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Dordt Chapel
by Dordt University
A podcast from Dordt University in Sioux Center, Iowa.
Episodes
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Behold Your God: The Good News (Isaiah 40:1-11)
Isaiah 40 speaks into the aftermath of devastation with a surprising first word: comfort. God's people have lived through judgement, exile, and loss, but God has not abandoned them. He comes to them, speaks to their hearts, and announces good news: "Behold your God." This message explores the God...
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Behold Your God: The Test (Isaiah 36)
“In whom do you trust?” In Isaiah 36-37, Judah faces a moment of crisis as the Assyrian empire surrounds Jerusalem and asks that decisive question. Hezekiah responds by bringing the threat before the Lord and looking again to the God who is enthroned above every earthly king. This message…
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Behold Your God: The Way (Isaiah 35)
In Isaiah 35, the wilderness blooms, weak hands are strengthened, fearful hearts are encouraged, and a highway called the Way of Holiness leads God's redeemed people home. This chapel message explores Isaiah's vision of God's complete and beautiful redemption and its fulfillment in Jesus Christ,...
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Behold Your God: The Feast(Isaiah 25:6-9)
Will our story end in a funeral or a feast? Isaiah looks directly at death, the shadow hanging over every person and every civilization, and announces something almost unimaginable. God will swallow up death forever, wipe away every tear, and gather the nations to a feast. In this sermon from...
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Behold Your God: The Trees (Isa 7:1-14)
When the future feels uncertain, we are tempted either to despair or to grasp for control. Isaiah gives us another way: stand firm in faith and trust the God who brings new life from dead stumps. Because Jesus Christ lives and holds the future, we can work with patience, courage, and hope without...
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Behold Your God: The Throne (Isaiah 6: 1-8)
Isaiah sees the Lord high and lifted up and comes completely undone. But the fire he expects to consume him instead cleanses him, and grace sets him free to say, “Here am I, send me.” The Throne reminds us that we don’t have to hold the world together: the throne is already occupied, and the Holy...
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Behold Your God: The Mountain (Isaiah 2:1-5)
We often imagine life as a mountain to climb—a place to prove ourselves and build an identity. Isaiah invites us instead to behold the mountain of the Lord, where human pride is bought low and God’s greatness fills the horizon. In Jesus Christ, we discover the freedom of being humbled without…
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Commissioning Chapel: Wisdom for the Road (Romans 12:1-2)
What do you do with your ordinary, everyday life as you go out into the world? In this chapel service, President Hoekstra charges graduating seniors to take what they've learned - both in academics and in Scripture - and carry it into their daily walk, so that others may be drawn to Jesus through...
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Longing for Love: The Pain of Love (Song of Songs 5-8)
The Song of Songs does show us a perfect romance, but also longing, absence, and pain. In this message, we explore how love exposes us to vulnerability, disappointment, and even wounding, yet also deepens through trust, friendship, and endurance. Ultimately, the Song points beyond human love to a...
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Longing for Love: The power of Love (Song of Songs 3-4)
The Song of Songs reveals that love is powerful , beautiful, and not to be taken lightly. In this message, we explore why Scripture warns us not to awaken love before its time, how love creates deep vulnerability, and why it must be protected within covenant. In a culture shaped by pressure and...
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Longing for Love: That Loving Feeling (Song of Songs 1-2)
The Song of Songs invites us to see the world through the eyes of love. In this message, we explore how love changes the way we see others, not as objects to use, but as persons of infinite worth, and how it awakens a vision of the world as full of beauty, life, and possibility. Yet human love…
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Facing the Fog: The End (Ecclesiastes 12: 1-14)
Ecclesiastes 12 brings Qoheleth’s hard wisdom to its final conclusion: remember your Creator before the days grow dark and your strength fail. In this Holy Week message, we reflect on what is means to face death honestly, to remember our finitude and accountability before God, and to recognize…
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Facing the Fog: The Unknown (Ecclesiastes 11:1-10)
Ecclesiastes 11 reminds us of a simple but unsettling truth: we do not know what the future holds. And yet, the Teacher calls us to boldness. In this message, we explore what it means to live faithfully in the face of uncertainty, to rejoice in God's gifts, to release the burden of control, and…
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Facing the Fog: Contentment (Ecclesiastes 6:1-12) - Dr. Kyle Dieleman
Ecclesiastes 6 confronts one of life’s most unsettling questions: What is the point? Wealth, success, long life, and even family cannot ultimately satisfy if we cannot truly enjoy them, because every life still ends in death. This message explores the wisdom of contentment in a finite life,...
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Facing the Fog: Time(Ecclesiastes 3:1-15)
Ecclesiastes 3 reminds us that we are creatures of time, living in seasons we do not choose and rhythms we did not write. There is a time to be born and a time to die, a time to weep and a time to laugh. In this message, we explore what it means to receive life's limits as a gift, to recognize...
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Facing the Fog: Futility (Ecclesiastes 1:1-14)
Ecclesiastes begins with a startling diagnosis: life “under the sun” can feel like smoke: fleeting, frustrating, and impossible to hold. In this Ash Wednesday message, we explore the way this book punctures our illusions about control, success, and satisfaction. Yet Ecclesiastes also invites us…
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Songs from the Struggle: All that has Breath (Psalm 150)
Psalm 150 brings the book of Psalms to a climactic close with a call for every living thing to praise the Lord. The message explores why singing and praise are central to the Christian life, not because God needs our praise, but because we need to be reoriented toward Him. As praise lifts our…
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Song from the Struggle: Andrew Peterson
Today we continue our Psalms series, Songs from the Struggle. In this service, we are joined by songwriter and storyteller Andrew Peterson, who will help shed light on our theme through both wisdom and music.
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Songs from the Struggle: All I have to give (Psalm 126)
Psalm 126 is a song for people who remember joy but are living in the middle of tears. It invites us into a costly hope, the kind that keeps planting seeds even when the future feels uncertain. In this message, we explore what it means to trust God's long faithfulness, to sow in faith when we...
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Song from the Struggle: All That Is Within Me(Psalm 103)
Psalm 103 calls us to bless the Lord with all that isa within us. In a world shaped by divided attention and partial devotion, this psalm invites us into a fuller, deeper way of life with God. This message explores how remembering God’s benefits, trusting God’s character, and receiving God’s…
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Songs from the Struggle - All our Days Psalm 90 - Justin Bailey
What do we do with the weight of time, loss, and uncertainty? Psalm 90 is a prayer written for moments when life feels fragile and overwhelming. In this message, we reflect on how God meets us in our grief and invites us to entrust "all our days" to His steadfast love. Through Scripture, lament,...
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Songs From the Struggle: How Lovely (Psalm 84)
Psalm 84 is a song of longing: longing for home, for God's presence, and for the household where even the sparrow finds a place to rest. This message explores what it means to belong to God's people, even when the church feels disappointing. During Advent we remember that the Word became flesh…
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Songs from the Struggle: How Can This Be (Psalm 73)
Why do the wicked prosper while the faithful suffer? Psalm 73 begins with envy and ends with worship. This message explores what to do when God doesn’t meet our expectations, and how worship reshapes disappointment into trust. When every plan fails, we discover that God Himself is enough.
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Songs from the Struggle: How Wide (Psalm 67)
What is blessing for? Psalm 67 shows us that God blesses his people not as a reward, but as a gift meant to flow outward in praise and service to the nations. This message explores the dangers of blessing without gratitude, the call to global mission, and the grace that makes blessing possible.…
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Songs from the Struggle: How Could I (Psalm 51)
This week, Dordt University’s Chief of Staff, Aaron Bart, continues this semester’s chapel series, “The Way of Wisdom” with a message on Psalm 51.
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Songs from the Struggle: How Deep (Psalm 42)
What do we do when our souls feel cast down and God feels distant? In Psalm 42, the psalmist describes both thirsting for God and drowning in sorrow, feeling underfed and overwhelmed at once. This message explores what Christians have called “spiritual depression,” and how we can learn to talk...
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Songs from the Struggle: How Good? (Psalm 34)
Deliverance leads to devotion. God does not love us because we are good, but because He is. And yet, experiencing God’s goodness leads us to participate in it. In Psalm 34, David sings from a cave after pretending to be insane, not from a place of strength but from a place of survival. Still, he...
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Songs from the Struggle: How Near (Psalm 23)
In a world that is not altogether safe, God is near: he goes before us to lead, walks beside us through the valley, and chases behind us with goodness and mercy. In Jesus, the Good Shepherd who laid down his life and rose, we learn to trade control for trust and rest in a love that does no fail....
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Songs from the Struggle: How Long (Psalms 15)
When God feels absent and the wait feels endless, Psalm 13 trains us to move from protest to petition to praise. We name our “how long,” ask for the light in the dark, and choose trust before we see the answer. Through Jesus, who entered the long silence of Saturday and rose on Sunday, our…
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Songs from the Struggle : How Many (Psalm 3)
As we start a new series, “Songs from the Struggle,” we see how worship reorients us when we feel overwhelmed. When the “many” voices and fears pile up, Psalm 3 shows how God is the glory who outweighs them all. In Jesus - the greater Son of David who lay down in death and rose - this prayer...
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The Search for Wisdom (Prov. 30)
Where can wisdom be found? Proverbs 30 answers: in humble, loving attention to the created world and creative humans, to eagles and ships, ants and lizards, and ultimately to Jesus Christ. Attention becomes worship; study becomes prayer; and small, daily noticing leads to the One who made it all.
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The Service of Wisdom: Dr Kyle Dieleman (Proverbs 22:17- 23:18)
This week Dr. Kyle Dieleman reminds us that wisdom is more than following rules—it’s about living in a way that loves God and loves our neighbors. True wisdom is found in Jesus, whose life and Spirit guide us to embody love, justice, and mercy in community.
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The Struggle of Wisdom (Proverbs 6:9-11, 13:4, 26:15-16, 22:13, 21:25-26, 24:30-34)
Proverbs exposes “the sluggard” not just as doing nothing, but as avoiding love: refusing to start, to finish, and to face what loyal love requires. This message names how busyness can mask sloth, pays attention to the consequences of avoiding the one thing God calls us to do, and points us to...
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The Sound of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1-6, 13-18)
The book of Proverbs places two voices before us, Wisdom and Folly, both calling for our attention. Wisdom builds and prepares a feast that leads to life; Folly is loud and lazy, leading to death. This sermon helps us to distinguish the sound of each voice, to choose commitment, and to follow...
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The Shape of Wisdom (Proverbs 1:1-10)
As a new semester begins, the book of Proverbs speaks like “letters from home,” a father’s counsel to a son. We’re invited to choose wisdom in a world of real dangers. Wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord, drawing us to the Father’s heart through Jesus, the true Son. Questions for reflection &...
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Convocation 2025
Join us for the 2025 Dordt University Convocation service in the B.J. Haan Auditorium.
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James - Final Week
Join us for the last Chapel of the semester, as Pr. Aaron Baart concludes our series on the book of James.
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Week 13
This week, Campus Pastor Sam Ashmore continues this semester's chapel series.
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James - Week 12
Join us this week in chapel as Pastor Aaron Baart continues our series on the book of James.
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James- Week 11
This week, Dr. Gayle Doornbos, a professor of theology at Dordt, continues this semester's chapel series.
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James - Week 10
Join us this week in chapel as Pastor Aaron Baart continues our series on the book of James.
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James - Week 8
Join us this week as Sam Ashmore continues our sermon series on the book of James.
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James- Week 9
This week, Dr. Justin Bailey, a professor of theology at Dordt, continues this semester's chapel series.
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James- Week 7
This week, Dordt's Dean of Chapel and Chief of Staff, Aaron Bart, continues this semester's chapel series.
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James Week 6
Join us this week as Dr. Kyle Dielman continues this semester’s chapel series on the book of James.
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James Week 5
This Week, Sam Ashmore, Dordt's Campus Pastor, continues this semester's chapel series on James.
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James Week 4
This week, Dr. Gayle Doornbos, continues this semester’s chapel series on the book of James.
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James Week 3
This week, Dr. Justin Bailey, a professor of theology at Dordt, continues this semester’s chapel series.
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James Week 2
This week, Aaron Bart, Dordt’s Dean of Chapel, continues this semester’s chapel series in James. We look at the dangers of wealth accumulation and our Christian response to wealth.
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James Week 1
This week, Aaron Bart, Dordt’s Dean of Chapel, continues this semester’s chapel series.
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