Campus worship, Scripture, and testimony.
UNW Chapel is a sermon-centered archive of Northwestern chapel gatherings, shaped by prayer, Scripture, student life, and public testimony. Its messages move between campus humor, direct spiritual counsel, and invitations to see Jesus in anxiety, grief, discouragement, and ordinary obedience.
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UNW Chapel presents the recurring chapel life of Northwestern through sermons, testimonies, prayers, and special campus gatherings. The show is explicitly Christian and plainly pastoral. Episodes tend to open inside the room, with worship still fresh, a speaker praying over the message, and the audience addressed as Northwestern. From there, the feed moves into Bible teaching that treats Scripture as the center of the hour rather than as a loose theme. Becoming by Beholding is the most visible thread in its episodes, with repeated messages from Chris Asmus and another episode named for Joel Amancharla. Those talks lean into the Gospel of John, asking what it means to see Jesus in discouragement, grief, exposure, anxiety, and the desire to be healed. The preaching is conversational but not casual about its claims. A speaker may joke about concerts, the state fair, distracted prayer, or movie grief, then turn sharply toward resurrection, repentance, or the kindness of Jesus. The chapel setting matters. These are not polished studio essays; they are live addresses shaped around students, semesters, homework, midterms, relationships, worship songs, and the immediate pressure of ordinary faithfulness. MyStory Monday adds a testimony format, including Dr. Verna Price’s story of moving beyond religion into relationship with Christ and a visit from Rev. Franklin Graham introduced through the Graham family’s connection to Northwestern. The Special Edition episode about The Christ podcast widens the lens to Northwestern Media, KTIS history, and audio storytelling about Jesus. Across the feed, the recurring posture is invitation rather than abstraction. Speakers ask listeners to sit with Jesus, see him in disappointment, trust his kindness in suffering, and respond in worship. The tone can be emotionally intense, especially around grief, anxiety, shame, brokenness, and spiritual surrender. It is also often affectionate, campus-specific, and direct. UNW Chapel suits listeners who want Christian chapel teaching as it happens in a university community: Scripture-forward, worship-connected, personal, and concerned with how faith holds under pressure. It is less a discussion show than a recorded rhythm of communal formation.
Made for: For listeners seeking Christian chapel teaching shaped by university life, worship, prayer, testimony, and Scripture. It especially suits students and anyone drawn to pastoral messages about anxiety, grief, healing, and following Jesus.
What sets it apart: Unlike a studio sermon podcast, UNW Chapel preserves the feel of a live Northwestern gathering, including campus references, worship responses, student introductions, and series-specific teaching. Its mix of recurring Bible exposition and MyStory Monday testimonies gives it both continuity and personal range.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
UNW Chapel joins close Gospel teaching with candid testimony, turning campus concerns about anxiety, identity and pain into practical Christian reflection.
UNW Chapel records Christian teaching in a campus room where prayer, worship and scripture lead quickly into the pressures of ordinary life. Chris Asmus works closely through Gospel scenes, drawing questions about anxiety, disappointment, pain and unwanted habits toward prayer…
Seven seconds of distracted prayer still counts here, which may be exactly the mercy you need.
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A pastor's kid recalls finding a personal faith amid disappointment with church members.
Dr. Verna Price grew up close to church life after her mother married a pastor. She sang in the choir, learned piano and watched ministry at work. She also heard members gossip and criticize preachers' children.
A John 11 message that gives grief room and asks listeners to trust Jesus' kindness.
In John 11, the speaker stays with Mary and Martha's grief even though the story of Lazarus has a hopeful ending. He asks listeners to feel Mary's anguish before moving to the words "Jesus wept." Jesus knows he will raise Lazarus, but he still shares the sorrow around him.
A chapel sermon asks whether people want healing from a struggle that has become familiar.
A question Jesus asks the man by the pool gives this chapel sermon its shape: "Do you want to be healed?" The speaker brings it close to home through his own overeating, describing how he has turned to food for what he believes only God can give.
Pastor David Miles asks students facing uncertainty to remember how far they have come.
Pastor David Miles begins with a question for the students in the room: who am I, and why am I here? His answer comes through his own story. Once expected to amount to nothing, he recalls the teachers, coaches and clergy who helped him, and speaks about his javelin achievements…
A Christian sermon on enduring pain, a woman's reach for Jesus, and his question to her.
The speaker opens with a hard question: what is the most painful reality in a listener's life? He turns to the woman in Mark 5 who reaches through a crowd to touch Jesus, then draws on Luke's account of Jesus asking who touched him.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Scripture, surrender and faith put into practice.
Chris Asmus shares a story about a frightening misunderstanding during a long-distance relationship, connecting it to a lesson from Galatians.
UNW Chapel's MyStory Monday features Dr.
Chris Asmus leads a prayer and introduces a sermon on John 20, emphasizing that the word prepares us for worship.
A sermon opening with prayer and addressing anxiety and busyness, urging listeners to find rest in God's love.
Chris Asmus shares a personal story of confessing his sexual brokenness to his girlfriend and then preaches on the woman caught in adultery from John 8, emphasizing God's mercy over shame.
UNW Chapel's "Becoming by Beholding - Ep.
UNW Chapel's “Special Edition - The Christ Podcast Launch” connects Northwestern's 1949 KTIS fundraiser to a new dramatized telling of Jesus's story.
Student body president Ellis Meyer introduces Reverend Franklin Graham as the chapel speaker at Northwestern, highlighting his ministry roles and the Graham family legacy.
UNW Chapel’s Chris Asmus centers John 5 on Jesus’ question, "Do you want to be healed?," and the man who had waited 38 years at Bethesda.
["Pastor David Miles uses Northwestern's chapel stage to ask 'who am I and why am I here?' and to frame graduation as a question of purpose.", "He is introduced as a pastor, adjunct at Northwestern since 2018, and co-host of a radio talk show, with Pastor Dayton Dodge credited for bringing him to the room.", "Miles moves from a winter-driving scare to 2023 teen mental-health statistics, then to his own suicide attempt, hospital rescue, and a 10-second invite from Lance Porter to Student Venture.", "He closes with the SOAR framework, a long run of medical and financial setbacks, and the refrain that students are still here and have infinite value."]
UNW Chapel’s Mark 5 sermon centers on Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, and a woman who has bled for 12 years.
Chris Asmus discusses how to follow God through depression, sharing his personal experience with clinical depression and the transformative power of beholding Jesus.
A prayer and introduction to a sermon series on 2 Corinthians 3:18, focusing on transformation through beholding Jesus.
Lead pastor Chris Asmus challenges Northwestern students to see their time at college as a journey of becoming someone through beholding God, rather than merely acquiring a degree.
A worship leader guides a congregation in singing and prayer, focusing on God's worthiness and the Holy Spirit's presence.