Trinity Evangelical Church | North Reading, MA episodes:

• May 16, 2022Moving from Competition to Community

  
  

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• May 09, 2022A Time for Everything

  
  

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• May 02, 2022Craving Lasting Joy

  
  

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• April 26, 2022The Search for Meaning

  
  

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• April 13, 2022The Ambassadors of the Kingdom

  
  

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• April 05, 2022The Just Kingdom

  1. The Day is coming soon after Jesus returns when He will establish justice upon the earth.
  2. What will happen on ‘that Day’? (Daniel 7:13-14; Matthew 7:22)
  3. God will send His King with divine authority to judge.
  4. All people will stand before Him and recognize Him as Lord.
  5. That day will usher in the just, everlasting kingdom of God.
  6. We can easily receive Jesus as the God of love, but God’s judgment seems unloving.
  7. God’s love cannot be excluded from His justice, nor His justice from His love.
  8. If we expect to sweet talk or earn our way into the kingdom of heaven, we will be surprised.
  9. When the words of ‘Lord’ are devoid of real-life obedience, it proves only a show.
  10. We cannot impress Jesus enough to get into His kingdom.
  11. Knowing Jesus is not just knowing the right answers about Him or doing ministry for Him, but it’s a genuine relationship of love with Him.
  12. If Christ is in you and you desire to live for Him above all others, you can rest in His grace.
  13. What are those things that only the Spirit of Christ can produce in us? What can we look for to assure ourselves that we belong to Jesus?
  14. Is there a desire within you to be like and serve Jesus?
  15. Do you love those Jesus loves?
  16. If Christ is in us, we can look forward to the Day He returns not with dread but hope.
  17. Because history answers to Him, I don’t have to control all aspects of my life.
  18. Because Christ paid our debt, we don’t need to punish ourselves.
  19. Because Christ is the Judge, we don’t need to condemn others.
  20. If you’ve surrendered your life to Jesus in this life, the greatest surprise on the Day of Judgment will be His open arms of grace.

  
  

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• March 28, 2022Kingdom Come Now

  
  

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• March 21, 2022Kingdom People

  1. God always intended His people, the Church, to be a colony of heaven in the world.
  2. Jesus, the better Moses, taught us who His kingdom people are to be and what they do.
  3. The beatitudes are a description of who Jesus is.
  4. While Moses gave us God’s Law, our King Jesus fulfilled God’s Law on our behalf.
  5. Since Jesus isn’t like any other king, His people won’t be like other kingdoms.
  6. The poor in spirit are those who recognize their spiritual bankruptcy without God.
  7. When we see the reality of sin in ourselves and others, it causes us to mourn.
  8. When we have a true view of ourselves, sin, and God’s grace, we become meek.
  9. Kingdom people don’t only grieve over sin but crave God’s righteousness.
  10. If we crave things to be made right, we work to show mercy to those in need.
  11. We’re less concerned about being pretty on the outside as much as pure on the inside.
  12. Kingdom people work for peace even when people refuse to live at peace with us.
  13. Blessed are those who embody the way of King Jesus, for they will experience His kingdom come among them.
  14. We cannot become like Jesus with our strength but in recognizing our weakness.
  15. Every time we as the Church do not look like Jesus, it’s evidence that we’re trying to be the Church without Him.

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• March 14, 2022The Expansion of the Kingdom

  
  

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• March 07, 2022The Gospel of the Kingdom

  1. The kingdom that arrived in Christ is the same one promised in the Scriptures long before.
  2. The Kingdom of Heaven is the “realm in which God’s reign may be experienced.” - George Elden Ladd, The Gospel of the Kingdom
  3. Even though we failed to give our Creator and King the allegiance that’s due Him, He didn’t give up on us. He promised His kingdom would come again.
  4. In Jesus, God’s kingdom has come and is coming.
  5. When Christ’s kingdom comes, it demands we pledge our hearts to Him and Him alone.
  6. Repentance isn’t just about a change in what we do but who we love.
  7. Jesus declares that in light of the kingdom, now is the time to decide who we will love and who you will follow because we can’t serve two Kings.
  8. The challenge of the Kingdom is not just to believe in God, but to pledge the allegiance of our entire heart to Him.
  9. The question of the kingdom to us personally: ‘is there some relationship, purpose or security in my life that when threatened or taken away causes me to question whether I can trust God?’
  10. As we gaze on the cross where the King of glory died in love for us, it dawns on us that He is the only King worthy of our whole lives.
  11. Why do we withhold part of our lives or heart from our Creator and King?
  12. I don’t trust God will do what I think is best.
  13. I’m ashamed of what God might show me if I opened my heart to Him.
  14. Christ is called the Light in the dark 1) because He was radiantly different.
  15. Christ was also called the Light 2) because He overpowered the dark.
  16. The one, true King has come. Step out from the shadows. His Light has dawned.

  
  

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