Most of us believe that Easter is a one day event, but the book of Acts states that between Jesus’ resurrection and ascension, “He appeared to them over a period of 40 days and spoke about the Kingdom of God” (Acts 1:3). During his ministry, Jesus spoke about the Kingdom of God through Parables: Stories that gave earthly pictures to heavenly realities. For 40 days, as a church we will explore Jesus’ parables, allowing them to shape our vision of His Kingdom.
Easter
Matthew 23 records some of the hardest truth spoken by Jesus, which was directed at the Pharisees. We spend the season of Lent exploring the idea that it is not only those outside the confines of religious practice who are in need of “converting.” Often, it is those inside the walls of the church, but who have lost the heart of the story, that Jesus is calling into His Kingdom.
Converting the Church
A message from Jon Tyson
All-Parish Gathering
Jesus "manifests" something truly profound about the nature of God. In the words of the apostle John: God is love. But what does this love look like? During Epiphany we are challenged to look at how God's love crosses borders to reach every single one of us.
Love Beyond Borders
Jesus's first followers were often baffled at how he operated because in many ways it was different than their expectation for the Messiah. We face a similar reality when we simply think of Jesus as improving our lives in the ways we would choose and not confronting us with the true reality of Himself and His Kingdom to invite us in to something more than we would ask or imagine on our own. This series explores how radically different the hope that Jesus offers us if from the alternatives in the world, how it is an invitation to root ourselves in a coming Kingdom that will outlast all other Kingdoms. It is a meditation on how Jesus has become our peace not by conquering Rome through might, but by absorbing the world's sin and violence, offering anothre way that would crack the empire's hold over time. We look at the surprising means that God has used to offer us his joy in the middle of scandal and outside on the margins of our world, a joy beyond circumstantial happiness. And lastly, how the love of God is expressed so fully in the coming of Jesus, but not in a way that is ours to control or commodify, but that confronts, pulls us in, and changes us.
Come Thou Unexpected Jesus - Advent
Developing a framework for how to live as friends of the world where the dominant narratives and most celebrated values are not our own.
A Creative Minority
A message from Jon Tyson on Hebrews 5:11-6:12.
All-Parish Gathering
Becoming the Church is a two-week visionary teaching series for Trinity Grace Church Williamsburg. Midway through our first year as a church, we pause to remember our core motivation from Habakkuk 3:2 and consider the potential of the church as the Body of Christ in a global city.
Becoming the Church
Words of wisdom from outside Trinity Grace Church pastors who have been formative in our church from a distance.
Encouraged in Heart, United in Love
Into His Image
Understanding the transformative power of the Holy Spirit in our lives through practice that bears fruit as described in Galatians 5.
Considering the transformative power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, as described in Romans 8, and what happens when we surrender to the journey of walking in the Spirit.
Come Holy Spirit: Pentecost
Due to technical difficulties, the sermons from May 24 and June 14 were not able to be recorded.
Exploring various encounters with the risen Jesus where He uses the crucial time between his resurrection and ascension to recover, heal, transform and empower those who were scattered after his death.
Did Not Our Hearts Burn
Due to technical difficulties, the sermons from April 12, April 26, and May 10 were not able to be recorded.
Celebrating the resurrected Christ.