Trinity Fellowship Friendswood, TX

A woman walks into a dinner party and does something that shocks everyone in the room. The people closest to Jesus are furious about it. But Jesus says something about her act that nobody saw coming, and then he makes a promise that is still being kept two thousand years later. What did she see that the rest of the room missed? This week, we will discover what it looks like to give your best to Je...

When the King returns and separates the nations, He does not ask what they believed. He asks what they did. He names six ordinary acts: feeding the hungry, giving water to the thirsty, welcoming the stranger, clothing the naked, caring for the sick, visiting the prisoner. Why these six? This week, we will discover what the life the Lord promises to reward actually looks like.

Some of the most respectable-sounding reasons for not doing what we know we should do turn out to be the most dangerous ones. We repeat them for years without ever testing them. Jesus tells a parable in Matthew 25 in which a returning master takes his servant's well-rehearsed reason apart from the inside. This week, we will discover what Jesus exposes about Christian faithfulness and why it matter...

Some things cannot be pulled together at the last minute. A person can mean well, care deeply, and still be caught with nothing left when the moment finally arrives. Jesus once told a story about ten young women waiting for the same event: half were ready, and half were not, and the difference didn't show until it was too late to fix. What made the difference, and could the same gap be hiding in a...

Almost everyone has been left in charge of something while the person who trusted them was away. Some rise to it, and some let things slide the moment the door closes behind them. Jesus ends his longest teaching about the future not with a chart of dates, but with a picture of ordinary life. This week, we will discover what Jesus wants filling our days in the long stretch before he comes back.

Almost nobody you passed on the road this week gave Jesus of Nazareth a second thought. He was not on their minds, not in their plans, and not a factor in a single decision they made. Two thousand years ago a room full of powerful men looked at Him and reached the same conclusion, and as far as the world can tell, their ruling has held ever since. So what do you do with a Savior most of the world...

When the disciples ask Jesus what signs will signal His coming and the end of the age, He describes a time of confusion, tribulation and persecution. In addition to providing some preliminary signs of the sorrows that will characterize the end of the age, He provides exhortations for facing each challenging situation. Our study this week will focus on the attitudes necessary for us to successfully...

Some troubles arrive from the outside. Others we build with our own hands, and then we have to live in the ruins. Judah sat in a burned city, watching smoke rise off everything they had ever called theirs, knowing they had earned every bit of it, with no one able to tell them when it would end. What does a person hold onto when the loss is deserved, and the rescue has no date attached to it? This...

How can I be an effective witness in a hostile environment? To be an effective witness for Christ in a hostile environment, we must be ready to share the gospel at all times, we must be respectful to those with whom we share it, and we must live a life that backs up our message.

Sometimes the hardest part of obedience is not understanding what God said. The harder part is trusting the One who said it. We may know the right thing to do and still hesitate because obedience feels risky, costly, or uncertain. What if our resistance to God’s commands reveals something deeper than a behavior problem? This week, we will discover that trusting God’s heart helps us trust His comma...

Sometimes the hardest part of obedience is not understanding what God said. The harder part is trusting the One who said it. We may know the right thing to do and still hesitate because obedience feels risky, costly, or uncertain. What if our resistance to God’s commands reveals something deeper than a behavior problem? This week, we will discover that trusting God’s heart helps us trust His comma...

It's remarkably easy to convince yourself that the mess in your life is just bad timing, someone else's fault, or a trial to be prayed through rather than a problem to be dealt with. But what if the hardship you're facing right now isn't as random as it feels? This week, we will discover what an unexpected military defeat exposes about the tragedies we bring on ourselves, and why they rarely stay...

Why does life sometimes feel like we are working hard with little to show for it? And why do certain old patterns keep producing consequences years after we thought we had moved past them? Many people sense that some kind of fairness is built into how life unfolds, but few are sure how it actually works. This week, we will discover what God says about taking responsibility for our lives and the pr...

Most of us can name an irresponsible person we know within seconds. We can describe what they ought to be doing, what they keep failing to do, and who is paying the price for it. But when that same question turns back on us, the answer suddenly becomes much harder to see. Why is irresponsibility so easy to spot in others and so difficult to face in ourselves? This week, we will discover what Scrip...

Matthew 23 contains the harshest words Jesus ever spoke in public. Yet the chapter does not end the way we would expect it to. In its final three verses, Jesus says something to the city that reveals what has been in his heart the whole time, and it raises a question every believer eventually asks: What does God actually feel about people who keep him at arm's length? This week, we will discover w...

Most of us know what it feels like to keep up appearances -- to present one version of ourselves in public while something very different is happening on the inside. What happens when that gap shows up not just in our personal lives but in our religion? Jesus walked into the most religiously precise environment in the ancient world and unleashed the most severe indictment of His entire ministry. W...

Have you ever been completely confident you knew the right answer, only to discover your answer was missing something critical? The Pharisees found themselves in exactly that position when Jesus turned their own Scriptures back on them with a question they could not answer. What was it about their understanding of the Messiah that collapsed under the weight of a single psalm? This week, we will di...

What are all the commandments of the Bible really about? For that matter, what is the Bible all about? What’s behind all the prophetic and apostolic exhortations? What are the final lessons to be learned from its documented history? What is the intended goal of this record of divine revelation? What is God up to? In fact, who is God? Interestingly, Jesus answers all these all-encompassing question...

Every human will eventually ask questions about what the future holds for them. “Is there life after death?” is one of the most common wonders of every person. Is there a reason to have hope about our future? In Matthew 22 some religious leaders, trying to trick Jesus, gave him the open window to talk about why we should have a confident hope that there is indeed life after death. This week, we wi...

Everyone answers to someone. Your boss expects your best hours, your government expects your taxes, your family expects your presence, and your culture expects your \ conformity. But what happens when those expectations collide with an even deeper claim on your life? In Matthew 22, a group of political and religious enemies corner Jesus with a question designed to make Him choose sides. His answer...

What happens when someone is given everything they need to succeed and still refuses to deliver? What if the person who gave it to them keeps asking, keeps waiting, and keeps being ignored? At what point does patience run out, and what does the response look like when it does? These are the tensions Jesus brings to the surface in a story that made the most powerful men in Israel condemn themselves...

Have you ever told someone you would do something and then never followed through? What if God measured your devotion not by what you say but by what you actually do? And what would it mean if the people least expected to honor God ended up ahead of the people everyone assumed were closest to Him? This week, we will discover what Jesus teaches about the difference between professing loyalty to God...

Have you ever poured out your heart to God about a decision, only to feel like you were talking to the ceiling? Most of us assume the problem is timing or mystery. But what if God's silence is actually a response? In this passage, the most powerful religious leaders in Israel ask Jesus a direct question, and He refuses to answer. His silence wasn't inability or evasion. This week, we will discover...

A temple packed with worshipers. A tree covered with leaves. Both looked alive, but one got cleansed, and the other got cursed. What did Jesus see that everyone else missed? And why did blind beggars and shouting children receive His approval while religious experts received His rebuke? This week, we will discover what kind of worship God actually recognizes as genuine and how the answer might not...

Dwell with the words of the risen Christ to know and proclaim the reality of the risen Christ.