Trinity Fellowship

1 John 2:1-2 The Paraclete

chris — Sun, 06 May 2012 23:51:18 +0000

The Paraclet propitiates. That really does say it all. Of course you have to know the meaning of the words and their context … kind of like hearding cats.

1 John 1:5-7 The Real Jesus continued

chris — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:05:53 +0000

John relays the message of the apostolic Jesus, not to be confused with the variety of Jesus imposters the gnostics produce.

1 John 1:1-4 The Real Jesus

chris — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:22:01 +0000

Just as Bentsen said to Quayle: “I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.” So in the beginning of 1 John, John is saying to the gnostics: “I served with Jesus Christ. I knew Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was a friend of mine. Gnostics, your ‘photoshopped jesus’ is not Jesus Christ!

Worship: How

chris — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:12:30 +0000

We worship in every way, especially through music. … and perhaps Les Miserables…

Worship: Why

chris — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:16:03 +0000

We worship God, not because He ‘needs’ to be worshipped but, because we need to worship: as creatures, our Creator; as sinners, our Savior.

And don’t forget to enjoy Goodness, Truth and Beauty.

Worship: Who

chris — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:49:16 +0000

The Holy One, the Creator is the One we should worship. Stemming from Romans 1:25 we saw that if don’t follow the truth and worship God the creator, we’re stuck in the lie and will worship the creation in one way or another. We talked about picturing this in terms of One-ism and Two-ism, a framework which was new to me but that I like very much. What did you think?

Worship: What

chris — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:37:00 +0000

What is worship? To worship is to attribute ultimate worth. I spent most of the sermon talking about ‘Cost Benefit Analysis’ – that scale we all use. And, yes, maybe too much time on the laser printer purchase (but it was definitely worth it!). Our object of ultimate worth is either God or it is not.

Sardis: The Living Dead

chris — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:22:31 +0000

Whoa! Zombies! How about us?

Thyatira: False Teaching

chris — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:07:13 +0000

With Jesus describing Himself as “the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze” (Rev 2:18), we had to talk about Jesus as our Judge. That’s the Beama seat judgment as distinguished from the Great White Throne. As an example of false teaching, we discussed Rob Bell’s ‘suggestion’ that Hell might not exist.

Ephesus: First Love

chris — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:13:48 +0000

The Ephesians were doing a lot of good things – but they’d lost the most important thing, the passion of their first love.