The Good News (Romans 3, Part 2) Geoff Ziegler, February 11, 2024 https://youtu.be/siEThmfTme4?si=7_nC_I3d4QNge_3s When a group of Christians are discouraged because they feel like they are failing, or they have doubts, or they are divided, they need to be strengthened by the gospel. This is the conviction that drives the letter of Romans. Knowing the…
The Evil of Disordered Worship (Romans 1, Part 3) Geoff Ziegler, January 28, 2024 https://youtu.be/HzGZ31ulzak?si=T8yOWq0dJtDAcPI1 Last week if you weren’t here with us, we began considering how Paul in Romans orients us to the story in which we are living. We are part of a big, transcendent, mysterious world; there is a cosmic battle that…
Locating Ourselves in God’s Great Story (Romans 1, Part 2) Geoff Ziegler, January 21, 2024 https://youtu.be/G1JCyBgz8CQ?feature=shared Our Need for Story Every week as I prepare the sermon for that Sunday, one of the questions I constantly feel the weight of is quite simple. Is this practical? I’m a big picture thinker, and I know one…
The Gospel of God (Romans 1, Part 1) Geoff Ziegler, January 14, 2024 https://youtu.be/ts_7gX0Uq9w?feature=shared What does it mean to be a Christian? It seems to me that there’s currently quite a bit of confusion on how to answer that question. In the past, people might have connected Christianity to being part of a Christian church.…
The Way of Joy (Psalm 16) Geoff Ziegler, January 7, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAgKGh67TGM&t=36s&ab_channel=TrinityPresbyterianChurch%7CHinsdale%2CIL So we’re going to be starting a new series on the book of Romans, beginning next week. This week, I’d like to set the stage for all that we will be considering. To orient us, want to ask a fairly basic question. “How…
The Riddle of Sampson pt. 2 (Judges 16) Geoff Ziegler, December 17, 2023 https://youtu.be/j9hv_MkGWug?feature=shared In the book of Judges, we are being invited to look at something unpleasant. We’re being shown, in rather gruesome detail, the power and the consequences of sin. Repeatedly, time after time, we see Israel pulled downward toward idols by the…
The Riddle of Sampson (Judges 13-15) Geoff Ziegler, December 10, 2023 https://youtu.be/LwM-0ONuKzM?feature=shared There’s a lot of things we know we are supposed to trust God with. Finances: you have to make an expensive repair on our car and money is tight; you feel overwhelmed. But you remind yourself that you can trust God to provide.…
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The Negotiator (Judges 10-12) Geoff Ziegler, December 03, 2023 https://youtu.be/bgmiV1OWduE?feature=shared Our passage this morning focuses our attention on an important question. What kind of relationship do we have with God? Is it a personal relationship? Or is it a transactional one? Do you know what I mean by this distinction? If you’re buying groceries…
Step 4: Making a Change In this series we’ve been focusing on a simple idea. If we want to grow as a Christian, we will usually have to make changes in our habits and practices. True gospel-driven transformation moves from faith and desire into making changes in the very structures of our lives. We understand…