Sermons from Trinity Presbyterian Church of Charlotte

Grace Lindvall (Ephesians 1: 15-23) Our second scripture reading this morning comes from Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesus, a small 6-chapter long book in the Bible called Ephesians. Our passage comes from the first chapter of Paul’s letter which in its first few chapters centers on who Christ is and what it means to us as Christians. As you hear this scripture read, I encourage you to let […]

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Steve Lindsley (Matthew 25: 14-21) I want to begin this sermon by sharing a story with you about, of all things, the tie I’m wearing today.  It’s nothing fancy – your standard predominately-red-with-some-blue-thrown-in-for-good-measure tie.  I call it my funeral tie. The story I want to share might add a little levity to this sermon series on death and dying.  It’s the story of how I got this tie.  It happened […]

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Steve Lindsley (1 Thessalonians 4: 13-14, 18) She is stilling at the hospital bedside of her brother, who is not long for this world.  She asks if she could read scripture to him; he says yes.  She starts fumbling around in the Bible, flipping page after page, not sure what to read.  He senses her uncertainty.  So he suggests that she turn to page 1649.  The numbers 16 and 49 […]

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Steve Lindsley (Revelation 7:9-17) This Sunday marks the beginning of a new sermon series that will take us through Christ The King Sunday, the Sunday before Advent.  The title of this series, I imagine, will catch your attention: we’re calling it The Good News About Death.  We don’t do a very good job in our culture of talking about death, we hide it out of public view as much as […]

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Steve Lindsley (Deuteronomy 34: 1-12) Last week Grace preached on the “facetime” between Moses and God, this unheard-of intimate connection between human and divine.  Today we skip ahead in time a little bit, and skip ahead a few books in the Bible, to Deuteronomy. God’s people are on the cusp of entering the Promised Land that Moses and the Israelites had spent the better part of forty years trying to […]

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Grace Lindvall (Exodus 33: 12-21) This morning our scripture reading comes from the Old Testament, following the lectionary for this week. We find ourselves at the end of the book of Exodus where we meet Moses and God in the midst of a conversation in the wilderness after the exodus from Egypt. Listen now for God’ s word to us this morning, from Exodus 33:12-23. Exodus 33:12-21 The Word of […]

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Steve Lindsley (Psalm 84: 1-12, Romans 12: 1-2) Today we conclude the Stewardship sermon series Grace and I began five weeks ago, based on this book, Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations.  To recap, the five practices the books talks about are: Intentional Faith Growth Radical Hospitality Risk-Taking Mission and Service Extravagant Generosity And today’s practice: Passionate Worship. And let me reiterate something I shared at the beginning of this sermon […]

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Steve Lindsley (Matthew 25: 31-46) A reminder that we’re in the middle of our Stewardship Sermon Series, which of course coincides with our Fall Stewardship season, moving to Dedication Sunday in two weeks on October 8th.  Grace and I are looking at the book Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations by Robert Schnase.  As a reminder, those five practices are: Intentional Faith Growth, which Grace looked at the first week, Radical […]

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Steve Lindsley (Luke 19: 1-10) This Sunday we kick off our Fall Stewardship season, Seeds To Branches, which concludes with Dedication Sunday on October 8th – which, as Jeremy noted earlier this morning, is earlier than in previous years.  Last Sunday, Grace began our Stewardship Sermon Series, in which we look at what a spiritually-growing congregation looks like – what qualities, what habits, what characteristics make up this kind of […]

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Grace Lindvall (Acts 2: 37-47) This morning on Rally Day we kick off a new sermon series, Seeds to Branches, our stewardship theme for the year. Our sermons during this series pull from the five principles laid out in Robert Schnase’s book “Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations.” Each week we will look at one of these principles and how it calls us to be the church today, how it invites […]

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