This Sunday at Trinity, we begin a new stewardship sermon series, “What Are You Waiting For?" Over the next three weeks, we will spend time in Matthew 25, where Jesus tells a series of parables about waiting for his return. The question is not whether Jesus will come again. He will. The question is what the church will do in the meantime. Stewardship is about much more than money. It is about how we use the time, resources, and opportunities entrusted to us while we await God’s promised future.

This week we will begin in Matthew 25:1-13, the parable of the ten bridesmaids. Jesus tells a story about a bridegroom who is late to his own wedding and a group of bridesmaids who discover that waiting is more complicated than they anticipated. Christian waiting is not clock watching. It is living today in anticipation of what Christ has promised for tomorrow. Our hope rests not in our ability to predict when the Bridegroom will arrive, but in the faithfulness of the one who promises to come.