by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Oct 4, 2016 | Catechism, Weekly Words
Q88 // What are the outward and ordinary means by which Christ gives to us the benefits of redemption? A // The outward and ordinary means by which Christ gives to us the benefits of redemption are his ordinances, especially the word, sacraments, and prayer,...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Sep 16, 2016 | Weekly Words
The title of this post is taken from the best-selling book by Elizabeth Gilbert (with my own personal embellishments). I use it because this post is about the news that Elizabeth Gilbert has left her husband to enter into a lesbian relationship with her best friend....
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Sep 15, 2016 | Weekly Words
This is not the first time (nor will it probably be the last) that I reprint the writing of Wendell Berry to pass off as ‘my blog.’ As we have discussed marriage as God intends it: this complementary ‘one flesh’ relationship where two...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Sep 7, 2016 | Weekly Words
One of my favorite poems – from a son to a father – giving direction on what it looks like to grow into a man. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Sep 6, 2016 | Weekly Words
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in...
