by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Jun 3, 2015 | Weekly Words
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. | 1 Peter 4.8 There are a lot of people talking about grace: how to show grace to people struggling with this or that, victims of some sort of suffering. Often these conversations...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | May 28, 2015 | Weekly Words
On Sunday we looked at the ‘Woes’ from Jesus to the religious leaders of the first century and we saw that His frustration stemmed from their lack of true reverence for God. They treated God as nothing more than someone to be kept in their lives based on what they...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | May 27, 2015 | Sermon Prep
Matthew 22.34-46 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 22.37-39 The...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | May 20, 2015 | Sermon Prep
Matthew 23.13-36 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. 23.27 Jesus’ woes are the angry laments of wounded love,...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | May 14, 2015 | Weekly Words
And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from...