Just as it was in Jesus’ day, in our cultural moment people respond to Jesus and the message of the Kingdom in many different ways.  The Gospel often seems implausible and gets rejected without a second thought.  At other times Jesus is rejected...

In the next few weeks, we’ll be exploring some of the most famous of all of Jesus’ sayings.  These sayings are famous, in part, because they are stories, and stories have a unique power to pique our interest and ignite our imagination.  Here in...

How do we know that we are connected to God?  Who does God consider to be part of his family?  These questions percolate as Jesus continues to field criticism from the Pharisees.  The stubborn skepticism of the Pharisees veils a deep-seated...

This week we begin the next installment in our Matthew series, and we find Jesus in conflict with the religious establishment of his day. Jesus’ claims to authority are total, and the crowds continue to follow him at the expense of the Pharisees...

The North African theologian Augustine famously prayed, “You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they can find their rest in you.” Worship is the purpose of our creation and the goal of our redemption and it is the only sure...

We live in a culture of individualism.  Through technology, we have never been more connected. At the same time, we have never been more disconnected from one another, more distant from those who are different from us.  But this is not what we were...

We have four values as a church (Gospel, Worship, Community, and Mission), and while all of them are important, the one that holds them all together and makes them possible is the first.  The Gospel is not only the core of Trinity Community Church’s...

Do you ever wonder what’s important to God?  If we could know that, it would change the way we budgeted our money, spent our time, raised our kids, treated others.  It would change everything!  Or at least it should.

It’s common to call wisdom the knowledge of how to live well. But in this Sunday’s passage Jesus will say that many who consider themselves wise and understanding are the very ones too stubborn to recognize Jesus for who he is. As a result, they...