Trailview Church

What do you do when life feels like wave after wave of fear, pressure, anxiety, and uncertainty? Psalm 33 invites us to lift our eyes from our circumstances to the God who created, rules, and lovingly sustains all things. In this message, we discover that God is sovereign over every detail of our lives, His steadfast love never fails, and His watchful eye is always upon His people. Because He is both all-powerful and deeply personal, we don’t have to be controlled by fear—we can rest, rejoice, and live with hope, no matter what we’re facing.

In Psalm 32, David reveals the pathway to the soul-deep delight, joy, and freedom we all long for. So often we try to hide our sin, carry shame in silence, and pretend we’re okay while slowly wasting away on the inside. But God did not create us to live trapped by guilt, secrecy, and spiritual exhaustion.  This message explores the two paths laid before us: the path of hiding and performance, or the path of confession and repentance. Through the gospel, Jesus invites us out of darkness and into freedom — not through perfection, but through honest confession and trusting in His grace. Psalm 32 reminds us that true blessing is found when our sin is forgiven, our shame is covered, and we walk openly with God in the light.

It can be easy to become near-sighted about life. Everything feel urgent and important, like it has to happen right now or the whole world will fall apart. Living that way can cause a lot of anxiety in our lives. In Psalm 90, God helps us to clearly see our lives in comparison to God. When Moses wrote this psalm he compares the eternal nature of God to our brief time here on earth. In the final section he ponders how we should live in view of that awareness. All of this leads us to realize Jesus is the wisdom that we need to live life. In addition, Jesus is the One who satisfies our souls like no one else.

Deuteronomy 6:1-9What is the aim of your parenting?  Are you trying to raise productive citizens and successful adults?  Are you trying to give them a better life than you had? Are you training them to be excellent in a particular skill?  Our world is telling parents that to be a good parent, you have to do a thousand things, and if you do them all perfectly, your kids will turn out great.  But is that God’s purpose for parenting?  At Trailview, we believe parents are pastors, which means your primary job is to pass on your faith to your kids.  This means we teach them who God is, their need for the Gospel, and how to follow Jesus.  This takes precedence over all things and permeates everything.  This leaves only two questions: 1. Is my purpose in parenting aligned with God’s purpose? And 2. What needs to change in how I parent my kids? 

God has entrusted us with the Gospel to live as everyday missionaries among our non-believing neighbors, friends, and family. This week we not only were reminded of this truth from the Great Commission, but also celebrate this through baptisms!

Do you ever feel like an imposter? In the Gospel, we are loved by God in the full reality of who we are—freed from the need to pretend and perform for god or others because we are fully known and fully loved.  When we embrace this truth of the Gospel, it also opens the door to radical transformation in our lives.  But it goes one step further…. The Gospel then forms a community of people, the church, who welcome one another as Christ has welcomed them, and together they seek to become more like Jesus in all of life.  This looks like a community of people living in courageous vulnerability.

The Gospel is good news that welcomes me into the loving embrace of Christ. It welcomes my whole self from my outwards actions to the roots of my sin. When I bring the root of my sin to the Lord in confession and repentance and let the Gospel wash over me then I begin to see real transformation happen throughout all of me.

The Church - Compelling Community

We Advance the Gospel is a part of our churches mission, not because it is a catchy church statement, but because it is built into what it means to be a Christian. This Sunday we will unpack what Advance the Gospel means. 

Deep inside of each of us is soul level unrest, a longing for pleasure.  At Trailview we call the thing our souls long for Delight.  Through the ministry of Jesus we see two things, first, the two common ways that we seek to satisfy this longing for delight.  Second, that the delight of our souls is found in God alone.  This week we will launch a sermon series diving into who we are as a church and start with the first part of our mission, “we delight in Jesus”.

Easter is all about celebrating life, specifically the resurrection of Jesus from death to life. This is the very core of our faith. The resurrection is not just the core of our faith, but it also gives hope to every aspect of our lives. You see, sin brings death. Yes, sin has caused actual death, but sin also spreads death throughout all areas of life. The resurrection of Jesus from the dead is the conquering of death once for all who believe, the hope of our resurrection, and the hope of the restoration and redemption of areas of our lives now that feel like death. On Easter, we look to Jesus, the resurrection and life, and find hope now for all of eternity.

Jesus is king over the life of every Christian. He sets the direction of your life. As we conclude the everyday missionary series, we set out from this day forward on mission to share the gospel message with non-believers in our lives!

Everyday Missionaries must follow the leading of the Holy Spirit.  How do we become more in tune to the voice of the Holy Spirit?  In Acts 16 Paul and Silas are on a missionary journey traveling from town to town Peaching the gospel, gathering believers, and planting churches.  There was a point in the journey where they wanted to go to one region but the Holy Spirit prevented them from going or preaching there.  The Holy Spirit gave Paul a vision of a man in Macedonia who was asking them to come preach there gospel to them.  So Paul and Silas detoured from their plans to Philippi the largest city in Macedonia.  Through this story we see that God leads us by the Holy Spirit to share the gospel message. Through Paul and Silas’s obedience the church at Philippi is planted in the Macedonia region. Like Paul and Silas we much be in tune to the voice of the Holy Spirit and have the faith to be obedient to his leading even when we cannot see the end game. 

Deep within all of us is an emptiness and longing, a soul-level thirst. Jesus sees this deep within all of us and came to satisfy that longing. In John 4, Jesus has an intentional conversation with a woman who feels the emptiness of her soul. There are two things we should take from this.First, that Jesus is the only one who can satisfy the longing of souls.Second, as followers of Jesus, we should have these type of intentional conversations with our non believing friends and neighbors.

How does someone become a Christian? The Everyday Missionary needs to know this because it determines the work we do. The power of God that brings salvation to the non-believer is faith in the Gospel message. The word Gospel means good news. This good news is essential for salvation; there is no salvation apart from faith in the Gospel. So, for the everyday missionary, knowing and sharing the Gosepl message is at the very core of our responsibility. We must open our mouths and share the gospel message with non-belivers. When we do, God works by His Spirit to bring them to faith. Without faith in the Gospel message, there is no forgiveness of sins and eternal life.

Everyday Missionary 02.22.2026

Everyday Missionary

Everyday Missionary

Everyday Missionary: Lord Of The Harvest

Does living your life your way, for yourself, align with Jesus and his word? The way of the nonbeliever is the way of living for yourself. Every decision you make with your time, money, energy, etc. is made with what you want for yourself in view. But that all changes when you believe the Gospel. Every believer is a new creation, and with that new creation comes a new purpose. The way God says it in 2 Corinthians 5:16 is, "those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised." So what does it look like to live for him? The Everyday Missionary initiative is about all of us living for the purpose for which God created and recreated us.

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The Story of Redemption - From Genesis to Jesus

In the garden, Adam and Eve rejected God as king. As the chosen people of God have grown and now live as a nation in the land of Israel, they have followed the path of our first parents, rejecting God as their king. They choose human kings for themselves, and it goes south quickly. But even when it all seems to be unraveling, God makes a promise to restore the kingdom and a king from David's lineage to rule over them. Who would that king be? What would his kingdom be like? God gives a snapshot into the king as a perfect, holy king, and his kingdom has no end. God would restore himself as king through a God/man king. Jesus is the promised king to rule over the people of God forever! You and I, just like Israel, have rejected God as our king. You and I, like Israel, need to surrender to the King of Kings, to Jesus. 

The Bible is the truest story of redemption. Redemption is the act of rescuing from one from bondage or slavery.  Where does this story begin?  Genesis, literally meaning beginning is where the story of redemption starts. It’s where  your story of redemption starts.  From the first sin of our first parents every person has been in bondage to sin and that very sin leads to our eternal death.  But there in the garden after the first sin that led to all sin God promised to send a rescuer to redeem us from sin and death. He promised a baby, a child to come not from man but from woman. The story of redemption began in the shadows of the first sin. 

The Lord has tender care for people - even those who turn away from him. What does the heart of God do when his people turn away from him? God has steadfast, faithful love - to call, care, raise, teach, train, provide for, and to nurture his people. But their response to the tender love of God is to turn from him and go after other lovers. God’s steadfast love is not willing to let his precious children run to other lovers. He loves them too deeply to share their love with anyone else. But what stirs in the heart of God for his adulterous people is warm, tender compassion. He still loves them, with warm, deep, abiding, faithful love. And that love moves him to go and get his people back - by any means necessary. His compassion does not come from seeing anything redeemable in us. It comes completely from within his holy love. We too, have hearts bent away from the Lord. When we see the warm compassion in the heart of God for his prodigal children, it should draw all of us back to him.

The nation of Israel prospers but along with their prosperity comes more sin, more rebellion, and self-reliance. It leads to the question, "Does more mean better?"

The love of God moves him to act in discipline to intervene on the path of sin and destruction. As the nation of Israel has progressed into deeper and darker sin God speaks and tells them the discipline of their sin is coming in the destruction of the nation.

What happens when ordinary people are filled with extraordinary power?In Acts 2, we see the Holy Spirit come like wind and fire, turning fearful disciples into bold witnesses who change the world/The same Spirit who moved at Pentecost is still moving today — in our church, in our homes, and in our lives.

How does someone, or a nation of someones, progress from sin to full-blown rejecting God?There is a predictable pattern of rebellion and sin that the nation of Israel followed, which remains as the natural downhill slope of rebellion that people follow today.It starts by rejecting God’s way and giving in to sin and evil.Progresses to rejecting God’s rule - he is no longer your king, and you place your trust in others.Then progresses to rejecting God as your God altogether.At the core of each of these is no longer putting trust in the Lord.The question that each person must consider is :How are we rejecting God’s way, rule, and God as God?

As a kid, we all know what it's like to hide from the discipline of our sins. And the children of Israel are no different.Today, we dig into the true reason for discipline.Discipline is the steadfast love of God drawing us out of sin and back to Him.

How far is God willing to go to bring you back to himself? The story of Hosea is a story of redemption. Redemption meaning to purchase something to take as your own.As the story continues, God instructs Hosea to redeem his wife Gomer, purchasing her back from slavery and restoring her as his wife. After all that Homer has done to hurt, cheat, leave and abandon Hosea - he is told to go and love her.The shocking reality of the story is a clear picture of the Gospel.God loves you and I, so deeply despite our rebellion and spiritual adultery.He sends Jesus the Son to come purchase us out of our slavery to sin.But it cost him his life on the cross.This is how great God's love for you is.

If you've ever hurt or offended someone and had to come back and apologize, it's very common to have anxiety and worries about how they will respond.The same can be true with God.He has been faithful to us, and we have betrayed him with each and every sin along the way.This week as we continue in the book of Hosea, we see that God's response to us when we come back to him is to shower us with his love and restore all that sin robbed us of along the way.

God, as a loving husband, will not sit idly by watching his bride continue down a destructive path of whoredom.God's love is active, motivated by love and a desire to see her return.He sends word and warning .When she ignores his word and warning, he doesn't stop. Through purposeful discipline, he began to work by blocking her from her lovers, stripping her of all the blessings he has given her, and exposing her in her sin.Why?So she would come to the end of herself and return to him.His active steadfast love is at work to reveal to her that life is better with her husband so she will return to him.God's steadfast love moves him to action to draw her back to himself.

All of us, at some point, have turned away from the Lord and chased after the endless buffet of sins the world offers. the Bible calls this idolatry - often described as spiritual adultery.But the real question is : how does God respond when His people are unfaithful to Him?The book of Hosea gives us the answer. Even when we wander, rebel and run headlong into sin, God remains steadfast in His love.To show this truth, God called the prophet Hosea to live out a powerful picture of His love - by marrying a woman who would be unfaithful, yet never abandoned.

Psalm 105

God is the glorious king of the universe.This truth can either be terrifying or comforting, and all of that depends on your relationship with him.Psalm 24 paints a beautiful picture of God's sovereign rule over all things and then poses this question :"Who can ascend to the hill of the Lord?"Who gets to go up into the presence of the king of the universe. For some, the presence of the king of the universe is a terrifying reality, while for others it is a wonderful comfort.What determines whether our hearts tremble in fear of the king of the universe or rest in his presence? Jesus!

We all have a deep desire to belong, feel loved, to be at rest, to feel at home.We are all longing for "home" and we grasp at all types of ways to get there - places, people, status, success...the list goes on.Psalm 84 sings of our longing to be with God -- is that what your soul sings?Today we pack ways of being with God, and putting your trust in Jesus.

Join us as we examine Psalm 73.Psalms are often emotionally packed. We will discover how our emotions reveal two things about us. First, the condition of our hearts and souls. Secondly, our emotions reveal what we believe about our Heavenly Father.By examining the emotions of our heart and soul, we can draw closer to the Lord and His eternal perspective.

When life feels dry, distant and overwhelming - where do we turn?Psalm 42 gives voice to our soul's deepest thirst and reminds us that even in the depths of despair, hope in God is never misplaced.

An idol is something that we put our hope and trust in other than God. In the 21st century there are other religions that have idol-like images of their deities, but rarely are we faced with the temptation to trust in a man made object.So how does idolatry play into our lives in culture that is dominated by a naturalistic world-view?Psalm 115 is a song that intended to remind us that God alone is the real God and all other idols are powerless objects. So we put our trust in God, not in idols.But even still the question remains, "What do you put your trust in?"

The loudest voice gets the most attention.This resonates in so many ways in life, but sometimes that voice is actually a quiet whisper in the depths of your heart.That quiet whisper is where temptations begin and grow into sin.When you are in the face of temptation or failure in sin - what do you do?Psalm 36 guides your heart to run to the Lord in the quiet whisper of temptation, and in the aftermath of your failure in sin.

God is the good shepherd.

The collection of songs and prayers in the Bible, called Psalms, is a wonderful place to rest your soul.Like all songs, they have a way of blending truth, confession of the heart, and real emotion, truth and lifting our eyes up to hope in God.God cares about you! He cares so deeply that he wants your life to be filled with joy, delight and pleasure. He wants that for you so deeply that he gives you a simple, yet difficult pathway to find it.The delight God wants for us, and what our souls long for, is not found in the world's wisdom - but in the way of God!

This week we wrap up Jonah with an overview.

This week as we continue through the book of Jonah we see God's mercy towards Jonah. God uses discomfort to reveal Jonah's idol of comfort. We hope this podcast will be helpful to you.

This Sunday is not only Mother's Day, but Child Dedication Sunday!Jonah's story is a crazy journey. He runs from God and ends up in a hurricane. He gets tossed overboard and eaten by a giant fish. Then he is spat out on the beach and goes to Nineveh to tell them the message of God. To everyone's surprise, they turn from their sin and God relents from destroying them. But now we see an unexpected reaction to God's mercy. Amidst what we would expect to be a celebration that God isn't going to destroy Nineveh, Jonah's reaction feels out of place. Jonah gets angry that God isn't going to destroy them. He's angry that God showed them mercy - so angry that he wants to die.

Join us as we walk through Jonah 3:1-10.