Browse published episodes from Pastor Joshua Lim in Family Chapel.
Apr 13, 2025 12:38 PM America/Los_Angeles
Jesus continues his public ministry and demonstrates his unique authority as the Son of God by carrying out signs. Responses to these signs vary from genuine faith to opportunistic calculation and prideful rejection. These signs ultimately show that Jesus
Apr 6, 2025 1:21 PM America/Los_Angeles
Jesus offers an unnamed Samaritan woman the gift of living water to quench her deepest thirst and to provide true and lasting satisfaction. This living water is salvation that secures freedom from shame and freedom to worship. In offering her salvation, J
Mar 30, 2025 1:04 PM America/Los_Angeles
In his conversation with Nicodemus, Jesus shows that entrance into God's Kingdom is not through self-righteous religiosity, but through spiritual regeneration by the Holy Spirit. Each person must be born again. In order to experience the new birth, one mu
Mar 16, 2025 12:50 PM America/Los_Angeles
John the Baptist faithfully carries out his role and testifies that Jesus is the Christ. As the Christ, Jesus is the promised King who rescues God's people by laying down His own life and by pouring out the Holy Spirit. Witnesses of Christ are those who r
Mar 9, 2025 12:35 PM America/Los_Angeles
Jesus is the Word. As such, He is the eternal and divine Creator who is the source and sustainer of life. He is also the victorious Savior who secures the right for people to become children of God. And He is the unique Son of God who takes on humanity an
Mar 2, 2025 1:31 PM America/Los_Angeles
God speaks to us through the divinely inspired Scriptures. As such, Scripture is perfectly inerrant, supremely authoritative, and powerfully transformative. If we want to cultivate a right vision of God, we need to be a people of the Word.
Feb 16, 2025 12:49 PM America/Los_Angeles
For God to be sovereign simply means that God has total freedom. He is not restricted by any greater authority. Rather, in his sovereignty, God actively supervises all things and purposefully succeeds in all things. As such, we have hope especially in sea
Feb 9, 2025 12:45 PM America/Los_Angeles
Holiness is not just one attribute of God, but it is the attribute that undergirds all other attributes of God. In his holiness, God is uniquely set apart and God is morally pure. In light of God's holiness, we should respond in worship, grow in holiness,
Feb 3, 2025 7:16 AM America/Los_Angeles
God is not some abstract, amorphous higher power, but God is triune. God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – eternally existing as three persons sharing one divine essence. Far from being a nerdy theological doctrine that is irrelevant to our lives, the T
Jan 5, 2025 7:05 AM America/Los_Angeles
To quote Pastor Andy Stanley, vision is a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the conviction of what should be. But what makes vision distinctly Christian is that God is at the center of it. A God-ordained vision starts as a burden stirred up
Dec 22, 2024 6:51 AM America/Los_Angeles
The Apostle Paul wraps up his section on how the Gospel shapes households by addressing slaves and masters. In doing so, Paul is not endorsing the institution of slavery, but instructing Christians on how to faithfully operate within that pre-existing sys
Dec 15, 2024 7:58 AM America/Los_Angeles
The Apostle Paul addresses how Christians are to live and relate to others in the context of their own households. While we are made new in Christ and brought into a new spiritual family, that doesn't mean we ignore or reject our natural families. Rather,
Dec 8, 2024 6:57 AM America/Los_Angeles
After instructing the Colossians to put off the old self, the Apostle Paul now instructs them to put on the new self in Christ. Putting on the new self involves having the peace of Christ rule among your relationships, having the word of Christ richly dwe
Nov 24, 2024 6:58 AM America/Los_Angeles
Paul directly addresses the false teaching that was spreading in Colossae, which had elements of legalism, mysticism, and asceticism. We face our own contemporary parallels that seek to draw us away from Christ. But by being rooted in Christ, we find true
Nov 17, 2024 6:43 AM America/Los_Angeles
Paul shares about the suffering he has and is going through as a minister of the Gospel. However, he surprisingly says that he rejoices over his sufferings and that is because his sufferings reveal the mystery of the Gospel to others, help others mature i
Nov 10, 2024 6:40 AM America/Los_Angeles
Due to false teaching, the Colossians were being drawn away from Christ to look for security and satisfaction elsewhere, namely in other spiritual powers. Paul reminds them that Jesus is supreme as the Creator who has made all things and as the Savior who
Oct 27, 2024 4:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Suffering is an unavoidable and indispensable part of experiencing change. While the suffering itself is not good, God brings about good through our suffering. In our process of change, suffering shatters the illusion of self-sufficiency, disciplines us f
Oct 20, 2024 1:02 PM America/Los_Angeles
The end goal of change is to become more like Jesus. God is at work in producing in us greater Christlikeness so that we would be positioned to thrive, develop godly character to bless others, persevere through all seasons, and be effective in our God-giv
Oct 14, 2024 4:57 PM America/Los_Angeles
Often, it's not that we don't know that we need to change nor is it that we have no desire to change – but it’s that we don’t know how to change. Thankfully, God provides us with a working theory of change. We need biblical teaching to correct the f
Sep 22, 2024 8:07 AM America/Los_Angeles
God once again shows the full scope of salvation, which is people from all nations enjoying the glory of God. God's people have a very important role in seeing salvation spread to the ends of the earth by reflecting God's glory. They can faithfully do tha
Sep 15, 2024 12:41 PM America/Los_Angeles
In light of the salvation we have received through the Suffering Servant, we are to be a righteous people. We are to rightly relate to God by turning away from idolatry through the practice of Sabbath. We are to also rightly relate to our neighbors by tur
Sep 8, 2024 7:41 AM America/Los_Angeles
God issues the invitation to receive the gift of salvation that He has secured through the Suffering Servant. This gift of salvation brings a great reversal from shame to honor and from fear to power. This gift of salvation is freely available to all thos
Aug 26, 2024 1:04 AM America/Los_Angeles
After the people have returned from exile and received God's great vision of salvation through the Servant of the Lord, they are still left waiting for this salvation. Likewise, we too find ourselves waiting for Christ to return in order to fully establis
Aug 11, 2024 7:43 AM America/Los_Angeles
As God has hinted at before, He now makes it very clear that He will deliver His people out of exile, but He will do so through the Persian emperor Cyrus. With this move, God shows Himself to work in mysterious ways beyond our narrow set of expectations,