Trinity Chippenham

David showed amazing kindness to Jonathan's son Mephibosheth. It's incredible that people like us, spiritual Mephibosheths, far away from God are shown the same amazing grace by King Jesus! 2 Samuel 9

Seek Jesus in all the areas of your life, and with all the people in your life. Love Him first.

The Gospel is simple: the Son of God become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, that we might become spiritually flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. The Christian life in light of the Gospel is just as simple: Seek Jesus. Do everything in alignment with the heart and character of Christ.

Staying connected to him in a marriage union which doesn't just bring us benefits but gives us a whole new identity – buried with him, raised with him, and loved and accepted by his Father as our own Father!

Paul's ministry is all about maturity. "Christ in us" is the key to growing up and leaving the 'shallow end.'

Why does Paul encourage the Colossians to take their eyes off themselves and onto Jesus? Because He Jesus awesome! Colossians 1:15-23

The Colossian church were in many ways just like us - feeling tempted to question whether what they had in Jesus really was enough, or if there was something more. Colossians 1:1-14

Does the Bible really end with a party? And if it does, how come Christians seem to let us down so much now? We finish the series anticipating the end of the story, when the freedom of the glory of the children of God will be unleashed!

We have celebrated the promise God gave to defeat the rebellion. We have appreciated the preparation God made in the Old Covenant to prepare humanity for the coming of Christ and his New Covenant. But have we grasped the big picture of the Bible? The covenant's are described in marital terms, and Christ became one of us not only to reveal the Father and rescue humanity, but also to make the g...

God's promise of the seed of the woman came to fruition when the fullness of times had come . . . so why did God take so long? In fact, why does God take so long in fulfilling his purposes in our lives today? This message looks at the Old Covenant to understand what was going on with the law, the tabernacle and the sacrifices . . . and sees how it is only in Christ, via the new covenant that...

The Bible is The Story - the story of a giving God whose giving nature spilled over in creation, and then, in the face of rebellion and hatred, gave again. Human's rebel, and God does not reboot everything, but instead gives the Promise of the Seed - the One who would come and conquer death, pay for sin, and win the hearts of many back to God. This is part 1, the Promise.

Is God's love and mercy to undeserving sinners true? Or is it too good to be true? Mike points us to the story of the Lost Sons in Luke 15 for an answer.

Fraser Kay, pastor of North Swindon Baptist Church, spoke to Trinity Chippenham from 2 Corinthians 4 on the subject of leadership.

Paul gives a clear list of qualifications for those who should be recognised officially as leaders in the church. As we move toward recognising our own leadership, what are we to make of these qualification lists?

What do church leaders do? Church leadership is not about "lording it over," "getting things your own way," "getting rich," or even "doing the work of ministry." Church leaders are shepherds who lay down their lives as they feed, lead, care, protect and equip.

Why does the local church need leadership? Titus 1:10-16 gives insight into the dangers from which a leadership protect a local church. Leadership is given for the gospel and for the faithful.

The environment that allows for a community of authenticity is one saturated in the grace of Christ. How can we be part of creating a community of grace? In Colossians 3 we have the source - our gaze on Christ, and our union with Christ, and we also have the description of Christlike grace that will make the church community harmonious. Love, patience, forgiveness, the peace of Christ and the word...

"Investing time to build healthy relationships characterised by authenticity and grace." This week we zero in on authenticity. How can we, as fallen creatures, ever grow in authentic relationships? Peter took us to John 13 to see how in Christ we are able to have our security and identity anchored outside of the room we are in, and therefore be free to give ourselves away to others. Next...

It is the Holy Spirit who takes a group of people and changes it into a supernatural community. What does he do? How do we engage with that? Ron takes us to Ephesians 5:15-21 to continue our series...

It is possible to socially engineer groups of people, but only God can create a supernatural community - one marked by His love, grace, forgiveness and authenticity. In this message we launch a brief values series by looking briefly at 1John 4, followed by the astonishing passage of Jeremiah 3

Jesus' mission and plan was to die and then be raised to life. Mark's resurrection account points us to the truth of the resurrection, and asks us what our response will be . . . fear, astonishment, faith? This is the final message in the series, "A Different Kind of King" . . . and the ultimate difference is that this one conquers death!

Human leaders tend to lead out of a self-concerned motivation. Not Jesus. In this chapter we see how Christianity is not about our commitment or what we are prepared to do for Jesus. Christianity is about Christ. He was the one who followed through on his calm commitment to die for those who didn't deserve it. The day before the crucifixion traced to point us to Jesus, a different kind of Kin...

Jesus faced a barrage of questions trying to trip him up. He handled them amazingly well, seeking to wake up the people to their need of him. We need to beware that the motivations that stopped them from seeing the truth don't do the same to us.

The whole of Mark's Gospel builds towards, and focuses on, Jesus' final visit to Jerusalem. In this chapter he arrives in a great celebration, but quickly shifts gears and turns things around. As the disciples expected a victory over their enemies, Jesus turned against the temple (and a fig tree). Lots for them to learn. Lots for us to ponder. Jesus is not concerned with crowds, but he d...