Trinitarian Congregational Church

March 29, 2009  -  

Guest Preacher: The Rev. Dr. William Messenger: Rev. Messenger is a gifted speaker and teacher, and most recently the Director of the Mockler Center for Business and Ethics at Gordon-Conwell Seminary.  -  

Matthew 14:13-21  -  

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand  -  

¹³When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns. ¹⁴When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick. ¹⁵As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.” ¹⁶Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” ¹⁷“We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. ¹⁸“Bring them here to me,” he said. ¹⁹And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. ²⁰They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. ²¹The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.  - 

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March 23, 2009  - 

Guest Preacher: Dom Taylor. Dom’s sermon, “Captured, Captivated and Compelled By the Cross” is a powerful story of how the Gospel completely and powerfully took over his life. Dom is one of several young adults in the TCC family who are serving in Christian ministries. He is the Boston Area Director of FOCUS (the Fellowship of Christians in Universities and Schools), which works among students and faculty in private schools. He and his wife Anna are expecting their first child in the next two weeks.  - 

1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5 

Christ the Wisdom and Power of God

¹⁸For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹For it is written:    ”I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;       the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” ²⁰Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? ²¹For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. ²²Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, ²³but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, ²⁴but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength. ²⁶Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. ²⁷But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. ²⁸He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, ²⁹so that no one may boast before him. ³⁰It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. ³¹Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”  - 

1 Corinthians 2  - 

¹When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. ²For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. ³I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. ⁴My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, ⁵so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.  - 

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March 15, 2009  - 

John 4:46-54  -   

⁴⁶Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death. ⁴⁸“Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.” ⁴⁹The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” ⁵⁰Jesus replied, “You may go. Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at his word and departed. ⁵¹While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. ⁵²When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.” ⁵³Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and all his household believed. ⁵⁴This was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed, having come from Judea to Galilee.  -

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March 8, 2009  - 

I Kings 17:1-9  - 

¹ Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.” ² Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: ³ “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. ⁴ You will drink from the brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed you there.” ⁵ So he did what the LORD had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. ⁶ The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. ⁷ Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. ⁸ Then the word of the LORD came to him: ⁹ “Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food.”  -

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March 1, 2009  - 

Psalm 32:1-11  - 

¹ Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

 ² Blessed is the man whose sin the LORD does not count against him and in whose spirit is no deceit.

 ³ When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

 ⁴ For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.

 ⁵ Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD ” — and you forgave the guilt of my sin.

 ⁶ Therefore let everyone who is godly pray to you while you may be found; surely when the mighty waters rise, they will not reach him.

 ⁷ You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.

 ⁸ I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.

 ⁹ Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.

 ¹⁰ Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD’s unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him.

 ¹¹ Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart!  -

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