by Trinity UMC | Mar 24, 2022 | Pastor Joseph's Blog
Last week, I received an email from Chaplain Bill Jewell, a chaplain at the Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital, part of the MUSC system in Charleston. Chaplain Jenkins wrote: “I came across the wooden crosses in cloth bags with your church’s name and information...
by Trinity UMC | Mar 22, 2022 | Lenten Devotional
I ‘ve always enjoyed watching and coaching my children in sports – from the days of tee ball and biddy basketball at the YMCA to now playing for their school teams. It’s been a blessing to watch each of them play, laugh, celebrate, get mad, compete,...
by Trinity UMC | Mar 21, 2022 | Lenten Devotional
Lamentations 3: 16-19 – He hath made my teeth to grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes; my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is; so I say “Gone is my glory, and all that I had hoped for from the LORD.” The thought of my...
by Trinity UMC | Mar 20, 2022 | Lenten Devotional
Matthew 6:14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive your trespasses.” For the past thirty years I have had the...
by Trinity UMC | Mar 19, 2022 | Lenten Devotional
Exodus 34:6-7 The LORD God is “a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, … forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin”. When a toddler is learning to walk, we don’t scold when they fall on their...