Trinity North Shore

5th Sunday of Easter Tide.
Join us for Mother Wendy Dixon's sermon:
A New Command, Love One Another

"I AM The Resurrection", Jesus
This Easter Tide Season we are Walking in the joy of the Resurrection. The Resurrection is not just an event, The Resurrection is a person, Jesus, God with us.

Is resurrection ONLY a hope for the next life? Or does Jesus, The Resurrection, offer us hope in this life also?

From our Gospel reading today in John chapter 13:
“A new command I give you: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.”

How do we feel about something new?
How do we feel when we are asked to do something new or different?

Excited? Cautious? Indifferent?

At the Last Supper, Jesus uses his remaining time with his friends to encourage them to do one thing, "Love one another, as I have loved you..."

Jesus reminds us that we are not alone in this command, rather that together with God, we can find those places where we can love one another...

What are those specific works of love that God is inviting us into with our families, our friends, our neighbors and neighborhoods?

Trinity-Summer by the Sea!
This June through August join us on Boston's North Shore in Magnolia, Gloucester; just north of Manchester by the Sea.

We will meet at 9 am in the Union Congregational Church chapel by the sea.
3 Norman Ave, Gloucester, MA

It's a beautiful chapel, just the right size, in a lovely location by the sea, as well as an outdoor playground for our young families and for those young at heart. Check out all the information on our Events page:
https://www.trinitynorthshore.org/events

Follow the purple signs for Trinity North Shore along the main road. Park anywhere along the Magnolia neighborhood streets.

Or join our Sunday Morning services online at https://www.trinitynorthshore.org/services

Connect with us at https://www.trinitynorthshore.org, 
follow us on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/trinitynorthshore, 
on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/trinitynorthshore

May the Peace of God be with you today.

4th Sunday of Easter Tide.
Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon:
Jesus, Release Me

"I AM The Resurrection", Jesus
This Easter Tide Season we are Walking in the joy of the Resurrection. The Resurrection is not just an event, The Resurrection is a person, Jesus, God with us.

Is resurrection ONLY a hope for the next life? Or does Jesus, The Resurrection, offer us hope in this life also?

"Jesus, release me..."
Has this ever been your prayer?
"Lord, please do something in my heart that's deep enough to release me from the wrongs I have done, and those wrongs done to me.."

In the movie, The Mission
Mendoza has tragically killed his brother out of honor which was allowed by law, but for him, there’s no redemption; there's no coming back from such an awful moment. Mendoza says to the priest, "You know what I am..."
The priest replies to a heartbroken Mendoza,
"Yes. You are a mercenary. You are a slave trader. And you killed your brother. I know. And you loved him."

What do you do in the spaces where the law can’t touch you, but you know you’ve done wrong. What do we do with those things we carry inside of us that we know we’ve done wrong…or those wrongs done to us by others?

Acts Chapter 13:
Paul explains…
Through this man Jesus, everything you’ve done that nobody knows, you have been freed.

How do we get freed from the things Moses law can’t release us from?
How do we come to be released?

Paul continues,
“You Israelites, and others who fear God, listen.

“My brothers, you descendants of Abraham’s family, and others who fear God, to us the message of this salvation has been sent. Because the residents of Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize him or understand the words of the prophets that are read every sabbath, they fulfilled those words by condemning him. Even though they found no cause for a sentence of death, they asked Pilate to have him killed.

When they had carried out everything that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.

But God raised him from the dead; and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, and they are now his witnesses to the people. And we bring you the good news that what God promised to our ancestors he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising Jesus; as also it is written in the second psalm,

‘You are my Son; today I have begotten you.’

As to his raising him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way,
‘I will give you the holy promises made to David.’

Therefore he has also said in another psalm,
‘You will not let your Holy One experience corruption.’

Trinity-Summer by the Sea!
This June through August join us on Boston's North Shore in Magnolia, Gloucester; just north of Manchester by the Sea.

We will meet at 9 am in the Union Congregational Church chapel by the sea.
3 Norman Ave, Gloucester, MA

It's a beautiful chapel, just the right size, in a lovely location by the sea, as well as an outdoor playground for our young families and for those young at heart. Check out all the information on our Events page:
https://www.trinitynorthshore.org/events

Follow the purple signs for Trinity North Shore along the main road.

Or join our Sunday Morning services online at https://www.trinitynorthshore.org/services and our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/trinitynorthshore

Connect with us at https://www.trinitynorthshore.org, 
follow us on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/trinitynorthshore, 
on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/trinitynorthshore

May the Peace of God be with you today.

3rd Sunday of Easter Tide.
Join us for Matt Vaselkiv's sermon:
Is This Our Road to Emmaus Moment?

"I AM The Resurrection", Jesus
This Easter Tide Season we are Walking in the joy of the Resurrection. The Resurrection is not just an event, The Resurrection is a person, Jesus Christ.

Is resurrection ONLY a hope for the next life? Or does Jesus, The Resurrection, offer us hope in this life also?

Is this our Road to Emmaus Moment?

Our God is Emmanuel, God with us, loving and compassionate, who walks with us and meets us in moments of great need, even when we least expect it. Sometimes the story of our life looks like it's heading in a direction that seems unexpected, or maybe in a way that leaves us feeling hopeless, confused, disillusioned.When what is happening today in our country and culture is not what we imagined or hoped for, we pray that we can have the humility and curiosity to recognize Jesus as he meets us in this moment.

From our scripture today in the Gospel of Luke:

Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, “What are you discussing with each other while you walk along?” They stood still, looking sad.

Then one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have taken place there in these days?” He asked them, “What things?”

They replied, “The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things took place. Moreover, some women of our group astounded us. They were at the tomb early this morning, and when they did not find his body there, they came back and told us that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said; but they did not see him.”

Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared! Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?” Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures.

Trinity-Summer by the Sea!
This June through August join us on Boston's North Shore in Magnolia, Gloucester; just north of Manchester by the Sea.

We will meet at 9 am in the Union Congregational Church chapel by the sea.
3 Norman Ave, Gloucester, MA

It's a beautiful chapel, just the right size, in a lovely location by the sea, as well as an outdoor playground for our young families and for those young at heart. Check out all the information on our News page:
https://www.trinitynorthshore.org/news

Follow the purple signs for Trinity North Shore on the main road.

Or join us online on our Services Page.

Connect with us at https://www.trinitynorthshore.org, follow us on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/trinitynorthshore, on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/trinitynorthshore/ or enjoy this sermon on on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwu5Xy7uzRUFrBKZ01MNyRw

May the peace of God be with you today.

2nd Sunday of Easter Tide.
Join us for Mother Jen Kiefer's sermon:
Jesus, IS the Resurrection

"I AM The Resurrection", Jesus
This Easter Tide Season we are Walking in the joy of the Resurrection.The Resurrection is not just an event, The Resurrection is a person, Jesus, God with us.

Is resurrection ONLY a hope for the next life? Or does Jesus, The Resurrection, offer us hope in this life also?

The apostles understood the Resurrection as something much more "here and now and always". For their time, our time, and for our grandkids and every generation and time.

Sometimes Western Christianity disconnects faith from the real world.
But Christ is not a "pie in the sky, bye and bye".
Jesus is God with us now and always.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus, God with us.The Resurrection is not just an event, The Resurrection is a person, Jesus, God with us.

In our lifetime, many leaders have followed the teachings and actions of Jesus.
Including Pastor John Lewis and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
"Everything you do should communicate love and forgiveness for our oppressor, our goal is to set them free, through love and forgiveness."
"If they strike you on the cheek, offer them the other"...Jesus

What will this living Resurrection mean for your life today, this week, this year; as you go out to do the good work that He has given you to do?

From our Reading in Acts of the Apostles 2,

When the high priest and those with him arrived, they called together the council and the whole body of the elders of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. But when the temple police went there, they did not find them in the prison; so they returned and reported, “We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.” Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were perplexed about them, wondering what might be going on. Then someone arrived and announced, “Look, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!”

Then the captain went with the temple police and brought them, but without violence, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.When they had brought them, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them, saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and you are determined to bring this man’s blood on us.” But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than any human authority"

Sunday Mornings
Join us Sunday Mornings at 10 am on Boston's North Shore in Hamilton, MA. We meet in the Kaiser Chapel on the beautiful and scenic campus of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary 21 Billy Graham Way, South Hamilton, MA 01982.

Follow the purple signs for Trinity North Shore along the main road for parking and to the Kaiser Chapel.

Or online on our Services Page.

Connect with us at https://www.trinitynorthshore.org, follow us on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/trinitynorthshore, on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/trinitynorthshore/ or enjoy this sermon on on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwu5Xy7uzRUFrBKZ01MNyRw

May the peace of God be with you today.

Easter Sunday:
Because of Love, Death Had No Right to Hold Him

Why does Jesus, a man from Galilee over 2000 years ago, deserve such adoration even in times of great loss and sorrow? Why does this adoration work? Why does it bring healing and peace to those worshipers? Why does he deserve this adoration?

Because of his wounds.
Jesus walked in solidarity with the pain of the world, in solidarity with the pain caused by empire. In Jesus, God participated in the pain of the world. In the pain of each one of us.

In Jesus, God said, "let the last be first."

Jesus is alive because of love, because he gave himself so completely and unconditionally out of love, that death had no right to hold him.

Sunday Mornings
Join us Sunday Mornings at 10 am on Boston's North Shore in Hamilton, MA. We meet in the Kaiser Chapel on the beautiful and scenic campus of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary 21 Billy Graham Way, South Hamilton, MA 01982.

Follow the purple signs for Trinity North Shore along the main road for parking and to the Kaiser Chapel.

Or online on our Services Page.

Connect with us at https://www.trinitynorthshore.org, follow us on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/trinitynorthshore, on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/trinitynorthshore/ or enjoy this sermon on on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwu5Xy7uzRUFrBKZ01MNyRw

May the peace of God be with you today.

Lent Week 5
Join us for Mother Wendy's sermon:
Working to Heal Social Divisions

This Lent Season we are talking about healing the flaws, schisms and tears within us.

Week 1- How do we heal our inner flaws and become a more whole person, as God intended us to be.
Week 2 - How prayer helps us to heal. 
Week 3 - Can we always be the same person? Am I consistent in who God has made me to be? Or do I act differently, depending on the situation?
Week 4 -  Generosity; How do we become whole hearted, integrated beings in a culture that's pointed towards fragmentation, division, and loneliness?
Week 5 - Working to Heal Social Divisions

This week we broaden the lens and look at working to heal schisms of social divisions 
- based in race, present or historical
- based in class
- based on where one was lucky enough to be born.

We have an incredible opportunity to work together with our neighbors and to walk with them through anything they may be going through.

Paul says when we engage these things in the Name of Jesus in LOVE then we are joining Jesus in his sacrifice and his sufferings to bring a new world.
Are there other hurting people in my world (beyond the ones I already know and care for) for whom God is calling me to sacrifice?

How can I bring a loving, caring boldness into the contexts where God places me?

We pray that you would know the goodness of God, revealed to us in Christ Jesus.

Sunday Mornings
Join us Sunday Mornings at 10 am on Boston's North Shore in Hamilton, MA. We meet in the Kaiser Chapel on the beautiful and scenic campus of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary 21 Billy Graham Way, South Hamilton, MA 01982.

Follow the purple signs for Trinity North Shore along the main road for parking and to the Kaiser Chapel.

Or online on our Services Page.

Connect with us at https://www.trinitynorthshore.org, follow us on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/trinitynorthshore, on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/trinitynorthshore/ or enjoy this sermon on on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwu5Xy7uzRUFrBKZ01MNyRw

May the peace of God be with you today.

Lent Week 4
Join us for Mother Jen Keifer's sermon:
Connecting in a Fragmented Culture

This Lent Season we are talking about healing the flaws, schisms and tears within us.

Week 1- How do we heal our inner flaws and become a more whole person, as God intended us to be.
Week 2 - How prayer helps us to heal.
Week 3 - Can we always be the same person? Am I consistent in who God has made me to be? Or do I act differently, depending on the situation?
Week 4- How do we become whole hearted, integrated beings in a culture that's pointed towards fragmentation, division, and loneliness?

Connection
How do we connect when our entire culture is filled with connecting with things rather than with God, our neighbor, and God's creation?

How do we allow the spiritual disciplines of Lent, prayer, fasting, alms-giving; to lead us into this wholeness, rather than just having more things "to do" in a culture already filled with "to-do lists"?

From our gospel reading in Matthew 6:
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

We pray that you would know the goodness of God, revealed to us in Christ Jesus.

Sunday Mornings
Join us Sunday Mornings at 10 am on Boston's North Shore in Hamilton, MA. We meet in the Kaiser Chapel on the beautiful and scenic campus of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary 21 Billy Graham Way, South Hamilton, MA 01982.

Follow the purple signs for Trinity North Shore along the main road for parking and to the Kaiser Chapel.

Or online on our Services Page.

Connect with us at https://www.trinitynorthshore.org, follow us on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/trinitynorthshore, on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/trinitynorthshore/ or enjoy this sermon on on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwu5Xy7uzRUFrBKZ01MNyRw

May the peace of God be with you today.

Lent Week 3
Join us for Canon Tim Clayton's sermon:
Being Who God has Made Us to Be

This Lent Season we are talking about healing the flaws, schisms and tears within us.

Week 1- How do we heal our inner flaws and become a more whole person, as God intended us to be.
Week 2 - How prayer helps us to heal.
Week 3 - Can we always be the same person? Am I consistent in who God has made me to be? Or do I act differently, depending on the situation?

God wants to help us get free from those things that have harmed us.
The God we follow is incarnate. He walked on the earth and interacted with us in many different circumstances and he was always the same; fully God and fully human. We sometimes have challenges that keep us from being ourselves, and being who God has made us to be.

How do we be the body of Christ? How can we care for the earth, its creatures, and our neighbors?

From our gospel in Matthew 23:
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others; but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them. They do all their deeds to be seen by others; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long. They love to have the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have people call them rabbi.

But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all students. And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father—the one in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be exalted.

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in, you stop them. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cross sea and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

How can we simply be who God has called us to be, day by day, moment by moment?

We pray that you would know the goodness of God, revealed to us in Christ Jesus.

Sunday Mornings
Join us Sunday Mornings at 10 am on Boston's North Shore in Hamilton, MA. We meet in the Kaiser Chapel on the beautiful and scenic campus of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary 21 Billy Graham Way, South Hamilton, MA 01982.

Follow the purple signs for Trinity North Shore along the main road for parking and to the Kaiser Chapel.

Or online on our Services Page.

Connect with us at https://www.trinitynorthshore.org, follow us on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/trinitynorthshore, on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/trinitynorthshore/ or enjoy this sermon on on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwu5Xy7uzRUFrBKZ01MNyRw

May the peace of God be with you today.

Lent Week 2
Join us for Mother Wendy Dixon's sermon:
Prayer, A Deeper Relationship

This Lent Season we are talking about healing the flaws, schisms and tears within us.

Week 1- How do we heal our inner flaws and become a more whole person, as God intended us to be.
Week 2 - How prayer helps us to heal.

This Lent, Mother Wendy invites us into a deeper relationship with Jesus.
How do we have a relationship with God?

Though we may have a perception that God is far away or lofty or even "different" than we are, yet in Jesus Christ we see who God actually is. From our scripture today in the gospel of Luke, Jesus says, "How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings..."

Prayer is a dynamic way to come under the embrace of God. Prayer is a place of refuge for every worry. Wendy shares some beautiful insights and guides to help us in prayer. Confession, Adoration, Thanksgiving, Supplication (CATS).

We pray that you would know the goodness of God, revealed to us in Christ Jesus.

Sunday Mornings
Join us Sunday Mornings at 10 am on Boston's North Shore in Hamilton, MA. We meet in the Kaiser Chapel on the beautiful and scenic campus of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary 21 Billy Graham Way, South Hamilton, MA 01982.

Follow the purple signs for Trinity North Shore along the main road for parking and to the Kaiser Chapel.

Or online on our Services Page.

Connect with us at https://www.trinitynorthshore.org, follow us on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/trinitynorthshore, on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/trinitynorthshore/ or enjoy this sermon on on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwu5Xy7uzRUFrBKZ01MNyRw

May the peace of God be with you today.

Lent Week 1
Join us for Cn Tim Clayton's sermon:
Lent: Start at the Inner

This Lent Season we are talking about healing the flaws, schisms and tears within us.

Week 1- How do we heal our inner flaws and become a more whole person, as God intended us to be.

This week Tim takes a fascinating look at Lent and what it means for us.
In Lent we start at the "inner" parts of ourselves, we break the cycles that tear us, harm us, and fracture us. We stop the cycles that keep us from being connected to God, to loving others, and to connecting with creation. We stop those cycles of anger, of doubt, of addiction, or shame, or social media, or whatever cycle or distraction they may be that can be pulling us apart or keeping us from being whole. It's about growing a healthy core inner self, that God has given you, so that you can live from a place of love, and be the wonderful person God has made you to be; in body, mind, and spirit.

We pray that you would know the goodness of God, revealed to us in Christ Jesus.

Sunday Mornings
Join us Sunday Mornings at 10 am on Boston's North Shore in Hamilton, MA. We meet in the Kaiser Chapel on the beautiful and scenic campus of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary 21 Billy Graham Way, South Hamilton, MA 01982.

Follow the purple signs for Trinity North Shore along the main road for parking and to the Kaiser Chapel.

Or online on our Services Page.

Connect with us at https://www.trinitynorthshore.org, follow us on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/trinitynorthshore, on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/trinitynorthshore/ or enjoy this sermon on on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwu5Xy7uzRUFrBKZ01MNyRw

May the peace of God be with you today.