Catechism // Question 1
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Today we started Thursday Theology, which is a journey through the Westminster Shorter Catechism using the verses that developed the answers. In other words, the questions and answers that make up the catechism are derived from large portions of Biblical truth. We will spend our time working through Scripture to determine if the answers given […]
Do justice, Love kindness, Walk humbly
Pastor Jim Fikkert
On Sunday we talked about the injustice in the world and the responsibility we have as Christians to do measured mediation: absorbing some of the pain and brokenness of others. We can do this because of what we have been given in relationship with God and the promise of future peace. This is what God […]
Doing something about the refugee crisis
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Last week a picture went viral that showed the lifeless body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach. This alerted the world to a crisis that has been building for some time as over a million people have sought asylum in Europe from war torn countries like Syria, Afghanistan, and many others […]
Paradox and the Christian
Pastor Jim Fikkert
“The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. | Deuteronomy 29.29 On Sunday, we talked about the limits of knowledge; the shortcomings of believing that an increase of knowledge will […]
An honest conversation about abortion
Pastor Jim Fikkert
I actually had that title written across the top of my page when someone sent me an article with a similar title that actually does an amazing job of helping us to think through what it means to care for the born and unborn alike. And since I have been told more than once this […]
What is choice?
Pastor Jim Fikkert
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” | Robert Frost Like life, CHOICE is a word that can mean very different things; a word whose definition is important to the conversation surrounding Planned Parenthood and abortion. Before we get […]
What is life?
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Science speaks properly a language of abstraction and abstract categories when it is properly trying to sort out and put in order the things it knows. But it often assumes improperly that it has said–or known–enough when it has spoken of “the cell” or “the organism,” “the genome” or “the ecosystem” and given the correct […]
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