Category: Christian Living

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…

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,”…

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…

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…

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…

I love the Grinch … so much so that for two of my four Decembers at LifeNet, I was the Grinch. I visited hospitals. I took photos with hundreds of kids across all of our service areas. COVID and Copyrights made me hang up my green fur, but the excitement in the eyes of so…

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…

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….

🍁Happy Thanksgiving!! 🍁 I started today with this question … “How often do we find ourselves thankless in this world because we compare ourselves to what others have instead of giving thanks to God for all he has given to us?” The thought came from our Bible study this week at Trinity Baptist Church which…