb SchutSunday Service: 8 June 2025Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2025-06-1338 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS17E4: The God Who Cares - Caleb SchutMessage: The God Who CaresSermon Series: Jonah - God's Limitless LovePassage: Jonah 4Preacher: Caleb SchutSunday Service: 25 May 2025Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2025-05-2744 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS17E3: The 5 Word Sermon - Caleb SchutMessage: The 5 Word SermonSermon Series: Jonah - God's Limitless LovePassage: Jonah 3Preacher: Caleb SchutSunday Service: 18 May 2025Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2025-05-2039 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS17E2: Into The Pit - Caleb SchutMessage: Into The PitSermon Series: Jonah - God's Limitless LovePassage: Jonah 2Preacher: Caleb SchutSunday Service: 11 May 2025Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2025-05-1331 min
Harbourside Church PodcastOne-Offs: Humbling of Naaman - Caleb SchutMessage: Humbling of NaamanSermon Series: Harbourside One-OffsPassage: 2 Kings 5:1-19Preacher: Caleb SchutSunday Service: 27 April 2025Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2025-04-2938 min
Harbourside Church PodcastEaster25: The Journey of the Cross - Caleb SchutMessage: The Journey of the Cross [Good Friday]Sermon Series: Easter 2025Passage: Multiple readings taken from Matthew's Gospel; Reflections from St. Augustine, Wendell Berry, John StottPreacher: Caleb SchutSunday Service: 18 April 2025Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2025-04-2235 min
Harbourside Church PodcastEaster25: The Meaning of Palm Sunday - Caleb SchutMessage: The Meaning of Palm SundaySermon Series: Easter 2025Passage: Matthew 21:1-17Preacher: Caleb SchutSunday Service: 13 April 2025Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2025-04-1537 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS16E7: Why We Preach - Caleb SchutMessage: Why We PreachSermon Series: The Church We SeePassage: Romans 10:10-17Preacher: Caleb SchutSunday Service: 30 March 2025Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2025-04-0132 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS16E4: A Humble Church - Caleb SchutMessage: A Humble ChurchSermon Series: The Church We SeePassage: Philippians 2:1-13Preacher: Caleb SchutSunday Service: 9 March 2025Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2025-03-1140 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS16E2: A Hospitable Church - Caleb SchutMessage: A Hospitable ChurchSermon Series: The Church We SeePassage: 1 Peter 2:9-12; 4:7-11Preacher: Caleb SchutSunday Service: 23 February 2025Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2025-02-2544 min
Harbourside Church PodcastSummer Psalms: Protest, Petition and Praise - Caleb SchutMessage: Protest, Petition and Praise
Sermon Series: Summer Psalms 2025
Passage: Psalm 137
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 26 January 2025
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Harbourside Church PodcastChristmas24: Light In The Darkness - Caleb SchutMessage: Light In The Darkness
Sermon Series: Light In The Darkness - Christmas24
Passage: Isaiah 42:1-16
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 1 December 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastS15E4: The Crucifixion of Jesus - Caleb SchutMessage: The Crucifixion of Jesus
Sermon Series: The Gospel According to Luke
Passage: Luke 23:1:25; 32-49
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 17 November 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastS14E10: The Unwanted King - Caleb SchutMessage: The Unwanted King
Sermon Series: The Gospel According to Luke
Passage: Luke 19:11-27
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 29 September 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastS14E8: The Rich Ruler - Caleb SchutMessage: The Rich Ruler
Sermon Series: The Gospel According to Luke
Passage: Luke 18:18-30
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 15 September 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastS14E6: Gratitude: The Posture of the Kingdom - Caleb SchutMessage: Gratitude - The Posture of the Kingdom
Sermon Series: The Gospel According to Luke
Passage: Luke 17:11-19
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 1 September 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastS14E4: The Parable of the Shrewd Manager - Caleb SchutMessage: The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
Sermon Series: The Gospel According to Luke
Passage: Luke 16:1-15
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 18 August 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastS13E12: The Healing of the Bent Woman - Caleb SchutMessage: The Healing of the Bent Women
Sermon Series: The Gospel According to Luke
Passage: Luke 13:1-17
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 21 July 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastS13E6: The Good Samaritan - Caleb SchutMessage: The Good Samaritan
Sermon Series: The Gospel According to Luke
Passage: Luke 9:51-56; 10:25-37
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 9 June 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastS13E4: Proclaim and Heal - Caleb SchutMessage: Proclaim and Heal
Sermon Series: The Gospel According to Luke
Passage: Luke 9:1-17
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 26 May 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastS13E2: What Fear Have You Made Peace With? - Caleb SchutMessage: What Fear Have You Made Peace With?
Sermon Series: The Gospel According to Luke
Passage: Luke 8:22-39
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 12 May 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastS12E8: Love Your Enemies - Caleb SchutMessage: Luke 6 - Love Your Enemies
Sermon Series: The Gospel According to Luke
Passage: Luke 6:27-49
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 14 April 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastEaster Sunday 2024 Message - Caleb SchutMessage: Easter Sunday
Sermon Series: Easter at Harbourside 2024
Passage: Luke 24:1-12, 36-48
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 31 March 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastS12E5: Carrying Each Other To Christ - Caleb SchutMessage: Carrying Each Other To Christ
Sermon Series: The Gospel According to Luke
Passage: Luke 5:12-26
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 10 March 2024
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Grace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewThis Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. Per our tradition, our children will process with palms early in the service. Please find Kelsey, Director of Grace Kids when you arrive. You are welcome to walk with your little one if that is the encouragement they need!On Palm Sunday we celebrate Jesus’s entry to Jerusalem at the beginning of Passover. The crowds give him a royal welcome and they are right to do so. He has come to Jerusalem as the rightful heir to David’s throne and he will soon be recognized by all as t...2024-03-2500 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewIt is often noted that Transfiguration Sunday, which we celebrated two weeks ago, marks the transition from the Season of Epiphany to the Season of Lent. Culminating with the transfiguration, the Season of Epiphany has revealed the glory and power of Jesus. Lent, culminating with events that lead us to Good Friday, reveals that with Jesus, power and glory are there for our sake and for our salvation. In Jesus, power and glory are not like they are in the world; they come in the shape of the cross. We hope you can join us this Sunday, T...2024-03-1800 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewThe Third Sunday in Lent. This Sunday our Scripture readings prompt us to remember that human wisdom does not enable us to grasp how God is at work in the world. For that, we need God’s wisdom revealed in the person of Jesus. We will explore what that means for us in the nitty gritty of daily life. It is often noted that Transfiguration Sunday, which we celebrated two weeks ago, marks the transition from the Season of Epiphany to the Season of Lent. Culminating with the transfiguration, the Season of Epiphany has revealed the glory and...2024-03-0400 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS12E4: Jesus, Friend of Sinners - Caleb SchutMessage: Jesus, Friend of Sinners
Sermon Series: The Gospel According to Luke
Passage: Luke 5:1-11, 27-32
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 3 March 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastS12E2: Led By The Spirit - Caleb SchutMessage: Led By The Spirit
Sermon Series: The Gospel According to Luke
Passage: Luke 4:1-13
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 18 February 2024
Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2024-02-2033 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewThe First Sunday of EpiphanyJanuary 6th, marks the Feast of the Epiphany on the Christian calendar. We will celebrate Epiphany this Sunday during the worship service. Year after year, for centuries, the church has celebrated on Epiphany the revelation that Jesus’ redemptive love is for all people, the whole world. This marvelous truth is manifested in the visit of the mysterious Gentile pilgrims, the Magi, who travel from a distant country so that they may pay Jesus homage.2024-01-0800 min
Harbourside Church PodcastSummer Series: God In The River - Caleb SchutMessage: God In The River
Sermon Series: Summer Series 2024
Passage: Joshua 3:1-17
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 7 January 2024
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Harbourside Church PodcastReflections on Christmas - Caleb SchutNote: Apologies for some initial audio issues; these get resolved as the podcast continues.
Message: Reflections on Christmas - from our Carols Service
Sermon Series: Christmas 2023
Passage: Various
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 10 December 2023
Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2023-12-1122 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewHomily Preview:This Sunday we join churches all over the world in celebrating the Reign of Christ, sometimes referred to as Christ the King Sunday. Click here for a brief overview of how this Sunday fits into the church year. One theme that is common to this special Sunday is the sovereignty of Christ and its implications. We will take that theme up on Sunday and highlight the way in which God's judgment is always ordered towards redemption. We hope to see you on Sunday!2023-11-2600 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewThe homily this Sunday, is based on a reading from the Gospel of Mark. The context is the same context we have been working with the last few Sundays. Jesus is in Jerusalem during Passover. He will soon be delivered up to Pilate in a collusion between the corrupt religious leadership and the Roman authorities. Jesus is taking these last few days before the crucifixion to teach the disciples in a very focused way about the Kingdom of God - what it is and what it isn't. One thing that seems to be on Jesus' mind a lot is...2023-11-2100 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS11E6: Inseparable - Caleb SchutMessage: Inseparable
Sermon Series: Romans VIII
Passage: Romans 8:31-39
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 19 November 2023
Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2023-11-2029 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewMatthew 25:14-30This Sunday we will be back in the Gospel Matthew. We will hear a parable that Jesus taught about the urgency of paying attention to what God is doing in the world. We will think about its message in its original context and then ponder how to apply it to our setting in our place in time. Jesus’ words about the importance of paying attention to God’s work in the world is a good reminder for us for any time, but especially in our world today. I look forward to what God has to teach...2023-11-1300 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS11E4: Assurance In The Midst Of Suffering - Caleb SchutMessage: Assurance In The Midst of Suffering
Sermon Series: Romans VIII
Passage: Romans 8:18-25
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 5 November 2023
Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2023-11-0931 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewMatthew 23:1-12We return to the Gospel of Matthew this Sunday and continue where we left off last week, contemplating the implications of what it means to wholeheartedly love God and our neighbors.2023-11-0600 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewWe are back in Matthew this week for our homily. Last Sunday Leigh Pylman preached a great sermon on the passage where Jesus says: "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's". If you didn't hear it, I encourage you to listen to it online.This Sunday I I come along a few verses later in the same general context of Matthew where the religious leaders, the elite who hold power in Jerusalem, are continuing to bait Jesus with insincere questions designed to be traps. But just like all the other times, Jesus...2023-11-0600 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS11E2: Life in the Spirit - Caleb SchutMessage: Life in the Spirit
Sermon Series: Romans VIII
Passage: Romans 8:5-11
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 22 October 2023
Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2023-10-2435 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewMatthew 22:15-22This week, Jesus has another peppery encounter with the religious elite in Jerusalem. He is asked about paying taxes to the Roman occupiers. In Jesus fashion, he reframes our questions, categories, and suppositions. He invites us to consider how to give God, what belongs to God - everything! If we live as Jesus followers with this understanding, we can (on our knees!) strive to see the world the way God sees it, and discern the Spirit's guiding as we engage with society today.2023-10-2300 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewThis Sunday we will reflect on all three scripture readings from our liturgy. Our Call to Worship is from Psalm 133, a song of unity. Our First Lesson takes up the theme of unity again, as Paul urges two of his co-workers to have the same mind in the Lord. Finally, our Gospel Lesson is from Matthew. It is another parable of Jesus that illustrates God’s broad and scandalous welcome.2023-10-1600 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS10E10: The Tabernacle - Caleb SchutMessage: The Tabernacle
Sermon Series: Exodus
Passage: Exodus 40:33-48
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 1 October 2023
Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2023-10-0926 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewThis Sunday we look forward to hearing another parable that Jesus taught. Like many of Jesus’ parables, the language and images are meant to jolt us. In the instance of the Parable of the Two Sons (Matthew 21:28-32) we will think together about what a life marked by wholehearted devotion to God looks like. Does it mean being perfect? No, that is not possible. But then what DOES it look like? Looking forward to prayerfully pondering with you Sunday morning!2023-10-0200 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewLast week we heard a parable about mercy. This week we hear a parable about grace. Like last week’s parable, this story is meant to shock us. God’s grace, like his mercy, is unfathomably generous. So generous, that we will always struggle to understand it. As we consider the Parable of the Vineyard Workers (Matthew 20:1-16), we will ponder the depths of God’s grace and the relationship between grace, mercy and justice in God’s economy.2023-09-2500 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewThis week we will pick up where we left off last week in the Gospel of Matthew. Peter asks Jesus a question about how many times we should forgive. Jesus' answer is drawn from the very heart of God and its meaning is at the center of how God will redeem the whole world." Please let me know if you need anything else!
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Harbourside Church PodcastS10E8: The Ten Commandments - Caleb SchutMessage: The Ten Commandments
Sermon Series: Exodus
Passage: Exodus 20:1-21
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 17 September 2023
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2023-09-1839 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewFifteenth Sunday after PentecostRomans 13:8-14A community where love is the reason for everything. This is one way of talking about the new community that the Spirit of Christ has called into existence through the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. What does it mean for love to be the reason for everything? We don't love perfectly in this world where we still struggle with selfishness, pride, and the like - so what happens when we hurt those around us because of our sins of omission or commission? We are going to po...2023-09-1100 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS10E7: The Vision for God's People - Caleb SchutMessage: The Vision for God's People
Sermon Series: Exodus
Passage: Exodus 19:1-11; 1 Peter 2:9-10
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 3 September 2023
Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2023-09-0439 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewMatthew 16:13-20Our Seminarian in Residence, Leigh Pylman is preaching.This week, Jesus asks us the piercing question, "Who do you say that I am?" So simple, and yet, our response to this question will inform our whole worldview. Who do you say that Jesus is? We'll ponder Peter's response to Jesus, and consider how Jesus, as the Messiah and builder of the Church, incorporates you and me into the rich legacy of the Church. At its core, the Church's message doesn't boil down to a catechism or a prescribed list of rules, it centers...2023-08-2900 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily Preview“A desperate Mother reveals the depth and scope of God's love for all people"Talking about a passage like this in a short homily is challenging. But in all the commentary and speculation, the takeaways are clear. We can trust in God’s promises, even when God seems silent. Even when what we hope for can’t be seen. We can argue with God. God invites our hurt or questions, our calling to account. This argument might even increase our faith. This story shows the power and possibility inherent in boldly insisting that God be faithful to God’s...2023-08-2300 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewThis Sunday we welcome Tony Pizarro to the Grace pulpit. Tony is a friend of Grace who attends when his schedule permits and often supports out volunteer efforts with Breakthrough Urban Ministries. Tony works at North Park University as Assistant Director of the Writing Center and Lecturer. He also serves as a steering committee member for the Illinois Coalition for Higher Education in Prison. Tony is a person with great humility who loves to serve others. 2023-08-1400 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS10E3: You Are Not The Main Character In Your Story - Caleb SchutMessage: Exodus 3 - You Are Not The Main Character In Your Story
Sermon Series: Exodus
Passage: Exodus 3:1-15
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 6 August 2023
Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2023-08-0737 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewThis Sunday’s homily will be a reflection on Jesus’ parable which is often referred to as the Wheat and the Tares. It is a story that encourages us to live faithfully, patiently, hopefully and lovingly in a world where evil things continue to happen. In her homily, Laura Winn, will ponder several important questions, among them this one as framed by New Testament scholar, Klyne Snodgrass: “how can we stop evil without being evil in the process”?2023-07-2400 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewThis week our text for our homily is Jesus’ Parable of the Sower from Matthew 13. It is a parable about hearing Jesus’ words in such a way that, as one New Testament scholar puts it: “the whole person is captured”. This parable is a very timely one for 21st Century Christians who, when we are honest, must admit that it is hard to hear Jesus for all the other noise in our culture. How can we help each other hear Jesus loud and clear? 2023-07-2200 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewHomily Preview:We are back in the Gospel of Matthew this Sunday where Jesus assures his disciples that "whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple" will be rewarded. The words come at the end of a discourse about mission and hospitality, a discourse full of dire warnings and triumphant hope. This Sunday we will think about the little ones are in the verse cited above and what it means to demonstrate hospitality in the name of Jesus in our place in time.2023-07-0600 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS9E9: Lament - Caleb SchutMessage: Lament
Sermon Series: Teach Us To Pray
Passage: Psalm 10
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 2 July 2023
Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2023-07-0232 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewHomily Preview: In our homily this Sunday we will talk a bit about compassion. Matthew uses this word to talk about Jesus’ reflexive response to the vast human need he witnesses (Matthew 9:36). We will explore the context in which Matthew makes his remarks and we will use that exploration as the jumping off point to think together about what it looks like to respond in compassion to the great human need we witness every day.2023-06-1900 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewEarlier this week on Trinity Sunday we pondered the mystery that God reveals God's self in three co-equal persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We tapped into the wisdom of the early church and thought together about God's love as the energy and motivation for all God does in creation, redemption, and even in judgment. We will continue to ponder God's triune nature this week in part two of that homily, as we think about the way in which God's unique nature enables him to join with us in our suffering, brining transformative hope to situations that would otherwise b...2023-06-1300 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS9E6: Forgive Us Our Sins - Caleb SchutMessage: Forgive Us Our Sins
Sermon Series: Teach Us To Pray
Passage: Matthew 18:21-35
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 11 June 2023
Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2023-06-1336 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewI took quite a few Spanish classes in high school and college. At one time I could read a Spanish language newspaper with reasonable comprehension. Sadly, I have lost - for now - much of what I knew. I still make a feeble, yet sincere effort, to say something that might be comprehensible to those I know or meet who speak Spanish as their native tongue. I especially try very hard when I can tell the person doesn’t speak English at all.What always amazes me is how gracious folks are when I say something to th...2023-05-3000 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS9E4: Your Will Be Done - Caleb SchutMessage: Your Will Be Done
Sermon Series: Teach Us To Pray
Passage: Matthew 22
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 21 May 2023
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Harbourside Church PodcastS9E3: Thy Kingdom Come - Caleb SchutMessage: Thy Kingdom Come
Sermon Series: Teach Us To Pray
Passage: Luke 4:16-21, 42-44
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 14 May 2023
Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2023-05-1539 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomilyHomily Preview:Last week we spent some time talking God making his home with us and inviting us to make our home in God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This week we talk about what that looks like on a daily basis as we think about the promise of the Holy Spirit, God's empowering presence in human beings, the church and the world.2023-05-1400 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomilyIn the Christian calendar we are coming up on the end of Eastertide. We will celebrate The Feast of the Ascension on Sunday, May 21st, followed by Pentecost Sunday on the 28th. So, it is fitting that the next two Sundays have us thinking about Jesus' promises to the disciples about what life will be like after the cross, resurrection, ascension and pentecost. This next Sunday and the following Sunday we will be in John 14 as we consider the promises associated with the powerful presence of God's Spirit with the church. While all of this may sound very heady...2023-05-0800 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomilyThe homily is from John 10. This is the passage where Jesus identifies himself as the good shepherd. The scripture reading before communion is from Acts 2, where the the early church community is described as being one where people organize their lives so that each may be a blessing to the other. We are going to put these two passages together as we think about what sort of community is formed by the good shepherd. We will also ask ourselves what our responsibility looks like as stewards of the community of the good shepherd. Looking forward to our time together.2023-05-0100 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomily PreviewHomily - Pat Hecker
2023-04-2400 minGrace Chicago ChurchHomilyHomily Preview:First Sunday after Easter and our gospel reading takes up where last Easter Sunday's reading left off. This week we have more in the way of amazing encounters between the risen Lord Jesus and his followers. This Sunday we meet Thomas, sometimes called doubting Thomas. Jesus accommodates Thomas' doubts, even as he accommodates ours. 2023-04-1700 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS8E9: The Gardener Knows My Name - Caleb SchutMessage: The Gardener Knows My Name
Sermon Series: If It's True... - The Gospel of John
Passage: John 19:41-20:18
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 9 April 2023
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Harbourside Church PodcastS8E7: Making Our Home in God - Caleb SchutMessage: Making Our Home in God
Sermon Series: If It's True... - The Gospel of John
Passage: John 15:1-17
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 2 April 2023
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Harbourside Church PodcastS8E5: Christ our Gate and Shepherd - Caleb SchutMessage: Christ our Gate and Shepherd
Sermon Series: If It's True... - The Gospel of John
Passage: John 10:1-21
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 12 March 2023
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Harbourside Church PodcastS8E2: The Samaritan Woman - Caleb SchutMessage: The Samaritan Woman
Sermon Series: If It's True... - The Gospel of John
Passage: John 4:1-30
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 19 February 2023
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Harbourside Church PodcastS7E4: Seeing God in the Wilderness - Caleb SchutMessage: Seeing God in the Wilderness
Sermon Series: Seeing God - January Mini Series
Passage: Matthew 4:1-11
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 29 January 2023
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2023-01-3038 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS7E1: Seeing God | Following the Magi - Caleb SchutMessage: Seeing God
Sermon Series: Seeing God - January Mini Series
Passage: Matthew 2:1-18
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 8 January 2023
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Harbourside Church PodcastChristmas 2022: A Saviour Has Been Born - Caleb SchutMessage: A Saviour Has Been Been Born
Sermon Series: Christmas 2022
Passage: Luke 1:1-20
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 25 December 2022
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Harbourside Church PodcastChristmas 2022: Matthew's Genealogy | The Shape of Christian Hope - Caleb SchutMessage: Matthew's Genealogy | The Shape of Christian Hope
Sermon Series: Christmas 2022
Passage: Matthew 1:1-17
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 18 December 2022
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[This message includes communion.]2022-12-1933 min
Harbourside Church PodcastS6E12: The Church of the Crucified Messiah - Caleb SchutMessage: The Church of the Crucified Messiah
Sermon Series: I Will Build My Church - Acts
Passage: Acts 17:1-9
Preacher: Caleb Schut
Sunday Service: 20 November 2022
Want to know more about Harbourside? Head to our website - harbourside.org2022-11-2135 minGrace Chicago ChurchCaleb's Final HomilyIn Caleb’s Final homily (for the moment), he reflects on how the Grace Chicago community helped him rediscover and deepen his faith in Jesus. 2022-07-2820 minGrace Chicago ChurchThe Good SamaritanCaleb preaches on the Good Samaritan from Luke 10. This homily is particularly addressed to the kids in the service. 2022-07-1119 minGrace Chicago Church1 Corinthians 1:18-31 I Caleb SchutCaleb says that he feels a responsibility to make Christianity seem modest, reasonable, not foolish. He also feels an obligation to retain some of the foolishness of the Christian faith. We are onto our third week of 1 Corinthians 1, where Paul contrasts wisdom and foolishness and embraces the foolishness of the Christian story, particularly the cross. What does it mean to allow our Christian faith to be foolish in today's complicated world? We'll think about this question together in this homily. 2020-02-0200 minGrace Chicago ChurchJohn 1:1-14 l Caleb SchutAt the second Sunday after Christmas Caleb wonders that if anyone else has trouble contemplating the significance of the birth of Christ during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season. John 1 is the text for this homily. This is one of the richest, simplest, and most layered texts in all of scripture. In this homily he wonders the question, “How then shall we live?”. 2020-01-0600 minGrace Chicago ChurchMatthew 1:18-25 I Caleb SchutWe are getting nearer and nearer to Christmas! This week, we will hear Matthew's account of Jesus' birth and we will light the fourth Advent candle. The theme running throughout Sunday's service is Emmanuel, God with Us. What does it mean for God to be with us? For Joseph and Mary, this news brought frightening circumstances in the form of an unexpected pregnancy. For the wisemen, it meant falling into the clutches of Herod. God is with us. Yet this good news is cloaked immediately by a broken world. We'll consider all of this together on Sunday. 2019-12-2300 minGrace Chicago Church2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 I Caleb SchutYou choose your friends. You don't choose your family. One of the pillars that we settled on during our branding process was: Grace is committed to cultivating a community that feels like family. But family is hard. Maybe we should just cultivate community that feels like friends? Do we really want to "feel" like family? This week's text from 2 Thessalonians is a complicated one dealing with the complications of living among people who were chosen for you. Together we'll consider what it means to follow Christ in community together.2019-11-1700 minGrace Chicago ChurchLuke 18:9-14 I Caleb SchutYou'd think that summing up this week's short parable from Luke 18 would be as simple as saying, "Be Humble." For better or worse, it isn't. The pharisee is the classic antagonist, looking down on others. The tax collector once again plays the protagonist, humbly praying to God. Unfortunately, we don't fit into either role neatly. And actually, I'm not sure the pharisee and tax collector do either. Let’s explore the simple complexity together. 2019-10-2700 minGrace Chicago ChurchLuke 16: 1-13 I Caleb SchutThe text for this homily is from Luke 16. In this text, Jesus tells a bizarre parable about wealth that ends with the familiar verse, "No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth." This text is about financial wealth, which we will touch on. But its truth gets at something more fundamental. We often feel so divided? How can we live a life singularly focused on the things that truly matter?2019-09-2200 minGrace Chicago ChurchJeremiah 18:1-6 I Caleb SchutThe text for this week is from Jeremiah 18. In this passage, the prophet Jeremiah is brought to the studio of a potter where he watches a potter working a piece of clay. It becomes a metaphor for God's people being shaped in the hands of God. It is at once both a frightening image of God's power and control over all people, and an encouraging image of a God who won't give up on any piece of clay. Caleb offers a way to think about how the image of God as a potter and we as clay is both...2019-09-0800 minGrace Chicago ChurchHebrews 11:29-12:2 l Caleb SchutKeep the faith. This week's homily comes from the 11th chapter of Hebrews. We will be focusing on the second half of chapter 11 where the author names a handful of men and women who have kept the faith before us, leading to the iconic verse: "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every weight that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles and let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith."What is faith? What does it feel like to have...2019-08-1800 min
Carmel Presbyterian ChurchMissions Sunday: Blind Bartimaeus (8/11/19)18 of our 30 CPC-supported missions organizations will be with us this weekend for Missions Sunday. Come hear how God is bringing every tribe, tongue and nation to Himself through the work of His people! Don't miss the patio this Sunday where you can visit with the missionaries and get more information about each one at their table.
Caleb Schut will be sharing God's Word with us in both services. He is the Assistant Pastor at Grace Chicago Church and the Executive Director of Beautiful Response, one of the missions organizations we support through financial giving and prayer at CPC.
"Missions helps...2019-08-1127 minGrace Chicago ChurchColossians 3:1-11 I Caleb SchutIn the third chapter of Colossians, Paul sets a fairly lofty bar for the Colossians in terms of what their lives ought to look like. We will think about whether Paul's admonitions are relevant for us and how they translate into our day to day.2019-08-0600 minGrace Chicago ChurchHe is the Image of the Invisible God I Caleb SchutCaleb continues in the book of Colossians this week with the book's most well-known passage. This iconic text offers us a beautiful vision of who Christ is and what the impact of Christ's identity is for the entire world. How do the words of Paul in Colossians offer us hope in a broken world? We will carefully consider that question together.2019-07-2100 minGrace Chicago ChurchColossians Pt. 1 | Caleb SchutThis week we hear Paul's opening words which are intimate and personal, though he had not even met the Colossian church at this point. He longs for them to walk in the light, away from darkness and into the kingdom of the beloved Son. The pastors will lead us to deep dive into Colossians over the next four weeks and walk alongside of the Colossians in that same direction.2019-07-1400 minGrace Chicago ChurchNo Longer Jew or GentileCaleb preaches a sermon using Bob's notes on Paul's famous passage from Galatians. What does it mean that social distinctions are leveled by the gospel?2019-06-2519 minGrace Chicago ChurchWisdom's CourageCaleb shares about his trip to Uganda and explores Proverb's definition of wisdom, which is vastly different than our dictionary definition.2019-06-1722 minGrace Chicago ChurchGod Has No EnemiesCaleb preaches on Saul's conversion, a story that shows that even when we position ourselves against God, God does not regard us as enemies.2019-05-0522 minGrace Chicago ChurchA Small Act of ResurrectionHas Easter really happened? In this homily, Caleb explores the response of the disciples to Jesus and tells a story of resurrection hope.2019-04-2820 minGrace Chicago ChurchThe Narrow DoorCaleb picks up in Luke 13 where a man asks, “will only a few be saved?” Jesus answer includes a narrow door and has been quoted and misunderstood by so many. 2019-03-2524 minGrace Chicago ChurchAsking the Wrong QuestionsIn this emotional homily, Caleb explores a passage in Luke where the crowd is asking if deaths in the news were the punishment of God. Jesus makes it clear that the crowd is asking the wrong questions. In the wake of the shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, the questions of the crowd are relevant and moving. Jesus response to their questions is equally moving. 2019-03-1800 minGrace Chicago ChurchChrist in the OrdinaryThe Magi remind us that while we might expect to find glory, purpose, and honor in the palace, God is actually found in the ordinary, mundane, and routine. This year, may we seek to find God in the ordinary and expect Christ to show up in our routine lives. Caleb closes with a reflection on New Year's Resolutions.2019-01-0621 min
The Table Church DCSymbols of Christ: BaptismCaleb Schut welcomes us into the waters of baptism. *please not there are technical diffculities at the end of the recording.*
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