Trinity Church: Recent Episodes
Trinity Church of Winston-Salem
Pastor Derek offers a brief case for church membership arguing that it is biblical, necessary, critical to our witness, and urgent. To study this topic further, check out Building a Case for Church Membership by Dennis Bills.
Pastor Derek Radney briefly outlines a historical argument for the resurrection of Jesus centered on the various theories seeking to explain the rise of Christianity in the first century given the accepted evidence.
Resources for Further Exploration: - Richard Bauckham. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006) https://amzn.to/3kCflrg
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John Dickson. Is Jesus History? (Epsom: The Good Book Company, 2019) https://amzn.to/3o0S4RH
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John Dickson. A Doubter’s Guide to Jesus: An Introduction to the Man from Nazareth for Believers and Skeptics (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2018) https://amzn.to/3CDAoQf
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Timothy Keller. Making Sense of God (New York: Viking, 2016) https://amzn.to/2XME2s4
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Peter Williams. Can We Trust the Gospels? (Wheaton: Crossway, 2018) https://amzn.to/3kBZJDO
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N.T. Wright. The Resurrection and the Son of God (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003) https://amzn.to/3lPxAc1
In part 5, Pastor Joel uses the gospel application tool to address how the gospel relates to our deep desire for purpose and mission.
Repost: Pastors Derek and Joel and Dr. Trevor Laurence talk about food, feasting, and fasting in the Christian life.
In this episode Pastor Derek applies the gospel application tool to idols related to the pursuit of comfort, pleasure, fun, and sex.
Pastors Derek and Joel apply the gospel application tool to idols related to eternal life, including security, control, and power.
In this episode Pastor Derek offers parents guidance on how to talk about sex and gender in a way that cultivates wisdom and love in the heart of our children.
Pastors Derek and Joel work through the gospel application tool to address the relational idols of approval, beauty, and status.
Pastors Derek and Joel introduce the gospel application tool, which outlines the process of applying the gospel to ourselves.
Resources for end of life issues:
Departing in Peace: Biblical Decision-Making at the End of Life by Bill Davis
Advanced Directive Template
The End of Christian Life by J. Todd Billings
Between Life and Death: A Gospel-Centered Guide to End-of-Life Medical Care by Kathryn Butler
5 Wishes: Advance Care Planning for You and Loved Ones
This episode was edited and mixed by Tres Counts, and the original music was also created by Tres Counts.
This episode was edited and mixed by Tres Counts, and the original music was also created by Tres Counts.
This episode was edited and mixed by Tres Counts, and the original music was also created by Tres Counts.
This episode was edited and mixed by Tres Counts, and the original music was also created by Tres Counts.
This episode was edited and mixed by Tres Counts, and the original music was also created by Tres Counts.
This episode was edited and mixed by Tres Counts, and the original music was also created by Tres Counts.
This episode was edited and mixed by Tres Counts, and the original music was also created by Tres Counts.
This episode was edited and mixed by Tres Counts, and the original music was also created by Tres Counts.
This episode was edited and mixed by Tres Counts, and the original music was also created by Tres Counts.
This episode was edited and mixed by Tres Counts, and the original music was also created by Tres Counts.
In today's episode, Derek sits down with two church members to hear their story of dealing with their students loans. The conversation touches on debt, hospitality, mission, marriage, and freedom.
In today's episode, Joel, Trevor, and Derek discuss how we should make decisions. They expose some of the weaknesses in the conventional approach common among Christians, and then they lay out a better way.
Steve Beck owns and runs a business aimed at resolivng conflict and helping people stay on mission.
The Reverend Ethan Smith serves as the pastor of Hope Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem. In our conversation, we discuss teens, technology, and parenting.
The Reverend Ben Milner serves as a pastor of Salem Presbyterian Church in downtown Winston-Salem. In our conversation, we discuss evangelism and prayer.
The Reverend Randy Edwards serves as the pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church of Kernersville. In our conversation, we discuss poetry and suffering.
In this episode, Derek, Joel, and Trevor discuss the witness of the church. They start by reflecting on a few passages of Scripture that speak to the church’s identity and commission to witness to the kingdom before reflecting on the dangerous tendency to reduce the witness of the church to proclamation of the gospel. From there, they offer a more robust approach to the church’s communal witness and why it’s important that we consider how we can most faithfully witness in our time and place to the particular people we encounter together. They conclude by connecting the conversation to the shared communal life Trinity seeks to embody.
The Trinity Church Podcast seeks to speak to contemporary issues in the life of our church and invite our congregants to listen in as we apply the gospel to life.
In this episode, Joel, Trevor, and Derek discuss food, feasting, and fasting. To set up the conversation, the hosts read 1 Timothy 4:1-5 and made a few observations. They shared some personal struggles involving food and fasting which highlighted some of the reasons why fasting is a bit of a mystery for many us. That brought them to the heart of conversation about what fasting is, what it’s for, and how it works. Then they alluded to a number of places in Scripture that deal with fasting. They ended by addressing a few lingering questions related to the practice.
The Trinity Church Podcast seeks to speak to contemporary issues in the life of our church and invite our congregants to listen in as we apply the gospel to life.
In this episode, Joel, Trevor, and Derek discuss parenting. They continued the discussion from last episode on authority, and so the discussion of parenting related specifically to what it means to bear the office of parent. They begin by making that connection and talk about parenting as a church community. But most of the conversation that follows revolves around the barriers in inhabiting authority as parents. They end with a quick note on the fact that dads and moms are different, and that’s a good thing.
The Trinity Church Podcast seeks to speak to contemporary issues in the life of our church and invite our congregants to listen in as we apply the gospel to life.
In our first episode, Joel, Trevor, and Derek discuss the challenges we face as Christian in being formed into godly and wise Christians in a context that trains us to approach all of life as consumers. They try to identify how deeply ingrained in us it is to approach everything transactionally, to be driven by the satisfaction of our immediate desires, and to situate ourselves at the center of the universe. They also explore how the gospel reorients us to life in God's world so that we live productively and generously and how we can adopt habits that form us along these lines.