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In this sermon titled "Counseling for Kohelet: Honest Questions for an Unfair World," Ahshuwah Hawthorne explores the profound and often perplexing themes found in Ecclesiastes 9:11-18. Drawing from the wisdom literature of the Bible, Ahshuwah presents a unique and imaginative counseling session for Kohelet—the reflective teacher of Ecclesiastes—who wrestles with the apparent injustices and uncertainties of life. The sermon acknowledges the frustrations of seeing hard work go unrewarded, the randomness of suffering, and the challenge of maintaining faith amid life's unpredictability. Ahshuwah invites the congregation to listen in as the voices of other biblical wisdom figures—Job, the psalmist, Proverbs, and Song of Songs—offer comfort, perspective, and encouragement. Through this dialogue, the sermon highlights the tension between human finitude and divine sovereignty, the reality of suffering, and the hope found in God's ultimate justice and the redemptive work of Christ. The message encourages believers to embrace honest questions, find joy in God's gifts despite life's vanities, and trust in the faithful God who judges all deeds and offers salvation through Jesus Christ."

Andrey Gorban reads Ecclesiastes 9:1-10, where the same death comes to all, and a living dog is better than a dead lion. The Preacher still commands joy: eat your bread, drink your wine, and do with your might whatever your hand finds to do. Jesus says he is the resurrection and the life, and a day is coming when death will be no more.

Guest preacher Ryan Robertson opens Romans 10:9–15 and traces the missionary logic of the gospel: confessing Jesus as Lord, believing God raised him from the dead, calling on his name, and sending preachers so the nations can hear. Drawing on the story of John Paton and the New Hebrides, he presses Trinity Church to see that the gospel is good news for the whole world—and that beautiful feet still go, suffer, and proclaim Christ where he has not yet been named.

Thomas Terry ends Living Liturgy with the benediction and Romans 12:1-2. He loves his slow pour over coffee because the same order, repeated, shaped his love, and he says repeated worship shapes us too. When the good word comes, receive the blessing and the sending, and let God have the last word.

Paul preaches Luke 24:13-35 on hearing the Word as an act of worship. He points to the two on the road to Emmaus, and to Cleopas and his companion recognizing Jesus in the breaking of bread. Each week the church hears the Word read, sung, and preached, and is invited to take part in the story.

Thomas Terry says preaching from 2 Timothy 4:1-5 is worship, because God is present when his Word is preached. He pictures a hard talk where the crucial ten percent is left unsaid, then says the preacher cannot leave that part out before the Judge. Paul charges Timothy, in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, to preach the word in season and out of season.

Andrey Gorban teaches the Lord's Supper from 1 Corinthians 11:23-26. On the night he was betrayed, Jesus broke the bread and took the cup, and he said to do this in remembrance of him. As often as the church eats and drinks, it proclaims the Lord's death until he comes, and the meal is thanksgiving.

Thomas Terry recalls a dim megachurch where the people were spectators in the dark, then turns to Colossians 3:16-17. Before Paul mentions songs or hymns, he gives one command, and the aim is a people full of the word of Christ. They open their mouths and sing to one another and to the God who saved them and set them free.

Andrey Gorban teaches baptism from Acts 2:38-41 and calls it the gospel made visible. Peter tells the crowd to repent and be baptized, and about three thousand who received the word were baptized. In that water the church sees new birth, a dead person made alive by God.

Jared Pulliam opens 1 Timothy 4 and stays with the charge to devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, and to teaching. Samuel Nagel introduces him as a former elder at Trinity and the founding pastor of Christ Church Selwood. After the reading, the people give thanks, because this is the word of the Lord.

Sean Jim says gathered worship must follow God's commands, taking up Deuteronomy 12:32. He compares a checked recipe and an airplane part at thirty thousand feet, because important work stays with the directions given. The form of a service may differ, but the church should keep to what God has outlined in his word.

Andrey Gorban begins Living Liturgy with Psalm 95:1-7, where God calls his people to sing to the rock of their salvation and kneel before their Maker. Worship fills the whole of life, and it begins because God calls and saves through Jesus. We are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

Samuel Nagel thanks Trinity for close to sixteen years with Rachel and their children, then reads Romans 5:18-21. One trespass led to condemnation, and one act of righteousness leads to justification and life, so where sin increased, grace abounded all the more. He goes on to Romans 6, where those who died to sin are called to walk in newness of life.

In Romans 5:12-17, Cody Cannon traces Paul’s contrast between Adam and Christ. Through the first Adam, sin and death entered the world and spread to all humanity. But through Jesus, the true and final Adam, grace abounds, righteousness is given, and life reigns. This sermon considers the doctrine of original sin, the reality of death, and the greater hope found in union with Christ.

Andrey Gorban reads Romans 5:6-11, where Christ dies for the ungodly while we were still weak. He recalls Nat King Cole's line that the greatest thing is to love and be loved in return, then shows that God's love does not rest on our loveliness. While we were sinners and enemies, Christ died for us, and God looks at us and calls us his own.