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Hosting Holy Trinity’s hospitality table after worship on Sunday mornings is a great way to share fellowship with church friends or celebrate a special event in your life. Beverages are provided by the Hospitality committee. You are asked to provide a light snack to share. There are currently several dates open for hosting this summer. Please see the signup sheet near the coffee station for available dates and times. Please contact Chris Pryor if you have questions.

God calls us, as stewards of God’s gifts, to give what we have.  The Lord doesn’t ask us to give what we don’t have. For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have (2 Corinthians 8:12).  Satan will make every effort to tell us that we don’t have anything to give or that what we could give would be so small it would be meaningless.  With God’s strength, we can give faithfully from a small or large amount of money. God is just as pleased with those who give generously from a small sum of money as those who give generously from a large sum.  For more information on stewardship, please contact Max Buban.

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God loves both the rich and the poor.  However, it can be difficult for the rich to love the Lord because they can so easily become absorbed in the things they possess.  Jesus warned that wealth can be highly dangerous.  He told how difficult it was for the rich to be saved when he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”  (Luke 18:24-25)  God doesn’t condemn wealth.  The warning is about the attitude that an abundance of money and possessions can cause. Paul wrote, “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.  Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs”(1 Timothy 6:10).  For more information on stewardship, please contact Max Buban.

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Scripture tells us that we cannot be free to be God’s servants or stewards until death to ourselves takes place in each of us.  This death is not a physical death, but a spiritual death.  It is the death of the old nature in us so the new nature or new life in Christ can be raised.  Paul wrote, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”(2 Corinthians 5:17)  All things in Christ are created anew.  It is this new life in Christ that people see as we give generously and serve freely.  “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do”  (Ephesians 2:10).  For more information on stewardship, please contact Max Buban.

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Jesus said, “Watch out!  Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions” (Luke 12:15).  In contrast to Jesus’ warning, the world tells us that greed is good. Our society makes every effort to entice us to live a materialistic lifestyle.  Costly and manipulative advertising bombards us daily for the purpose of creating a desire for more and more things.  We are told that we need one luxury after another.  Only with the help of the Holy Spirit will we not fall prey to the pulls of the world.  God calls us to be in the world but not of the world.  As John wrote, “Do not love the world or anything in the world” (1 John 2:15).  Through faith, we know that “the world and its desires pass away, but those who follow the Lord will live forever.” (1 John 2:17).  For more information on stewardship, please contact Max Buban.

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