Sermons from Trinity Presbyterian Church of Charlotte

Steve Lindsley (John 20: 1-18) Easter Sunday I’m wondering this morning if you have ever lost something that was so precious and dear to you, so cherished that you did not think you would be able to live without it; and how you’d give anything – anything – to have it back?  Have you ever missed something like that so badly? Because I’m telling you, as I stood outside the […]

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Grace Lindvall (John 13: 1-17, 31b-35) Maundy Thursday For decades, even centuries, the Pope carried out a tradition for Maundy Thursday. 12 priests would be selected to have their feet washed by the Pope, and the Pope would ceremoniously wash their feet just as Jesus washed the 12 disciples feet in the passage from John which we just read. That is until things were changed in 2013. Pope Francis in […]

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Grace Lindvall (Matthew 21: 1-11) Palm Sunday circa the year 33 had quite a few similarities to the Palm Sunday of 2017. There were two processions that day in the year 33 – one procession that welcomed a ruler, a governor, riding high on a war horse, clad in protective leather with metal swords clanging beside him. Followed by soldiers with helmets, swords, and gold. Processing into the city to […]

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Steve Lindsley (John 11: 1-45) The 1998 movie Patch Adams is based on the story of Hunter Adams, a doctor who used his personal experience and pain to treat mentally ill patients with the healing medicine of humor.  There is this one scene where Patch visits a terminally ill man in the hospital who has a reputation among the nurses of being extremely repulsive and rude. In the scene, Patch, […]

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Steve Lindsley John 9: 1-41 Make no mistake, my friends: this story of a man healed of his blindness is not a cut-and-dry miracle story.  It is not like the ones where empty wine jars get filled, or empty stomachs get fed, or broken bodies get healed.  This miracle of the healing of the blind man does not travel from point A to point B in a straight line; it […]

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Grace Lindvall (John 4: 4-52) During the season of Lent this year, Steve and I are working through a lectionary based sermon series called “Who is Jesus?” A look at the lectionary passages that Lent provides us with and what they tell us about Jesus. Of course, we all know who Jesus is, the basic definition, but we’re taking this time of Lent, this time to grow closer to God […]

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Steve Lindsley (Matthew 17: 1-9) Back in the spring of 2009, my younger brother Brad and I treated our Dad to a guy’s weekend in Gatlinburg, TN and – more to the point – a hike up Mt. LeConte.  Mt. LeConte holds a special place in the collective Lindsley heart, as my grandfather – my Dad’s father – died one January morning while hiking his favorite mountain, doing what he […]

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Steve Lindsley (Matthew 4: 1-11) The only time in my life I’ve ever been confronted by a protester was that night back in college when I went to the movies.  Highly controversial of me, I know.   It was fall semester junior year, and someone in my religion class mentioned that a new Jesus movie was out.  I vaguely remember something about how there was a little controversy around it.  But […]

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Dr. Craig Barnes (Psalm 46, Colossians 1:15-20) Dr. Barnes is our 2017 Gilchrist Sunday speaker.  He is currently the president of Princeton Theological Seminary, as well as a professor of pastoral ministry there.

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Steve Lindsley (Psalms 77: 1-20; Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15) I want to begin this morning by reading to you words penned by a Trinity favorite, Frederick Buechner.  Listen: Every once in awhile, if you’re like me you have a dream that wakes you up.  Sometimes it’s a bad dream – a dream in which the shadows become so menacing that your heart skips a beat.  Sometimes it’s a sad dream – a […]

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