Trinity Lutheran Church (LCMS)
Tryon, N.C.
"Behold My Servant, whom I uphold, my Chosen One, in whom My soul delights; I have put My Spirit upon him; He will bring forth justice to the nations." Isaiah 42:1
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Sunday Worship: 10:15 am
Bible Study: Before worship at 9:00 a.m.
Wednesday Bible Study: 10:00 am
A Message from Pastor Olson
Greetings in the name of Jesus to you all. I pray you are all safe. If you are facing any need and receive this communication, please contact me to help you get what you need. We will celebrate the Transfiguration of Our Lord next Sunday with potluck lunch and the Voters meeting to follow.
You can read the sermonette on the Conversion of St Paul on the "Worship, Bible Studies & Sermons" tab above.
WORSHIP/SPECIAL EVENT SCHEDULE AS OF JANUARY 25, 2026
WORSHIP/SPECIAL EVENT SCHEDULE AS OF JANUARY 25, 2026
All Worship services will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church (LCMS), 3353 US 176 Hwy, Tryon, NC 28782
In addition to regular Sunday Worship, here are special services/events. See the Calendar tab for the full January 2026 calendar
→ Sunday, February 1, 2026, Annual Voter's Meeting, following worship around 11:45 a.m. Agenda:
Pastor's and Treasurer's Reports
Membership and Board Reports
Nomination of President and Vice-President of Synod
Consideration: an overture to Synod regarding female readers of the Scriptures in the public worship service of congregations throughout the Synod.
Following the voter's meeting is a soup/sandwich lunch - all are welcome!
The Oldest and Only True Religion: Faith in Christ Jesus
The oldest and only true religion on earth is that which God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit breathed into man at his creation and spoke into Adam at his commissioning to serve the Lord in the Garden of Eden. Adam did so by heeding God’s Word to tend and eat freely and thankfully of all God gave him, but to remember and worship the Lord also by not eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Even as he joyfully ate with special devotion to his Creator of the tree of life, with equal devotion and joy Adam did not eat of the tree next to it. Seeing the one and reverencing God in faith, fear and love by not eating, Adam looked upon the other tree with delight and ate with thankful love and religious zeal toward God whose goodness surrounded and filled him, and Adam was satisfied.
After his rebellion in which he set aside the Word of his divine Benefactor and listened instead to the voice of sin which the father of lies spoke to him through the woman (having enticed, seduced and indeed forced himself upon Adam’s God-given bride), the man and his wife were created anew and made spiritually alive once more when God spoke in their hearing the promise of their mighty Savior who would crush the devil and all evil, whom the Father would send as the woman’s Seed. That Word from God opened their ears once more and bestowed on them the Spirit of God so that they might live and not die, through faith in this Word of God, which would be their food and drink and their hope until He came.
The entire Old Testament writing, and history of Israel contained therein, had no other purpose than to keep the entire children of Adam in the one and only true religion: faithful devotion to the Word of God, namely, the Father’s promise to send His eternal Son in human flesh, conceived and born of the woman by the power of the Holy Spirit, to redeem the world by His innocent suffering and death in the place of disobedient mankind. God’s promise unfolded before the eyes of the people of Israel until it was fulfilled in the coming of Jesus Christ, when He was publicly baptized by John and God from heaven declared indisputably that Jesus of Nazareth is the Lord’s Anointed, the eternal Son of God. Jesus taught with authority and did unnumbered miracles among them. There is no true religion apart from faith in Jesus who rose from the dead and lives and reigns as Savior King of heaven and earth. The entire New Testament and particularly the four Gospels as the testimony of Jesus’ twelve official Judean witnesses and Paul the apostle bear witness to Jesus as the woman’s Seed whose holy life and blessed sacrifice on the cross crushed Satan and sets mankind free through the forgiveness of sins by the power of Jesus’ resurrection. In the creative water of Baptism into the name of God the Father, + Son and Holy Spirit the Word and Spirit of God once more fill the children of Adam with faith in Jesus and He is made their delight, indeed their food and drink.
No other religion—apart from Christianity—is of God. Every other religion is the conjuring of man away from the truth of the Bible under the influence of his seducer Satan. Read the Scriptures of Old and New Testaments. You will know that this is true, and by God’s grace and Spirit, with repentant heart for your sin against God and His mercy, you will believe and be saved.
But how can I understand the Scriptures without a teacher? I encourage you to take in hand The Book of Concord, which are the confessions of The Evangelical Lutheran Church from 1580. I believe you will find them to be consistent with what you read in the Bible. To augment your reading of Scripture, you might begin with The Augsburg Confession of 1530 (including the Preface) and Luther’s Small Catechism.
If you have questions, feel free to email me at pto351@gmail.com
Pastor Thomas Olson
Trinity Lutheran Church is a small confessional congregation of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod located in the picturesque Pacolet Valley three miles west of Tryon on the road to Saluda.
Built on the bank of the little Pacolet River with mountains all around, Trinity is surrounded by beauty, a fitting framework for the saving Gospel that is proclaimed within its walls and for the Lord’s Supper celebrated there.
The members of Trinity lift up their eyes unto the hills. From whence comes their help? Their help comes from the Lord. They are like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does not whither.
A biblical and liturgical church, Trinity draws its members from Polk, Rutherford and Henderson Counties in North Carolina, as well as from Spartanburg and Greenville Counties in northern South Carolina. Locals and transplants from the North are united as one in the saving Blood of Jesus Christ.
Our Mission
Our Mission
Trinity Lutheran Church Is Gathered by God’s Grace, Committed to God’s Word, Faithful in Worship, Focused On Forgiveness, Acting In Love, Sharing The Gospel, Giving God The Glory!
Lutheranism is not "a confessing movement within the Church universal"; it is the confessional movement of the Church universal.
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