by Trinity UMC | Aug 17, 2020 | Pastor Joseph's Blog
“Christ invites to his table all who love Him…” The last time I presided at the Lord’s Table was Sunday, March 1 at Trinity UMC. It is always a good and joyful thing to gather around the Table and share Holy Communion. It was the first Sunday...
by Trinity UMC | Jul 26, 2020 | Pastor Joseph's Blog
We are accustomed to bible heroes being people of sterling faithfulness and character. Then there is Jacob. You remember Jacob. He is the guy who made a great pot of chili to swindle his older brother Esau out of his birthright. He is the one who tricked his...
by Trinity UMC | Apr 14, 2020 | Pastor Joseph's Blog
Happy Easter! As March 15 was Trinity’s last in-person worship service, I want to offer four insights to the congregation and how we have adapted (and thrived) in the pandemic. First, we have found ways to stay connected with one another. Through cards and...
by Trinity UMC | Mar 31, 2020 | Pastor Joseph's Blog
Infinite God of Time, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” We have claimed those wise words in more finite days. Times when we were able to look back at the eras and epochs of human life. We asserted them at the...
by Trinity UMC | Mar 28, 2020 | Pastor Joseph's Blog
Lent reminds us that we will never truly understand the depths of the love, grace, and sacrifice of the Cross of Cavalry. But this Lenten season, we have moved a modicum closer. World events have made this move painful and poignant. Pestilence is no longer an old...
by Trinity UMC | Mar 24, 2020 | Pastor Joseph's Blog
God of the Wilderness Journey, Like so many of your people throughout time, we are in a season in between. We are a Holy Saturday people, stuck on the boundary of what was and what is yet to be. As the Israelites wandered, not knowing how long they would travel in the...
