Sermons from Trinity Presbyterian Church of Charlotte

Steve Lindsley (John 10: 11-18; Psalm 23: 1-6) Imagine that you have just graduated from college – cum laude, or as a relieved family member might say, Praise the Laude.   Your veterinary degree assures a certain level of job security – everyone has pets, and they need to be cared for.  And your 4.0 GPA doesn’t hurt, either.  The day after you give your email address to the school’s job […]

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Grace Lindvall (Luke 24: 13-35) I still remember the walk perfectly. It was November 18, 2006, my freshman year of college at the University of Michigan. I had spent every Saturday that semester in maize and blue t-shirts, painted faces, and in the nosebleed row of the student section. It was glorious. I was a life-long lover of the Wolverines and now I finally was one, a student, attending the […]

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Steve Lindsley (John 20: 19-31) The story of Thomas is a familiar one us.  His “fame,” for lack of a better word, has spread not only within Christian circles but outside it as well.  The phrase “Doubting Thomas” is a cultural expression, used to reference someone who is wallowing in skepticism.  It’s not exactly a compliment. Some time ago I ran across a website called “Doubting Thomas Anonymous” – it’s […]

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Steve Lindsley (Luke 24: 1-12) There is a place in the vast expanse of the universe that has within it, quite literally, nothing.  No planets, no stars, no renegade asteroid.  Nothing.  A massive void, nearly a billion light-years in diameter.  For the record, one light year is the distance light travels in a year; roughly six trillion miles.  Multiply that by a billion, and that’s the size of this void […]

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Steve Lindsley (Luke 19: 28-39) On a spring day in the year 30 AD, two processions made their way into Jerusalem.  Not one, but two.  We know about one of them.  It was the beginning of the Jewish Passover; and every year Jerusalem’s population would swell to over double its size.  Think Uptown Charlotte for the Democratic National Convention a few years back.  Jews from all over would travel for […]

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Grace Lindvall (Matthew 20: 1-16) In the scripture reading we see these early morning vineyard workers envious of their less hard-working colleagues who receive equal treatment. “It’s not fair,” they cry out. And to be honest, it isn’t. I spent the last weekend in Washington, D.C. with my sister and her family, their children are 5 and 8 years old. I spent about one half of my time playing with […]

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Steve Lindsley (Isaiah 43: 1-4) Don’t be afraid!  This is what your mother says when the power goes out in the worst part of the thunderstorm.  Your precious Big Bird night light, the one that stays on all night in the corner, is not working.  So you do what any four-year old would do under such circumstances: you scream your head off.  Never mind that it’s three in the morning.  […]

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Steve Lindsley (Luke 2: 13-22) Friends, it is coming.  We get a taste in a couple of days with the ACC tournament – or as we Wake Forest fans prefer to call it, one last game of the season.  The real fun happens the following week.  The NCAA Tournament; 68 teams from all over the country, every conference, all vying for the same prize.   Powerhouses like Virginia and Michigan State […]

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Grace Lindvall (Luke 12: 13-21) This morning we continue the sermon series which Steve began last week entitled, “Are You Prepared to Die?” The question this sermon series poses is not concerned with human mortality so much as it is concerned with the things or attitudes in our lives which we may or may not be willing to let go of, to die to. We take this sermon series on […]

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Steve Lindsley (Luke 14: 1, 7-14) Today, we begin again.  We begin the same journey we begin every year at this time, we begin our Lenten journey.  Our forty days in the wilderness, preparing for what we know is coming but what nevertheless continues to surprise us.  We began this journey this past Wednesday; we marked the sign of the cross on our foreheads with ashes as we heard the […]

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