More than a decade ago I took a class called “Leadership from the Heart”. Part of the class involved identifying one thing in your life that held you back and then making a commitment to “break through it”. Symbolically, each class participant wrote our area of struggle on the front of a board. On the back of the board, we
Ever have moments of insomnia at night caused by stress you’re facing? While you’re laying in bed, you overplay every scenario you could possibly think of happening in your head? Ever have to walk into a situation where your level of anxiety is super high and you wish like anything you could just avoid it altogether? Ever been so exhausted
Have you ever been in a situation where you expected something to happen, and you ended up experiencing something entirely different? Have you ever found yourself disappointed with God’s timing, response (or apparent lack thereof) to your prayers? In today’s message at Trinity Baptist Church, Pastor Andy Coats continued our study of Isaiah 9:6 in his series, “Hope Has a
Last night, my daughter was sleeping beside me when a storm warning alarm, followed by thunder and rain, woke her up. “Mommy, are we going to be safe?,” she asked, no longer asleep. “I’m scared.” “Yes kiddo. Let’s ask God to keep us safe,” I responded. “But how do you know we will be safe,” she asked? “I trust God,
This week marks the end of the journey we have taken through the ReEngage class at Trinity Baptist Church. Of all the things I have learned about myself over the last 16 weeks, the most humbling one has been realizing just how un-humbly I have been living my life. If you had told me in August, “Tina, pride is at
Oops … I did it again. 🤦♀️ Last night, I let the salty words of others get into my heart and create internal strife. After a truly wonderful evening with my family, I got a Facebook notification and read it. And I allowed my whole evening thereafter to sour. My husband held me as I vented. “They don’t know …”,
There’s a song I absolutely love by Jordan St. Cyr that came to mind as I thought about the message today from Pastor Andy Coats at Trinity Baptist Church. My favorite line in the song says, “Weary traveler, restless soul, you were never meant to walk this road alone.” That was the heart of Andy’s message today, as he took
We’ve all seen the meme: “The Grinch didn’t hate Christmas. He hated people. Which is fair.” Funny? Yes. True? Let’s dive into it. The Grinch’s reputation as a Christmas-hating grouch might be a bit misunderstood. Sure, he stole Christmas trees and gifts, but his grudge wasn’t with twinkling lights or eggnog. Nope, it was with the people of Whoville. Can
Ever have a friend hurt your feelings or disappoint you, been so disappointed by your spouse you thought about divorce, or got so frustrated by what someone said that you just decided to “delete” them from social media (if not your life entirely)? If we are honest, at some point in our lives, we all have because relationships are hard
Life is tough. I know social media doesn’t usually make it look that way for other people, but in the real world, the things not posted on social media show us that LIFE IS TOUGH! The reality is, we make life a lot tougher than it has to be because we don’t trust in God. The story of Abraham in
