Sermons from Trinity Presbyterian Church of Charlotte

Steve Lindsley (Isaiah 2: 1-5) Today may be the first Sunday after Thanksgiving.  It may very well be the end of November, the 332nd day out of 366 (leap year, remember). And we may still have one more month left in 2016.  But for you and me, members of this community of faith, today is Day One.  It is the first Sunday of Advent, the beginning of the liturgical church […]

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Steve Lindsley (Ezekiel 37: 1-14) Put yourself in Ezekiel’s shoes, if you dare. The hand of the Lord came upon me, and brought me out by the Spirit.   And the Spirit set me down in a valley, and it was full of bones. A valley is where God takes him.  The valley is where one feels vulnerable, exposed, alone.  Good things rarely happen in the valley.  Remember the Psalmist’s refrain: […]

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Grace Lindvall (John 4) Women chatting, gossiping, laughing, drawing water from the well, bringing it back to their families. That is the scene at the well a few hours earlier, a well of community, a place filled with people, mostly women, enjoying one another’s company, walking together, accompanying one another, laughing, talking, and sharing. But that is not the scene we find in John 4. There are no other women […]

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Steve Lindsley (Romans 13: 1-10) Back in 2015, during an election season in Great Britain, four children, all ten years old, were interviewed by The Telegraph and asked questions about politics and the political process.  Their answers were, to put it mildly, revealing.  This interview may have taken place across the pond and not contain names like “Hillary” or “Trump”, but I think we all can relate to what they […]

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Grace Lindvall (Luke 12:13-21) Our second scripture reading this morning comes from the gospel of Luke, the 12th chapter verses 13-21. Here we meet Jesus on his roundabout travel to Jerusalem, Luke’s travel narrative, a ten-chapter long discourse that is less about Jesus’ travel destinations and more about his journey to Jerusalem, to his death and resurrection. The travel narrative tells about his call to discipleship – for disciples to […]

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Bill Prestwood (John 13: 31-35) Last week we began a new sermon series entitled “Finding God in Everyday Places” as we considered then some of the ways faith and work might converge and co-mingle and the implications of living as those who know and are known by God.  Leading lives out in the world as clear witness to what we believe even at times and in places we might think […]

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Steve Lindsley (Colossians 3: 1-4, 8-17) Irish novelist George Moore writes in one of his late 19th century works about Irish peasants building roads in the Great Depression. For a while everything was going great – the men worked heartily, glad to have jobs, singing their Irish songs as they went about their labor.  The roads were progressing along nicely.  That is, until some of the workers began noticing that […]

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Grace Lindvall (Jeremiah 29:7; Matthew 6: 30-44) Instead of our standard 20-minute sermon that goes in this slot of the worship service, today we’re doing things a bit differently. Today instead of a 20-minute sermon, I’ll preach a short sermon because after the worship service our whole community will preach a sermon – our congregation will preach the good news through the actions we take – by serving our community […]

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