Trinity Heights Church Podcast

8.8 [Sermon Series] Dave Herman delivers Part One: “Chosen for What”. This sermon launches our new four part series titled, Genesis 1: Life Together, Again.

 

Dave Herman - We often hear that God sent Jesus to reconcile us back to God. But God also sent Jesus to reconcile us back to ourselves, each other, and the rest of the created world. And, we in turn, are invited to embody that declaration.

 

8.1 [Sermon Series Recap] Eric and Stephen discuss our last sermon series, "Galatians: Discord, Tension and Resolution” and spend some time recapping key points.

 

Eric Helvie - I find it compelling that Paul shows a willingness to go into risky relational territory, while building ideas of reconciliation into his rebuke of the Galatians. And yet, he also says in chapter four verse twenty, “How I wish I could be with you now and change my tone.” It’s almost as if he’s breaking the fourth wall. He steps outside of his writing for a second and acknowledges the limitations of the written letter in the letter itself: essentially saying that “in-person” interaction is far better and if he was able to be with them physically, this problem might be resolved more efficiently and with more flexibility. 

7.25 [Sermon Series] Stephen Cheung delivers the conclusion of our five part sermon series, “Galatians: Discord, Tension and Resolution”

Stephen Cheung - Paul, in Galatians, plays with the idea that we straddle two time zones, we live of course in this age where humanity is divided against each other but we also embody the age to come, by our love and unity with each other. Each time we choose unity over division, each time we choose love over hate, each time we choose togetherness over enmity we look back through the mists of time to the ancient promise made to Abraham and then we turn and look to the horizon, to what comes next.

7.18 [Sermon Series] Stephen Cheung delivers Part Four of our five part sermon series, “Galatians: Discord, Tension and Resolution”

Stephen Cheung - Each story that Paul tells in the first two chapters of Galatians starts with the feature of people being divided, people at odds with each other, people being left out and excluded. And, each story travels in the same direction away from division toward unity, away from enmity toward solidarity, away from exclusion toward inclusion.

7.11 [Sermon Series] Stephen Cheung delivers Part Three of our five part sermon series, “Galatians: Discord, Tension and Resolution”

Stephen Cheung - In Galatians Paul says he has been crucified to the world and the world to him, and in Corinthians, he expands on this idea explaining that the world’s strength is weakness and the world’s wisdom is foolishness. So we might understand Paul in Galatians as saying the world’s entire system of values is dead to me and I to it. In other words, the centrality of the cross is about an entire system of values or an entire mode of operating being done away with.

7.4 [Sermon Series] Stephen Cheung delivers Part Two of our new five part sermon series, “Galatians: Discord, Tension and Resolution”

Stephen Cheung - Paul’s emotional response to the situation in Galatia is precisely because he understands that in a world full of people alienated from each other, isolated from each other separated from each other, the good news about Jesus offers us a way back to each other. As far as Paul is concerned, this is the only hope for us collectively. And so to abandon the gospel of Jesus Christ is to abandon each other and to abandon each other is to abandon the gospel.

6.27 [Sermon Series] Stephen Cheung delivers Part One of our new Five Part Sermon Series titled "Galatians: Discord, Tension and Resolution."

Stephen Cheung - Discord in music creates tension and that tension is only released when the music becomes harmonious or more consonant. I wonder if Paul is writing a symphony or rather a letter to the Galatians, like that. The kind of letter which plays those discordant notes and leaves his readers longing for the tension to be released, for the chaos to be resolved, for the harmony to be restored in a way that only the gospel can do.

6.20 [Sermon Series] Tim Creber delivers the last part of the 1 Thessalonians series and reflects on how our priorities may have shifted over the course of living through a global pandemic.

Tim speaks on the final chapters of 1 Thessalonians as Paul seems to be shaking the early church awake: encouraging them to be fully present to the needs of others. And, how we, having experienced the pain of separation from others during Covid, may, more than ever before, be awake to the importance of relationships, friendships, family and the needs of those in our lives and all of those around us.

6.13 [Sermon Series] Brandon Epting delivers Part Three of our new Four Part Sermon Series titled "Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians."

Brandon speaks on 1 Thessalonians Chapter Four and addresses the idea that living a life of limits means we accept our humanness, press into being fully human and find wholeness within the context of community.

6.6 [Sermon Series] Eric Helvie delivers Part Two of our new Four Part Sermon Series titled "Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians."

Eric speaks specifically about 1 Thessalonians Chapter Three and Paul's use of intense language to bolster his relationship with the early church. Paul's words of longing and love resonate today as we explore the shape of life together: life informed by our future hope for resurrection and new creation.

5.28 [Sermon Series] Join us this Sunday on Facebook Live as Tim Creber delivers Part One of our new Four Part Sermon Series titled "Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians."

The specific way Paul structured his first letter to the church in Thessalonica showed his deep love for them. A love that resonates today as we explore the shape of life together: life informed by our future hope for resurrection and new creation.

Eric and Stephen recap key points from the sermon series “How to Grow Spiritually” and discuss how “following in the dust of the rabbi’s feet” may lead to some unexpected places.

Stephen Cheung - So in fact Jesus is “The Known.” We know Jesus through history and through him we are introduced to the boundless mystery of God.

When Jesus says, “Follow me,” there are any number of ways that He could have finished that sentence, “Come follow me and... I will make you wise. Come follow me and I will make you spiritually mature. But, Jesus says, “Come follow me and I will make you Fishers of Men.” This is Christ’s goal, to turn us into Fishers of People. This, if you like, is Jesus’ definition of spiritual maturity.

But, what does it mean to be “Fishers of People?

When Jesus calls his disciples and says, “Come follow me,” he’s saying something that should cause us to question our typical western approach to acquiring knowledge.

Early Jewish writings describe the relationship between a rabbi and his disciples like this, “The disciple must cover himself in the dust of [the rabbi’s] feet.” In other words, the disciple would follow the rabbi so closely, they would literally be walking in the dust of his feet. And so, the saying developed, “May you be covered in the dust of your rabbi.”

This literal experience of following closely becomes a metaphor for knowledge and spiritual growth.

This week we go back to the basics as we start a new series and reflect on Jesus calling the first disciples.

What makes our identity? Eric and Stephen reflect together as we conclude our series 'How to Plant a Church... Again'.

If we follow the corporate media on where to look, we'll miss what's happening around the world--both the atrocities that devastate the nations and the purpose that God designed for them.

Jesus constantly criticized corrupt earthly powers because his kingdom is not of this world. Will we be the kind of people who live according to Jesus' reign or get swept up in the tribalistic ideologies of this world?

This weekend we welcome author Kyra Dawkins for a conversation on her new book, The We and the They.

We continue in our series by looking at John and the themes of love and acceptance.

We continue the conversation on Trinity Heights' identity as a community of Christians and Skeptics.

Join us for a discussion about the intersection of church and culture as Trinity Heights explores its identity as a community of Christians and Skeptics

If we want to communicate with another culture effectively, we'll need to learn to speak their language. That's the Word becoming flesh.

Stephen reveals what sparked his imagination when he was an agnostic, and what that means for how we live Jesus' incarnate life in this world.

Christ against the culture or Christ of the culture.…

We discuss what makes us us as we start our new series, 'Planting a Church... Again'.

Prayer isn't always easy, so let's be easy on ourselves. This weekend Chris and Naomi walk us through the simple practice of talking to our Father in heaven.

This time of year we celebrate Epiphany on the chuch calendar, when we start to see the world in a completely new way.

Luke writes about a priest and a pauper so we can proclaim the good news with confidence.

In the first message in our Advent series 'The Descendant', Matthew builds up Jesus' reputation, only then to undermine what he created. What is going on, and what does it mean for us today?

Join us for a conversation as we wrap up our series in Genesis

This week we continue part seven in our series 'Genesis: A Prelude'.

Is the Flood a children's story, a story of God's anger, or something else entirely? We continue with Part 6 in our series, "Genesis: A Prelude'.

We conclude with the third and final week of our interim series on the election, War and Peace.

We are taking a break from our Genesis series in order to reflect on what it means to be the church in the run up to this election.

We are taking a break from our Genesis series in order to reflect on what it means to be the church in the run up to this election.

Is God unfair? Living with people who have an unfair advantage.

We're not ourselves. But we can be.

On talking snakes and the squabble over a piece of fruit

Everyone has a story. Today we invite you as we tell ours.

How is God in Genesis radically different from the gods of the ancient and modern worlds?

We explore the story of Esther to see how God cares for us in exile.

The story of Nehemiah and an incomplete return from Exile

Are new beginnings possible after exile? We turn to Ezra to find out more.

We explore the story of Esther to see how God cares for us in exile.

We observe how Daniel and his friends faithfully resisted Babylonian rule.

In part two of our series we are invited to explore what role lament should play in a journey of faith through exile

How did we get so far from home? Is there any hope that we can return? Today we begin our new series on Exile.