by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Oct 21, 2025 | Weekly Words
This is the third post in a series on responding to the cultural moment. The first post oulined the issue and looked at what we are doing when we gather on Sundays. The second post was looking at the role of preaching in this. Today we will look at the work of...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Oct 21, 2025 | Weekly Words
Yesterday, I started a blog series that came from a talk I did at our church meeting. This is was to give background on how we interacted with current events at our Sunday service. What are we doing when we are preaching? The act of preaching is to deliver the Word of...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Oct 21, 2025 | Weekly Words
We had a church family meeting after second service on Sunday. Before we celebrated God’s blessings on us and installed nine new member families, I spoke on how our church deals with major events in the culture around us. For those who could not be there, I felt...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Oct 8, 2025 | Weekly Words
Technology creates its own imperatives, and, at the same time, creates a wide-ranging social system to reinforce its imperatives. | Neil Postman, Technopoly I am not a Luddite, though I have been accused of it. But no one would mistake me for being an early adopter,...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Sep 30, 2025 | Weekly Words
Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard. He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. | Genesis 9:20–22 Over the last...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Sep 9, 2025 | Weekly Words
On Sunday, I preached on the final act of God’s meta-narrative: RESTORATION. This includes everything that has happened since the resurrection and will happen until the end of time. At the end of the sermon, it began to rain (we were having Church in the Park) and so...
