PASTOR'S MESSAGE Welcome to the website of Trinity Lutheran Church, Dayton, Ohio. Please explore our site. We hope it gives you a little picture of what our congregation is like, and what we understand its purpose to be. Then, come and worship with us! Our intent is to offer opportunities for worship, for you to find friends, to be touched by the Holy Spirit, to find meaning and purpose in your life, and to find a centering place that offers opportunities and help in serving God.

We read in the scriptures that:
God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ, God is making his appeal through us. (2 Corinthians 5:19 -20)

We believe this message from God is for us as well as for those early Christians. We hope to be ambassadors worthy of our calling, and we hope that if you are looking for a church home, or simply a place to worship, you would consider joining us in, what we believe to be, this great, divine endeavor.

Nugget from Pr. Doug's Sermons

EPIPHANY

Luke 6:17-26

If someone asked you, "What does it mean to be blessed?" how would you answer? To have good health? To be happy? To have a loving family and lots of friends? When Jesus preached to the multitudes, He upset the values of the people of His time, and He still upsets the values of our world today.

Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor...the hungry...those who mourn...those who are hated because of faith "in Him." Then He added, "But woe to you who are rich...full now... laughing now...when all speak well of you." Jesus turns our value system upside down! The multitudes were attracted to Jesus because of His healing power, but Jesus taught that healing is much more than the absence of sickness or disease. True healing is our restoration to a relationship with God.

When we begin to depend on our affluence, we are headed for trouble. We think we 'have it made' when we have a good education, a good job, and a high standard of living. So often we turn to God only when we exhaust our resources and fall upon hard times. God's Word comes to us again and again in scriptures telling us that healing is more than physical well-being. We need to live by Kingdom Values to have real healing. A whole lifetime is needed to hear and fully accept the Word of God.

The suffering and death of Jesus Christ on the Cross brings to you and to me Blessing, Forgiveness, and Life. When we ponder the unsearchable riches of such Grace, you and I cannot help but respond with Love to those around us who are in need or pain. Faith, hope, and love abide, these three, but the greatest of these is Love.

As reported by Ruth Ann Peck, parishioner