Trinity North Shore

Join us as we take a look at the Psalms this season at Trinity North Shore. Psalm 98 - Cn Tim begins our series in the Psalms with a look at Psalm 98 and the power of music, melody, poetry together = songs. Singing to the Lord together is good for our mental health, our soul, our appreciation of God and of one another. Open your heart, bring yourself into the story of God. Why do we sing? As Pasca...

Trinity Sunday Listen to Mother Wendy Dixon's sermon: The Holy Trinity | Graces and Loves This week Wendy continues our look at Ephesians which is a lovely ramp up to help us understand the Holy Trinity. God has a goal for us, that the goal is doable within the context of the self- giving love found within the trinity (a community of love), the goal is attainable through the transformational...

Pentecost Sunday Listen to Mother Wendy Dixon's sermon: Pentecost and the All Infusing Love of God This week Wendy looks at the story of Pentecost and ties it to Ephesians chapter 3. Flames resting on the heads of the people present at the moment. A beautiful impartation of the Holy Spirit, bringing Christ's love into their hearts, as a foreshadowing of the beautiful impartation of Chris...

Ascension Sunday Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: Ascension Sunday, 5 Words of Encouragement 40 days after the crucifixion of Jesus, we celebrate the ascension of Jesus. We celebrate that we live and that we will live and that all things will be well. We celebrate that the glory of God will cover the earth as the waters cover the seas. Since his resurrection, the risen Jesus has been spending time...

Easter Week 6 Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: The Resurrection of Jesus + The Powers Having Been Defeated and put under the rule of Jesus. Spiritual, Social, Personal, Culture, and so on. Your life is not random. We are meant to connect to spiritual reality, yet our personalities can make a culture, or an ethos. This is a part of what's talked about in the new testament. Jesus has pushed thes...

Easter Week 5 Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: From the Cosmos to the Cubicle; Nothing is Strong Enough to Separate You From God's Love. Wherever you are in your life, however you are feeling, whatever you are experiencing during each day, in each season, Jesus is there with you. How do we deal with things that are in flux or causing uneasiness in our culture? We live in a time where the &quot...

Easter Week 4 Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: Living Into Our Calling Continuing in our theme of Jesus, risen from the dead, and defeating the powers that be, allowing us to live free in the truth that he loves us as we are. How does this resurrected and victorious Jesus meet us in the midst of a sometimes cruel world? Tim looks at chapters 1 and 2 of 1st Corinthians. Sometimes these chapters can...

Easter Week 3 Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: God's New World This week Cn Tim continues our Easter theme on Jesus' resurrection and what it means in relation to the "powers" that influence our world, our culture, our lives and the world "being remade". How do we go about living our lives in the midst of so many tensions. As Tim so relevantly reminds us: NOTHING can s...

Easter Week 2 Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: Let My Soul Breathe Connecting to the living God. This week Tim looks at Colossians Chapter 2 and the story of Jesus, risen from the dead, and how the influences we are raised with and currently live within can sometimes leave us flat (family, history, media, marketing, movies, social media, school, work, life pressures), all of these influences we lit...

Easter Sunday Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: Jesus, Out of the Grave: Resetting Our Lives The Way of Love- April How do we reset and learn new ways to see ourselves in light of what Jesus has done. This week Tim looks at the story of Jesus, Risen from the grave. What does this mean for our lives? How the apostle Paul taught us the differences between the 'natural' and the 'spiritua...

Palm Sunday Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: Jesus Stands Silent This week Tim looks at the story of Jesus as he's brought before the governor, Pilate. A fascinating look at the response of Jesus in humility, and in his mission and purpose. Tim reminds us of the power and beauty of silence in our lives, and it's life forming gift for our bodies, hearts, and souls. "in quietness and t...

Lent Week 5 Listen to Matt Vacelkiv's sermon: God's Gentleness in the Story of Peter (and Gentleness in Peter's Ministry) This week Matt looks at the journey of Peter and how Jesus loved and cared for him just the same through all the key points that we know about in scripture. His calling as a fisherman, Jesus walking on the water and Peter rising to try and join him, his proclamat...

Lent Week 4 Listen to Trevor Jones' sermon: God's Gentleness With the Most Notorious Sinner This week Trevor takes a brief look at the story of Paul the apostle. Known as the most notorious persecutor of the first believers, making many of them the first martyrs. Yet, Paul comes to know God's love, mercy, and faithfulness. We look at how Paul expresses and enjoys the gentleness of J...

Lent Week 3 Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: Free to be Open and Honest With the God Who Loves You This week Tim looks at the story in Matthew 19 of a young man who comes to Jesus asking him an honest question that was on this young man's heart, ‘what good thing must I do if I’m to possess the life of the age to come?’  and "what else can I do? what am I still short of?" In this love...

Lent Week 2 Listen to Mrs. Jennifer Kiefer's sermon: Healed in a Crowd This morning Jennifer looks at the story of a woman who is sick and hurting, who reaches out to touch Jesus as he is passing through the crowds that are pressed against him. She's hoping that if she could just touch the hem of his robe she might be healed. In fact, she is healed and Jesus stops to ask "who has to...

Lent Week 1 Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: Jesus, The Second Adam Resets Humanity As we enter Lent, Tim shares a beautiful picture of Jesus as the Second Adam who resets humanity in the wilderness and gives us a way to authenticity. In today's gospel story, Jesus, the second Adam, is out among the wild beasts in the wilderness. Just as the first Adam was with the beasts. Like Adam in the Gar...

Transfiguration Sunday Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: Made for Connection with God and One Another Can we hold together the reality of "how good life is", with the full robust reality that we need "new life". Join us as Tim looks at the story of the Transfiguration, and the connection Jesus has both with his disciples and friends around him, along with his connection to his he...

Epiphany Week Six Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: The Heart Knower In this moving sermon on World Mission Sunday, Tim shares some powerful stories from his own past ministry and missions along with those from Peter and Paul. Even in the earliest church, in the earliest days, even with people who had met the resurrected Jesus, there were those who were saying, "wait a minute, why hasn't t...

Epiphany Week Five Listen to Amaris Jones' sermon: The Way of Love - Connecting With God How do we connect with God through the Holy Spirit? This week Amaris shares a wonderful look at two stories from scripture where we learn how a relational connection with the Holy Spirit connects with these two lives from scripture for the furthering of God's story, and into the service of others in...

Epiphany Week Four Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: The Great Love of God One thing we know from scripture is that Jesus loves to tell parables and stories, and this week we look at what some call the Prodigal Son, perhaps the greatest of Jesus' stories. As Tim points out, for some it's a story about three prodigal people. In this insightful sermon Tim looks at each of the main characters...

Epiphany Week Three Listen to Bishop Andrew's sermon: A Revolution of the Heart: Gentle and Lowly This morning Drew looks at the very heart of Jesus and how he lifts us and carries us through grief, turmoil, and hardship. We look through the gospel of  Matthew 11 where Jesus talks about those things "hidden from the wise and prudent, but revealed to babes..." A fascinating sermon th...

Epiphany Week Two Listen to Cn Tim's sermon: God Gets in the Water - The Baptism of Jesus Tim looks at the beautiful story of John the Baptist is baptizing people, and the crowds are lined up coming to John in repentance and seeking forgiveness for their sins, waiting to be baptized. In this very moment, Jesus intentionally aligns himself among the sinners, and joins them standing in line bes...

Epiphany Week One: Listen to Cn Tim Clayton's Sermon: When the Time Was Right:  Three Kings - Hope Written into the Heavens This week Tim takes a more in depth look at the story of the Magi. The three wisemen; the three kings who are following this comet/star. It could be that when the young jewish men were enslaved in Babylon, that the Babylonians learned of the prophecy from the book of Num...

Christmas week 2 Listen to Mother Wendy's sermon: Mary's World- Hope for a New Year. A stable, two young first time parents, a town over crowded with people reporting for a census, uncertainty, chaos and noise everywhere around. In the midst of it, a dream from God telling them to go to Egypt in order to protect their newborn son from a tyrant who has set about murdering the children of...

Christmas 2022. Listen to Cn Tim Clayton's Sermon: Gentleness and Risk - Awe and Wonder. The awaited King and Messiah in all his splendor is replaced by a child born in poverty and exile. Placing spiritual royalty in the place of the greatest vulnerability was a coup de force unprecedented in history. All the values of merit, of power, of prowess, found themselves disrupted. Join us as Tim re...