Trinity Evangelical Church | North Reading, MA

The Day is coming soon after Jesus returns when He will establish justice upon the earth. What will happen on ‘that Day’? (Daniel 7:13-14; Matthew 7:22) God will send His King with divine authority to judge. All people will stand before Him and recognize Him as Lord. That day will usher in the just, everlasting kingdom of God. We can easily receive Jesus as the God of love, but God’s judgment seem...

God always intended His people, the Church, to be a colony of heaven in the world. Jesus, the better Moses, taught us who His kingdom people are to be and what they do. The beatitudes are a description of who Jesus is. While Moses gave us God’s Law, our King Jesus fulfilled God’s Law on our behalf. Since Jesus isn’t like any other king, His people won’t be like other kingdoms. The poor in spirit a...

The kingdom that arrived in Christ is the same one promised in the Scriptures long before. The Kingdom of Heaven is the “realm in which God’s reign may be experienced.” - George Elden Ladd, The Gospel of the Kingdom Even though we failed to give our Creator and King the allegiance that’s due Him, He didn’t give up on us. He promised His kingdom would come again. In Jesus, God’s kingdom has come an...

If we insist on trusting in ourselves first, God will allow us to reach the end of ourselves. Since the Garden of Eden, each of us have lived under a warped version of reality that it is smarter to trust in ourselves than God. If we trust in ourselves first, we learn to depend on our power and abilities, not God’s. As we become more self-absorbed, we close our hearts to God and His love. In the en...

When God speaks to us, His word disrupts our lives to lead us toward greater freedom. If our self-prescribed loyalties or fears are keeping us back from what God’s doing, He will confront them so we can move beyond them. When God moves toward us, it is to move us closer to Him and to those He loves. When God’s word sounds like a threat to our lives, we naturally want to resist and run. When we ins...

When darkness appears to be winning, it leaves us feeling hopelessly alone and looking for the quickest way out. When adrenaline subsides, tiredness hits, or loneliness sets in, the lies often come. Satan waits until we’re weak and susceptible so he can either entice us to sin or overwhelm us with fear of the darkness. Because we live in a society where sin has been normalized, it’s easy to ask ‘w...

The need to be in control becomes a terrible burden when we’re forced to realize how little we can control. Control becomes a burden when we work for it without God or try to control that which belongs only to God. This is a key sign of pride – trusting we can control things better than God can. When our human control proves weak, our self-confidence turns into heavy anxiety. God invites us to hum...

Shame afflicts us with the burden that we will never be good enough. Shame mercilessly burdens us with a standard we cannot hold. Once we can’t live up to its standard, shame condemns us and isolates us from God. Shame cannot give us rest. It can only lay more burdens upon us. While fully knowing your shortcomings and guilt, Jesus invites you to come to Him. Jesus doesn’t invite the self-sufficien...

The peace of God isn’t just the absence of fear or war, but it’s the presence of a King. God has promised ever increasing peace through His everlasting King. God’s King did not just come to remove conflict but make us and all things whole. The Prince of Peace has to be God’s King because only God has created us and only He knows what it looks like to make us whole again. Instead of leaving us sear...