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,...
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...
