Trinity Fellowship Friendswood, TX

Have you ever watched Jesus do something that didn't make sense? A prayer goes unanswered. A situation gets worse instead of better. His timing feels off. His methods feel strange. The crowd on Palm Sunday had the same experience. They watched Jesus ride into Jerusalem on a donkey (not a war horse) and thought they understood what He was doing. They were wrong. Within five days, confusion turned t...

As Jesus and his disciples left Jericho on their way to Jerusalem, two blind men sitting by the road called out to him for mercy. The crowd around them told them to be quiet, but they refused. What Jesus did next, and why he did it, reveals something important about the kind of king he is and the kind of people he stops for. This week, we will discover what the Lord's compassion produces in those...

What would you do if you had direct access to the most powerful person around and could ask for anything? What would your request reveal about what you really value? In this passage, a bold request triggers an eruption of anger among Jesus' closest followers, and what comes to the surface is something none of them expected. Jesus responds with a statement so counterintuitive that it would have stu...

Most of us have spent considerable energy arranging our lives to avoid predictable conflict. We soften convictions, delay difficult conversations, and quietly take the long way around trouble we can see coming. Yet here is Jesus, three days from Jerusalem, telling His closest followers in specific detail what the city holds: the betrayal, the condemnation, the mocking, the flogging, the cross, and...

Most of us have a deep instinct for fairness — and Jesus told a parable that seems to violate it completely. Workers hired at the end of the day receive the same wage as those who labored through the scorching heat since dawn. Some walk away astonished. Others walk away furious. The difference between them has nothing to do with how hard they worked — and everything to do with what they were trust...

A wealthy, morally upright young man runs to Jesus, kneels before Him, and asks an urgent question. Jesus looks at him, loves him—and then makes a demand so radical the man walks away grieving. What was he really asking? Why did Jesus respond with commands rather than comfort? And what was the "one thing" that stood between this impressive young ruler and what he was seeking? This week, we'll wres...

Every parent wants good things for their children—health, happiness, success. But in a crowded, busy world, how do we make sure our children get what matters most? In Matthew 19, a group of parents fought through a crowd and faced unexpected resistance just to get their kids near Jesus. Why would they go to such trouble? And why did Jesus' own disciples try to stop them? This week, we will discove...

The Pharisees approached Jesus with a question designed to trap Him—but it's a question people still ask today: "What justifies ending a marriage?" Jesus' answer silenced them. But then His own disciples responded in a way that revealed a different kind of resistance —one that many in our culture have embraced wholeheartedly. Why did the disciples react so strongly? And what option did Jesus notab...

Have you ever found yourself keeping track of how many times someone has wronged you? Perhaps you've thought, "This is the third time they've done this to me"—as if reaching some magic number would finally justify cutting them off. Peter had the same instinct when he approached Jesus with what he thought was a remarkably generous offer regarding forgiveness. But Jesus' response shattered Peter's e...

Have you ever found out that people were talking about you behind your back? That others knew about a problem with you before you did? That conversations about your life, your struggles, your failures were happening without you? How did that feel? Most of us have been on the receiving end of gossip at some point. We know the betrayal, the embarrassment, the anger of discovering that people were di...

How does God view the believers everyone else overlooks? What does He do when they wander? And what does He expect from us? Jesus answers these questions with a surprising command, a provocative parable, and a declaration of the Father's will that leaves no room for our indifference. This week, we discover what it looks like to align our hearts with a Father who refuses to write anyone off.

The disciples had just asked Jesus the most revealing question of their journey: "Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" In response, Jesus called a child to stand among them and redefined greatness as childlike humility. But He wasn't finished. What happens when those who should model humility instead model pride? What becomes of vulnerable believers who follow the wrong example? This week,,...

The disciples had just witnessed Jesus' transfiguration and heard the Father's voice from heaven, yet their next recorded conversation reveals hearts consumed with a very different concern: who among them would be greatest. Why would men who had seen such glory turn so quickly to questions of rank and position? And why does Jesus respond with such a surprising and counterintuitive object lesson? T...

Paul’s letter to the Colossians was written to counter false teachers who were misleading the church. Their teaching was diminishing Christ's preeminence through adding a mixture of Jewish legalism, Greek philosophy, and early Gnostic ideas. Our verses today are a transition to Paul’s main theme which begins with an incredible word portrait of the preeminence of Christ in verses 15 to 22. This wee...

Do you remember the pure delight you experienced on Christmas morning as a child—the rush to the tree, the colored paper flying, the joy of gifts with your name on them? This kind of delight becomes harder and harder to recapture as we age,, and we wonder if we've simply outgrown it. This Christmas, discover that you haven't outgrown delight—you've just been looking for it in places too small to c...

The Colossian believers had received sound doctrine about Christ's supremacy and had begun putting off the old man and putting on the new man. But Paul knew that true transformation required more than behavior modification—it required hearts saturated with Christ's word. Speech flows from identity, and identity is shaped by what dwells within. This week, we will discover how consecrating our words...

The Colossian believers had embraced the gospel and experienced new life in Christ, but old patterns of behavior still threatened their witness and spiritual vitality. Paul had just commanded them to set their minds on things above because they had been raised with Christ. Now he addresses the practical implications of that heavenly mindset—what must die in their daily habits and what must come al...

The Colossian believers faced daily pressure to conform their thinking to the surrounding culture's values and philosophies. Paul had thoroughly established Christ's supremacy and sufficiency in the previous chapters, demonstrating that He alone is the fullness of God in bodily form. Now, at the beginning of chapter 3, Paul shifts from defending theology to directing lifestyle, beginning with the...

When the exiles laid the foundation for the second temple, a strange sound filled Jerusalem—joy and weeping mixed so loudly that no one could tell them apart. The older generation who remembered Solomon's temple couldn't celebrate what God was doing because they were focused on what God had done. Their past experiences became a measuring stick that drained their present joy. This week, we will dis...

Picture a courtroom where compelling evidence is presented, witnesses testify, and proof is overwhelming—yet the jury remains divided. This exact scenario unfolded when Paul met with Rome's Jewish leaders. For an entire day, from morning until evening, Paul presented scriptural evidence that Jesus was the promised Messiah, using the very Law and Prophets these leaders had studied their whole lives...

After surviving a catastrophic shipwreck in violent winter storms, Paul and 275 others washed ashore on the island of Malta, cold, exhausted, and vulnerable. The local people had just witnessed something nearly impossible in ancient maritime disasters: the survival of every single person aboard a ship destroyed in a two-week storm. This week, we will discover how God uses Paul’s consecrated life i...

Paul was a prisoner being transported to Rome under guard, seemingly powerless in his circumstances. The journey would prove treacherous—a violent storm threatened to destroy the ship and kill everyone aboard. Yet something remarkable happened: God chose to save not just Paul, but all 276 people on the ship. Why would God extend such extraordinary mercy to a shipload of pagan sailors and soldiers?...

Standing before King Agrippa, Governor Festus, and the most powerful leaders in Caesarea, Paul faced a critical moment—he could defend himself legally, or he could seize an unprecedented opportunity to proclaim the gospel. Rather than simply arguing his innocence, Paul delivered a masterfully organized testimony that revealed not just what happened to him, but who Christ is and what He offers to a...

For two years, Paul has been imprisoned in Caesarea, seemingly stuck in a legal and political quagmire with no clear resolution in sight. When a new Roman governor arrives and Jewish leaders renew their accusations, it appears Paul's situation is only getting worse—yet something remarkable unfolds that no one could have orchestrated except God Himself. What looks like delay, opposition, and injust...

In a Caesarean courtroom, two men faced each other across an impossible divide. One wore chains and faced potential execution. The other wore the purple of Rome and held absolute power over life and death. Yet when the gospel was preached about righteousness, self-control, and coming judgment, something shocking happened: the man in chains spoke with complete freedom while the man on the throne tr...