Trinity Hudson Ministries Podcast

Most churches and ministries determine their success by the wrong measures. Budgets, worship attendance, and programs seem to be the metric. A church seeking a Kingdom Culture is aware of those measures, but their key marker of success has to do with the amount of people the ministry has discipled and how many people have moved toward "Christ-likeness." Its also personal. How have you taken a step forward in your walk with Jesus and how many people have you poured into this month?

Psalm 100

Acts 1:1-8

John 4:43-54

Membership, dues, expectations of the organization and the members. Those are marks of a country club. Unfortuately, many churches have drifted into looking more like a country club and not a movement of God. How can you be on the forefront of changing that mentality? What is God calling you to do?

Did you know that the concept of a volunteer is a foreign concept in the Biblically, Kingdom-Culture Oriented church? Jesus' teaching and the dominant New Testament teaching is the concept of a "servant". Do you know how to live a servants life? Do you want to? As Jesus said, "It is better to serve than to be served."

Ask most people in America what the church is and they will say it is a place. Is it though? How would Jesus define the church and how did we drift so far from his original idea?

Isaiah 60:1-3

Ephesians 5:15-20

John 20:19-29

He is Risen! In the resurrection of Jesus, there is the hope and promise of a new beginning. That new beginning is the gift of eternal life that we experience both in heaven and earth. Today we celebrate what God has done through our Risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and receive the invitation to begin again.

Psalm 16

2 Corinthians 5:11-17

Mark 16:1–8

There can be no learning without novelty. There can be no novelty without risk. We cannot grow unless there has been a challenge to what is familiar and comfortable. The Spirit leads us into an adventure. The Spirit leads us into a dangerous world. To ask for the Spirit is to ask for risk.

Joshua 1:1-9

Romans 12:4-8

Mark 8:34-38

A wise man once said that just as the three laws of real estate are “location, location, location,” the three laws of relationship are “observation, observation, observation.” People who give life to us are people who notice us. They know what we love and fear. When we work to truly notice someone else, love for them grows. In Christ, God noticed us and rescued us, all from his heart of love.

Redeeming My FocusWe become vulnerable to temptation when we are dissatisfied with our lives. The deeper our dissatisfaction, the deeper our vulnerability, because you were made for soul satisfaction. You cannot live without it. If we do not find soul satisfaction in God, we will look for it somewhere else, but we will look for it."Psalm 66:5-121 Cor. 10:12-13Luke 4:1-13"

Renewing My MindBecoming the best version of yourself, rests on one simple directive: Think great thoughts! People who live great lives are people who habitually think great thoughts. Their thoughts incline them toward confidence, love, and joy. Trying to change your emotions by willpower without allowing the stream of your thoughts to be changed by the flow of the Spirit is like fumigating the house of the skunk smell while the skunks continue to live in your crawl space. But God can change the way we think."Isaiah 55:1-9Romans 12:1-3Mark 7:14-23"

Your flourishing is never just about you. It is a “so that” kind of condition. God designed you to flourish “so that” you could be part of his redemptive project in ways that you otherwise could not. He wants you to flourish “so that” people can be encouraged, gardens can be planted, music can be written, sick people can be helped, or companies can thrive in ways they otherwise would not. When you fail to become the person God designed, all the rest of us miss out on the gift you were made to give."Psalm 92:8-152 Cor. 5:11-17Matt. 11:25-30"

When you find out that what you thought you saw wasn't reality, you feel like you're "seeing things." Today we find out that when Jesus sees things, not only are they real, but they can change the hearts of even the hardest of people. "Ps. 139:1-101 Cor. 6:12-20John 1:43-51"