This morning’s tips come from “Marriage Night 2019” and focuses on the importance of conflict when it is done right in your marriage… Conflict is the price you pay for a deeper connection. There are 3 types of fights: Good fights, Bad fights, and Dumb fights. Pick wisely the ones you engage in. THREE THINGS THAT CAUSE CONFLICT: 1. Perception
At church today, Pastor Andy Coats talked about “Living a Bold Prayer Life.” THREE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT HOW TO PRAY: 1. There is Pattern in Prayer (Matthew 6:5-13) *UPWARD: Honor God first with our focus. *DOWNWARD: Focus back down on His kingdom and the ability to do His work down here. *INWARD: Ask God to change us, mold us,
I started a new series today called “Grace Based Discipline” by Karis Kimmel Murray. Ironically, I just taught this week about showing Professional Grace in the Workplace, so the title stood out to me. The lesson applies to both how we respond to our children’s mistakes and our employee’s mistakes because in both cases, we have been called on to
This week in our ReEngage study, we are dealing with forgiveness. As someone who has always struggled with the internal “need to be perfect”, I have found it much harder to forgive myself than to forgive others. As I was going through our extra resources on this lesson last night, I found a great resource that spoke to me. Whenever
Today during the message at Trinity Baptist Church, Pastor Andy Coats spoke about being bold in our FOLLOWship of Christ. Four Understandings of Boldly Following Jesus: 1. There’s Pressure to Conform to the World Our culture pushes a culture of tolerance, but if it doesn’t follow Scripture, we shouldn’t follow it. The ways of the world meet our pleasures and
One of the best ways to build a relationship with God is by showing his love to others. A few of my favorite takeaways from the study of 1 John have been: 1. You have to be humble to ask for forgiveness, give forgiveness, and accept forgiveness. 2. Obedience to God’s commandments doesn’t save us. Grace through Jesus does. We
Pastor Andy Coats continued his message today at Trinity Baptist Church about the importance of being Bold as Christians in the message that we share. The statement that stood out the most to me today was, “People need to hear from you the proclaimed word of God … because we are no longer living as ‘One Nation Under God.’” Pause
We understand and receive grace and forgiveness daily from God, and we can extend that grace and forgiveness to our spouse. Mercy is when you don’t get something you deserve. Grace is when you get something you don’t deserve. Eight Ways to Show Grace to Your Spouse 1. Grace is patient, kind, and seeks to understand. 2. Grace serves, it
The message this morning from Pastor Andy at Trinity Baptist Church was about having the courage to boldly walk the walk and talk the talk about our faith as Christians and leading others to believe in God. The culture we live in today encourages us to be timid about our faith. There are 3 ways we can “walk the walk”
God truly works in amazing ways. I’ll share more about this journey later, but I just wanted to say how blessed Brandon Bell and I were to find Trinity Baptist Church this summer. We thought we were doing it because our daughter needed it. In mid-July they played a video about a marriage ministry they were offering called ReEngage. One
