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Zach Kruis
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Trinity Reformed Church
Psalm 103, A Stroll Down Memory Lane - Audio
Ron Kruis preaches on Psalm 103.
2025-07-20
40 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Psalm 103, A Stroll Down Memory Lane - Audio
Ron Kruis preaches on Psalm 103.
2025-07-20
40 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Psalm 115, Juxtapositions - Audio
Ron Kruis preaches on Psalm 115
2025-06-23
34 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Psalm 115, Juxtapositions - Audio
Ron Kruis preaches on Psalm 115
2025-06-23
34 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 8:1-35, Vendetta and Crown - Audio
What’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.
2025-06-02
42 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Presbyterian Polity, Civil War Presbyterianism - Audio
In this 14th week of our presbyterian polity class we look at Civil War Presbyterianism.
2025-06-02
1h 02
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 7:1-25, Too Many - Audio
For 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.
2025-05-25
36 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 6:33-40, What God Cannot Do - Audio
He 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.
2025-05-18
33 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 6:25-32, Peace and Purity - Audio
God is faithful in spite of our best efforts.
2025-05-11
36 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Presbyterian Polity, Old School, New School - Sunday School Week 13 - Audio
In this 13th week of our presbyterian polity class we go over the old school, new school controversy.
2025-05-04
58 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 6:11-24, Yahweh Shalom - Audio
The truth of this passage is very simple: God is with his people, God is Shalom.
2025-05-04
37 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 6:1-10, Competing Narratives - Audio
God’s gracious rebukes compel us to align our narratives with his narrative.
2025-04-28
45 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Preparing for Death, Resurrection Sunday 2025 - Audio
Prepare 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.
2025-04-21
40 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 5:1-31, If God Is For Us - Audio
Do 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.
2025-04-13
51 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Calvin on Ordination (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Week 12) - Audio
In this 12th week of our presbyterian polity class we pause to think about ordination.
2025-04-07
54 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 5:1-5, A King in Jeshurun - Audio
May 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.
2025-04-07
43 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 4:1-24, Help My Unbelief - Audio
What are we even doing here? We are hearing and tasting again the Word of Christ which strengthens our weak faith and helps our unbelief.
2025-03-30
52 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 3:31, Election Connection - Audio
God has not forgotten his special people.
2025-03-24
42 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 3:12-30, Who's Laughing? - Audio
There is freedom not only from the guilt of sin but also the bondage to sin.
2025-03-17
41 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 3:7-11, Deliverance from Double Evil - Audio
Do 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.
2025-03-09
38 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 2:6-3:6, A God’s Eye View - Audio
In your flesh you are weak, but in Christ and in his Spirit, you can make progress in holiness.
2025-03-02
44 min
Trinity Reformed Church
19th Century (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Week 11) - Audio
In this 11th week of our presbyterian polity class we look at 19th Century American Presbyterianism.
2025-02-24
58 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 2:1-5, Godly Grief - Audio
Because he has made us heirs and sons in Christ, by the Spirit we walk and live in his covenant mercy.
2025-02-24
41 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Judges 1, Incomplete Excision - Audio
God always comes through on his promises and then some. He is more than adequate.
2025-02-16
39 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Psalm 106:34-45, Judges in Context - Audio
The 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.
2025-02-10
36 min
Trinity Reformed Church
19th Century (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Week 10) - Audio
In this 10th week of our presbyterian polity class we look at 19th Century American Presbyterianism.
2025-02-03
56 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 42:7-17, Vindication - Audio
Wisdom trusts the "who?" when "why?" and "how?" are scarce.
2025-02-03
47 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 42:1-6, Trust, Dust, and Ashes - Audio
Jonathan Edwards said, “What we call a vice [in God] is actually an inability to recognize what has the greatest value.”
2025-01-27
44 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 40:15-41:34, God's Leviathan - Audio
While 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.
2025-01-20
48 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Colossians 4:7-18, A Vignette of First Century Ministry - Audio
Fulfill the work of ministry.
2025-01-13
45 min
Trinity Reformed Church
18th Century (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Class Week 9) - Audio
In this 9th week of our presbyterian polity class we look at 18th Century American Presbyterianism.
2025-01-06
55 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 40:6-14, Who's Right Arm? - Audio
Who’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.
2025-01-06
45 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Psalm 130, Forgiveness and Fear - Audio
Cry 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!
2024-12-30
33 min
Trinity Reformed Church
1 Peter 1:3-9, Praising on the Way - Audio
In 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.
2024-12-23
35 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Matthew 25:1-13, Preparing for the Bridegroom - Audio
The great and awesome day is coming. Don’t get caught flat-footed.
2024-12-16
38 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Romans 8:18-25, Patient Sons - Audio
The 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.
2024-12-09
35 min
Trinity Reformed Church
John 6:1-14, Grateful for Manna - Audio
A Thanksgiving Message on giving thanks for our food.
2024-11-24
38 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 38:16-40:5, Words and a Whirlwind Pt. 2 - Audio
It’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."
2024-11-18
44 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 38:1-15, Words and a Whirlwind, Pt. 1 - Audio
There is evil and chaos in this world. We cannot hide from this fact. Now, where does our trust lie?
2024-11-10
40 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 36-37, Wisdom from the Clouds - Audio
What is the chief end of suffering? What is a godly response to the present situation?
2024-11-03
45 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 35, The Chief End of Prayer - Audio
What is the chief end of prayer? What is the best possible outcome of our supplications?
2024-10-27
29 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 34, Tussles with Providence - Audio
Often, we would not believe what God was doing if we were told. We must grow in faith as we encounter difficult providences.
2024-10-21
42 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 32-33, EliWho? - Audio
When 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.”
2024-10-14
41 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Early History (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Class, Week 6) - Audio
In 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.
2024-10-07
55 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 31, The Words of Job Are Ended - Audio
We need to have deep roots before the big winds come. We need our life raft inflated before the big waves come.
2024-10-07
40 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 30, Companion of Ostriches - Audio
The 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."
2024-09-30
39 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 29, Eulogizing Happiness - Audio
Bemoaning 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.
2024-09-22
42 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 28, The Path to Wisdom? - Audio
Sermons and audio recordings of Trinity Reformed Church in New Castle, Colorado.
2024-09-15
36 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 27, I Hold Fast My Righteousness - Audio
Our greatest ally in the fight against the accusations of the Satan is God himself.
2024-09-08
37 min
Trinity Reformed Church
True and Finite - Audio
A topical message on the knowledge of God, drawing from Job 26:14 and other texts.
2024-09-01
35 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 26, "Thunders and Whispers" - Audio
The speech of the almighty God thunders. His thunders are but a whisper of his infinite power.
2024-08-25
40 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 25, Making Peace with the Peacemaker - Audio
How 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.
2024-08-18
38 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Matthew 9:1-8, Talk Is Cheap - Audio
Jesus has the authority to forgive sins because he is God and savior.
2024-08-11
32 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Psalm 103, Steadfast Love - Audio
Rev. Del Farris, friend of TRC, and Minister to State at the Colorado State Capitol delivers a message on God's love from Psalm 103.
2024-08-04
37 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Old Testament Foundations (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Class, Week 4) - Audio
In the fourth week of the Presbyterian polity class we take a look at the OT foundations for Presbyterianism.
2024-07-28
46 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 23-24, Divine Ideals - Audio
There is hope to be found in God’s painful patience.
2024-07-28
41 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Three Families (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Class, Week 3) - Audio
In the third week of our study on Presbyterian polity, we compare Witherow's six principles to the three main families of church polity.
2024-07-08
54 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 22, The Almighty Will Be Your Gold - Audio
More 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.
2024-07-07
34 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 20-21, Empty Nothings - Audio
How 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?
2024-06-30
41 min
Trinity Reformed Church
2024 General Assembly Report - Audio
A report from Pastor Zach on the 51st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America.
2024-06-24
58 min
Trinity Reformed Church
2024 General Assembly Report - Audio
A report from Pastor Zach on the 51st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America.
2024-06-24
58 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 19, My Redeemer Lives - Audio
Christ 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.
2024-06-23
44 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Song of Solomon 8:5-7, Love Is Stong as Death - Audio
Sangre do Cristo Seminary Studen, Mason Rawls, preaches from Song of Solomon on the love of God.
2024-06-17
34 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Six Principles (Presbyterian Polity Sunday School Class, Week 2) - Audio
In this second week of our presbyterian polity class we look at Thomas Witherow's six principles of apostolic church polity.
2024-06-10
58 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 18, Earth and Rock - Audio
The wicked will face destruction. Theological impatience turns that truth into a formula that cheapens the law and undercuts the gospel of grace.
2024-06-09
32 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 17-16, Surety for A Shriveled Man - Audio
Job'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.
2024-06-02
35 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Improving Baptism - Audio
Baptism is a great gift, one that we ought to capitalize on throughout the whole of life.
2024-05-27
38 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 15, Wisdom: Seeking God for God - Audio
True wisdom is seeking God for God's sake.
2024-05-19
42 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 13:20-14:22, Then You Would Call - Audio
Job 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…
2024-05-12
39 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 12:1-13:19, Worthless Physicians - Audio
Christ 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?”
2024-05-05
38 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Isaiah 52:13-53;12, Stricken for My People - Audio
Jesus 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.
2024-04-28
50 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 11, God in a Box? - Audio
Who is putting God in a box? Job's precise theological observations actually free him to explore paradox and thus genuinely seek truth.
2024-04-21
33 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 10, Confounded by Sovereignty - Audio
If God can do what is good, why does he not always do what we think is good?
2024-04-15
39 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 9, Between God and Man - Audio
Job 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.
2024-04-07
41 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Luke 24:1-12, The Resurrection Happened - Audio
As 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.
2024-03-31
37 min
Trinity Reformed Church
John 12:9-36, The King's Hour - Audio
A 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.
2024-03-25
37 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 8, Does God Pervert Justice? - Audio
In 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.
2024-03-17
40 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 7, Am I a Sea Monster? - Audio
How do the godly respond to hellish experiences? More importantly, who is the God with whom the godly and ungodly alike have to do?
2024-03-10
44 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 6, Depleted and Abandoned - Audio
Sermons and audio recordings of Trinity Reformed Church in New Castle, Colorado.
2024-03-04
40 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 4 and 5, Who Will Answer? - Audio
To which of the holy ones will we cry out? Christ himself stands as our intercessor in heaven.
2024-02-25
37 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Philippians 3:8-11, Gaining Christ - Audio
In 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.
2024-02-18
34 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 3, Groanings Poured Out - Audio
Job 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.
2024-02-11
43 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 2, Ashes and Potsherds - Audio
Where 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.
2024-02-04
41 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 1:6-22, Reduced to Worship - Audio
God 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.
2024-01-28
35 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Job 1:1-5, Integrity Established - Audio
This 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.
2024-01-07
39 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Psalm 131, Calmed and Quieted, New Years Eve, 2023 - Audio
How 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.
2023-12-31
32 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Haggai 2:20-23, Fourth Sunday of Advent, "A Signet Ring" - Audio
The 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.
2023-12-24
35 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Haggai 2:10-19, Third Sunday in Advent, "Stone upon Stone" - Audio
Will a clean hand leave a clean mark? No. However, the purity of Christ cleanses the most vile of sinners.
2023-12-17
34 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Haggai 2:1-9, Second Sunday in Advent, "Covenant Amnesia" - Audio
How 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.
2023-12-11
41 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Haggai 1, First Sunday In Advent, "The Lord's House" - Audio
The 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.
2023-12-04
39 min
Trinity Reformed Church
1 Timothy 4:1-5, Rejection or Reception - Audio
Thanks giving is expressed by recognizing the giver. But it is also expressed by receiving the gift with appreciation and joy.
2023-11-26
34 min
Trinity Reformed Church
1 John 5:13-21, We Know - Audio
We know that we have eternal life because we are in fellowship with he who is eternal life itself.
2023-11-12
37 min
Trinity Reformed Church
1 John 5:6-12, Water, Blood and Spirit - Audio
Beloved, if you will believe the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. If you have the Son, you have eternal life.
2023-11-06
40 min
Trinity Reformed Church
1 Samuel 5:1-5, Soli Deo Gloria: Ichabod to Ashdod - Audio
God shares his glory with no idol. He is the one and only true God. To him alone be the glory.
2023-10-30
31 min
Trinity Reformed Church
1 John 5:1-5, Three Legs to Stand On - Audio
John 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.
2023-10-22
30 min
Trinity Reformed Church
1 John 4:7-10, Love Made Known - Audio
Beloved, we know love in a way that the world cannot even fathom. For this reason, let us love one another.
2023-10-09
33 min
Trinity Reformed Church
1 John 4:1-6, Spiritual Confession - Audio
John 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.
2023-10-02
35 min
Trinity Reformed Church
1 John 3:19-24, The Assured Heart - Audio
How 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.
2023-09-24
41 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Western Slope Church Meetup, Colossians 1:3-8, A Harvest of Gratitude - Audio
Three 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.
2022-01-30
30 min
Trinity Reformed Church
Western Slope Church Meetup, Colossians 1:3-8, A Harvest of Gratitude - Audio
Three 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.
2022-01-30
30 min