Sermons

Below you can find links to sermons from Trinity Church offered as streaming audio, and text in PDF format (not all sermons may have audio).

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Of Foxes And Chickens, The Fierceness Of Jesus

Recorded on Sunday, February 28, 2010

On the second Sunday in Lent Francis reflects on four verses of speech from Jesus that open up Jesus' heart and mind for anyone wanting to better know the One they follow as a disciple.  Standing before Jerusalem, Jesus speaks about the dangers people are alerting him to and his own passion for the city that is not ready to receive him.  With references to foxes and chickens he opens up the quality of his determination and his love that can only inspire.

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Where To Start Your Spiritual Journey in Life

Recorded on Sunday, February 21, 2010

As Messiah Jesus had the most amazing spiritual journey and it is a journey he calls people to follow him on as disciples.  The first Sunday in Lent this year picks up the journey at the wilderness temptations in Luke 4.  Francis opens this story up to show that the questions Jesus dealt with there are actually  questions everyone needs to deal with whether you take up your cross or not.  If you want a compass for the season of Lent, this will help provide one.

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Final Instructions On Spiritual Worship

Recorded on Sunday, February 7, 2010

Francis ends this series of four talks on spiritual things in worship by considering Paul's summary of his fuller instructions on corporate spiritual worship.  The concerns about the operation of spiritual gifts in the general worship gatherings of the congregation lead to specific instructions on the management of tongues and prophecy.  Francis considers these in light of the whole summary and how that body of instruction needs to be heard in the twenty first century.

 

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