What Are We Trying To Build?
What do you do when your distinctive identity (for centuries even) gets stripped away? ...
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How is your new year beginning?
Whether it is an unpleasant anniversary of a Capital riot, or a virus that just won’t go away, or profound uncertainty overall, how is your new year starting?...
Empty Pews Are an American Public Health Crisis
In school, I was never a fan of having to do book reports. The reading I never minded, but the effort to summarize what I read was always an enormous struggle. Now I’ve grown appreciative of a helpful summary – which is all I want to do for you today....
I need to remember, we prayed for this!
If you’re anything like me, then all too often, I need to be reminded that God is in the business of answering our prayers....
An update on our COVID readiness
Almost everyone is now aware of the recent surge in COVID infections, courtesy of the Delta variant. As Trinity’s demographic is younger than many churches, last year we saw very few COVID infections relative to other Lakeland congregations....
Josh Floyd has resigned from his leadership role with Grace Community Church
How do you typically respond when something doesn’t work out?...
We Need to Pray
In case you’re unfamiliar with recent events, Tom Brady helped lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to one of the most unexpected Super Bowl victories ever....
2 Reminders for this Sunday
I wanted to send a quick reminder of two things for this Sunday morning....
Returning to 2 Services this Week
No one needs to be told that almost everywhere, there’s unpredictability. We all know chaos abounds right now. And I do not want Trinity to be part of that chaos....
Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God, what is God's
You likely know that the Continental divide, a ridgeline in the American West, divides where rainfall (or snowmelt) ends up....
Our Plans to Remain Patient
Discussions of the current Coronavirus are getting as partisan as were discussions of the economy or other matters from just a few months ago, B.C. (Before COVID-19)...
Keep ReadingProfound Needs = Profound Opportunity
It’s not every day that I get to be in a conference call with a senator, but I was invited into call yesterday with Florida Senator, Marco Rubio....
Keep ReadingResponding Creatively in Challenging Times
When the Communists won control of China in 1949, many pastors were jailed or executed, and many churches were closed....
Keep ReadingTrinity COVID-19 Practices & Encouragement
Given the rising concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, I thought it would be helpful to write a short note to communicate how we intend to respond and also to offer some encouragement....
Keep ReadingChristmas: God's Light Shining in the Darkness
Recently, Tish Warren wrote an Op-Ed for the New York Times, Want to Get Into the Christmas Spirit? Face the Darkness.She wanted to address how, as Christians, we celebrate Jesus' birth as the light that has come into darkness, andas John's Gospel says, 'the darkness could not overcome it.'She wrote: "Advent bids us first to pause and to look, with complete honesty, at th...
Keep ReadingThe most un-talkable subject?
What is the most un-talkable subject you can think of? It’s not sex, because people talk (at least with me) about their sex lives and thoughts all the time. And conversations ...
Keep ReadingCanoeing the Mountains
After the Louisiana Purchase had been secured with France, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Lewis & Clark to explore and map the newly acquired territory....
Keep ReadingTrinity Gospel Training Workshops
Recently a friend commented to me, “It’s hard that you get fired if you don’t talk about Jesus at your job while most people at worship could get fired if they talk about Jesus at theirs.”...
Keep ReadingIt's Good Work If You Can Get It
I read last week that our United States Congress is seen as one of our most dysfunctional institutions, so it probably doesn’t help that our annual General Assembly (G.A.) functions like the Congress of our denomination. ...
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