by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Sep 16, 2016 | Weekly Words
The title of this post is taken from the best-selling book by Elizabeth Gilbert (with my own personal embellishments). I use it because this post is about the news that Elizabeth Gilbert has left her husband to enter into a lesbian relationship with her best friend....
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Sep 15, 2016 | Weekly Words
This is not the first time (nor will it probably be the last) that I reprint the writing of Wendell Berry to pass off as ‘my blog.’ As we have discussed marriage as God intends it: this complementary ‘one flesh’ relationship where two...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Sep 7, 2016 | Weekly Words
One of my favorite poems – from a son to a father – giving direction on what it looks like to grow into a man. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Sep 6, 2016 | Weekly Words
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in...
by Derek Fekkes | Aug 18, 2016 | Uncategorized, Weekly Words
I think it’s true that everybody is a worshipper. Everyone sacrifices their time, money, and thoughts towards something. We have functional gods who determine the decisions we make and the direction of our lives. For example, if feeling good about my body is the most...
by Pastor Jim Fikkert | Aug 10, 2016 | Weekly Words
The idea of giving honor to the earthly authorities is a touchy one, but is something we will be willing to do if we believe that it is for the best possible outcome. On Sunday I said: I am not calling for Christians to blindly follow and support all of the decisions...
