A podcast featuring the pulpit ministry of Trinity Baptist Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma
This Message by Andrew Hoyt was delivered at Trinity Baptist Church on Sunday evening, December 30, 2007, and was taken from Ezekiel 37:1-14.
There are three points of encouragement for the Christian from this passage:
As we face a new year, we can be assured that God will be there to guide and renew us, and never to leave us.
This message by Reverend Bill Parker was delivered at Trinity Baptist Church on Sunday morning, December 30, 2007, and was taken from 2 Corinthians 5:17-21
What would Jesus explain to us at the end of this year. If Jesus were to teach us something we don’t know by using something we do know about, he might begin with one of our bridges around Tulsa. In the text before us Paul shows us three bridges that need to be built and crossed.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. - 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, ESV
This message by Pastor Rod Harris was delivered at a Christmas-eve service at Trinity Baptist Church on Monday evening, December 24, 2007.
This message by Pastor Rod Harris was delivered at Trinity Baptist Church on Sunday evening, December 23, 2007, and was taken from Luke 1:46-56.
In this song of Mary we see a heart that has been touched by the grace of God. Four things stand out in this song which typify such a heart:
This message by Pastor Rod Harris was delivered at Trinity Baptist Church on Sunday morning, December 23, 2007, and was taken from Matthew 2:5-6. Due to technical difficulties, this recording begins about five minutes into the message.
| January 6, 2008 |
Epiphany looks ahead to the mission of the church to the world in light of the Nativity. The one or two Sundays between Christmas Day and Epiphany are sometimes called Christmastide. For many Protestant church traditions, the season of Epiphany extends from January 6th until Ash Wednesday, which begins the season of Lent leading to Easter. Epiphany means “to show” or “to make known” or even “to reveal.”
From The Voice, by Dennis Bratcher
This message by Pastor Rod Harris was delivered at Trinity Baptist Church on Sunday morning, December 16, 2007, and was taken from John 1:14-18.
The problem of darkness is that the more you are around, the more you adjust to it. Darkness began in the garden of Eden. Adam and Eve had everything in the garden. Then the serpent came along, and through his temptation, man perceived a need, an emptiness. And so man fell and plunged the whole human race into the darkness of sin. Man hid from God, and yet God continued to reach out to man. God was not caught unawares. He had a plan even before the fall.
Because mankind today is so advanced, enlightened, so wise, we have a hard time admitting that we are in darkness. Our problem is not ignorance or poverty. The problem is deeper than that. The problem is a sin problem. That great problem was addressed in the Christmas story.
1. God can only be known through self-revelelation.
2. God has perfectly revealed himself in the person of Jesus Christ.
3. God offers life to all who will believe and trust in him.
Turn to the light and live in the light, the light of the Savior, Jesus Christ.
This message by Pastor Rod Harris was delivered at Trinity Baptist Church on Wednesday evening, December 5, 2007, and was taken from Matthew 1:1-17.
This message by Pastor Rod Harris was delivered at Trinity Baptist Church on Sunday evening, December 02, 2007, and was taken from Luke 1:26-38.
There are many things about our faith that are mysterious. We simply cannot wrap our tiny little minds around them. So it is with the virgin birth. It would not be surprising as a tabloid headline, but in the world of reality, first century or twenty-first century, the virgin birth was and still is a startling thing, to say the least.
In this passage we discover a marvelous fact: God’s grace exceeds our wildest imagination.
For us, then the grace of God is extended freely. Repent, believe, and follow.
Good Answer! Good Answer!
This message by Pastor Rod Harris was delivered at Trinity Baptist Church on Sunday morning, December 2, 2007 and was taken from Mark 12:13-17.
The setting for this section of Mark’s gospel is one of a politically charged atmosphere, as we find the Pharisees and the Herodians joining forces to try to trap Jesus: “Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
1. This is an ingenious plan.
2. Jesus gave an ingenious answer to their trick question.
An abiding principle which has shaped the whole of the western world, and has made a profound impact on the history of the whole planet: “My allegiance belongs to God, and to God alone, and my respect belongs to the state.” We bear the stamp and image of God on our person, and therefore our allegiance belongs to God alone.
Application: At this season, with our emphasis on the Lottie Moon Christmas offering, we are called to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth, not the American way to the ends of the earth.
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