by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Dec 8, 2016 | Weekly Words
On Sunday, December 25, 2016, we will be gathering together as a church in the same way we do every Sunday. I have had numerous conversations about this both in person and on social media, and so have many others as evidence by the numerous blogs and articles written...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Nov 17, 2016 | Weekly Words
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. | James 2.12-13 I have been sitting in this phrase for the last few weeks (maybe months): mercy...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Nov 10, 2016 | Weekly Words
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them. | Henry David Thoreau In the book Walden, Thoreau makes this observation about people and their ‘quiet desperation.’ By this, he means that all people have...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Oct 26, 2016 | Weekly Words
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest and sacrificial. God hates this wishful dreaming...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Oct 5, 2016 | Weekly Words
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who...
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,...
