Trinity Presbyterian Church OPC Newberg

09/06/2026

We are looking forward to Rev. Alan Carter filling our pulpit tomorrow morning! Join us for worship service at 11AM, and come early for fellowship time at 10:35AM.

08/18/2026

08/09/2026

Reverend Stan Way will be filling our pulpit tomorrow morning at 11am, followed by our monthly potluck meal. Bring a dish to share or just come for a free lunch!

08/02/2026

It was a beautiful day to celebrate Pastor Mahaffy’s retirement, and his many years of faithful service to Trinity OPC. Thank you to everyone who helped celebrate the Mahaffys today, and to Judy for taking charge of organizing the retirement party.

07/11/2026

Join us for a potluck lunch after our [11AM] worship service tomorrow! Bring a dish to share or simply come enjoy a free lunch & time of fellowship.

07/05/2026

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!

Sunday school is on break for the summer, but come join us for our church service at 11am. Fellowship time starts at 10:35.

07/04/2026

250 years of the USA! We pray that God would forgive the sins of our people, teach us to love Him and our great nation, and use us to build His kingdom here and throughout the world. 🇺🇸

06/27/2026

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬!
Come can be a very friendly verb. “Come in!” welcomes a person who is not sure of how he will be received. “Come with me, we'll take care of that,” assures someone that a friend is helping her. Come is a crucial concept in Revelation 22:16–21. The conclusion to the last book in the Bible invites, even urges you to come to Jesus. And it calls you to join in a prayer for him to come.

Quotations used in the Reflection for Trinity Presbyterian Church http://trinitynewberg.org/http:/trinitynewberg.org/reflections/come-lord-jesus

“[Revelation] is not a book of riddles but a proclamation of the Great King. The end echoes the beginning. The Great King binds us to His covenantal Word. We live by faith alone, by grace alone, by Scripture alone.” (C. Vanderwaal, 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, Vol. 10, p. 111).

“[I]t is appropriate that the Spirit, symbolized as lamps in heaven (Rev. 4:5), and the church-bride, symbolized as lamps on earth (1:20), now blend their voices to invite this world's thirsty ones to the water, holding forth the testimony of Jesus for as long as God's patience delays final judgment.” (Dennis E. Johnson, 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘮𝘣, p. 329).

“Because Christ is the savior of the world, he will someday return as its judge.... Because the creation is his work, it cannot and may not remain the b***y of Satan. The Son is the head, Lord, and heir of all things. United in the Son, gathered under him as their head, all creatures return to the Father, the fountain of all good. The second coming is therefore required by his first coming.” (Herman Bavinck, 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘰𝘨𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴,Vol. 4, p. 685).

By the way, this is my last Sunday as pastor at Trinity OPC, as I am retiring June 30. The Lord has been good in the 49 years I have served here. I have been blessed with a congregation that has been eager to hear the word of God. Your prayers are appreciated.

Although I may do occasional preaching, these quotations from the weekly Reflection will no longer be appearing regularly.

06/21/2026

𝑩𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒚!

Have you ever accidentally left out salt when cooking something? Most recipes don’t call for much salt, but you do notice its absence. I n Mark 9:50, Jesus uses the imagery of salt as he summons you to walk in fellowship with him.
http://trinitynewberg.org/http:/trinitynewberg.org/reflections/be-salty

“And no one in Scripture speaks of it [eternal punishment in hell] more often and at greater length than our Lord Jesus Christ, whose depth of human feeling and compassion no one can deny and who was he meekest and most humble of human beings. It is the greatest love that threatens the most severe punishments. Over and against the blessedness of eternal life that he acquired for his own stands the disaster of eternal ruin that he announces to the wicked. In the Old Testament both were veiled in shadows and presented in imagery. But in the New Testament it is Christ who opens a vista both into the depths of outer darkness and into the dwellings of eternal light.” (Herman Bavinck, 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘰𝘨𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴, Vol. 4, p. 109)

“Either sin must die, or we must die. If... we be ruled by sin, we shall inevitably be ruined by it; if we must keep our two hands, and two eyes, and two feet, we must with them be cast into hell.” (Matthew Henry, 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦, at Mark 9:42–48)

04/04/2026

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐚𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐔𝐩 𝐈𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

“The Lord is risen indeed” is a refrain that is appropriate for every Lord's Day. The Christian Sabbath was moved to the first day of the week precisely because that was the day on which our Lord was raised from the dead. Celebrate it annually, if you wish, but also celebrate it each Sunday! And don't only look back to Christ's resurrection. Recognize, as Paul tells you in 1 Corinthians 15:54, that your resurrection is part of his being raised — and that makes very practical changes in how you live.

Quotations from the Reflection for Trinity Presbyterian Church http://trinitynewberg.org/http:/trinitynewberg.org/reflections/death-has-been-swallowed-up-in-victory

“By his own bodily resurrection, as the 'firstfruits,' death's final and complete destruction has already occurred for Christ personally an so is assured for the rest of the the harvest. But for them their actual, bodily participation in that destruction has yet to occur. Further, verses 50–52 make clear that the future victory over death in verses 54–55 will be at the time of the 'last trumpet,' that is, the final judgment (cf. 1 Thess. 4:16; Matt. 24:31).” “the culminating note on which the chapter ends (vv. 57–58) is consonant with this conclusion. Paul assures Christians, 'your labors are not in vain in the lord,' and that is so because of 'God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. But, from the immediately preceding verses (the references to victory in vv. 54–55), for them that death-destroying victory, while secured and certain, is still future.” (Richard B. Gaffin Jr., “Justification and Eschatology” in 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵: 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, pages 637 & 638)

“We can measure the upreach of our faith, the depth of our love, and the outreach of our hope by the extent to which we gravitate in our thought to that event when the Lord himself will be finally glorified and when the people of God shall enter into the complete fellowship of him in that exalted and final glory.” (𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘔𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘺, Vol. 3, pp.245–246)