by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Dec 16, 2016 | Weekly Words
Last night I gathered together with my Community Group to have our ‘Christmas in Community’ celebration. This year, instead of a church-wide Christmas Eve celebration, we chose to gather together in the same small groups we meet with regularly, to...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Dec 14, 2016 | Weekly Words
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; 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...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Dec 8, 2016 | Weekly Words
On Sunday, December 25, 2016, we will be gathering together as a church in the same way we do every Sunday. I have had numerous conversations about this both in person and on social media, and so have many others as evidence by the numerous blogs and articles written...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Nov 30, 2016 | Advent 2016
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God, Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood. This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long. As we finished up the book of Obadiah this...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Nov 17, 2016 | Weekly Words
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. | James 2.12-13 I have been sitting in this phrase for the last few weeks (maybe months): mercy...