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Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... until you looked at the bulletin this morning? O. K., I’ll have to accept the fact that Trinity Sunday isn’t a very big event in the average Christian’s life. Did you know that Trinity Sunday isn’t much fun for preachers, either? Each year, on the Sunday after Pentecost, we are given the task of explaining the unexplainable God, in three persons, blessed Trinity. Roughly 100 years ago there lived an American choreographer named Isadora Duncan. Ms. Duncan is considered by many to be the creator ...

2. So, Explain It to Me

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... on the life of Christ. We call this second half ordinary time but there is nothing ordinary about it. It is an extraordinary time of the year when we focus on the church's life and mission. Some have called Trinity Sunday the "great hinge" of the church year. Others have called it the "great pain"! Why? Because as the only Sunday of the church year that focuses on a doctrine instead of a historical event or person, it seems so abstract, complicated, and downright boring. I vividly remember an event from ...

3. Tongue-tied By Three Zeros

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... " is easy to say, but not readily definable. As far as attempts at explanation go, confusing and baffling language is the norm. Seems we need one Sunday each year to grapple with the dilemma. "Trinity Sunday." Today is that day. Welcome. I've heard that more pastors call in sick on Trinity Sunday than any other Sunday. I suppose pastors don't relish attempts at explaining the unexplainable. Our illustrations seem somehow to hobble timidly into a corner spouting a thousand apologies for even bringing the ...

4. A Mystery

John 16:12-15

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit?” The man roused a bit, opened his eyes and said, “Here I am dying — and you ask me a riddle?” It’s been said that Trinity Sunday is the only Sunday in the church year that commemorates a theological proposition. The word, “Trinity” appears nowhere in the Bible. The first recorded use of the Greek word “Τριάς” (set of three) in Christian theology came from Theophilus of Antioch in about 170 AD. To this Greek scholar, the ...

5. Holy, Holy, Holy

John 16:12-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... god, a created being," these burly security guards flex their muscles and shout, "No way!" Because of this, on The Holy Trinity and every Sunday, Christians respond to God's grace by doing two important things. We recite the creeds and we sing our ... meet people — fellow hikers, neighbors, and tourists. When I hike Mount Harney, I join 80,000 climbers, walkers, and hikers, who go up every year. I say, "It is good, Lord." I see the sun, the ferns, the moss, and the blue bell flowers. I recall the reports ...

6. A Sunday Kind of Love

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... with your sweetie? Click down to 50 watts. One light bulb, but three different experiences of the light it produced. This Sunday is “Trinity Sunday.” This is the day Christians around the world take time to consider one of the greatest doctrines of our faith ... Christ continues to be a living, vital, transforming force, indeed, the very hope of the world. I heard a story in a sermon many years ago that I’ve never forgotten, partly because the lowest grade I ever got on a test in my life was a grammar test ...

7. The Fourth Person In The Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... tactics on their children. "God is watching you. He sees when you do something wrong." A popular song from a couple of years ago declares, "God is watching us from a distance." It is comforting to realize that God is watching over us. Sometimes, though, I think we like keeping Him off in the distance instead of being an active influence in our lives. Today is Trinity Sunday in many churches. The Trinity is a confusing doctrine that helps us see that God is not off in the distance somewhere leaving us to our ...

8. Building An Understanding Of God

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... 1) Well, that's quite an accomplishment. The three of them are two of a kind. Each year on this first Sunday after Pentecost churches all over this land celebrate Trinity Sunday. Each year we seek to understand and communicate this most precious doctrine of our faith--that God is "One in Three Persons, blessed Trinity." Pastor James Hazelwood of Brooklyn, New York, reflects on a sermon he preached on a Trinity Sunday. "A couple of years ago," he writes, "I thought I did a rather fine job of explaining the ...

9. Holy Arithmetic!

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... you today in light of our lectionary text from the Gospel of Matthew about the nature of God. I will try to confine my remarks to the aforementioned timeframe, but I’m not sure I can accomplish that. In the calendar of the church year, today is listed as "Trinity Sunday," a day when we are to celebrate the Triune God, the God who is made manifest in three persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – but is, in essence, the One True God. When we come to matters of church doctrine, the teachings ...

10. Be of One Mind

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... at that church. I would drive out there each Sunday, just praying for a miraculous snowstorm in October which would save me from another Sunday at that so-called church. I spent a year there,” he says, “that lasted a lifetime. I tried ... . And it’s sad. As someone has put it: “Division drives our Lord away. Harmony invites him into our fellowship.” This is Trinity Sunday. God in three persons--Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Do we fully understand this wonderful doctrine? No, but some of us will fight ...

11. Now That School's Out...

Proverbs 8:1-36

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... her stand; Beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out: "To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to ALL that live. By way of background, this day is known on the Liturgical calendar as Trinity Sunday, the one Sunday in the entire year set aside to focus on, not an important event, but an important doctrine. A confusing doctrine? A bit, perhaps. The late Cardinal Cushing said that, when he was a parish priest, he was summoned to a store to give last rites to a man who ...

12. We Are Not Alone

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... when I failed to finish my dissertation in English literature in the allotted time, and my doctoral program crumbled around me. A two-year relationship had just ended, and friends and favorite teachers just walked away. There was nothing for me to do but leave school and ... Pray that the Spirit comes to this place that we might go out and reach others. Next week is Holy Trinity Sunday. To an unchurched observer, it might seem that the Fundamentalists worship God and Father, we Lutherans (with our relentless ...

13. Arise, O Church of God, Arise!

Sermon

... as Holy Trinity Sunday, expands the text above, and also uses the contemporary hymn printed below as the basis for the message. The hymn may be sung as a sermon hymn in its entirety and referred to during the sermon, or the stanzas may be sung individually after they have been treated in the pulpit, as a way of re-inforcing and celebrating through song the message just shared.) This hymn was written in 1965 by W. Krieger, a vicepresident of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod who died last year. The tune ...

14. Worship, Doubt, and the Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... binary function of “either this or that” is not how God works at all according to the gospel reading for this Trinity Sunday. In our most prideful moments we are tempted to believe that if we had been there with Jesus on that mountaintop, then ... light of the promise of Christ’s powerful presence with us through trust. Former President George H.W. Bush went skydiving a few years back on his ninetieth birthday! The success of that adventure did not depend on his strength or ability, but simply on his ...

15. Where's God?

John 16:12-15

Sermon

David Coffin

... , I would like to suggest how this complex and mysterious teaching of the church might work in modern day situations. Imagine a person coming to worship on Holy Trinity Sunday who is not wondering if they will confess the lengthy Athanasian Creed. Rather, the person’s mind is weighed down with the stunning news that their employer of 25 years is closing down the plant and company. All three hundred or so employees are told they have worked their last week there and a short amount of severance pay will ...

16. Making the Mystery Work for You

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... I won’t deliver a lecture expounding on what belongs only in the classroom for theologues. I do want to tell you a brief story. A man in a certain parish was only seen in church one Sunday a year. No, it was not Easter. It was Trinity. One leading lay person had restrained his curiosity year after year. He could not contain it any more. He approached the man and said, “I have noticed that you have selected this particular time for your only visit to church.” “Oh, that’s easy to explain,” the man ...

17. Guided by the Spirit

John 16:12-15

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... out that even things like the Ten Commandments can be a little embarrassing when you try to explain them to four- and five-year-olds. How do you explain what not committing adultery means? Even in this modern world, children of this age are not ready for ... mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you" (John 16:15). As for us, on this Trinity Sunday, we can rejoice in knowing that the Holy Spirit not only gets the message onto the page for us to read, but also gets it off ...

18. It's All In the Perspective

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , this is how she really is!" Picasso, bending over, looked at it and replied, "She is rather small and flat, isn't she?"[2] Perspective - today is Trinity Sunday on the church calendar, the only Sunday set aside during the entire year to honor a doctrine. As Bible scholars know, the word "trinity" is found nowhere in scripture, but the doctrine of the Trinity comes from a faithful reading of that scripture with an attempt to give a reasonably adequate understanding of God. We find the creator God making an ...

19. Kissing Cousins (Father's Day)

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... of their day. They drive to work more efficiently and more safely. And listen to this, men, kissing husbands live five years longer than their less romantic counterparts. The studies showed that men who do not kiss their wives goodbye are apt to ... subject. We kiss one another within families to show our love. That is a beautiful thing. But you may be asking yourself how on Trinity Sunday I can justify a sermon on kissing? Well, in our Epistle for the day, St. Paul talks about kissing . . . and he is for it ...

20. Expressing The Inexpressible

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... yes, they actually had riots over the issue. Once things settled down (and as the chronology indicates, it took 126 years), the church said that as mysterious as it might be, the scriptural teaching about Jesus Christ is that he is ... spiritual pilgrimage where we are content to let God be God, greater than any possible human understanding, realizing that even when we, on Trinity Sunday, say "God in three persons," or at any other time when we are about to make some dogmatic statement about God, no matter what ...

21. It's All in the Perspective

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... over, looked at it and replied, "She is rather small and flat, isn't she?"(2) Perspective. As you see from this morning's bulletin, today is Trinity Sunday on the church calendar, the only Sunday set aside during the entire year to honor a doctrine. As you Bible scholars know, the word "trinity" is found nowhere in scripture, but the doctrine of the Trinity comes from a faithful reading of that scripture with an attempt to give a reasonably adequate understanding of God. We find the creator God, making an ...

22. Afraid No More

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... ” from one of the ladies?] There are many things in life we do not understand. Today on the church calendar is Trinity Sunday, the day we celebrate a doctrine that none of us is capable of truly understanding. “God in three persons, blessed Trinity . . .” I believe it, but do I understand it? Not really. Pastor Keith Krell tells of spending time with his oldest child Joshua several years ago. While Krell was sitting in his glider, Joshua went over to his toy bag and grabbed a tennis ball and brought ...

23. The Triune God

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... the premise upon which the Scriptures are based. This God is described in the Scriptures from countless angles and over hundreds of years by the pens of many authors and spanning sixty-six books. Throughout these declarations, God is described as the "Triune God," the ... be multiplied to you. The Athanasian Creed, which liturgical churches generally confess on Trinity Sunday, simply restates the scriptural teaching of the Trinity and emphasizes its importance by saying: Whosoever will be saved, before all ...

24. A Hall of Fame Dad

John 16:12-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... calendar says that this is “Trinity Sunday.” And I know that many of you came to worship today yearning for a deep, theological treatise on the meaning of the Trinity. You were, weren’t you? But doesn’t the doctrine of the Trinity say to us among other ... time Dad called in a “huff,” his voice indicated he meant business. The boys came running into the house. When the four-year-old passed Dad, he said, “Daddy, we didn’t hear you the first two times you called.” (4) Nothing like that happens ...

25. Power for Today

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... make ends meet, but we are an affluent people. What is it we are missing? Could it be power? Today is Pentecost. Next Sunday is Trinity Sunday. We pray “in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” The Father and the Son, we are comfortable with, but ... is an age that cries out for Spirit, Son and Father. A certain man was overheard to say, “I was making $100,000 a year, had 75 people under me, a condo in Aspen and was being considered for the Senate then I switched to decaf.” Christianity without ...

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