by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Jan 10, 2018 | Weekly Words
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. | Hebrews 13:17 In the sermon Sunday, I spent some...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Jan 3, 2018 | Uncategorized, Weekly Words
This last Sunday of Advent, we read one final poem from Madeleine L’Engle. It captures the challenge of living in this time between Jesus’ comings, and the continued anticipation we have; it then channels that anticipation into something beneficial....
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Dec 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
A good reminder of joy in the midst of chaos, which could be a description of the Christmas season! we tend to sanitize the Christmas story, and with it, we sanitize Christ. His coming is seen as clean and simple, when in reality the incarnation was an act of great...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Dec 20, 2017 | Resolutions
One of the most difficult things about putting together a VISION for the church is simplifying it. The reason this is hard is because the church is not a simple thing. You can’t just decide that we are going to focus on and ignore everything else. As the church,...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Dec 14, 2017 | Weekly Words
This is the ADVENT poem we read Sunday to open the service. The Birth of Wonder | Madeleine L’Engle As I grow older I get surer Man’s heart is colder, His life no purer. As I grow steadily More austere I come less readily To Christmas each year. I can’t keep taking...
