Trinity Church of Portland - Sermons

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world.This week, our message is from 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 and is titled “The Power of the Gospel” and was preached by Greg Taylor. In our text this morning, Paul had to remind the Corinthians of the Gospel and its core truths which point to Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection, based on historical facts from eyewitnesses and written down for us in scripture. This not only reminds us what the gospel is but that it must be preached until Christ returns. This is why God uses preaching to spread his message of the good news—the Gospel to reach the lost and by His grace bring them into saving faith in the Lord Jesus.

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world.This week, Thomas Terry brings us a message from 1 Corinthians 14:1-40 titled “Ordained Order”. In our text this morning, Paul writes to the Corinthian Christians to correct their thinking and practice of spiritual gifts. The gifts of tongues and prophecy are in mind here and both gifts are to be desired, then used to build up others. These gifts also must be used with order and restraint to create clarity, not confusion. 

Welcome to this week's sermon from Trinity Church of Portland titled, "Do You Love?" This comes on the heels of the topic of love we heard last week in 1 Corinthians 13.This week, Andrey Gorban brings us a message from 1 John 2:7-11 on the topic of love, which we learned last week is the more excellent way.In our text this morning we see from John's first letter the centrality of love for the Christian. Love is to be what we are known by and it has an attractional beauty to people when love is present in a church and amongst a group of people. 

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world.This week, Andrey Gorban brings us a message from 1 Corinthians 12:31b-13:13 titled “Love: The More Excellent Way”. In our text this morning, Paul writes to the Corinthian Christians the details of what is means to love. This is sometimes referred to as the "Love Chapter", and is often read at weddings. The message of love is so important for us because love is more important that any accomplishments we may have in our Christian life. Anything done for Christ without love is actually nothing. Jesus is the epitome of love in that he died for us while we were yet sinners and he deals with us gently. Love must always be the standard we use to assess how we are doing in the Christian life. We must honestly ask ourselves "Am I doing all things in love?" While grace gifts will pass away in the heavenly kingdom, love will continue into eternity when we see the source of love face to face in Christ. This is what we are called to—love of God and love of our neighbor as supremely important and which can only be done by His power at work in us.

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world.This week, Greg Taylor brings us a message from 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 titled “The Gift of Interdependence”. In our text this morning Paul is telling us that God made the human body and its parts different and they all play a vital part in the health, life, and longevity of the person. In a similar way God has arranged the different members of the body of Christ, within local churches to function in cooperation with each other, to care for each other and to achieve his purposes in the church. When you were converted to Christ by the grace and work of the Triune God, (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) you were made a member of the church and each of you is an important part of the whole, you have been gifted, and hold a place in the church in order to serve the body. This finds its fulfillment within local churches that are gifted by the Spirit with members and gifts to serve and meet the unique needs of each church.

Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world.This week, Jan Verbruggen brings us a message from 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 titled “The Spirit's Gracious Gifts for the Church”. This text begins Paul's discussion on spiritual gifts. We see that the Holy Spirit gives spiritual gifts to bring glory to Christ, so that no one may boast, and for the common good as the Spirit sees fit. The working of the Spirit must lead to the affirmation of who Christ is—Lord of all. Even if you do not know what your gifts are, be willing to get involved in serving the church which is often a key way you will distinguish what gifts the Spirit has given you. Let us strive to build up the church which will enable you to use the gifts God has given you and bring glory to Christ.

This sermon is from our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching through 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “Discerning The Body” is from 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 and was preached by Pastor Josh Petersen.In our text this morning Paul begins to correct the Corinthians for their division and lack of care for each other in the church. They were not properly discerning the church when they took the ordinance of the Lord's Supper. The ordinance is when Christians come together in unity to remember the Lord Jesus and identify with Him as one, in unity. Paul warns the Corinthians they first needed to examine themselves and ensure they were not sinning against their Christian brothers and sisters—to repent if need be. You must be thinking about the needs of others in the life of the church when you take communion. You must discern your life in Christ and deal with sin prior to taking communion. The Lord's Supper is to be done in unity as the church proclaims and declares the reality of Jesus into all of our lives.

This is the 19th sermon in our current series Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching through 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “Glorifying God When We Gather” is from 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 and was preached by Pastor Josh Petersen.In our text this morning Paul moves into a new area related to corporate worship which will continue through chapter 14. Paul begins this section by holding up Christ and his submission to the Father as the model for wives living in submission to their husbands. The real issue was that the Corinthians were not taking care to avoid distracting each other in worship. We are to be careful so that all we do begins and ends with giving glory to God. We should always be pointing to Christ and building up one another as a good witness to Christ and for the church's reputation.

This sermon is from our current series Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching through 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “Escaping Idolatry" is from 1 Corinthians 10:1-22 and was preached by Pastor Greg Taylor.In our text this morning Paul is challenging us to choose sides. He will use the people and events found in the Exodus narrative of the Old Testament as a warning to us from God that we must avoid falling into sin, into idolatry the way the Israelites did. Paul is going to tell us that we must live carefully to avoid the sin that caused God to destroy an entire  generation of Israelites. Ultimately you must understand that you cannot accept God and His blessings and also practice idolatry. God will not share His glory—he is a jealous God. But there is mercy even for idolaters who will turn from their sin and confess to Christ. The Gospel is enough to cover any sin and forgive any sinner.

This morning we had a guest preacher, Shai Linne who preached our sermon titled “The Lord of Our Joy” from John 2:1-11.In our text this morning we see the earliest miracle Jesus performed by turning water into wine at a wedding. This event reveals to us that Jesus has great power, He is generous, and He is good. It also demonstrates that our resources run out and only Jesus can provide the greatest need we have which is to find our fulfillment in Him and in things that are not dependent upon temporal things.