by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Jan 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
On Sunday, we looked at two wrong ways to approach conflict resolution. Modern psychology has described a fight or flight response to moments of stress, and these create the two extremes of how people act when faced with an issue of conflict. Neither fight or flight...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Jan 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
On Sunday, we looked at the connection between character and leadership. The point was that to lead in a godly way is to strive to act honorably in all situations (and let God take care of the outcomes). One of the obvious applications of this, which I left off of the...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Jan 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
As we began 2 Samuel this week, I made a point about how we go straight through books of the Bible, so that we interact with all of it. Then I skipped over the end of the first chapter, which is especially awkward because the title of the sermon came from this...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Jan 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
This Sunday, I had to skip church due to sickness, so I did not get to preach the New Years sermon that I had prepared from Ecclesiastes 9. Here is an excerpt from it, where the author begins to point us toward some pursuits that will lead us to God’s ends:...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Dec 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Dec 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear;break forth into singing and cry aloud,you who have not been in labor!For the children of the desolate one will be morethan the children of her who is married,” says the Lord. | Isaiah 54:1 This Sunday, we looked at the story of...
