
Grateful Hearts, Gracious Lives: 2025-26 Program Year Theme
Dear Trinity Church and friends, Grace and Peace and Tuesday greetings! I hope this message finds you well. Last Advent, we

Dear Trinity Church and friends, Grace and Peace and Tuesday greetings! I hope this message finds you well. Last Advent, we

Others’ affirmations or discouragements, others’ dismissals or acceptances – those do not determine our worth! God’s Love has already assured our value and charged us with a purpose, sent us into the world as emissaries of kindness, compassion, and grace…

In a world covered by shadow, the demoniac becomes the very gift of light. And as we can, where we can, even in a moment such as this, we must choose life and walk in that light.

On this Trinity Sunday, we celebrate the wonders of our God, creator, Christ, and comforter, maker, redeemer, sanctifier, wellspring, word, wisdom. And we seek to love one another, not simply as God loves us, but as God realizes divine love within the difference and union of the Trinity itself.

By those graces we can pray, Come Holy Spirit, and enkindle in the hearts of your faithful the fire of your Love … and we can mean it.

Dear Trinity Church and friends, Grace and Peace and Easter greetings! I hope this message finds you well. As previewed and

Instead of focusing on our “production” – our doing – we affirm our place in God’s fold, and we love one another. We nurture dispositions of compassion and generosity. We cultivate graciousness and mercy. And when we love well, that love – God’s love of us, and our love of one another – it’s that love that will inspire our service and collective action: we cannot reorder this process and fulfill God’s hopes for the world!

For only kindness can win the world for kindness, only generosity can win the world for generosity, and only love like lightning can win the world for love.

See what the eldest son fails to recognize: we always tend the fatted calf for our brother’s return. We receive strengths of spirit and nurture them in order that they might benefit all people.

By Jesus’ model, when the world turns to selfishness and judgment, we do not overcome those trials by returning aggression for aggression; we do not give cruelty for cruelty.