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This is a collection of sermons from Trinity Presbyterian Church (CREC) in Birmingham, AL by Pastor Rich Lusk and Assoistant Pastor Kameron Edenfield. We meet at 7160 Cahaba Valley Road, Birmingham, AL. Services begin at 10:00 AM, Sunday School is at 9 AM. (No Sunday School in the summer). Visit trinity-pres.net for more.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Text-centered sermons turn biblical passages into vivid, doctrinally confident guidance for Christian worship, prayer, gratitude, and discipleship.
Trinity Presbyterian Church builds its sermons around sustained biblical exposition, moving from a specific passage into doctrine, historical context, and direct application.
Ecclesiastes hands you a corkscrew: gratitude is how the good wine finally opens.
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A grounded sermon on receiving ordinary gifts when life will not explain itself.
Solomon's answer to a vaporous life gives this sermon on Ecclesiastes its center. The book is treated as hard-won wisdom for living skillfully and gladly in a fallen world, with a hope that stays honest because it refuses to tidy up mystery or pain.
An empty prison gives the sermon its clearest image of a mission human authority cannot contain.
This Acts sermon traces a mission that keeps moving even when leaders try to lock it down. The apostles move from prison back to the temple, while the doors remain shut, the guards remain in place, and the prisoners are simply gone.
A forceful Philippians 4 sermon on anxiety, gratitude, and prayer in Christ's conquered land.
The message reads Philippians 4:4-9 as a clear summons to rejoice, pray, and set the mind on what is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, and praiseworthy.
Holy Week is framed as glory shining through the cross.
This sermon presents Lent and Holy Week around one steady claim: God’s glory is shown most clearly in Jesus’ suffering, death, burial, and lifting up.
A firm resurrection sermon on Jesus' kingship over Caesar, the grave, and earthly power.
Resurrection lands here as a public reality, not a private preference. The sermon begins with Tiberius Caesar, whose authority did not rest on ordinary approval, and uses that frame to present Jesus as king over the dead and over Caesar's rule.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Catholic arguments with pint-table warmth.
Daily headlines under Christian judgment.
Catholic homilies for the next faithful step.
Catholic teaching for ordinary discipleship.
Serious Bible questions, patiently reasoned.
A sermon analyzing Paul's prayer in Ephesians 3, emphasizing the gospel and extravagant prayer.
Ecclesiastes is presented as Solomon's distilled wisdom for living skillfully and joyfully in a fallen world whose limits and mysteries stay beyond human control.
A sermon exploring the theological significance of Christmas as the celebration of the incarnation, emphasizing the person of Christ as the foundation of his saving work.
Pastor Rich Lusk delivers a history sermon on Reformation Sunday, exploring what went wrong in America from a Christian perspective.
A sermon analyzing the story of David and Saul from 1 Samuel 24, drawing personal and political applications.
The sermon opens in Philippians chapter 4 with a reading that keeps rejoicing, prayer, thanksgiving, and disciplined thought tightly linked.
The sermon begins with Tiberius Caesar.
The sermon opens by reframing Lent and Holy Week as the place where glory comes into full view.