Guest Preacher Michael Lawrence from Hinson Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon guest preaching from Psalm 121. We learned that this Psalm is pointing us to trust in the Lord because he will lead us to heaven. The alternative is to trust in our idols which promise big and deliver little. We must know what our idols are in order to turn away from them and turn toward the Lord and trust only in him.

Guest Preacher Bryan Winchester from Saving Grace Church in Milwaukie, Oregon guest preaching from 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. This text teaches us the great importance of love in the Christian life, that the church needs our love far more than it needs our gifts. Therefore, Christians are to pursue love as defined in the Scriptures, for it is the greatest Christian virtue.

Trinity Church Pastor Andrew Pack preaching from Hebrews 1:1-4. This letter was written to call the recipients back from trying to blend Judaism with their newly found faith in Jesus Christ. This was their reaction to the intense pressure being exerted on Christians in the first century. Because the law never made anything complete, the author of Hebrews is directing these people and us to the greatness of Jesus and the completion of his work on our behalf. He is the one we must remain closest to in life because he is the better King, Prophet, and Priest.

Trinity Church Pastor Emeritus Norm Thiesen preaching from Matthew 6:9-13 using the Lord's Prayer to teach us about our relationship with God often has everything to do with our disposition and can be spiritually diagnostic as to how we are doing in our walk with the Lord. Ultimately, our disposition is far more important than our words, both with God and people. We can bring our struggles to God, but we must do it with utter dependency focusing on first seeking His name, His kingdom, and His will, then we can be honest with Him about our desires and needs.

Pastor Greg Taylor concludes our summer sermon series, Made Like Him: Spiritual Disciplines for Jesus's Disciples. This sermon, from Luke 18:1-8 brings us to the spiritual discipline of prayer.
Prayer is a vital part of the spiritual disciplines enabling us to better know Jesus. We are commanded to pray all the time because of our great dependency, and God's willingness to listen. If you are lacking in this area begin with a plan to meet with God daily praying with an expectancy that He will move.

Pastor Jan Verbruggen continues our summer sermon series, Made Like Him: Spiritual Disciplines for Jesus's Disciples. This sermon, from Matthew 9:14-17 brings us to the subject of fasting.
Many people fast for many reasons but this amounts to nothing more than dieting. Biblical fasting is going without food for kingdom purposes, striving to advance God’s kingdom here on earth. Fasting is a way of abstaining from something that sustains us in order to seek God, to expose things we may depend on in place of God, it is to open oneself to the work of God. Fasting should always be done with a spiritual goal in mind. Fasting is a long established practice that tests where your heart is, and may well be the means God uses to bring spiritual correction and strength to you.

Pastor Cristian Boanca continues our summer sermon series, Made Like Him: Spiritual Disciplines for Jesus's Disciples. This sermon was preached from Mark 10:42-45 brings us to the subject of Service And Evangelism. Because Jesus came to serve people, we, his people should also serve, using the gifts the Holy Spirit has given us for the common good of the church and our community.
We also need to be people who go about evangelizing our neighbors using simple words that speak to the love of God for sinners, then leave the results to the Lord. He can use our gospel chatter to save people and build his kingdom.

Trinity Church member, Josh Petersen continues our summer sermon series, Made Like Him: Spiritual Disciplines for Jesus's Disciples, preaching on the subject of Silence and Solitude.
This sermon, from Matthew 14:22-23 helps us see that as Jesus was frequently intentional about spending time alone with God, we need quiet time with God too. Being silent before God should be a hopeful expectancy that God will come and meet with us, it is an outward reality of an inward expectancy of the heart. So, let us begin to remove some of the noise of our modern culture and begin a discipline of alone time with God, especially time to reflect on all He has done for us in the gospel.

Pastor Ryan Lister preaches his last sermon as a pastor at Trinity Church and also lays the foundation for our summer sermon series, Made Like Him: Spiritual Disciplines for Jesus's Disciples.
We learn in this text and from this sermon that life doesn’t center on us, it centers on knowing Jesus. This means we give up as Paul did trying to earn favor from God and find our worth in Jesus who has done all for us that we couldn’t do ourselves. You must ask yourself, What is your surpassing value? If it something is other than Jesus that something will always prove to be short lived. So let the spiritual disciplines be not a reward in themselves, but rather tools to keep the reward of Jesus ever before our eyes. Spiritual disciplines cannot replace Jesus, but rather they keep showing us that knowing Jesus is our surpassing worth.

Pastor Andrew finishes a two part series, Salt & Light preaching through Matthew 5:13-16. In this second sermon we learn what it means to be light. Jesus tells the people of God, “You ARE the light of the world.” This is true because Jesus is the light of the world. This text is teaching it would be an absurdity to not shine our light and be a gospel influence to the people where God has placed us. So, we must remember we have been blessed to be a blessing to the people around us by shining the light of the gospel to our neighbors. We do this by speaking truth to people, showing up to provide help to our neighbors, and being part of a gospel community to give and receive care.