TRC Chattanooga Podcast

In Galatians, Paul tells us that we have been set free by Christ…for freedom. He then admonishes us to stand firm and not to fall again into a yoke of slavery. But before we can do any of that, we need to know more about this freedom and what it entails, or doesn’t entail. Sometimes Christians get the wrong idea about the freedom they have been given, but it is important for us to understand it correctly. Listen as Elder Wes Keene ...

Having walked through the life of Christ during the first half of the Church year, we continue in the second half with a lesson from the Apostle Paul on the eschatological nature of faith, namely the person of Jesus Christ. Though faith was central to all God's people before Jesus came into the world, Paul gives the name of "Faith" to Jesus himself in Galatians chapter 3. Listen to this week's sermon as Elder Glenn Jones explains t...

The Holy Trinity is a difficult concept for us to wrap our heads around. Truth be told, we will not fully comprehend the Trinity on this side of heaven. But many Christians ignore the issue altogether and focus on one Person or another. We need to have a solid biblical understanding of the economy of the Trinity and worship accordingly. We also need to understand how the Trinity’s operation benefits us. Listen as Elder Wes Keene pr...

Foolish disputes are something to be avoided in the church. The problem is they will always be with us. That’s why Paul warns Titus about avoiding them. They threaten the unity of the church if there is a divisive brother stirring people up with useless arguments. As a church, we are not immune from these problems. And while we know we ought to reject a divisive brother, is it possible we are the ones being divisive? Listen as Elde...

The words of Holy Scripture don’t magically become clear to us by simply reading the text. Lots of unbelievers read the bible for various reasons, and they’re not automatically saved by it. But Jesus opened the mind of the disciples to understand all the things in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms. Now that he has ascended to heaven and sits at his right hand, we  can also understand the scriptures. But h...

“Well done, good and faithful servant” - we all want to hear that at the last day, when our Lord returns, and for good reason. We are used to being comforted by this familiar line of scripture at funerals we attend. But what does the parable from which it comes say? What does Jesus Christ tell us about how we should or shouldn’t use the gifts we have been given? And what happens if we fail to do so? Listen as Elder We...

The world doesn’t know much about love. They like to use the word, but they don’t know what it means. But our Lord commands us to love one another as he has loved us! So we can’t love based on the world’s corrupted standard, and we can’t even rely on our own Christian standard. How can we learn from the life and ministry of Jesus Christ how we are out to love one another? And how is God glorified by us doing so? Listen as Elder Wes...

Sometimes we manage to do a right and godly thing, but upon further inspection of our own motivations, discover that they were impure. That’s the situation Zechariah found himself in when someone asked whether they should continue fasting. The Lord questions whether that fasting was ever done for the Lord in the first place. So what should we do with good activities that may have been motivations? Listen as Elder Wes Keene exhorts ...

We all feel a loss of energy after high church holidays like Easter. In fact, the disciples struggled with this, too. Christians must overcome this lack of zeal in the weeks following Easter and resist the urge to just “get back to normal”.  Let’s see what we can learn from the accounts of Peter and the disciples, as well as Saul’s conversion, about how we are to proceed from here. Listen as Elder Wes Keene preaches this week’s ser...