Sermons – Trinity Church

19 May 2024 Listen to God

May 19, 2024

There is a story about a little boy who sees his Daddy, the Pastor, writing something in his office. The little boy asks: “What are you doing Daddy?” His Dad answers: “Writing the sermon for Sunday.” The little boy then asks: “How do you know what to write?” His Dad answers: “God tells me.” So then the little boy asks: “If God tells you, why do you have so many words crossed out?” God doesn’t talk to us all the time. There is a reason that every week when we start church, we pray for God to open our hearts

12 May 2024 Happy Mother’s Day

May 12, 2024

How did Mother’s Day start? Mother’s Day, holiday in honor of mothers that is celebrated in countries throughout the world. In its modern form the holiday originated in the United States, where it is observed on the second Sunday in May. Many other countries also celebrate the holiday on this date, while some mark the observance at other times of the year. During the Middle Ages the custom developed of allowing those who had moved away to visit their home parishes and their mothers on Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent. US History says that on May 10, 1908, American activist

5 May 2024 Torments

May 6, 2024

So let’s just jump in. Jump in and splatter it everywhere. If someone is racist to you, how do you react? With love or hat? You know love is right don’t you. Do you storm out of the restaurant or approach them in a loving manner? I read someone, who I consider to be a powerful Christian, how they reacted on a facebook post. They just rushed out and left. So they let the demons win. There was commercial a few years back. It had a company representative that was standing on a stage talking on a microphone. He would

21 Apr 24 Anxiety and Panic

April 29, 2024

A few years ago, I was using a hole saw on a drill to cut a hole in the wood floor of a trailer. When the saw broke through the wood, it hit the metal underneath and the hole saw simply stopped. When it stopped, the drill itself rotated around and the handlehit me up side the head. No it did not break the drill, but it hit me so hard that it knocked me across the trailer. I decided that I was done cutting holes for the day and went into the house to wash my hands and clean

Hope

April 7, 2024

If you haven’t listened to the song Jirah by Elevation Worship and Maverick City, it is really a great “hope” song. I wanted to talk about hope today. You know – Man, I hope I win the lottery today. As we all know, winning the lottery is not a great retirement plan. My entire career in the Army, I was told that “Hope is not a planning option”. In warfare that is true because the enemy or the evil one also have choices. But I would tell you that there is a place for hope. General of the Army, MacArthur

Easter and the Napkin

March 31, 2024

John 20:7 tells us that the napkin, which was placed over the face of Jesus, was not thrown aside like the grave clothes. The Bible takes an entire verse to tell us that the napkin was neatly folded and was placed at the head of that stony coffin. Early that Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body and I don’t know where they have taken

Service, Happiness, and Lent

March 3, 2024

God’s Plan We talked about Happy Giver last week, so this is a follow on. As a military person, I was taught about duty and service to my country and society. There are many things to govern the military life, but duty and service are foremost. General of the Army, MacArthur said it best: Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for

Church is not the same as Religion

February 25, 2024

My wife accuses me of being extremely country. That could be true but it comes mainly from some of the analogies that I use such as “That went over like a skunk at a church picnic”. I think that is pretty clear unless you are at that church picnic and then it might seem a bit chaotic. Every once in a while I slip one in that she has never heard before like (got to put on your best Texas accent on for this one) “I thought I was mistaken once but I was wrong”. She almost spit her coffee

Perfect Story

February 18, 2024

I was laying in bed and had a revelation of sorts. I get a lot of great ideas in the morning laying in bed. Usually about all the work that I have that day and which parts have to be done and what I can procrastinate. These thoughts were a story. This isn’t just a story. It is a perfect story. It isn’t Jesus parable quality, but I like it. There was this wife that asked if she could drive her husbands 1964 GTO SS Ram Mustang to the grocery store. After a long deep thought, he said “okay” and

Love, Honor, and Homelessness

February 11, 2024

Like a movie, here is a warning that the following information is presented by someone directly related to this issue. This is not political. It is following what would Jesus do. It is a sign that we need to wake up our country to Jesus. A revival is needed I was once told that being a “A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America,” for an amount up to and including their life.” In a biblical sense, it is best described in John 15:13