Every Wednesday, the Bethlehem College & Seminary community worships God together under the preaching of the Word. You are invited to attend any of these chapels, all of which take place from 12:00–1:00pm in the Bethlehem Baptist Church Downtown Campus Sanctuary.
The theme for this semester is The Greatest of These Is Love. “So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love” 1 Corinthians 13:13
We live in a world that talks and sings about love all the time. “All You Need is Love.” “What the World Needs Now is Love.” “What is Love?” “We Found Love.”
On and on we could go, yet the reality is, when we look around at our world we see little evidence of love. Our relationships are focused on what we can get, not what we can give. Political discourse and divisions are at their lowest level in decades. Rather than assuming the best, we assume the worst. Rather than giving, we seek to take. Rather than love, the default posture has become distrust, misunderstanding, and hostility.
Although Jesus told us that the world ought to know us by our love, these attitudes are often present in the church as well. But our fundamental call as followers of Jesus remains loving the Lord and our neighbors as ourselves. This semester in chapel, we will call our community back to the meaning and significance of our call to love. After all, without love, all of our efforts to serve the Lord are ultimately empty noise (1 Cor 13:1–3). It is our prayer that the Bethlehem College & Seminary community would treasure God’s love for us and our love for God and each other all the more, so that the world will truly know we are Christians by our love.
| Speaker | Title | Text | Date |
| Tim Tomlinson | Knowledge and Love | 1 Cor. 8:1 | Jan. 15 |
| Daniel Viezbicke | Christ’s Love for Us | Jan. 22 | |
| Student-Led Worship and Prayer | Jan. 29 | ||
| NO CHAPEL | Pastor’s Conference | Feb. 5 | ||
| Andy Naselli | How Can I Love Fellow Christians with Different Politics? | Rom. 14:1-15:7 | Feb. 12 |
| David Mathis | Love: The Fruit of the Spirit | Gal. 5:22; 1 John 3:16-18 | Feb. 19 |
| Student-Led Worship and Prayer | Feb. 26 | ||
| Dave Zuleger | Love in the Church | 1 Cor. 13:4-13 | Mar. 4 |
| Sam Choi | Love for the Lost | John 20:21 | Mar. 11 |
| NO CHAPEL | Spring Break | Mar. 18 | ||
| Charles Morgan | The Second Greatest Commandment: Love Your Neighbor | Matt. 5:43-48 | Mar. 27 |
| Chris Bruno | Love Your Enemies | Apr. 1 | |
| Eduardo Mendes | Loving Cross-Culturally | Apr. 8 | |
| Greg Morse | The Greatest Commandment: Love God | Apr. 15 | |
| Adam Pohlman | Faith Working Through Love | Apr. 22 | |
| Paul Poteat | True and False Love | Eph. 5 | Apr. 29 |
| John Piper | God’s Love for God | Col. 4:7-18 | May 6 |
The verse on Bethlehem’s institutional seal is Colossians 1:17: “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” In celebration of the tenth anniversary of our school, it is fitting to focus our Fall chapel series around the theme of Christ’s supremacy and centrality using the book of Colossians as our guide.
| Speaker | Title | Text | Date |
| Tim Tomlinson | Faith, Hope, and Love | Col. 1:1-8 | Aug. 21 |
| Thomas Barclay | Prayer to Please God | Col. 1:9-14 | Aug. 28 |
| Jason Meyer | Christ’s Supremacy | Col. 1:15-23 | Sept. 4 |
| Brian Tabb | Filling Up on Christ’s Afflictions | Col. 1:24-2:5 | Sept. 11 |
| Lewis Guest | Alive in Christ | Col. 2:6-15 | Sept. 18 |
| Andy Naselli | Why to Reject Man-Made Religion | Col. 2:16-23 | Sept. 25 |
| Student-Led Worship and Prayer | Oct. 2 | ||
| Joel Rosenberg | Is God’s Passion To Save Both Israel and Her Neighbors Our Passion, Too? | Rom. 1:14-17 | Oct. 9 |
| John Piper | Seek the Things Above | Col. 3:1-4 | Oct. 16 |
| Daniel Souza | Preach the Word to Every Nation | 2 Tim. 4:1-5 | Oct. 23 |
| Dieudonné Tamfu | Put on the New Self | Col. 3:5-17 | Nov. 1 |
| Joe Rigney | Christ’s Centrality in Relationships | Col. 3:18-4:1 | Nov. 6 |
| Steven Lee | Walk in Wisdom Towards Outsiders | Col. 4:2-6 | Nov. 13 |
| Student-Led Worship and Prayer | Nov. 20 | ||
| No Chapel, Thanksgiving Break | Nov. 27 | ||
| Sam Crabtree | Christ-Centered Encouragement | Col. 4:7-18 | Dec. 4 |