Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

When I was serving my year of internship in the Fort Worth, Texas area and Trinity Sunday approached, my supervisor told me that I would be preaching on that day.  He said he always had his interns preach on Trinity Sunday.  The reason?  Well, it is not the most popular festival Sunday for preachers, a majority of whom dread this Sunday, because the Trinity is all about church doctrine.  Other festival Sundays during the church year celebrate events.  Throughout the church year we focus on the many events that took place in the life of Christ.  But, on Trinity Sunday, we celebrate a church doctrine, one that is notoriously hard to understand. The doctrine of the Trinity itself cannot be found explicitly in scripture. Yet, it is scriptural to its core. It is the result of approximately 250 years of the early church reflecting on scripture and on its experience of God's self-revelation, as those encounters are recorded in scripture.  I love the way Nadia Bolz Weber talks about the shaping of this doctrine.  She