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Trinity Season

The Trinity season extends from Pentecost to Advent. The color green is used to picture the Church as it matures and bears the fruits of the Spirit.

Trinity 9 – August 2, 2026

Theme: The Steward’s Shrewdness Sanctified Service Folder📖🔍 I Chronicles 29:10-13 ▪ I Corinthians 10:6-13 ▪ ✞ Luke 16:1-9 “The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness” (Luke 16:1–9). The steward’s shrewdness is praiseworthy for two reasons. First, he knew the master would be merciful. He trusted that the master would honor the debts he forgave in the master’s name. In the…

Trinity 8 – July 26, 2026

Service Folder📖🔍 Service Folder (print) Jeremiah 23:21-32 ▪ Romans 8:12-17 ▪ ✞ Matthew 7:15-23 There are two ways – one is a broad way that leads to destruction and the other is a narrow way that leads to life. Along the way are false prophets who, like ravenous wolves entice souls to leave the narrow way for the broad way. Though they…

Trinity 7 – July 19, 2026

Theme: Providence Service Folder📖🔍 I Kings 17:8-16 ▪ Romans 6:19-23 ▪ ✞ Mark 8:1-9 God kept his Word through the prophet Elijah to provide for a widow and her son when all seemed hopeless. (In Kings 17:8-16) That Word is fulfilled in the Word made flesh, Jesus, who had compassion on a crowd of 4000 and provided bread for them in the…

Trinity 6 – July 12, 2026

Service Folder Service Folder (print) Our Only Hope Is in Christ’s Righteousness “Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt 5:20). God demands nothing less than perfection and holiness from you in regard to His commandments (Ex. 20:1–17). Your only hope, then, is not in your own goodness but in the…

Trinity 5 – July 5, 2026

Service Folder (.pdf) Service Folder (.docx) Old Testament: Jeremiah 16:14-21 Epistle: I Peter 3:8-15 Gospel: Luke 5:1-11 On this 250th birthday of our nation, we remember that many followed our forefathers risking all to fight for temporal freedom. We follow Jesus for eternal freedom, purchased by the forgiveness of sins. In that freedom, Jesus called fishermen to be fishers of men (Luke…

Trinity 4 – June 28, 2026

 Service Folder Old Testament: Genesis 50: 15-21 Epistle: Romans 8: 18-23 Gospel: Luke 6: 36 “Be merciful, even as your Father also is merciful” (Luke 6:36–42). The old Adam in us wants to condemn. To condemn is to put yourself in the place of God. Jesus is our Joseph, who comforts us with words of pardon and reconciliation (Gen. 50:15–21). He…

Trinity 3 – June 21, 2026

Service Folder Old Testament: Micah 7: 18-20 Epistle: I Peter 5: 6-11 Gospel: Luke 15: 1-10 (11-32) As we think about Father’s Day, a poet once penned, “Our Father by whom all fatherhood is named.” As great an honor as is to be named after our heavenly Father, there is no perfect human father. Those of us who are fathers all fall…