Trinity Fellowship

The goal of the gospel is adoption by the Father and union with Christ. The Holy Spirit is the quiet workhorse who applies the gospel to our hearts and puts these benefits in our hand. The Spirit creates life out of dry bones. The Spirit cures spiritual blindness. The Spirit gives us a love for God's Word. And because He is the Holy Spirit, He is always in the business of killing and making alive...

Ascencion Day reminds us that Christ has defeated the dragon and cast him down from the heavenly places (Rev. 12). The war rages on, however, since the fallen dragon continues to attack the saints on earth. Jesus's reign is a reality which is already fully acknowledged in heaven, and which must be increasingly acknowledged on earth. The ascended Priest-King is taking His earthly claim through the...

The Puritan Cotton Mather, seeing how the sincere faith of previous generations had turned into complacency and indifference in his time, remarked that "Faithfulness begat prosperity, and the daughter devoured the mother". Wealth can rightly be interpreted as a blessing from God, but so often it corrupts through its false sense of pride and self-sufficiency. Christ has been pressing the point that...

In His all-wise providence, Christ extends His teaching on creation, maleness, femaleness, marriage, and the one-flesh union into its natural end – the goodness and blessing of children. The Lord Jesus's teaching is pro-creational in every sense. Children are a blessing. Children are an inheritance. Children are the fruitful crown of the woman's womb, and the continuation of a man's dominion after...

Like Jeremiah, Jesus is warning the people of Judea about divorce. In the time of Christ, this is an exceptionally charged issue due both to the controversy between Herod and John the Baptist and to the different schools of thought among the Jewish leaders. Jesus is not content to merely answer the question as asked, but takes the opportunity to go back to the Bible, back to God's original plan at...

Forgiveness is "A commitment by the offended to pardon graciously the repentant from moral liability, and to be reconciled to that person." When we are reminded of the overwhelming, impossible, and infinite debt that God has pardoned for us, the only fitting response is for us to stand ready to forgive others and be reconciled to them when they repent of their sins against us. Even if they don't c...

Christ has been preaching about His concern for the little ones in Matthew 18. He has just told us how the Shepherd is so concerned for one straying sheep that He will leave the ninety-nine to go pursue it. That is what church discipline is – the Shepherd's heart to correct and restore the straying one. God's way of achieving restoration runs contrary to the sentimental and therapeutic sensibiliti...

In this passage , Paul uses an analogy between Adam and Christ but it is an analogy of contrast. The only parallel is both men were federal heads, or representatives for the human race. In this, Adam was a type of Christ. Adam failed in his obedience, leaving his posterity under the curse of death. Thankfully , Christ broke the curse of death when he fulfilled complete obedience including his shed...

Good Friday Service

We've been reminded today that we are all little ones in God's pasture. We are all there by grace and not by merit. There is no room for pride or vanity among the people of God, as even the angels and their mission remind us. The sheep may struggle and go astray, which is why shepherds are given to pursue and bring back. Part of their work involves temporarily leaving the ninety nine to pursue the...

Christ has forced us to face the woe of a fallen world, weighed down by the curse of sin. He pronounces woe not just to the world generally, but to each individual who refuses to fight temptation. We are better off having eyes, hands, and feet cut off than being thrown into the eternal fire of hell. The old covenant cutting ceremonies pointed God's people to this reality, and the new covenant fulf...