Don’t just take my word for it
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed. | Hebrews 12:12-13 On Sunday, I preached on the issue of character. I made the claim that the development of our character […]
The need for mentors
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good | Titus 2:2–4 As we opened up Proverbs a few weeks ago, the focus was on […]
No hindrances to godliness
Pastor Jim Fikkert
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having […]
Caring enough to be truthful
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. | Ephesians 4:25 In my sermon Sunday, I ended with a quote from Tim Keller, the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, who passed away on May 19. Over the last […]
Looking for God in all the wrong places
Pastor Jim Fikkert
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. | Isaiah 40:8 This week, we started a sermon series on the minor prophet Habakkuk. In the first chapter, we hear the prophet’s frustrations over the increased corruption in the Promised Land. God’s people are oppressed, violence and injustice reign; […]
Faith is more powerful than proof
Pastor Jim Fikkert
[13] These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. [14] For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. [15] If they had been thinking of […]
Acknowledge your blinders
Pastor Jim Fikkert
For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day […]
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