by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Apr 8, 2025 | Weekly Words
But I call to God, and the LORD will save me. Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice. | Psalm 55:16–17 We just completed a Lenten sermon series on prayer. We have looked at the FORMS (the aspects of prayer) and the TOOLS...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Apr 1, 2025 | Weekly Words
The Examen is a prayer tool with the specific purpose of self examination. It is simply a time of prayer in which we review our day in the presence of God in prayer. While we think back over our day we simply ask God to point out two things: where we have failed and...
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...
