Author: Tina Bell

How to Heal Your Heavy Heart

Are you at a point in life where your thoughts or burdens have created a heavy heart that’s weighing you down … and you’re not sure what to do next? Your solution to your problem(s) might be twofold. **** Psalm 145:18 **** The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

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Finding Hope in God’s Steadfast Love

Ever feel emotionally exhausted from the things going on in life? Ever wish you had a crystal ball so you could see into the future? You’re not alone! A LESSON FROM HISTORY In the book of Lamentations, we find Jeremiah writing at a time when Jerusalem has been captured. The Israelites are living in exile. The people have turned away

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3 Ways to Get to Truly Know God & Discover Your Purpose

Have you ever felt like you’re just going through the motions daily, but your life just feels like it lacks a bigger purpose? Maybe it’s because you haven’t yet decided to take an active role in God’s masterplan for your life. In his message today at Trinity Baptist Church, Pastor Andy Coats dove into Ephesians 1, with a sermon titled

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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good but that God will make us good because He loves us. -C.S. Lewis quote

2022 New Year’s Resolution: To Know God

My New Year’s Resolution for 2022 is simple. I want to grow deeper in my knowledge of God, so that I may become more like Him. At the end of the year I want people to see a transformation in me. I want to be seen as: More patient More humble More generous More compassionate More forgiving In doing so,

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4 Lessons on Parenting from Incident Command Training

4 Lessons on Parenting from Incident Command Training

Last night, as I was cooking dinner, I heard a crash, quickly followed by tears of panic and pain. My seven year old had once again crawled into her toy shopping cart, and once again, she found herself the victim of “48 pounds of one poor choice meets gravitational pull”. I instantly turned around and without skipping a beat, said

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Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him.

How to Grow by Finding Life’s Lessons in the Valleys of Life

Ever had a situation you wish wouldn’t have happened? One of those moments where you secretly long for a magic wand to wave over to erase it, so you could just go back to the way things were? I used to. Like seriously, who doesn’t think life would be so much better if the Staples “Easy Button” really worked!? But

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Everlasting Father - Which type of parent are you?

Everlasting Father: Tips for Parents

Have you been debating what to give your family for Christmas this year? As Pastor Andy Coats was preaching today on Isaiah 9:6, “Hope Has a Name: Everlasting Father”, I couldn’t help but let his words ring in my ears. “…that’s why it is so important for men to be involved in their kid’s lives as Godly fathers.” In our

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Breaking Through the Need to Be Perfect

You Don’t Need to Be Perfect | How to Make the Breakthrough

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

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Isaiah 41:10 Fear not for I am with you.

How to Overcome Fear and Anxiety

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

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Mighty God, Mighty Plan, Might Power, Mighty Promise

Managing Expectations: Mighty God, Plan, Power and Promise

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

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