The third antiphon refers to naming the coming Christ as the Root of Jesse:"O Root of Jesse,standing as a sign among the peoples;before you kings will shut their mouths,to you the nations will make their prayer:Come and deliver us, and delay no longer"This sermon was preached by Rev Christopher Poshin David on November 30, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Advent Series: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (on the O Antiphons)The O Antiphons, an ancient church tradition, are a series of seven prayers addressed to Jesus Christ by the Messiah's Biblical titles, and sung in the season of Advent. These prayers are relevant for us in the modern world too for in these prayers we address the same living Christ who has come, will come, and is coming to his people even today.Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
This sermon was preached by Rev Christopher Poshin David on November 23, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Scripture Lessons: John 8:34-59; Exodus 3:1-15Advent Series: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (on the O Antiphons)The O Antiphons, an ancient church tradition, are a series of seven prayers addressed to Jesus Christ, and sung in the season of Advent. These prayers are relevant for us in the modern world too for in these prayers we address the same living Christ who has come, will come, and is coming to his people even today.Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
The search for wisdom (sapientia) spans the human experience across time because we are created to seek wisdom. In seeking after wisdom, mankind is seeking Him who is the source of all wisdom – the only wise God. However, since the fall, the children of Adam and Eve have embraced the foolish ways of sin and have sought wisdom apart from God. Christ alone is the fulfilment for the human yearning for wisdom.This sermon was preached by Rev Christopher Poshin David on November 16, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Scripture Lessons: Proverbs 8:12-36; 1 Corinthians 1:18-31Advent Series: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (on the O Antiphons)The O Antiphons, an ancient church tradition, are a series of seven prayers addressed to Jesus Christ, and sung in the season of Advent. These prayers are relevant for us in the modern world too for in these prayers we address the same living Christ who has come, will come, and is coming to his people even today.Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
All sicknesses of our body point to the reality that our hearts are sick, stained with sin. If the kingdom of God has broken through into this world, then Rabbi Jesus will not only deliver fallen humanity from the oppression of the evil One but also the suffering from sickness. Jesus Christ comes into this world to bring God’s healing into our diseased lives, for He is the great physician.This sermon was preached by Rev Christopher Poshin David on November 9, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Series: The Servant King, on the Gospel of MarkIn a world that prizes power, prestige and self-promotion, the Gospel of Mark gives us a portrait of a King who kneels to serve, who rules through sacrifice and who conquers not by the steel of the sword but by his love. Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
In the first snapshot of the ministry of Jesus in the book of Mark, we see our Lord teaching at a synagogue at Capernaum on the Sabbath Day. Jesus spoke with authority from Himself for He is the Living Word. But the words of Jesus not only carried authority but also immense power to enforce His will, as his mere word was enough to rout a demon. In this sermon we see how the words of Jesus ought to shape and inform the church of its role even today.This sermon was preached by Rev Christopher Poshin David on November 2, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Series: The Servant King, on the Gospel of MarkIn a world that prizes power, prestige and self-promotion, the Gospel of Mark gives us a portrait of a King who kneels to serve, who rules through sacrifice and who conquers not by the steel of the sword but by his love. Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
Words actually hurt us, more than the physical blows we receive in our lives. They tend to leave scars on our hearts. As we glean wisdom from the books of Proverbs and James in this sermon, Rev John Rakshith Prabhakar shares how we can engage them in three steps: Words matter, words scatter and words gather.This sermon was preached by Rev Prabhakar (Pastor of Redeemer Church, Bengaluru) on October 26, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
Baptism testifies entirely of God’s grace and not our works. We read repeatedly in the New Testament that the practice of the primitive church was to baptise not only those who believed in Jesus, but also their households. This is because the Bible tells us that God's grace of salvation is not only for the individuals who believe but also to their families. In this sermon we see that God includes children by his grace in this covenant as he does adults. This sermon was preached by Rev Christopher Poshin David on October 19, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
Psalm 3 deals with the emotion of fear; it helps us understand what to do when we are under threat or when we live in fear. The Psalm was written by King David when he was fleeing from his son, Absalom. Through this Psalm we learn that we worship a God who delivers us from the fear of threats, of uncertainty and of our vulnerability.This sermon was preached by Rev David Gnanadhas (New City Fellowship, Bengaluru) on October 5, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
What does the apostle Peter mean when he says "baptism now saves you"? For so many evangelicals today, such language can be disconcerting and disturbing as baptism is considered a mere sign of conversion. The Bible tells us that baptism is not just an empty sign of salvation, since God is at work in the sacraments. In this sermon, we see that in baptism, a Christian is saved from the waters of judgement, through the waters of grace and by the waters of cleansing.This sermon was preached by Rev Christopher Poshin David on October 5, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
What happens when a church makes it a priority to love one another? Rev Akshay Rajkumar says that when love matters most, we will measure it, mature in it and marvel at it.Rev Rajkumar is pastor of Redeemer, New Delhi.This sermon was preached on September 28, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
Everything we have is by the grace of God. But what is the role of God's grace in the life of a believer? In this sermon, we consider six functions of grace that we find in the Bible.This sermon was preached by Mr Seraph McGregor, Lecturer of Church History at Bible Presbyterian Council College, Visakhapatnam, on September 21, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
More than a dictionary definition of love or the numerous examples of love that we see in our lives every day, God gives us a clear description of what love is in His word. 1 Corinthians 13 is one of the few passages in scriptures where the Christian ethics of love is clearly stated with no ambiguity. Ultimately, in Jesus, God gives us the perfect picture of love.This sermon was preached by Rev Christopher Poshin David on September 14, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
The Gospel of Mark gives us special insight into how Jesus gathered his first disciples into his kingdom. In doing so, Mark shows us what discipleship, or following Jesus, is all about. This sermon was preached by Rev Christopher Poshin David on September 8, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Series: The Servant King, on the Gospel of MarkIn a world that prizes power, prestige and self-promotion, the Gospel of Mark gives us a portrait of a King who kneels to serve, who rules through sacrifice and who conquers not by the steel of the sword but by his love. Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
The gospel of God is all about the kingdom of God and what its king, Jesus Christ, has done for his people. Thus, the greatest of all the preachers is the very one who is the foundation of the church — Jesus Christ.In the passage for this sermon, Mark tells us about the beginning of Jesus’ ministry and his preaching of the gospel of the kingdom. This sermon was preached by Rev Christopher Poshin David on August 31, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Series: The Servant King, on the Gospel of MarkIn a world that prizes power, prestige and self-promotion, the Gospel of Mark gives us a portrait of a King who kneels to serve, who rules through sacrifice and who conquers not by the steel of the sword but by his love. Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
The wilderness in scripture is a desolate place, a place of judgment. Yet we read that Jesus, the perfect Son of God, had to endure temptation in the wilderness, just like we do in our daily lives. The Spirit pilots Jesus into the wilderness so that he will be proven as the new Adam and the new Israel of God.In this sermon, we consider how the temptation of Jesus can aid in our Christian walk of sanctification. The sermon was preached by Rev Christopher Poshin David on August 24, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Series: The Servant King, on the Gospel of MarkIn a world that prizes power, prestige and self-promotion, the Gospel of Mark gives us a portrait of a King who kneels to serve, who rules through sacrifice and who conquers not by the steel of the sword but by his love. Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
Mark wants us to look at the baptism of Jesus and ask ourselves, “Who is this Jesus?” For Mark, the baptism of Jesus reveals everything you need to know about the Son of God and His mission.This sermon was preached by Rev Christopher Poshin David on August 17, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Series: The Servant King, on the Gospel of MarkIn a world that prizes power, prestige and self-promotion, the Gospel of Mark gives us a portrait of a King who kneels to serve, who rules through sacrifice and who conquers not by the steel of the sword but by his love. Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
The Gospel of Jesus is nothing but the continuation of the story of Exodus. In fact, it is the culmination of the exodus. Jesus is the climax of the story of God’s covenant with Israel. In this passage from the Gospel of Mark, we see how John the Baptist is the fulfilment of ancient prophecies as he prepares the way for the Messiah.This sermon was preached by Rev Christopher Poshin David on August 10, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Series: The Servant King, on the Gospel of MarkIn a world that prizes power, prestige and self-promotion, the Gospel of Mark gives us a portrait of a King who kneels to serve, who rules through sacrifice and who conquers not by the steel of the sword but by his love. Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
The book of Mark is the shortest of the four Gospels and is also the first that was written. This whole Gospel is a beautiful scrapbook of snapshots of the person of Jesus – this servant king who comes to save God’s people!In this sermon, Rev Christopher Poshin David exposits the first verse of the Gospel, focusing on the good news, Jesus the Christ and Jesus the Son of God, preached on August 3, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Series: The Servant King, on the Gospel of MarkIn a world that prizes power, prestige and self-promotion, the Gospel of Mark gives us a portrait of a King who kneels to serve, who rules through sacrifice and who conquers not by the steel of the sword but by his love. Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
The book of Judges began with a crisis of leadership, and it ends with a crisis of leadership. Israel reaches a stage where it needs saving from itself! Though the book ends on a dark note, we see that despite the deep depravity of God's people, He is merciful. God shows yet again that He is faithful to the faithless.In this sermon, Rev Christopher Poshin David explains how even in this tragic episode, the hope of the gospel is present. The sermon was preached on July 27, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Series: Unfailing Faithfulness to the Faithless, on the book of JudgesThe book of Judges exposes the depths of human sinfulness and depravity, but also reveals the unfailing faithfulness of God to His faithless covenant people and His never ending love.Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!
The tragic events of Judges 19 lead to a deadly civil war in Israel, which we read in chapter 20. Sadly, we see a section of the people of God defending rapists and murderers. When the Benjaminites protect the wicked men of Gibeah, the rest of Israel declares war to prosecute justice as demanded in God's law. God’s justice is severe and unrelenting and it will never excuse sin. In this sermon by Rev Christopher Poshin David, we are reminded that for us wretched sinners, the Father sends Jesus Christ to pay the high cost of justice. The sermon was preached on July 20, 2025, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Chennai.Series: Unfailing Faithfulness to the Faithless, on the book of JudgesThe book of Judges exposes the depths of human sinfulness and depravity, but also reveals the unfailing faithfulness of God to His faithless covenant people and His never ending love.Visit our website www.trinitypresbyterianchennai.com and follow us on YouTube and Instagram for more resources!