A Word for the Everyday - "Summer of Shorts - Presence"

We continue this week with a video in our series “Summer of Shorts” to help illustrate the second key component in our covenant of membership at Trinity United Methodist church – “presence.” While “presence” refers to more than participating in weekly worship (small groups, fellowship and service activities, etc., count too!), this brief video rightly points to the fact that our Sunday gatherings in God’s presence are a privilege. Holy encounters while worshipping God in the presence of a faith community have the power to change our hearts and lives! 

 Watch the video.

What does worship mean to you?

A Word for the Everyday - "Summer of Shorts - Prayers"

The next five videos in our series “Summer of Shorts” will help illustrate the five key components in our covenant of membership at Trinity United Methodist Church – prayers, presence, gifts, service, and witness. First up is “prayer.”

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What does it mean to pray to a God that we cannot see? What really is prayer?

A Word for the Everyday - "Summer of Shorts - Father's Day"

The next video in our series “Summer of Shorts” comes just in time for Father’s Day. In this moving illustration, a young man reflects on his relationship with his father, realizing the impact that seeing his father’s faith lived out made on him.

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How are you living out your faith in your everyday, ordinary life and who might be watching?

A Word for the Everyday - "Summer of Shorts - How Do We Grow?"

One of the things that I hope the videos in our series “Summer of Shorts” will do is help us all consider where we are in our journeys as followers of Jesus, as we seek to grow in grace and become more fully the people God made us to be. 

Click on the question below to go to the video titled “How Do We Grow?”,  which inspires us to reflect on the work of Christ in our life and our spiritual growth.

What helps you to grow? 

A Word for the Everyday - "Summer of Shorts - Definition of a Trader"

"School’s out for summer!” and you know what that means - summer schedules. 

This summer I am looking forward to Annual Conference, Warren Willis Camp, Sonlight’s tour to Nashville, a family vacation, a Courage to Lead retreat, and a two-week mission trip to Malawi. And that’s just my schedule! 

I know it will be the same for many of you, too...that is why I’m introducing something I am calling a “Summer of Shorts.” Each week between now and Labor Day, here on my blog, in Trinity's Tuesday Word, and on Trinity’s Facebook page I will provide a link to a short video (summer of “shorts”…get it?) on RightNow Media that I hope will create for you a “God-moment” in the midst of your summer busy-ness. It will only take a few minutes to allow God to speak to you through these videos and pray about whatever is brought to your heart and mind. 

The first video is the video that, in some ways, “started it all” for RightNow Media and highlights the need for followers of Jesus to trade their “self-focus” for “Kingdom-focus.”

 

What are you willing to trade?