Preparing for Gratitude

Steve Lindsley Matthew 22: 1-14 (Selected Verses) Today’s parable is a weird parable.  A very weird parable.  There is a reason you probably don’t recall this parable from your Sunday school class or Bible study: it’s routinely skipped over for better-known and...

You Could Really Use a Break!

Steve Lindsley Exodus 20:8-11; Mark 2: 23-28 (Selected Verses) This past week marks the first year that Tam has been with the Lindsleys.  Tam is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier that came home with Lorie from Animal Control one day because, to put it somewhat tactfully,...

Be Curious and Be Yourself

Rev. Rebecca M Heilman-Campbell 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 You’ve heard me share this story before. In her book, Breathing Space, Heidi Neumark writes about her friend, Miss Ellie. Miss Ellie lives on John’s Island near Charleston, South Carolina on a small dirt road in a...

Solidarity Costs Something

Rev. Rebecca M. Heilman-Campbell, Associate Pastor John 20: 19-31 The reality of a country burdened by systems of oppression that reduces the availability of medical treatment, clean water, or a safe environment meant I attended many funerals during my year in Zambia,...

Hands, Feet, and Heart of Jesus: Community Together

Rev. Rebecca M Heilman-Campbell Luke 5: 17 – 26 ***This week in worship, Trinity welcomes six preachers and participants from the joint Adult Mission Trip with Trinity and Sardis Presbyterian Church. Two weeks ago, two churches of strangers met early in the morning to...