Welcome to the sermon podcast of Trinity Church of Portland. This week, we continued our current sermon series, Light After Darkness: A Sermon Series on the Five Solas. In the midst of the Advent season, when traditions and cultural expectations often take center stage, Light in the Darkness invites us to return to the Gospel’s true meaning through…

Welcome to the sermon podcast of Trinity Church of Portland Oregon. This week, our message is from Hebrews 11:35-37 as well as numerous other scriptures and is titled “Sing For Joy Afflicted Saints” and was preached by our guest preacher, Sean Demars. Our sermon this morning is intended to help us all to be more faithful Christians in the face of a…

Welcome to the sermon podcast of Trinity Church of Portland. This week, we began a new series to carry us through Christmas: Light After Darkness: A Sermon Series on the Five Solas. In the midst of the Advent season, when traditions and cultural expectations often take center stage, Light in the Darkness invites us to return to the Gospel’s true me…

Welcome to the weekly sermon podcast of Trinity Church of Portland. This week, our message is from Luke 7:36-50 and is titled “The Nature and Extent of God's Forgiveness” and was preached by Thomas Terry. In our text this morning the compassion of Jesus toward sinners is on full display. What starts with a cold and loveless invitation from Simon th…

Welcome to the sermon podcast of Trinity Church of Portland Oregon. This week, our message is from 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 and is titled “From Dust to Glory: Expecting Pain on The Journey Home” and was preached by Andrey Gorban. In our text we see that there is no Christian life free from the trials of sin and suffering. We must then ask ourselves, "…

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world. This week, our message brings this series to a conclusion and is from…

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world. This week, our message is from 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 and is titled “…

Welcome to the sermon podcast of Trinity Church of Portland Oregon. This week, our message is from John 11:1-44 and is titled “God's Sovereignty Over Death” and was preached by our guest preacher, Sean Demars. In our text this morning we looked into the death of Lazarus in John 11:1-44. We learned that although death is normal, it is not natural. I…

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world. This week, our message is from 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 and is titled “…

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world. This week, our message is from 1 Corinthians 15:12-34 and is titled “…

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world. This week, our message is from 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 and is titled “T…

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world. This week, Thomas Terry brings us a message from 1 Corinthians 14:1-4…

Welcome to this week's sermon from Trinity Church of Portland titled, "Do You Love?" This comes on the heels of the topic of love we heard last week in 1 Corinthians 13. This week, Andrey Gorban brings us a message from 1 John 2:7-11 on the topic of love, which we learned last week is the more excellent way. In our text this morning we see from Joh…

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world. This week, Andrey Gorban brings us a message from 1 Corinthians 12:31…

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world. This week, Greg Taylor brings us a message from 1 Corinthians 12:12-3…

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world. This week, Jan Verbruggen brings us a message from 1 Corinthians 12:1…

This sermon is from our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching through 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “Discerning The Body” is from 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 and was preached by Pastor Josh Petersen. In our text this morning Paul begins to correct the Corinthians for their division and lack of care for each other in t…

This is the 19th sermon in our current series Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching through 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “Glorifying God When We Gather” is from 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 and was preached by Pastor Josh Petersen. In our text this morning Paul moves into a new area related to corporate worship which will continue thr…

This sermon is from our current series Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching through 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “Escaping Idolatry" is from 1 Corinthians 10:1-22 and was preached by Pastor Greg Taylor. In our text this morning Paul is challenging us to choose sides. He will use the people and events found in the Exodus narrat…

This morning we had a guest preacher, Shai Linne who preached our sermon titled “The Lord of Our Joy” from John 2:1-11. In our text this morning we see the earliest miracle Jesus performed by turning water into wine at a wedding. This event reveals to us that Jesus has great power, He is generous, and He is good. It also demonstrates that our resou…

This is the 16th sermon in our current series Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching through 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “The Right Reasons” is from 1 Corinthians 9:1-27 and was preached by Pastor Thomas Terry. In our text this morning we see Paul remind the Corinthians that he was indeed an Apostle which afforded him certain r…

This morning we continued in our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, an exposition of 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “Free To Love” is from 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 and was preached by Andrey Gorban. In our text this morning we see Paul answer another issue from a letter the Corinthians sent to Paul. The Corinthians had confu…

This morning we continued in our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, an exposition of 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “Single-Minded Devotion” is from 1 Corinthians 7:25-40 and was preached by Pastor Thomas Terry. In our culture, two modern secular movements have influenced many Christians. The first movement is the modern…

This morning we continued in our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, an exposition of 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “The Beauty of Your Calling” is from 1 Corinthians 7:17-24 and was preached by Pastor Greg Taylor. In our text this morning we see Paul's message to the Corinthians is emphasizing that all believers should …

This morning we continued in our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, an exposition of 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “The Beauty of Marriage” is from 1 Corinthians 7:1-16 and was preached by Pastor Greg Taylor. We moved into chapter seven today and we see the Apostle Paul answering questions he received from the Corinthia…

This morning we continued in our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, an exposition of 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “The Beauty of the Body” is from 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 and was preached by Pastor Thomas Terry. As we finish chapter six, the Apostle Paul moves into pointing out the beauty and sacred nature of the body. T…

This morning we continued in our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, an exposition of 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “Our Future Reign and Past Redemption Changes Our Present Relationships” is from 1 Corinthians 6:1-11 and was preached by a guest preacher, Pastor Alex Duke from Third Avenue Baptist Church in Louisville, K…

This morning we continued in our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, an exposition of 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “The Harder Side of Church Discipline” is from from 1 Corinthians 5:1-13 and was preached by Pastor Greg Taylor. The apostle Paul in writing this part of his letter to the Corinthians is seeking to show the…

This morning we continued in our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, an exposition of 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “Spiritual Parenthood In Pagan Times” is from from 1 Corinthians 4:14-21 and was preached by Pastor Jan Verbruggen. In this text the apostle Paul is writing as a spiritual parent and lets the Corinthians kn…

This morning we continued in our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, an exposition of 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “Let God Be the Judge” is from from 1 Corinthians 4:1-13 and was preached by Pastor Greg Taylor. In this text the apostle Paul explains to the Corinthians that Christian service requires servanthood, stewar…

This morning we continued in our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, an exposition of 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “Church Unity Through Church Identity” is from from 1 Corinthians 3:10-23 and was preached by a frequent guest preacher at Trinity Church, Pastor Cody Cannon who is the Lead Pastor of Life Pointe Church in …

This morning we arrived at our fifth sermon in our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture. This sermon titled “Big Babies” was preached by Pastor Thomas Terry from 1 Corinthians 3:1-9. Because the Corinthians were living with an attitude of spiritual superiority, Paul starts this section with a reproof telling the Corinthians he…

This morning we continued in our series Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching through Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians. This sermon titled “God's Better Wisdom” was preached by Andrey Gorban from 1 Corinthians 2:6-16. This sermon text teaches us the great importance of God's wisdom versus human wisdom. We must not allow oursel…

This morning we celebrated Resurrection Sunday and continued our series Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching through Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians. This sermon titled “The Message of the Cross” was preached by Pastor Thomas Terry from 1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5. This sermon text helps us see the power in the preaching of the c…

This morning, we continued in our series Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching through Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians. This sermon titled “The Key To Dealing With A Divided Church” and was preached by Pastor Thomas Terry from 1 Corinthians 1:10-17. This sermon text points us to the importance of church unity in order that th…

This morning we continued in our series Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching through Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians. This sermon titled “The Key To Dealing With Difficult Christians” was preached by Pastor Thomas Terry from 1 Corinthians 1:4-9. This sermon continued to unpack the initial greeting of Paul to the Corinthians.…

This morning we began a new series titled, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching expositionally through Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians. This sermon titled “The People, Paul, & the Purpose For It All.” was preached by Pastor Thomas Terry from 1 Corinthians 1:1-3. This sermon laid the groundwork for coming months we will be pr…

This morning our sermon titled “Walking In The Truth" was preached by Pastor Greg Taylor from 3 John 1-15. This letter showed us the importance of walking in Biblical truth because truth is inextricably connected to love and how we live the Christian life. We also saw that we are to support people who do gospel ministry—especially missionaries. Thi…

This morning we completed our short series titled, The Twelfth Chapter, expositing Romans 12. This sermon titled “A Transformed And A Renewed Mind In Action” was preached by one of our faithful members, Andrey Gorban from Romans 12:9-21. This text unpacks how we are to live for Christ once He has changed us. This section is often referred to as the…

This morning we continued our series titled, The Twelfth Chapter, expositing Romans 12. This sermon titled “Gifted For The Good Of Others” was preached by one of our faithful members, Andrey Gorban from Romans 12:3-8. This text points us toward the spiritual gifts God gives to all of his people. We are told not to think more highly of ourselves tha…

This morning we began a new series titled, The Twelfth Chapter expositing Romans 12. This sermon titled “A Life Of Worship” was preached by one of our faithful members, Andrey Gorban and is from Romans 12:1-2. This sermon focused us on how Christians are to live lives of sacrificial worship by presenting ourselves in totality to God. In addition to…

This morning Pastor Thomas Terry brought to a conclusion our series “The Word of God and the People of God”. This concluding sermon is titled “Every Member Ministry” and is from Ephesians 4:7-16. This sermon focused us on how God gives us grace to serve in His church. He has given us the gifts of offices in the church to equip the people of the chu…

This morning our sermon titled “Every Member Holy" is from Matthew 18:15-20 & 1 Corinthians 5:1-13 and was preached by Pastor Greg Taylor and part of our series “The People of God & the Word of God.” This sermon focused on the subject of church discipline which is found in our two main texts where we see that church discipline is a necessary device…

This morning our sermon titled “The Keys of the Kingdom” is from Matthew 16:13-19 and was preached by Pastor Thomas and part of our series “The People of God and the Word of God.” This text begins with Jesus asking who the disciples think he is. Peter correctly replies with the accurate confession that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus mak…

This morning our sermon titled “Gardeners In The Garden” is from Genesis 1:27-28 was preached by Pastor Thomas Terry as part of our series “The Word of God & The People of God.” This sermon focused us on the church and the role of church members. By going back to the beginning we see Adam and Eve were commissioned to work and garden as part of God’…

This morning we closed out the year with a sermon titled “So That Your Cup Overflows” from Romans 15:13 preached by Pastor Josh Petersen. From this text we looked back on the closing year able to rejoice in the forgiveness of our sins and looking at God’s work in our lives. We also looked ahead to the coming year to think through the disciplines of…

This morning we concluded our 2023 Advent series "The Light Has Come” focusing on the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. This sermon is titled "God With Us" and was preached by our lead pastor, Thomas Terry from Luke 15:11-32. In this text we see a picture of a loving father and two lost sons, one who is an unrighteous sinner, and one who is a s…

This morning we continued our Advent series "The Light Has Come” focusing on the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. This sermon is titled "Jesus, the Light of the World" and was preached by Trinity Church member, Andrey Gorban from John 1:4-5. In this text we see the contrast between light and darkness—that Jesus came to us as the light of men. …

This morning we continued our Advent series "The Light Has Come” focusing on the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. This sermon is titled "God Is Love" and was preached by Pastor Thomas Terry is from 1 John 4:7-10. In this text we see the importance of properly defining the word “love” according to God’s definition. We believe in truth and there…

This morning we continued in our Advent series "The Light Has Come” focusing on the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. This sermon titled "The Peace Jesus Brings" was preached by Pastor Greg Taylor from Ephesians 2:13-17. In this text we see the peace Jesus brings. Jesus brings peace between sinners and God, peace between Jews and Gentiles, and …