Trinity Fellowship

The hinge of history is the redemptive work of Christ for His bride. The drama of Christ's redemption is captured and symbolized in the marriage of husband and wife. And just as the mutual love of Christ and the church overflows into expansion and new life, so does marriage. The goal in all of this is for the knowledge of the glory of the Lord to fill the earth as the waters cover the sea (Hab. 2:...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Baptism is a step of obedience for those that have been transferred from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. It is a sign to the world around us that our allegiances have changed; that we are no longer slaves to sin but belong body and soul to Jesus Christ. In baptism we are confessing that we have died to sin and been made alive to the things of God. As we do this, Christ is also min...

Being entrusted with children is a great honour and a heritage from the Lord. Children are to be shepherded to know the Lord and to receive the faith so that they can in turn pass it on to their children. One generation is to commend the Lord's mighty acts to another (Psalm 145:4). As our children grow, the goal should be for them to internalize the gospel so that biblical wisdom can be applied to...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Children are a blessing from the Lord. They are an inheritance designed to transfer the kingdom of God from one generation to the next. Children should be welcomed gladly into our marriages and should be taught to know the Lord from the start. They need to learn who God is and who they are; that they are made in the image of God, born under the Fall, and need the gospel to restore the fallen image...

Marriage is a vital part of the story that God is telling about His creation. The one-flesh union of a man as covenant head and a woman who builds her home is meant to reflect Christ, the true and perfect covenant head, who builds His kingdom through the faithful labour of His bride, the church. This bond is close, intimate, life-giving, and abundantly fruitful. Christian marriage is the God-ordai...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Suffering, pain, and affliction are all part of the human experience between the Fall and the Restoration. Suffering reminds us that we walk with a limp. The church walks with a limp in imitation of our Saviour who also walked with a limp. God's children are frequently in heaviness, but not in the darkness. Our suffering reminds us that we are joined to the One who suffered for our redemption. We...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

(Due to some technical issues, the first few minutes of this sermon is lower quality. The issue is resolved around the 14:00 mark.) A woman's glory is her ability to fill and beautify the creation. After God made the man, He saw it was not good for him to be alone. Man without a woman is like Christ without a church. Nothing already made was up to this high and honourable calling, and so the situa...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

A woman's glory is her ability to fill and beautify the creation. After God made the man, He saw it was not good for him to be alone. Man without a woman is like Christ without a church. Nothing already made was up to this high and honourable calling, and so the situation called for a fresh creation from God. God made the man for dominion, and next He makes the woman for the man. Together, their t...

The glory of men is their strength. Men were made to do hard things. Men were made to bear heavy loads. When men work out physically, they get stronger. When men push themselves to do more, they generally get better at it. It's trendy in our world, even our Christian world to be soft, easily steered, self-absorbed, and to get distracted from the dominion mandate for which we were made. The Bible c...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Matthew's gospel retells the story of Israel. Jesus has played the role of Moses, of Joshua, of Solomon, of Elisha, and of Jeremiah. He has been through exodus and conquest. He has preached wisdom and repentance. He has predicted the destruction of Jerusalem and the fall of the temple. He has walked from the humiliation of the cross to the exaltation of the resurrection. He has gone from being for...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

The end of Matthew's gospel reaches not just back to the beginning of the gospel story, but to the beginning of all beginnings, back to the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth. Jesus rises on the day after the Sabbath, but that is also the beginning of a new Sabbath, the first day of a new creation. This is not just a return to the old creation, but an improvement on it. According...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

(No video is available for this week's sermon.) Jesus the God-man was put on trial. Jesus the God-man suffered and died on the cross. Jesus the God-man went into the tomb, into Sheol. But death could not hold Him, and instead of being swallowed by death; He swallowed death in victory. He turned the tomb into a womb, death into a transition to new life. He turned the place of death and defilement i...

(No video is available for this week's sermon.) When God first created the world, He spoke light to come forth out of the darkness. When He re-creates the world, He does it through the cross of His Son. The world is remade when God the Son enters into the darkness, suffers in the darkness, passes through the chaos of de-creation, and triumphs over it again. Being in union with Christ means that Je...

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Study in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Putting Jesus to death is the human project. That is what we do. And this means that we are far, far worse than we let ourselves imagine. Left to ourselves, this would be our last word. But God has a different project, and He will not let us get away with ours. The cross of Jesus is the crux of history, but that means the cross of Jesus not only reveals the radical disorder of fallen humanity, but...