Trinity Lutheran Church; Arendtsville, PA

Confronted by the needless death of our African American brothers and sisters throughout the country, the needless death of several police officers in Dallas, and the very parable of Jesus for today, Trinity considers if our neighboring looks like what Jesus had in mind.

Seeing the 70 sent out in today's text by Jesus and coming back rejoicing, Trinity considers together and individually what we are being sent out to do.

Hearing what seems to be a standard healing story of Jesus, Trinity focuses on the out-of-order nature of grace for all God's people.

Finally back into "Ordinary Time," Trinity reorients to the center of our existence. Hint: it's not us.

As Trinity celebrates its own namesake we are encouraged to share our stories of God in each of our own lives, trusting that there is grace for any theological shortcomings.

On this Pentecost Sunday, Trinity celebrates the Spirit that teaches us new ways of sharing Christ over time.

As we celebrate all of God's creation, Trinity talks about the call as disciples to be keepers of God's word.

Confronted with Jesus' new commandment in John 13, Trinity wrestles with their identities as simultaneously saint and sinner, both chicken and pig.

Celebrating the baptisms of two of our youngest disciples and listening to the John 10 text, Trinity looks for the voice of God in the most common of places.

On this third Sunday of Easter, Trinity finds Jesus eating breakfast with his disciples, and asks what it looks like for us to commune with Jesus and our neighbors today.

As Trinity looks at the text for this Sunday in a post-Easter holiday daze, we consider as disciples what to do with a resurrected Jesus.

Happy Easter! This Sunday, Trinity explores the root of Christian hope. In Christ, we see that God's love is unending and unconditional.

Trinity looks at the weird tension that stands between Jesus' palm-strewn entry into Jerusalem and Jesus' spectacle of a crucifixion a few days later, recognizing our own participation in the suffering of Christ and neighbor.

Seeing Jesus' experience on the way to the cross, Trinity explores what Christ's disciples are called to as we approach the beginning of Holy Week.

This week Trinity explores the parable of the Lost Son in Luke 15, while discovering the love of God when we feel like the younger or older son (or anywhere in between).

As we mark time almost halfway through Lent, Trinity looks at the incredibly challenging, blunt calling of Jesus to turn back to God, all the while seeking grace in the midst of such a calling.

On the second Sunday of Lent, the people of Trinity talk about how intentional, open space give aid to hearing the voice of God in everyday life.

As we begin our Lenten walk together, Trinity talks about Jesus' desert experience as a way of discovering what temptation might be defined as and how we might, by the grace of God, resist.

As Trinity begins its Lenten pilgrimage, we focus together on a call to be in communion with God, and find promises of love in the very certainty of our mortality.

Celebrating Jesus' transfiguration moment, Trinity considers what baptismal our lives look like in light of the lived experience and heavenly experience of Jesus' mountaintop companions.

Back from their snowy break, Trinity looks at a very difficult lesson from Jesus and considers the role faith plays in the midst of new understandings of God.

With no church on this snowed-in Sunday, Trinity takes a devotional approach to the gospel text for today with three main questions: "What is the text trying to do/say?" "What are our questions?" and finally, "So what?"

After hearing a surprising commissioning miracle of Jesus' ministry, Trinity Arendtsville reflects on what we experience when God seems to take an unexpected path.

As we celebrate the Jesus' own baptism, Trinity Arendtsville remembers their own baptismal promises, called brothers and sisters to Christ and loved by a God who knows the whole of our lives - good and bad.

Struggling to get back into the swing of things after the post-holiday slump, Trinity returns to the basics of Christian self understanding: we are a resurrection people.