If you’ve ever had any doubt whether or not God is in control, go back to Genesis One. Not only is God in control, he’s the only One who can be! Everything that exists was his idea. He designed it. He created it. He arranged it all to work together. We marvel at God’s imagination and his organization. God thought …
Dear Trinity Family, Here’s today’s devotion from our synod. [Jesus said] “I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.” John 17:4 When our favorite team enjoys success, isn’t it great how we get to share in that glory, even though we didn’t earn or deserve it? “Hey, Mike, your Brewers are really …
Dear Trinity Family, Here’s today’s devotion from our synod. After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that …
Monday, June 1, Revelation 18 Vv. 2, 20 — Babylon, in the Old Testament, was the heathen nation which brought Judah into Babylonian Captivity (II Kings 25:1-21 & II Chron. 36:15-20). As God freed Judah from that captivity (II Chron. 36:21-23 and Ezra 1)), so He’ll free the Christian Church in the last days from Babylon the Great. Babylon the …
Dear Trinity Family, Here’s today’s devotion from our synod. Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:17,18 Imagine a regular day. …
Pentecost was a pretty exciting day. It started with the continued anticipation of the arrival of the Holy Spirit. Then there was the sound of the rushing of a violent wind. Then the tongues of fire appeared. The Holy Spirit had arrived! And he gave them to ability to speak in other languages. That’s a big day. Of course, the …
“Mommy don’t leave!” “Daddy, don’t go!” It’s heart-wrenching to watch a small child’s reaction to separation. They don’t understand. They don’t have an adult’s perception of time or priority. They can’t see that sometimes Mom or Dad have to leave to take care of them. All they know is the fear and the pain. They have to learn to trust …
We still get to experience the most exciting part of Pentecost. The most exciting part wasn’t the sound of the wind or the tongues of fire or the crowd that gathered. It was God’s pouring out the Holy Spirit onto his disciples. Centuries before, God had told his people that it would happen. In the middle of prophecies of judgment …
Dear Trinity Family, Here’s today’s devotion from our synod. “Live your lives as strangers here.”1 Peter 1:17 Live as strangers? It sounds like pretty shoddy advice when you first read it. You mean we shouldn’t make friends? We shouldn’t care about our family? We should be apathetic about others and not get involved in our community? It can’t mean those …
Dear Trinity Family, Here’s today’s devotion from our synod. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in …
