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Pastor Jim Fikkert
June 8, 2016

Keeping and Holding

This week my parents retired. After a career dedicated to teaching high school kids, they taught their last classes. My dad was given the honor of giving the graduation speech and what follows is a perfect representation of how I was raised and how he lived his life. It also happens to dovetail perfectly with […]

May 31, 2016

Different by design

But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. | Ephesians 4.7 One of the biggest mistakes Christianity has made is to read the gospel through a Platonic lens. Plato believed that everything on this earth was nothing more than form of something divine. In other words, what […]

May 10, 2016

Are you ‘filled with the Spirit?’

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and […]

May 4, 2016

When the Gospel is not enough

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should […]

April 20, 2016

Mission and Discipleship

The mission of our church is simple (in concept, not implementation). As a church, we want to live out the Great Commission, given to Jesus by His disciples at the end of His life: And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore […]

April 13, 2016

A functioning body

But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. | 1 Corinthians […]

March 31, 2016

Raised to New Life

And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, […]

March 24, 2016

Grey Matters

If you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. | Proverbs 2.3-5 In the sermon last Sunday we dove into one of those […]

March 15, 2016

Contextualization and the language of God

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will […]

March 3, 2016

Baptisms this Sunday

  What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with […]

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