Sermons from Trinity Presbyterian Church of Charlotte

Bill Prestwood (Deuteronomy 30: 15-20, 1 Corinthians 3: 1-9) “You’re acting like a baby!”  Those words…that sentiment…perhaps more so the older we got…would bring us up short.  Take the wind right out of our sails, often prompting us to respond or retaliate in ways that only served to prove the point:  we both could be rather infantile!  I’m not sure my sister or I ever thought we would be appealing […]

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Grace Lindvall (Luke 14:1,7-14) This morning we conclude the sermon series Steve and I began 5 weeks ago, a series on the 2020 vision our session adopted last year. Our final vision statement, the one my sermon today focuses on is: “welcome and actively embrace the broken, the doubting and the uncertain.” Our scripture reading this morning comes from Luke’s gospel, the 14th chapter. Here we meet Jesus on his […]

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Steve Lindsley (Matthew 25: 14-46) This morning, with apologies to previous preaching professors and to you, I’m going to try to preach two sermons in one.  It’s precisely the kind of thing they tell you in seminary not to do – stick to a single message, don’t try to do too much in one sermon.  It’s something I’ve honored, or tried to honor, in nearly 20 years of doing this. […]

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Grace Lindvall (Colossians 3:12-17) Will you pray with me? God move your spirit in this space, that your Spirit may open our ears to hear your word to us, may open our hearts to act on the call you place on each of us, and give us the courage to hear and to be changed and the strength to listen and act, give us the hope and healing we need […]

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Steve Lindsley (Luke 5: 17-26) It happened on one of those days, is how one translation begins. It’s a rendering as close to the original Greek as English can get.  I like it.  It happened on one of those days – as if what happened could happen on any day, could happen when you least expect it to, which is usually the way these things happen. It happened on one […]

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Steve Lindsley (Luke 2: 41-52, 18: 15-17) A new year always brings any number of beginnings, and this second Sunday of 2017 is no exception.  Already we’ve installed and ordained four of our new elders.  We’ve celebrated the first communion.  And today, Grace and I are launching the first sermon series of the new year – this one on the 2020 Vision your session adopted last June. A quick recap […]

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Steve Lindsley (Isaiah 65: 17-25, Revelation 21: 1-6) Oftentimes, it seems, “new” is nothing more than a tagline; a sales pitch to garner attention when in fact nothing is really “new” at all.  The “Under New Management” sign hanging over the restaurant entrance doesn’t change the fact that the food is still average and the service sub-par.  The front cover of the football team’s program proudly proclaims, “A New Season!,” […]

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Steve Lindsley Luke 2: 1-14 The thunderstorm rages ferociously outside her bedroom window.  And no matter of hiding under the mass of stuffed animals on her bed makes her feel any safer.  She is still quite aware of the wind whistling through the trees, the rain pounding on the roof, the loud booms of thunder and blinding flashes of lightning that make things outside look for an instant like daytime.  […]

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Steve Lindsley (Matthew 11: 2-11) What a difference eight chapters makes if you’re John the Baptist. Back last week in Grace’s sermon when we first met John, he was a very different fella.  We’ll call him the “Matthew 3” John.  Out in the wilderness in camel hair and a leather belt, eating locusts and wild honey, preaching and baptizing, telling some to repent and others calling brood of vipers.  Talking […]

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Grace Lindvall (Matthew 3: 1-12) Nothing says advent quite like John the Baptist, does it? A group of my fellow Young Clergy Women and I laughed over this this past week, thinking about what John the Baptist themed Christmas cards would look like. Christmas cards that we’re all probably sending out about now have snowmen, or trumpets, snowflakes, Christmas trees, or angel bells. But these Christmas cards, these John the […]

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