Preached by Bryan Clark Sunday, December 12, 2021

Trinity Church Bozeman Sermons

The Kiss (2 Samuel 14:23-33)

Preached by Pastor Jeff Hamling Sunday, December 5, 2021

Help My Unbelief (Mark 9:14-29)

Preached by Pastor Scott Herron Sunday, November 28, 2021

The Humble Servant (Ephesians 6:1-9)

Preached by Pastor Bryan Clark Sunday, November 21, 2021

The Return of Absalom (2 Samuel 14:1-22)

Preached by Pastor Jeff Hamling Sunday, November 14, 2021

The Transfiguration (Mark 9:2-13)

Preached by Pastor Bryan Clark Sunday, November 7, 2021

The Murder of Amnon (2 Samuel 13:21-39)

Preached by Pastor Jeff Hamling Sunday, October 31, 2021

On the Road (Mark 8:34-37)

Preached by RUF Pastor Cody Janicek Sunday, October 24, 2021

Jesus and the Thirsty (John 4:1-26)

Preached by Pastor Bryan Clark Sunday, October 17, 2021

The Story of Tamar, Part 2 (2 Samuel 13:1-22)

Preached by Pastor Scott Herron Sunday, October 10, 2021

The Beauty of God’s Timing (Ecclesiastes 3:1-11)

Preached by Pastor Bryan Clark Sunday, October 3, 2021 As we continue our series in 2 Samuel, we come to the story of Tamar in chapter 13.  For some, her story will be particularly painful to read. We don’t want to ignore tough stories like this.  Instead, we hope to handle them with discretion and sensitivity.  Most importantly, we yearn to see the beauty and grace of Jesus in her story.  –Pastor Bryan

The Story of Tamar, Part 1 (2 Samuel 13:1-20)

Serving God’s Purpose in Our Generation (Acts 13:36)

Preached by Pastor Jeff Hamling Sunday, September 19, 2021 Walking Trees Introduction: The Miracle Worker (1962): In the movie, which is based on true events, Helen Keller is both blind and deaf because of a fever she had as an infant. She can’t communicate. Nor can people communicate with her. Her family hires Anne Sullivan as her teacher to try to teach her how to communicate—to learn letters and words through sign language in the palm of her hand. Helen resists all attempts at being taught.  Sullivan teaches her letters, but for Helen they have not meaning; it’s just a hand signal game. But once when they were retrieving water from a fountain outside the house, Anne sticks Hellen’s hand under the spout while she simultaneously gives the sign for water on her hand. Helen Keller describes the incident in her autobiography, The Story of My Life: As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly. I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten–a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that “w-a-t-e-r” meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! I left the well-house eager to learn. Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought. As we returned to the house every object which I touched seemed to quiver with life. That was because I saw everything with the strange, new sight that had come to me. This strange new sight came to Helen Keller though the living word that awakened her soul in combination with the physical touch of her teacher’s hand in her hand. This must be something like how the blind man in this story from Mark felt. After his encounter with Jesus—when Jesus touched his hand—his whole world quivered with life. But it’s also a picture of how God’s grace comes to each of us. In light of that, it’s worth walking through this story verse-by-verse: v.22 22 They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.  This verse marks a major shift in the book of Mark. Jesus now begins his journey from Bethsaida (a small fishing village on the north shore of Galilee) down south to the city of Jerusalem where he will die on the cross. What’s interesting is that this journey—which takes place from chapter 8-10—begins and ends with Jesus healing a blind man. Just as Jesus now departs for the cross, he heals a blind man. A right before he arrives in Jerusalem, he heals a blind man. Why is this the case? One reason is that this entire section is characterized by Jesus telling his disciples what he’s come to do. On three different occasions Jesus explicitly tells them, “I’m going to be handed over, mocked, spit on, and killed. Three days later I will rise.” But the disciples are blinded by their expectations. They are the ones who need new eyes because they can’t see or understand how God will reveal his grace and glory in their lives. Are we so different from the disciples? We have our own blind spots. It’s easy to lie to ourselves about who we really are; excuse our faults, minimize our sins. Paul Tripp writes: “My self-perception is as accurate as a carnival mirror.” It’s also easy to be pessimistic and miss the ways God’s is revealing his glory and grace in our lives. This is one of the reasons we emphasize Growth Groups at Trinity Church. We need other people in our lives who know us, listen to us, pray for us. People who are willing to point

Walking Trees (Mark 8:22-26)

Preached by Pastor Bryan Clark Sunday, September 12, 2021

Crown of Gold (2 Samuel 12:15-31)

Preached by Pastor Jeff Hamling Sunday, September 5, 2021   Mark 7:31-37 When Jesus Spits   Introduction:    This story speaks to two very different views of the world.    On the one hand there are certain Christians who are only concerned about spiritual matters. For them, to be a Christian means that when you die you go to heaven. This world and this life are just a big waiting room or lobby where we hang out until Jesus takes us away.    Oliver Wendell Holms once said, “There are some people who are so heavenly minded they are of no earthly good.”    On the other hand, there are people who believe that the material world is all there is. There is no such thing as a supernatural realm. People don’t have souls. There is no God.    In the words of John Lennon, “No hell below us, above us only sky.”    This story in Mark invites us to ask:  What if reality is something more than either of these views?  What if the spiritual realm and the physical world were intended to kiss?  What if heaven and earth were made for one another?    This is a short passage, only 8 verses, so we’ll just walk through it a couple verses at a time.     v.31-32   31 Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. 32 There, some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him.   Two observations about these verses: Mark reports the geographical journey of Jesus.    He travels from Tyre to Sidon to the Sea of Galilee to the region of the Decapolis.    If Jesus were wearing a Garmin watch with a GPS, it would show that he took a circuitous route to get from Point A to Point B. It would be like us going from here to Livingstone by traveling through Helena. Not really the shortest distance.    And this is precisely why Mark reports Jesus’ trek. These are not just random places on a map. Tyre, Sidon, and the region of the Decapolis were all places where Gentiles (non-Jews) live.    Jesus’ message is not just for people like him—the Jews. He is launching a global movement. He goes out of his way to move toward people who need to hear the gospel.    It’s worth pausing and asking: If you could look at a map of all the places you went this past week, what would the map look like? Where did you go? Who did you go and see? Was it only people who are like you? Who believe what you believe?    Jesus’ journey shows that he moved toward people unlike him.  Jesus returns to the Decapolis   This region was called the Decapolis because it was an area with 10 different cities.    Jesus has been here before. In Mark 5:1-20, Jesus enters the Decapolis and meets a man possessed by multiple demons named “Legion.” Jesus casts out the demons and sets the man free spiritually.  But here, in this story, when Jesus returns to the Decapolis, he meets a man who suffers not from a spiritual disability, but a physical one. This man is deaf and unable to speak.    And so already, in just these first two verses, we begin to see some sort of collision between the spiritual (a demon possessed man) and the physical (a deaf man).    We wonder, “How will these two worlds come together?”    V.33-34 33 After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue. 34 He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means “Be opened!”).   

When Jesus Spits (Mark 7:31-37)

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