2022—A New Year, Renewed Hope!

As we come out of the Christmas season and begin a new year, I want to challenge you to take a look back at what we experienced during Christmas at Trinity Baptist Church.  In the messages, in the songs, and even in the Christmas play presented by our children’s ministry, there was one overwhelming theme, and that theme was hope.  We were reminded in several different ways how the birth of Jesus Christ launched out a  beacon of divine hope for all of mankind.

In a world that seems at times hopeless, in a society of madness and confusion, the believer can embrace a lifestyle and attitude that reflect the hope found in the person of Jesus!  Our hope for the coming year is not fixed to anything of this world.  Thank God, our hope, all our hope, peace and comfort is tied securely to the Son of God.  That is real, tangible hope that you can have going in to 2022. The world is uncertain, but we have assurance.  The world is dark but we possess the Light of the Word.  We can have HOPE!  Now— enter the coming year with renewed hope in the power of God to do through you what you cannot.

Miranda and I want to wish you a Happy, Hopeful, New Year!

Pastor Winston & Miranda Parrish

 

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For God! A Message For Those Who Have Lost Sight!

Tonight, my heart and burden continues, sort of in the same vein and heart of this morning. My burden is the church—our church, as we take in where we are and as we embrace the fact that the Lord could come at any minute, we must take up the responsibility that has been entrusted to us! 

This morning we discussed our axe head a depiction of the power of the Holy Spirit, we realized our desperate need to operate in that power. We must have that power—we have to have that power!

For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit. Ecclesiastes 2:26

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Sadducees That Swing A Headless Axe

We dive into a story of a new construction project that is taking place in a turbulent time in the history of Israel. There was a group of young men that were studying and learning in the school of the prophets with Elisha, and it came to a place where this seminary had become too small for them to live and to study.

If I assess our current situation, our projected path, if we take a core sample of the culture, I’m afraid there are some places in scripture that would define where we are, and it’s a telling thing to understand just what the implications are—the truth is, Jesus could return at any moment! 

We are truly living in the last days—history is coming to her final chapters, and as we approach that day, our hearts are to be prepared. This is NOT the time for us to quit. 

1And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.

2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.

4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.

6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.

7 Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.

2 Kings 6:1-7

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But, God! A Message For Those Who Are Ready To Quit!

Hopelessness and Despair, Pressure, Pain and Fatigue! Dissatisfaction, Contempt, Complacency. Weariness that leads to giving up. This might describe your life in its entirety, or in some way, a portion of your life. The end result is a group, a generation, a people who are ready to give up! I’ve heard in my office and on the phone many times in the past 2 years, it’s just not worth it! I cant take it anymore.

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The Blessed Life Part 3 | Authentic Christianity Series

Today, I want us to see the second one has to do with what we are in our souls when our spiritual nakedness and bankruptcy are revealed. Where are plunged into sorrow for sin. The sorrow is for our sin and the sin we see all around, sin that breaks God’s heart as well as His laws, sin that breaks our hearts too. Those who mourn are promised comfort.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4

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