Trinity Evangel Church

# Introduction We have to work extra hard to ignore the moral collapse of our culture, like ostriches burying our heads in the sand. The madness doesn’t just affect our so-called elites, the politicians and professors and media personalities. A good portion of our fellow citizens *want* what we’re getting; they vote and march and donate to get it. We think they are out of their minds, and we are *...

# Introduction We have every reason to hope in the gospel. The gospel is the *power* of God to salvation for everyone who believes (Romans 1:16). Unlike Paul’s recipients in Rome, we have two thousand years of gospel history, of gospel *blessings*, and those blessings have mostly moved west from Jerusalem through Rome and through regenerated men and the cultures they’ve forged. Many have tasted th...

# Introduction Hubris really is the right word for all of this. Hubris is juicy pride; press it like rare steak and self-conceit squishes out like blood pools on the plate. Hubris is arrogance, but with a fist raised toward heaven more than against other humans. Hubris is a kind of insanity, so we can modify Einstein’s definition to fit: hubris is receiving the same gifts over and over and expecti...

# Introduction I am not just saying this because I’m a preacher, but there may be no more relevant paragraph in Scripture for sake of the believer’s perspective on the unbeliever’s perspective. If you’ve heard of the evangelism training program that walks another person down the “[Romans Road] (https://www.forthegospel.org/the-romans-road-to-salvation/ ),” which is a fine set of training wheels, t...

# Introduction God is in the righteousness business. What I mean is that He is engaged in an activity for a particular end. His business is not to make money, but to remake mankind. He isn’t open for business only on certain days of the week, M-F, or Sunday, but His work goes on around the clock. God is in the business of revealing His righteousness as men receive it by faith and as they embody it...

# Introduction What do you give the city that has everything? As the capital of the Roman Empire, Rome (and her Caesars) didn't actually have it "all," but that’s a lot easier to see from our perspective. What would have been harder at the time to see is that the city did have some Christians, and that fact alone was something to celebrate as much as it was surprising. Paul writes to the saints in...

# Introduction One question that we've thrown around recently is if our church is prepared for more suffering. There are different kinds of suffering, and who's to say what kinds may or may not be around the corner (even as was true for Peter’s readers). The Lord knows, the Lord wills. There is a sense in which you never really know if you're prepared until you're in the midst of the trouble and,...

# Introduction This is the longest of all Paul’s greetings, and verses 1-7 are (if you notice the punctuation in almost every major English translation) one long sentence. The outline of the salutation is typical for a first-century letter: The Author’s identification and function (verses 1-6), The Recipients’ location and identification (verse 7a), The Greeting (verse 7b). The *gist* of the parag...

The selection of a book of Scripture and start of a new sermon series is a big deal. Not that studying any part of the Bible would be bad (all His works are great and studied by His people for their delight, Psalm 111:2), but certainly some sections at some times are more relevant. Because of my approach, preferring to preach about paragraph at a time, a book with some size could be a year of two...

# Introduction I want to remind you, *encourage* you, as well as myself, that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. Paul asserted such to the Corinthians at the end of his great argument for the Christian's resurrection. > Therefore (in light of your resurrection to immortality and glory in Christ's resurrection), my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the L...

Selected Scriptures # Introduction Lord willing, I will begin preaching through the book of Romans when we get to September. That leaves a couple Sundays of sermons before then, and that gives me a shot to address some other things. In God’s providence we are still being confronted with COVID panic, or we are being confronted again, or we are being confronted somehow with heretofore unprecedented...

Selected Scriptures # Introduction The identity industry is building bigger banks to hold their dollars these days. It has been for a while, even while it's updated it's branding over the last decade. Buy these shoes and you'll be like Mike, buy this toothpaste and your breath will be sexy, gorge yourself at this restaurant and being fat never tasted so good. More up to date advertisements promote...

1 Timothy 1:5 # Introduction Through today's sermon, I pray that we would all remember our charge as disciples of Christ, to be growing into greater Christlikeness, which includes the work of discipling others. We come to Christ, we are being conformed to Christ, we should commit to helping others do the same. Part of the challenge is that the language is familiar. We just wouldn't give much time...

# Introduction I gave the impression to some that I was going to do a *series* on marriage rather than just one sermon. Okay. It will be a two-parter, and this is number two. Also, I really do understand that not everyone is married, just like everyone doesn’t have kids, which was the focus last Lord’s Day. But all Scripture is profitable, the parts about the dragon and the beast, and also husband...

Genesis 1:28 # Introduction The Revelation series is finished, and I probably won’t start a new book study until September. There are a few things I desire to preach about until then. Marriage is one of them. Marriage has been on my mind a lot recently, and the wedding yesterday was certainly a part of that. My upcoming message at the youth retreat is about what the Lord Jesus would have us do in...

Revelation 1-22 Series: Just Conquer #65 # Introduction I really, always, do not understand making no final comments on how a series through a book of the Bible has changed, or at least *affected*, the preacher. This applies to commentaries as well as to verse-by-verse teachers. It took me 64 sermons to work through the book of Revelation, and that ought to have accomplished something. (This, obvi...

Revelation 22:14-21 Series: Just Conquer #64 # Introduction I’ve been picking away at a book titled _Last Stands_, about military battles fought by those who at some point in the fight knew that they could not win. The first chapter recounts how 300 Spartans withstood the million-man Persian army for a few days at Thermopylae. They did not retreat, they did not surrender. As the author of the book...

Revelation 22:6-13 Series: Just Conquer #63 # Introduction Words are like water that wash us. Paul wrote about husbands who ought to love their wives like Christ who cleanses His Bride, the Church, "by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to Himself in *splendor*" (Ephesians 5:26-27). The Lamb laid down His life to redeem the Bride, and the Lamb gives His Word, H...

Revelation 22:1-5 Series: Centers and Circumferences #62 # Introduction Have you ever wondered what in the world God wants you to do? Have you questioned what He made you to do, or what He wants with you? These are great things to think about, ground-floor, gut-level existence things. And it turns out the answers are in the Bible, on the very first page and onto the very last. In the first chapter...