Where's the Trinity?
This is the message I shared with God's people at St. Mark Lutheran Church and St. Timothy Lutheran Church on Sun., 5/31. The scripture text was Romans 8:12-17 . How many of you are familiar with the series of books and pictures called, Where's Waldo? For those of you unfamiliar with this series, the pictures consist of a sea of people and you have to locate the character, Waldo in the midst of the busy pictures. It is quite a challenge to do so. Today is Holy Trinity Sunday. When looking at today's readings, we may wonder, "Where is the Trinity?" Although the word trinity is not used in the Bible, our God in three persons is woven into the very fabric of our reading from Romans. Did you notice the names for God in the Romans reading? Just shout them out when you see them. This passage starts out in an odd way, " So then..." This tells us that Paul is drawing conclusions from the previous verses in which he made it clear that the