Clergy Notes – January 10th, 2025
Dear Truro family, We all awoke this past Monday to a blanket of white snow covering everything in sight. It’s always amazing to see the entire landscape – cars and houses and roads and yards – totally transformed and made new. This is a picture for us of God’s gracious forgiveness and pardon of our […]
Clergy Notes – January 3rd, 2025
Dear Truro family, With a new year comes new pressure to make new improvements, changes, or resolutions in our lives. Stop doing this. Start doing that. Lose this. Become that. And on and on it goes. Until mid-February when things are basically the same way they’ve always been. There’s certainly nothing wrong or unbiblical about […]
Clergy Notes – December 27th, 2024
Dear Truro family, Happy third day of Christmas! It was wonderful celebrating with so many of you this week and meeting the bundles of family and friends you brought to church. I want to encourage those of you who brought someone with you who is not a believer, and who may have seemed totally disinterested […]
Clergy Notes – December 20th, 2024
Clergy Notes – December 13th, 2024
Dear Truro family, There are so many things to thank God for as we look back on 2024 as a church. A few that come to mind (and I had to leave a lot out!): And now here we are in December. It’s already been a wonderful month, and we still have so much to look […]
Clergy Notes – December 6th, 2024
Dear Truro family, A few weeks ago, I shared the story of my bumbling attempt to share a Bible verse with someone who didn’t speak English. Despite the Holy Spirit clearly prompting me, I very much wanted to say “no, Lord!” and get on with my day. Eventually I obeyed the Spirit’s voice, and with […]
Clergy Notes – November 29th, 2024
Dear Truro family, Now as the countdown to Christmas begins, and all the festivities kick into high gear, the season of Advent invites us to reorient ourselves around a different kind of countdown. We’ll sing about that when we begin the season of Advent this Sunday: O come, O come Emmanuel,and ransom captive IsraelThat mourns […]
Clergy Notes – November 22nd, 2024
Dear Truro family, This Sunday I’ll be asking you to make your financial commitment to the Lord and to this church for 2025. Pledge cards will be in the pews, and you can fill out the left portion, tear it off, and put it in the offering plate when it comes by. This will be an […]
Clergy Notes – November 15th, 2024
Dear Truro family, Every Sunday we pray: “And now, Father, send us out to do the work you have given us to do, to love and serve you as faithful witnesses of Christ our Lord…” One of the ways God answers this prayer is by putting us in conversations during the week with people who are […]
Clergy Notes – November 8th, 2024
Dear Truro family, Another presidential election has come and gone, and as always, God is seated on his throne. From beginning to end, the Bible teaches us that God reigns sovereignly over all the affairs of the world. As we were reminded on Tuesday night at our prayer service, “it is he who sits above the […]