Trinity Heights Church Podcast

In some ways it’s strange that we class books like Job, Ecclesiastes and Proverbs as 'wisdom literature'. When you read them, you will notice that they are all doing very different things, they are almost nothing alike. Moreover, they were written at very different times, often centuries apart. 

But if you keep reading, it's almost as if these books respond to each othe...

This week, we reflect on what it means to be made in the image of God—as told in Genesis 1. Rather than treating imago Dei as a theological abstraction, Eric invites us to consider the deeply relational, grounded, and human dimensions of bearing God's likeness. To be made in God's image is to live with dignity, creativity, vulnerability, and connection.

Through stories, scripture, and honest reflection, the sermon challenges ...

Easter 2025 - This Sunday Stephen delves into Genesis 1:2, exploring how God's Spirit hovers over the "formless and void"—the Hebrew tohu vavohu. The message acknowledges how many people today feel formless, empty, or overwhelmed by chaos. Drawing connections between ancient scripture and modern experience, this sermon offers a tender invitation to imagine God’s Spirit not as distant, but as hovering close—even ov...

Moving beyond debates about literalism or science, this week we focus on Genesis 1 as a poetic and theological proclamation—a “song” about God’s nature, creativity, and intent for the world. Eric unpacks how Genesis offers a hopeful alternative to the violent origin myths of the ancient world, presenting a God who creates through presence and peace, not chaos or conquest.

Rooted in both scripture and persona...

In this first monthly service of 2025, we take a moment to revisit and reaffirm the identity of Trinity Heights Church. What does it really mean to be "a community of Christians and skeptics exploring the Christian narrative together"? Is such a community even possible?

Drawing from personal stories, conversations with skeptics and believers alike, and an exploration of Acts 17, we consider the challenges and opportunities of foste...

Join Stephen and Eric in the first of many Mezzanine Conversations to come! 

Today Stephen and Eric discuss the Lost Art of Conversation and how too often Christians and Skeptics alike are not taught how to have good conversations with each other. 

They talk about the "God-like claims" that we often make that determine how we approach discourse with each other. 

They also offer some helpful insights on how to have be...

The story of original sin is monotonous and boring, while also being deeply tragic. The same injustices, abuses, inequalities, violences and oppressions perpetrated by a fractured humanity year after year, generation after generation. 

And so what hope is there? What hope do any of us have? Well, to return to the words of John the Baptist, as he announces Jesus, "Behold, the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"

Th...

One of our mantras at Trinity Heights is "there is no idea or identity that I possess that is more important than me loving the person in front of me."

One of my atheist friends recently, in another conversation with me, was saying that this has become for him sort of like a litmus test.

I like that. And maybe we can use this as a litmus test as well.  

Is there some idea that you've got that you actually would say, "this is m...

There is a certain kind of rigid certainty exists within the church and the broader culture today. We live in one of the most diverse societies, constantly bumping up against different people, beliefs, and views. And so we're constantly confronted with certain levels of discomfort and cognitive dissonance.

But what do you do when you bump up against people who disagree with you? Do you discredit, demonize, deny, and distance them? ...

Imagine if all the scholars of music in the world got together, and all these academics of music, they got together, and they had this big council, and they made this official decree, and they all signed this paper and some documents saying, "Mozart and Bach are great musicians." 

We would sort of all look at them and shrug our shoulders and go, why are you wasting your time with this? You're telling us something that we alrea...

In the fifth part of our series we looked at the famous love passage: 1 Corinthians 13. This passage has been used so often at wedding after wedding that it is difficult not to think of it as mushy sentimentalism that comes part and parcel with wedding cake and toasts to the bride and groom and confetti. For this reason New Testament scholar Richard Hayes suggests that ‘this passage needs to be rescued from the quagmire of ro...

In 1 Corinthians 5, Paul explores community and unity while addressing the issue of sexual immorality in the Corinthian church. The Bible celebrates sex as good, sacred, and beautiful - not something to be approached with guilt, shame, or prudishness. The Christian view of sex needs to be centered on joy and delight, not scandalized by human sexuality. The Christian stance on sexuality is not about idealizing a specific family uni...