Category: Christian Living

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

This morning’s message at Trinity Baptist Church from Pastor Andy Coats was about letting go of the strongholds in our life. Ephesians 4:25-32 gives us a good list of commands for living a healthy spiritual life. Nestled in the middle of those verses is also the root of the reason we often fail to do…

In his message today at Trinity Baptist Church, Pastor Andy Coats discussed how unhealthy relationships will destroy our spiritual life. They are like a virus 🦠… they infect our actions, our conversations, our thoughts, and put us in a position of compromise. The secret to a healthy spiritual life is to have healthy relationships with…

In his message today at Trinity Baptist Church, Pastor Andy Coats talked about letting go of the negative thoughts and finding the positive in everything we go through. **** 2 Corinthians 10:5 **** We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to…