Holy Week is this incredible time in the life of our church when we celebrate so many of the most formational moments for us as Christians. From egg hunts to services, to Easter breakfast, there has been much in the last few weeks to celebrate! The Easter Egg Hunt was a great night for us… Continue reading Thank you!!
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Good News of Easter
As I sit here the week after Easter, the leftovers are still warm, and story of Easter’s amazing news is still lingering with me deeply from last Sunday. To hear the message from Trinity (https://tcc-online.org/listen/) I have heard the Easter story countless times in my life, but the question can still hang around, is it… Continue reading Good News of Easter
Holy Tension
This week is Holy Week on the Christian calendar, the 7 days filled with Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, the Last Supper, and the betrayal in the garden, the cross, and the resurrection. It is seven action-packed days of some of the most formative events for Christians throughout the ages. The cross and… Continue reading Holy Tension
“Good Friday?”
As a pastor Easter week is always an interesting time, preparing messages the Easter story, that I have heard since I have been a little child. As I was reading the other day and came across a passage that hit me in a new way as I was preparing for Good Friday. Jesus is… Continue reading “Good Friday?”
Expectations
“Say to Daughter Zion, ‘See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’” Zechariah 9:9 Starting this Sunday is the beginning of what most churches call Holy Week. It is a time of getting Easter hams, and holy bread, decorating Easter eggs, and… Continue reading Expectations
Wake Up
Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of… Continue reading Wake Up
Game Change
But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. Exodus 21:23-25 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.… Continue reading Game Change
Build A Savior
“He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain…Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering,” Isaiah 53: 2-4 (excerpts) As we approach Easter, Christians will… Continue reading Build A Savior
Easter Leftovers
The day has finally arrived. As a Flavin kid Christmas was a big deal. Decorations, presents, family gatherings and games were just a few reasons Christmas was a big day in our house. It was hard to sleep the night before because we were so excited for the long-awaited day. Then Christmas finally came and… Continue reading Easter Leftovers
He Did What?
You are called into your supervisor’s office and are handed a pink slip. The doctor’s face tells you everything, the diagnosis is not good. Your spouse simply says to you, “We need to talk,” and you feel the pain of years of neglect causing your blood pressure to rise. We each have numerous moments from… Continue reading He Did What?