Friday, February 2, 2018

Dear Trinity Baptist Church Family, I am sad to need to tell you this morning that Patsy E passed away last evening. She had planned to be in church yesterday morning, but was not feeling well so stayed home and went to bed. Her husband Dave was gone for the morning and when he found her…

Dear Trinity Baptist Church Family,  Some updates. Carolyn O’s surgery went well. The preliminary evaluation is that there is no cancer. She spent the night in Milwaukee with plans to go home today. Levi S made it to Ankeny, IA, but not without his car engine dying. They were able to tow his car the…

Dear Trinity Baptist Church Family, This morning in our Men’s Bible Study we walked through 1 Timothy 6. Verse 6 is instructive and convicting: “Now godliness with contentment is great gain.” Godliness and contentment are two character traits that every mature believer in Jesus Christ should demonstrate. Is my life godly – a holy, imitation of Jesus?…

Dear Trinity Baptist Church Family: Israelites remain an oppressed people. Throughout much of the world they are despised. In the country of Israel they are surrounded by nations who have stated their intention of “driving Israel into the sea.” The General Assembly of the United Nations has come out against Israel again and again. Yet,…

Dear Trinity Baptist Church Family: Jeremiah was literally in the pit. His message was unpopular among many in Jerusalem and he had been arrested and put into a slimy pit. Listen to his testimony of that experience: I called on Your name, O Lord, from the lowest pit. You have heard my voice: “Do not hide Your ear…

Dear Trinity Baptist Church Family, Proverbs 14:1 “The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish pulls it down with her hands.” When I started working in a Chicago steel mill as a nineteen-year-old, I worked alongside a man in his early twenties who was always complaining about his “old lady.” I was naive enough that It…