Friday, February 2, 2018

Last night after a full Lord’s Day, I settled down in a chair and checked my email. From our website there was a letter from a former student. She thanked Lin and I for the verses and songs she learned in school. She thanked us for the tools she uses in teaching her children. She…

Dear Trinity Baptist Church Family, I rejoice in the wonderful Lord’s day. My heart was encouraged by the teaching from Job, the singing of the Congregation, and the opportunity to preach. I hope you did not show up for our evening service! Chrystal H has asked for prayer for her mom. They are not sure what…

Dear Trinity Baptist Church Family, Yesterday was an emotional day for me. As one junior camper said to me many years ago, “I am overed with whelm.” It was right to have people of God returned to this place to worship together. It was also scary. And it was a little sad knowing there are many who…

Dear Trinity Baptist Church Family, Psalm 146:1-2 Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! 2 While I live I will praise the Lord; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. Do you talk to yourself? Do you ever say, “Self, you need to praise God today.”? I believe spiritually healthy people self-counsel. They talk…

“It is well and good for the preacher to base his sermon on the Bible, but he better get to something relevant pretty quickly, or we start mentally to check out.” That stunningly clear sentence reflects one of the most amazing, tragic, and lamentable characteristics of contemporary Christianity: an impatience with the Word of God….

Dear Trinity Baptist Church Family: John 14:1-3 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place…