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Trinity Reformed ChurchPsalm 103, A Stroll Down Memory Lane - AudioRon Kruis preaches on Psalm 103.2025-07-2040 min
Trinity Reformed ChurchPsalm 103, A Stroll Down Memory Lane - AudioRon Kruis preaches on Psalm 103.2025-07-2040 minTrinity Reformed ChurchPsalm 115, Juxtapositions - AudioRon Kruis preaches on Psalm 1152025-06-2334 minTrinity Reformed ChurchPsalm 115, Juxtapositions - AudioRon Kruis preaches on Psalm 1152025-06-2334 min
Trinity Reformed ChurchJudges 8:1-35, Vendetta and Crown - AudioWhat’s the verdict on Gideon? He was a deeply sinful man whom God used to accomplish a deliverance. He showed a degree of faith. But he also showed corruption. Yet, God is proved faithful throughout.2025-06-0242 min
Trinity Reformed ChurchPresbyterian Polity, Civil War Presbyterianism - AudioIn this 14th week of our presbyterian polity class we look at Civil War Presbyterianism.2025-06-021h 02Trinity Reformed ChurchJudges 7:1-25, Too Many - AudioFor the strong and the weak, we must remember, the Christian life is a life of faith, of active rest, of trust that leads to action, of believing God when he speaks, no matter our skill or station.2025-05-2536 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJudges 6:33-40, What God Cannot Do - AudioHe came and tabernacled among us, lived and died for us, weak and willful as we are, because he is patient and he is faithful and he cannot deny himself.2025-05-1833 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJudges 6:25-32, Peace and Purity - AudioGod is faithful in spite of our best efforts.2025-05-1136 minTrinity Reformed ChurchPresbyterian Polity, Old School, New School - Sunday School Week 13 - AudioIn this 13th week of our presbyterian polity class we go over the old school, new school controversy.2025-05-0458 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJudges 6:11-24, Yahweh Shalom - AudioThe truth of this passage is very simple: God is with his people, God is Shalom.2025-05-0437 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJudges 6:1-10, Competing Narratives - AudioGod’s gracious rebukes compel us to align our narratives with his narrative.2025-04-2845 min
Trinity Reformed ChurchPreparing for Death, Resurrection Sunday 2025 - AudioPrepare yourself for death by trusting in your rock and redeemer who saves all who call on him from their enemies even the great and powerful foe that is the last to be defeated.2025-04-2140 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJudges 5:1-31, If God Is For Us - AudioDo not run away from the Lord. You will not outrun him. Run toward him and seek his friendship. It is in the safety of his covenant faithfulness that we will find the terror of his wrath to be for us and not against us.2025-04-1351 minTrinity Reformed ChurchCalvin on Ordination (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Week 12) - AudioIn this 12th week of our presbyterian polity class we pause to think about ordination.2025-04-0754 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJudges 5:1-5, A King in Jeshurun - AudioMay the people who are called by his name truly be counted friends of God, for it is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God. But how blessed it is to know the King is in our corner.2025-04-0743 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJudges 4:1-24, Help My Unbelief - AudioWhat are we even doing here? We are hearing and tasting again the Word of Christ which strengthens our weak faith and helps our unbelief.2025-03-3052 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJudges 3:31, Election Connection - AudioGod has not forgotten his special people.2025-03-2442 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJudges 3:12-30, Who's Laughing? - AudioThere is freedom not only from the guilt of sin but also the bondage to sin.2025-03-1741 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJudges 3:7-11, Deliverance from Double Evil - AudioDo not let the good news fall on uncircumcised ears. While it is still called today enter into the rest that remains for the people of God in Christ Jesus.2025-03-0938 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJudges 2:6-3:6, A God’s Eye View - AudioIn your flesh you are weak, but in Christ and in his Spirit, you can make progress in holiness.2025-03-0244 minTrinity Reformed Church19th Century (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Week 11) - AudioIn this 11th week of our presbyterian polity class we look at 19th Century American Presbyterianism.2025-02-2458 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJudges 2:1-5, Godly Grief - AudioBecause he has made us heirs and sons in Christ, by the Spirit we walk and live in his covenant mercy.2025-02-2441 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJudges 1, Incomplete Excision - AudioGod always comes through on his promises and then some. He is more than adequate.2025-02-1639 minTrinity Reformed ChurchPsalm 106:34-45, Judges in Context - AudioThe story of Judges, in context, is a part of a much greater story… It is part of our own history… It is a prophetic history… that comes to us and smacks us right between the eyes… calling us to lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.2025-02-1036 minTrinity Reformed Church19th Century (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Week 10) - AudioIn this 10th week of our presbyterian polity class we look at 19th Century American Presbyterianism.2025-02-0356 min
Trinity Reformed ChurchJob 42:7-17, Vindication - AudioWisdom trusts the "who?" when "why?" and "how?" are scarce.2025-02-0347 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 42:1-6, Trust, Dust, and Ashes - AudioJonathan Edwards said, “What we call a vice [in God] is actually an inability to recognize what has the greatest value.”2025-01-2744 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 40:15-41:34, God's Leviathan - AudioWhile we may buck against the idea that God has absolute control of chaos and evil in this world. But it is in submitting ourselves to this happy truth that we begin to find peace in the pain.2025-01-2048 minTrinity Reformed ChurchColossians 4:7-18, A Vignette of First Century Ministry - AudioFulfill the work of ministry.2025-01-1345 minTrinity Reformed Church18th Century (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Class Week 9) - AudioIn this 9th week of our presbyterian polity class we look at 18th Century American Presbyterianism.2025-01-0655 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 40:6-14, Who's Right Arm? - AudioWho’s right hand shall we trust? Atop the ash heap when chaos and evil are breathing down our necks. Who will we trust? Will we trust our own right hand? Or will we trust his strong, righteous right arm to hold our right hand.2025-01-0645 minTrinity Reformed ChurchPsalm 130, Forgiveness and Fear - AudioCry out to God, trust in His forgivness because it gives us greater reverence for God, wait on Him with trust and anticipation of His lovingkindness, and hope in Him and His redemption- the anchor of our souls!2024-12-3033 minTrinity Reformed Church1 Peter 1:3-9, Praising on the Way - AudioIn this passage Peter contrasts the joy of our very great salvation against the backdrop of the grief of various trials. This is a kind of Christian obstinance that is characteristic of Peter… do what you will… but you cannot take my hope… you cannot take my joy.2024-12-2335 minTrinity Reformed ChurchMatthew 25:1-13, Preparing for the Bridegroom - AudioThe great and awesome day is coming. Don’t get caught flat-footed.2024-12-1638 minTrinity Reformed ChurchRomans 8:18-25, Patient Sons - AudioThe Second Sunday of Advent. As we remember the first coming we await the second. Paul calls us to patient waiting in the midst of the suffering of this present age.2024-12-0935 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJohn 6:1-14, Grateful for Manna - AudioA Thanksgiving Message on giving thanks for our food.2024-11-2438 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 38:16-40:5, Words and a Whirlwind Pt. 2 - AudioIt’s a simple and profound truth that all us faultfinders need to remember: it often feels like we are on a runaway cart tied to a wild donkey, but it truly is the “the definite plan and foreknowledge of God."2024-11-1844 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 38:1-15, Words and a Whirlwind, Pt. 1 - AudioThere is evil and chaos in this world. We cannot hide from this fact. Now, where does our trust lie?2024-11-1040 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 36-37, Wisdom from the Clouds - AudioWhat is the chief end of suffering? What is a godly response to the present situation?2024-11-0345 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 35, The Chief End of Prayer - AudioWhat is the chief end of prayer? What is the best possible outcome of our supplications?2024-10-2729 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 34, Tussles with Providence - AudioOften, we would not believe what God was doing if we were told. We must grow in faith as we encounter difficult providences.2024-10-2142 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 32-33, EliWho? - AudioWhen the wisdom of men steps in to rescue the wisdom of men, we are left with the wisdom of men, leaving us longing for a better word.
This passage reminds us that, try as we might, the wisdom of men can do no better than “do better.”2024-10-1441 minTrinity Reformed ChurchEarly History (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Class, Week 6) - AudioIn this class we give some consideration to church polity in the early church, looking at some very early quotes from the church fathers. We also take a glance at the development of the papacy.2024-10-0755 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 31, The Words of Job Are Ended - AudioWe need to have deep roots before the big winds come. We need our life raft inflated before the big waves come.2024-10-0740 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 30, Companion of Ostriches - AudioThe assault on Job has dehumanized him. It has reduced him to a “Companion of Ostriches.” If we have read accounts of war or genocide, or if we have witnessed a man or woman sleeping in the streets, or if we have experienced isolation (being cut off from society), we have a sense of what is meant by the word "dehumanization."2024-09-3039 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 29, Eulogizing Happiness - AudioBemoaning our lot in life is not good or helpful, but the longing for lost goods can be a godly expression of hope that frames our suffering faith.2024-09-2242 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 28, The Path to Wisdom? - AudioSermons and audio recordings of Trinity Reformed Church in New Castle, Colorado.2024-09-1536 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 27, I Hold Fast My Righteousness - AudioOur greatest ally in the fight against the accusations of the Satan is God himself.2024-09-0837 minTrinity Reformed ChurchTrue and Finite - AudioA topical message on the knowledge of God, drawing from Job 26:14 and other texts.2024-09-0135 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 26, "Thunders and Whispers" - AudioThe speech of the almighty God thunders. His thunders are but a whisper of his infinite power.2024-08-2540 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 25, Making Peace with the Peacemaker - AudioHow can man be right with God? It is not in the sufficiency and actions of man, but in the sufficiency and gracious actions of God.2024-08-1838 minTrinity Reformed ChurchMatthew 9:1-8, Talk Is Cheap - AudioJesus has the authority to forgive sins because he is God and savior.2024-08-1132 minTrinity Reformed ChurchPsalm 103, Steadfast Love - AudioRev. Del Farris, friend of TRC, and Minister to State at the Colorado State Capitol delivers a message on God's love from Psalm 103.2024-08-0437 minTrinity Reformed ChurchOld Testament Foundations (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Class, Week 4) - AudioIn the fourth week of the Presbyterian polity class we take a look at the OT foundations for Presbyterianism.2024-07-2846 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 23-24, Divine Ideals - AudioThere is hope to be found in God’s painful patience.2024-07-2841 minTrinity Reformed ChurchThree Families (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Class, Week 3) - AudioIn the third week of our study on Presbyterian polity, we compare Witherow's six principles to the three main families of church polity.2024-07-0854 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 22, The Almighty Will Be Your Gold - AudioMore often than not, it’s only when the consequences of our sin start to make us uncomfortable that we start thinking about how we might turn the ship around. Phony repentance fails to love God for God.2024-07-0734 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 20-21, Empty Nothings - AudioHow are you going to warn your kids about the consequences of their actions? How are you going to advise a friend in tragedy? How are you going to handle tragedy yourself? How will you handle blessing and prosperity?2024-06-3041 min
Trinity Reformed Church2024 General Assembly Report - AudioA report from Pastor Zach on the 51st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America.2024-06-2458 minTrinity Reformed Church2024 General Assembly Report - AudioA report from Pastor Zach on the 51st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America.2024-06-2458 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 19, My Redeemer Lives - AudioChrist is folly to the world. Befriending Christ is like befriending Job. It is is to participate in suffering, to be associated with apparent weakness, to be brought low in the eyes of the world, to be accursed in their eyes, but blessed in God’s.2024-06-2344 minTrinity Reformed ChurchSong of Solomon 8:5-7, Love Is Stong as Death - AudioSangre do Cristo Seminary Studen, Mason Rawls, preaches from Song of Solomon on the love of God.2024-06-1734 minTrinity Reformed ChurchSix Principles (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Class, Week 2) - AudioIn this second week of our presbyterian polity class we look at Thomas Witherow's six principles of apostolic church polity.2024-06-1058 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 18, Earth and Rock - AudioThe wicked will face destruction. Theological impatience turns that truth into a formula that cheapens the law and undercuts the gospel of grace.2024-06-0932 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 17-16, Surety for A Shriveled Man - AudioJob's own circumstances testify against him. But he looks for surety from another, better witness.
*Note: The last few minutes of the audio were lost.2024-06-0235 minTrinity Reformed ChurchImproving Baptism - AudioBaptism is a great gift, one that we ought to capitalize on throughout the whole of life.2024-05-2738 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 15, Wisdom: Seeking God for God - AudioTrue wisdom is seeking God for God's sake.2024-05-1942 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 13:20-14:22, Then You Would Call - AudioJob said, “wouldn't it be great if men could come back from the dead and be right with God, if our sins were propitiated and cast away? And wouldn’t it be great if when he raised us from the dead, he called out to us and we could respond without fear?”
Because of the blood of Christ’s cross Job’s sins were covered over and cast out and he will rise again bodily to be in the happy continuance of his Heavenly Father. And so will we…2024-05-1239 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 12:1-13:19, Worthless Physicians - AudioChrist and in Christ alone, the one and only truly blameless one, has entered into the throne room. In him we have an audience with God. So, if you are suffering, you need not waffle and wonder, “Am I clean enough to approach the throne of grace?”2024-05-0538 minTrinity Reformed ChurchIsaiah 52:13-53;12, Stricken for My People - AudioJesus died particularly for his people according to the design of the Father from the foundation of the world. He calls all men to put their faith in his atoning blood and be saved.2024-04-2850 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 11, God in a Box? - AudioWho is putting God in a box? Job's precise theological observations actually free him to explore paradox and thus genuinely seek truth.2024-04-2133 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 10, Confounded by Sovereignty - AudioIf God can do what is good, why does he not always do what we think is good?2024-04-1539 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 9, Between God and Man - AudioJob is on the horns of a dilemma that leads him to seek one who would go between him and God and leads us to the conclusion that we must seek justification from God through Jesus.2024-04-0741 minTrinity Reformed ChurchLuke 24:1-12, The Resurrection Happened - AudioAs believers, we live and breath the resurrection every moment of every day. Much like gravity, it is so much a part of our daily existence that we may forget it’s there. From time to time, take a moment to pause and to marvel. The Resurrection Happened.2024-03-3137 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJohn 12:9-36, The King's Hour - AudioA Palm Sunday message. Jesus is the stone that was rejected that became the cornerstone. He was rejected by men but glorified by God through death. We share both in his rejection and glorification as we loose our life to gain it.2024-03-2537 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 8, Does God Pervert Justice? - AudioIn a mechanized “system” in which God is a component part of that system, events may be observed, empirical deductions drawn, and inputs may be adjusted to proportionately affect outputs. But God is not part of the system, he rules over the system.2024-03-1740 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 7, Am I a Sea Monster? - AudioHow do the godly respond to hellish experiences? More importantly, who is the God with whom the godly and ungodly alike have to do?2024-03-1044 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 6, Depleted and Abandoned - AudioSermons and audio recordings of Trinity Reformed Church in New Castle, Colorado.2024-03-0440 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 4 and 5, Who Will Answer? - AudioTo which of the holy ones will we cry out? Christ himself stands as our intercessor in heaven.2024-02-2537 minTrinity Reformed ChurchPhilippians 3:8-11, Gaining Christ - AudioIn order to gain the joys of resurrection life, we must lay aside our own claims to righteousness for the righteousness that comes from God by faith in Jesus Christ.2024-02-1834 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 3, Groanings Poured Out - AudioJob cries out in anguish of soul. Yet, he does not curse his God. In stead, much of his anguish reflects a desire for God when he feels forsaken.2024-02-1143 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 2, Ashes and Potsherds - AudioWhere is our hope when we are as good as dead? When all is lost but God, we have lost relatively little compared to what we have gained.2024-02-0441 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 1:6-22, Reduced to Worship - AudioGod is a worthy object of worship. Whether from the heights of blessing or lows of grief, the gift cannot replace the value of the giver.2024-01-2835 minTrinity Reformed ChurchJob 1:1-5, Integrity Established - AudioThis sermon is an introduction to the book of Job and a look at the prologue. The prologue presents Job as a righteous man of faith in the one true God, setting the stage for the rest of the book and the perplexities it presents us with.2024-01-0739 minTrinity Reformed ChurchPsalm 131, Calmed and Quieted, New Years Eve, 2023 - AudioHow can we lay aside the sins of pride and probing God's providence? These sins only cause anxiety. True rest comes as we enjoy childlike trust and hope in the Lord.2023-12-3132 minTrinity Reformed ChurchHaggai 2:20-23, Fourth Sunday of Advent, "A Signet Ring" - AudioThe Lord promises Zerubbabel that he would make him like a signet ring. He will make him as the imprint of his own kingship before all the world, laying bare the enemies of his people and fulfilling the Davidic royal promise. All of this comes to its fullest expression in the arrival of King Jesus.2023-12-2435 minTrinity Reformed ChurchHaggai 2:10-19, Third Sunday in Advent, "Stone upon Stone" - AudioWill a clean hand leave a clean mark? No. However, the purity of Christ cleanses the most vile of sinners.2023-12-1734 minTrinity Reformed ChurchHaggai 2:1-9, Second Sunday in Advent, "Covenant Amnesia" - AudioHow quick we are to forget God's covenant promises. We focus on appearances and thus become despondent. God encourages his people with his covenant promises and gives them the certain hope of covenant fulfillment.2023-12-1141 minTrinity Reformed ChurchHaggai 1, First Sunday In Advent, "The Lord's House" - AudioThe Lord is with his people. The remnant of Judah heard this promise as they were called to rebuild the temple. We enjoy this promise in the person of Jesus Christ, Emmanuel.2023-12-0439 minTrinity Reformed Church1 Timothy 4:1-5, Rejection or Reception - AudioThanks giving is expressed by recognizing the giver. But it is also expressed by receiving the gift with appreciation and joy.2023-11-2634 minTrinity Reformed Church1 John 5:13-21, We Know - AudioWe know that we have eternal life because we are in fellowship with he who is eternal life itself.2023-11-1237 minTrinity Reformed Church1 John 5:6-12, Water, Blood and Spirit - AudioBeloved, if you will believe the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. If you have the Son, you have eternal life.2023-11-0640 minTrinity Reformed Church1 Samuel 5:1-5, Soli Deo Gloria: Ichabod to Ashdod - AudioGod shares his glory with no idol. He is the one and only true God. To him alone be the glory.2023-10-3031 minTrinity Reformed Church1 John 5:1-5, Three Legs to Stand On - AudioJohn takes us on a tour of the great pillars of Christian assurance: love, faith, and obedience. He shows the connection between each of them and the new birth, showing that these pillars are not grounded in our own initiative but in God's gracious love.2023-10-2230 minTrinity Reformed Church1 John 4:7-10, Love Made Known - AudioBeloved, we know love in a way that the world cannot even fathom. For this reason, let us love one another.2023-10-0933 minTrinity Reformed Church1 John 4:1-6, Spiritual Confession - AudioJohn turns our attention to the simple beauty of the apostolic gospel. Do you believe the apostolic gospel? Do you listen to Christ’s apostles, the men whom he chose to lay down the foundation for the church? If you do, you may be confident, you have received the gift of the Holy Spirit who is the confirmation of our real, life giving fellowship with God.2023-10-0235 minTrinity Reformed Church1 John 3:19-24, The Assured Heart - AudioHow can we confirm that we know God and abide in him? Even more pointedly, how can we approach God when our heart is accusing us? John wants us to feel confident before the face of God, knowing that he is our ultimate judge.2023-09-2441 minTrinity Reformed ChurchWestern Slope Church Meetup, Colossians 1:3-8, A Harvest of Gratitude - AudioThree PCA churches from the Western Slope met up for a time of blessed worship. Here is the message from that time. Preached by Zach Kruis on how we can be a church that yields a harvest of gratitude.2022-01-3030 minTrinity Reformed ChurchWestern Slope Church Meetup, Colossians 1:3-8, A Harvest of Gratitude - AudioThree PCA churches from the Western Slope met up for a time of blessed worship. Here is the message from that time. Preached by Zach Kruis on how we can be a church that yields a harvest of gratitude.2022-01-3030 min