by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Dec 31, 2025 | Resolutions
Over the last few months, certain themes have been coming up in our elder meetings, in sermons, and in our times of reflection. The elders decided to compile these as an end of the year list: 26 thoughts for 2026. Truthfully, it is 13 ideas, complimented by 13 verses....
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Oct 21, 2025 | Weekly Words
This is the third post in a series on responding to the cultural moment. The first post outlined the issue and looked at what we are doing when we gather on Sundays. The second post was looking at the role of preaching in this. Today we will look at the work of...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Oct 21, 2025 | Weekly Words
Yesterday, I started a blog series that came from a talk I gave at our church meeting. This is/was to provide background on how we interacted with current events at our Sunday service. What are we doing when we are preaching? The act of preaching is to deliver the...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Oct 21, 2025 | Weekly Words
We had a church family meeting after second service on Sunday. Before we celebrated God’s blessings on us and installed nine new member families, I spoke on how our church deals with major events in the culture around us. For those who could not be there, I felt...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Oct 8, 2025 | Weekly Words
Technology creates its own imperatives, and, at the same time, creates a wide-ranging social system to reinforce its imperatives. | Neil Postman, Technopoly I am not a Luddite, though I have been accused of it. But no one would mistake me for being an early adopter,...
