Holy Trinity Church :: Pastor Todd Hunter

Micah 6:1-8, Psalm 15, Matthew 5:1-12

Isaiah 9:1-4; Psalm 27:1, 4-9; Matthew 4:12-23

Todd Pickett shares -Isaiah 49:1-7, Psalm 40:1-11, John 1:29-42

Isaiah 42:1-9, Psalm 29, Matthew 3:13-17

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 & Ephesians 5:1-20

A simple Christmastide tradition of narrating the story of Jesus’ birth. The lessons are taken from the Bible and interspersed with singing of Christmas carols and candle-lighting.

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As the light and dark get starker and starker, it is so important that we don't fall into hating our culture or running from it. We have to precisely stay connected to it so we can be salt and light.

Isaiah 7:10-16, Romans 1:1-7, Matthew 1:18-25

Isaiah 35:1-10, James 5:7-10, Matthew 11:2-11

Isaiah 11:1-10, Romans 15:4-13, Matthew 3:1-12

During Advent this year we are encouraged to anticipate the Second Coming of Christ – that terrifying yet exhilarating experience of his glorious power, beauty and AWE-someness. Our readings and images will support us in reflecting on Jesus’ coming in the clouds as King of kings and Lord of lords. One day it will all come true – God’s power will have its full and magnificent way. During Advent we will learn together how that future shapes our today as we live immersed, plunged into a deluge of the power of the Holy Spirit.

Psalm 46, Jeremiah 23:1-6, Colossians 1:11-20, & Luke 1:68-79

N.T. Wright "The ‘here and now’ is where Paul ends up. You might think, after a spectacular chapter like this one, that he would conclude by saying something like, ‘So let’s rejoice at the wonderful hope we can look forward to!’ But he doesn’t. And this isn’t just because he is a solid and sober practical theologian, true though that is. It’s because the truth he has been expounding, the truth of the resurrection of the dead and the transformation of the living, is not just a truth about the future hope. It’s a truth about the present significance of what we are and do. If it is true that God is going to transform this present world, and renew our whole selves, bodies included, then what we do in the present time with our bodies, and with our world, matters. For far too long many Christians have been content to separate out future hope from present responsibility, but that is precisely what Paul refuses to do. His full-bodied doctrine and promise of resurrection sends us back to our present world, and our present life of bodily obedience to our Lord, in the glorious but sobering knowledge (as we saw in 6.14, 13.8– 13 and elsewhere) that, if there is continuity between who and what we are in the present and who and what we will be in the future, we cannot discount the present life, the present body and the present world as irrelevant. On the contrary. It is a matter of the greatest encouragement to Christian workers, most of whom are away from the public eye, unsung heroes and heroines, getting on faithfully and quietly with their God-given tasks, that what they do ‘in the Lord’ during the present time will last, will matter, will stand for all time. How God will take our prayer, our art, our love, our writing, our political action, our music, our honesty, our daily work, our pastoral care, our teaching , our whole selves – how God will take this and weave its varied strands into the glorious tapestry of his new creation, we can at present have no idea. That he will do so is part of the truth of the resurrection, and perhaps one of the most comforting parts of all.”

Doing the will of the Father is nourishment to the human person.

The church is not peripheral to the world. The world is peripheral to the church. 1 Corinthians 11:17-11:34 & Luke 22:14-20

1 Corinthians 11:2-16 & Luke 8:1-3

1 Corinthians 7:25-7:40 & Matthew 6:25-33

We come as we are but God never leaves us that way. Jesus does not stand on the side of law. He stands on the side of persons, calling them to bring their lives into the light of God.

Be holy, not only in our behaviors but also in our opinions.