Trinity Christian Church

What Has You Convinced? Acts 1:3 To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. If we limit what we are convinced of to what we see and hear with our natural abilities our eyes, our ears, and our reasoning, we can become a negative people without hope. We become convinced of negative things pain, suffering, lack, want, loneli...ness, rejection, sickness. It is easy to become convinced of these things because they are all real and present. That is why Jesus, in the time after His resurrection presented convincing proof of another Kingdom a heavenly Kingdom brought to earth with love, power, hope, provision, and healing. He knows we were already convinced of the natural world we live in and the trouble it brings because of sin. So after he brought the remedy for sin in His sacrifice, shedding of His blood, and death and resurrection, He convinced His followers that there was more to this life than the miseries they were already convinced of. He offered them proof of the things He taught them before the cross by demonstrating to them the power of resurrection. And His followers wrote in detail of the new convictions of love and hope and power in the New Testament. What Luke wrote in Acts 1:3 shows us that it is the intention of God to prove the realities of the Kingdom to us so that we may have confidence in Him. Paul, who was convinced of His love and power by the ministry of the Holy Spirit just like we are wrote in Romans 8:38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. So we are convinced of the love of God to cast out fear. And to Timothy 2 Timothy 1:12 For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I a convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day. Which convinces us of the power of God to keep us when we entrust everything we have and are to Him. So meditate on the word renew your mind and let the Holy Spirit convince YOU of the things of the Kingdom of God. It is a source of hope and power over the challenges of the world.

The Comforter Has Come Have you ever been to the grocery store on a major buying trip, filled your buggy, then hauled all the groceries home, put them away, and then find you don’t feel like cooking so you order a pizza? It seems like my food shopping trips are always before either lunch or supper and I have experienced the I don’t want to cook now feeling many times. Ordering a pizza isn’t really an option for us so I just dig in and start cooking....Continue reading

What We Are Learning June 2019 Recently, we have been tracing the footsteps of the apostles in the book of Acts. By cross-referencing the epistles and surveying maps, we have been learning in a fuller sense that the early church was made up of ordinary people who relied on the Holy Spirit as they lived, served, and proclaimed the gospel in a world sometimes receptive but often hostile to it. By carefully notating references to the Holy Spirit, we have noticed t...hat He acts as a catalyst for much of the action in the early church. We have also noticed the Holy Spirit comforting and encouraging believers. As the book of Acts progresses, different apostles and disciples come in and out of the storyline. However, one constant character in Acts is the Holy Spirit, whose movement is continuous from beginning to end, advancing God’s kingdom through numerous people in differing and often surprising ways. As we have applied our minds to understanding the acts of the apostles and the work of the Holy Spirit in the early church, two ideas have emerged: The power of Almighty God is more than sufficient to accomplish His purpose and His will, not only in the face of opposition, but also by using the opposition to His advantage to further His purpose. Although it may seem that our lives are a series of haphazard events, when we love God and submit to His will, His Holy Spirit carefully guides us through each day to accomplish his will and do his work. See more