With Darkness Comes Light

Matthew 2:13-23 Rev. Rebecca Heilman A week ago, the stockings were hung over fireplaces, lights sparkled through the streets and avenues of Charlotte, red bows were tied to wreathes, and trees stood tall with their ornaments carefully placed. Cookies were baked,...

Metanoia

Rev. Nick Cheek Isaiah 40: 1-8 and Mark 1: 1-8 It’s Christmas card season! I hope you have your cards finished by now. If you haven’t, it’s okay, God will forgive you, but your mom might not. For our family, it has become a tradition to hang the cards we receive on a...

A Spacious Place

Rev. Matt Samson Jeremiah 29.1, 4-7 Psalm 66.1-12 Luke 17.11-19 [2 Timothy 2:8-15] October 12, 2025 Prayer for Illumination – Merciful and Gracious God of Creation, your ways are not our ways and your thoughts are not our thoughts. Yet, in a broken and troubled world...

Grace

Rev. Nick Cheek First Passage:  Luke 10:25-37 Second Reading: Ephesians 2:1-10 In our passage this morning, Paul reminds us of one of the most marvelous, hope-filled words in all of Scripture: grace. It’s a word we hear often—especially in here. For those of us who’ve...

Our New Sessional Ministry Team Structure in 2025

In 2023, with a recommendation from the Officer Nominating Committee and subsequent approval of both the session and congregation, Trinity adopted a plan to reduce the size of the session from 16 elders (fifteen serving three-year terms plus one youth elder serving a...

Canticles of Advent: Filled Up

Rev. Rebecca M Heilman-Campbell Selected Verses: Luke 1:46 – 55 Each year we hang stockings, light candles, purchase gorgeous wrapping paper and tie each red bow tight. We embrace the beauty and the sentiment of this Season of Waiting, sometimes forgetting the...