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Trinity Church of Portland - SermonsWhat's at the Heart of Worship? In this sermon on John 2, pastor Andrey Gorban examines Jesus' act of cleansing the temple, which appears early in John's Gospel but later in the Synoptic Gospels. The sermon explores the zeal Jesus had for true worship, contrasting it with the commercialized and expedient practices of the religious leaders of His time. It highlights how Jesus' anger was directed towards the desecration of a sacred space meant for communion with God. Pastor Andrey also emphasizes the importance of internal purity over mere outward religious practices, and stresses the necessity of a new heart for genuine worship. The latter part...2025-05-0436 minTrinity Church of Portland - SermonsBehold The Lamb of God This week, Pastor Andrey Gorban continues our series through the Gospel of John by focusing our attention on one of the most iconic titles given to Jesus: The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.Preaching from John 1:19–34, Pastor Andrey walks us through the prophetic ministry of John the Baptist—not as a celebrity prophet or spiritual influencer, but as a humble voice crying in the wilderness. John knew who he wasn’t—he wasn’t the Christ, wasn’t Elijah, wasn’t the prophet—and he knew exactly who he was: a pointer...2025-04-1339 min
Trinity Church of Portland - SermonsThe Garden In this sermon, Andrey Gorban explores humanity’s deep longing for Eden, reflected in our love for nature. Genesis 2 shifts from the broad view of creation to God’s personal work—forming Adam, placing him in a garden of beauty and abundance, and giving him the tasks of working and keeping it.However, Adam is given a command: do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. His eventual disobedience brings death, but Gorban points to Christ—the second Adam—who restores what was lost through His sacrifice on a tree. Reve...2025-02-0234 minTrinity Church of Portland - SermonsThe Filling Welcome to the sermon podcast of Trinity Church of Portland. This week, we continued with our current sermon series, "Genesis: A Beautiful But Broken World" preaching through the first eleven chapters of Genesis. This morning our sermon titled, The Filling was preached by Andrey Gorban from Genesis 1:14-31 . 2025-01-1941 min
Trinity Church of Portland - SermonsSola Scriptura: The Whole of Scripture Gives Us the Whole of Jesus Welcome to the sermon podcast of Trinity Church of Portland. This week, we continued our current sermon series to carry us through Christmas: Light After Darkness: A Sermon Series on the Five Solas. In the midst of the Advent season, when traditions and cultural expectations often take center stage, Light in the Darkness invites us to return to the Gospel’s true meaning through the Reformation’s Five Solas: Scripture Alone, Faith Alone, Grace Alone, Christ Alone, and God’s Glory Alone. These foundational truths reveal the hope, peace, and joy that Jesus—the Light of the World—brought into our d...2024-12-0839 min
Trinity Church of Portland - SermonsFrom Dust to Glory: Expecting Pain on The Journey Home Welcome to the sermon podcast of Trinity Church of Portland Oregon. This week, our message is from 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 and is titled “From Dust to Glory: Expecting Pain on The Journey Home” and was preached by Andrey Gorban.In our text we see that there is no Christian life free from the trials of sin and suffering. We must then ask ourselves, "Do I rely on God, when I feel like I’m losing control?" God cares for and loves His people and is not indifferent to our suffering. Still it can be difficult at times...2024-10-2735 min
Trinity Church of Portland - SermonsUntil Next Time, Corinth Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world.This week, our message brings this series to a conclusion and is from 1 Corinthians 16:1-24 and is titled “Until Next Time, Corinth” and was preached by Andrey Gorban. In our text this morning we see Paul bring his letter to a close with an affectionate tone and a theme of doin...2024-10-2049 minTrinity Church of Portland - SermonsDo You Love? Welcome to this week's sermon from Trinity Church of Portland titled, "Do You Love?" This comes on the heels of the topic of love we heard last week in 1 Corinthians 13.This week, Andrey Gorban brings us a message from 1 John 2:7-11 on the topic of love, which we learned last week is the more excellent way.In our text this morning we see from John's first letter the centrality of love for the Christian. Love is to be what we are known by and it has an attractional beauty to people when love is present...2024-09-0147 minTrinity Church of Portland - SermonsLove: The More Excellent Way Welcome to our current podcast series, "Christian Living In The Current of Culture," where we study the timeless and relevant truths of 1 Corinthians. Each week, we explore how the Apostle Paul's words guide us in navigating the complexities of living for Christ in today's world.This week, Andrey Gorban brings us a message from 1 Corinthians 12:31b-13:13 titled “Love: The More Excellent Way”. In our text this morning, Paul writes to the Corinthian Christians the details of what is means to love. This is sometimes referred to as the "Love Chapter", and is often read at wedd...2024-08-2544 minTrinity Church of Portland - SermonsFree To Love This morning we continued in our current series, Christian Living In The Current of Culture, an exposition of 1 Corinthians. This sermon titled “Free To Love” is from 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 and was preached by Andrey Gorban.In our text this morning we see Paul answer another issue from a letter the Corinthians sent to Paul. The Corinthians had confusion about food sacrificed to idols, and whether they could eat it and continue to visit temples now that they were Christians. Paul is teaching us to always practice love over our freedoms. This requires us to know our brothers and s...2024-06-2344 min
Figuring It Out As We GoS02 - EP7: Romans 15:5-7 This week Pastor Cody Cannon and Pastor Thomas Terry are joined by Guest Andrey Gorban, a member of Trinity Church in Portland, to discuss Romans 15:5-7, talking about how Christ is our example for unity as a church and how we must be active in praying for and desiring unity. 2024-05-2932 min
Figuring It Out As We GoS02 - Ep. 2: Romans 12:3-8 This week Pastor Cody Cannon and Pastor Thomas Terry are joined by Guest Andrey Gorban, a member of Trinity Church in Portland, to unpack Romans 12:3-8 and discuss we are unified members of one body and have been gifted by God for the sake of his people and building up one another. 2024-04-2126 minTrinity Church of Portland - SermonsGod's Better Wisdom This morning we continued in our series Christian Living In The Current of Culture, preaching through Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians. This sermon titled “God's Better Wisdom” was preached by Andrey Gorban from 1 Corinthians 2:6-16.This sermon text teaches us the great importance of God's wisdom versus human wisdom. We must not allow ourselves to prefer human wisdom over God's wisdom because human wisdom is incomplete and always changing. God's wisdom does not change and is made effectual by the Holy Spirit to equip us for service through His scriptures to bring glory to Ch...2024-04-0745 min
Trinity Church of Portland - SermonsA Transformed And A Renewed Mind In Action This morning we completed our short series titled, The Twelfth Chapter, expositing Romans 12. This sermon titled “A Transformed And A Renewed Mind In Action” was preached by one of our faithful members, Andrey Gorban from Romans 12:9-21.This text unpacks how we are to live for Christ once He has changed us. This section is often referred to as the marks of a true Christian. These marks God has called us to are not legalistic, they are the outworking of God’s inward work in our lives so we can then outwardly live out the Ch...2024-02-2552 minTrinity Church of Portland - SermonsGifted For The Good Of Others This morning we continued our series titled, The Twelfth Chapter, expositing Romans 12. This sermon titled “Gifted For The Good Of Others” was preached by one of our faithful members, Andrey Gorban from Romans 12:3-8.This text points us toward the spiritual gifts God gives to all of his people. We are told not to think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think, but rather we are to use our gifts to serve each other in the church. It should also be noted that the gifts God gives are diverse and vary according to the grace God...2024-02-1844 minTrinity Church of Portland - SermonsA Life Of Worship This morning we began a new series titled, The Twelfth Chapter expositing Romans 12. This sermon titled “A Life Of Worship” was preached by one of our faithful members, Andrey Gorban and is from Romans 12:1-2.This sermon focused us on how Christians are to live lives of sacrificial worship by presenting ourselves in totality to God. In addition to worship we learned that we are to avoid conformity to the world but instead we are to renew our minds and be people who love what Jesus loves and to seek his will in all things. 2024-02-1139 min
Trinity Church of Portland - SermonsThe Beauty, Frustration, and Freedom of Sovereignty This morning we continued our series "Hevel Under The Horizon" an exposition through the wisdom book of Ecclesiastes, this morning in 8:2-9:1. This sermon titled "The Beauty, Frustration, and Freedom of Sovereignty" was preached by one of our Trinity Church members, Andrey Gorban.In this text the Preacher shares his deep frustration that God is sovereign and God is in control, yet evil and injustice is all around us. The Preacher unpacks how we must submit to the authorities, even ungodly authorities because of God’s sovereignty. We must know that despite the fact that our world is...2023-11-1253 minTrinity Church of Portland - Sermons”I Will Be Wise” And Other Pipe Dreams This morning we continued our series "Hevel Under The Horizon" going through the wisdom book of Ecclesiastes 7:23-8:1. This sermon titled "I Will Be Wise And Other Pipe Dreams" was preached by one of our Trinity Church members, Andrey Gorban.In this text the Preacher tells us that just doing the right thing, seeking to live wisely is not something we can truly grasp, it is vanity. This is because wisdom doesn’t explain all the paradoxes and pain of this world. It is to live under the vanity of self-dependency. The Preacher warns that he looked fo...2023-11-0544 min
Trinity Church of Portland - SermonsI Once Was Blind, But Now I See This morning we heard a sermon titled “I Once Was Blind, But Now I See” from Mark 10:46-52, preached by one of our members, Andrey Gorban.In this sermon we saw that even though Bartimaeus was blind he sees something most of the people around him couldn’t see. It was that he was in the presence of Jesus, the Son of David who he knew could restore his sight. We see mercy asked for by blind Bartimaeus and we see mercy abundantly given by Jesus. Bartimaeus was given faith to be made well and to become a foll...2023-05-2829 min
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