by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Mar 26, 2025 | Weekly Words
Last week in our EQUIP class we studied ways to pray through scripture; we spent most of our time on a practice called Lectio Divina. Lectio Divina in Latin means ‘divine reading’. The intention is to use prayer as a means for the Holy Spirit to speak through the word...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Mar 9, 2025 | Weekly Words
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another,...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Mar 7, 2025 | Weekly Words
Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. | Hebrews 13:1–2 This is the third of four principles of simple faithfulness that Peter offers to us in 1 Peter 4:7-11. He tells the first...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Mar 6, 2025 | Weekly Words
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Mar 5, 2025 | Weekly Words
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Mar 5, 2025 | Weekly Words
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a...
