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Pastor Jim Fikkert
May 7, 2024

Bulletproof Christianity

Bulletproof Christianity

Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. | 1 Corinthians 8:8–9 As we looked at the text in Mark 7 […]

April 24, 2024

You are not enough

You are not enough

This Sunday, pastor Andrew preached on the feeding of the five thousand and used this miracle to push back on the modern mantra: you are enough. The disciples were never going to be able to afford to feed the people gathered. They were not going to get very far with 5 loaves and 2 fish. […]

April 3, 2024

Clinging to an Irrational Hope

Clinging to an Irrational Hope

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. […]

March 20, 2024

The devil you know

The devil you know

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of […]

February 28, 2024

Prayerful evangelism

Prayerful evangelism

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the […]

February 7, 2024

Get in the arena

Get in the arena

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs […]

January 31, 2024

Dining with debauchery

Dining with debauchery

I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears […]

January 2, 2024

Having a midlife crisis

Having a midlife crisis

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. | Philippians 4:6–7 This Sunday, I began the sermon by talking about New […]

December 29, 2023

A time for everything

A time for everything

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;a time to kill, and a time to heal;a time to break down, and a time to build up;a time […]

December 13, 2023

Self-limiting

Self-limiting

No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the […]

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