We’ve all stepped into a conflict hoping to bring peace and walked out having made things worse—turns out we didn’t understand the system as well as we thought. Jesus calls the peacemakers blessed in Matthew 5:9, promising they shall be called sons of God, so the question worth sitting with is: what kind of peace does He actually have in mind?
We’ve all found ways to look faithful without being faithful—the outward gesture that signals piety while the heart is somewhere else entirely. That’s exactly the trap Isaiah 7 sets in plain sight: a king who quotes the law of God to refuse the sign God himself is offering, and whose very piety is the problem.
Most of us navigate life by a quiet, practical question: what’s the minimum I need to get by with my time and my money? In Matthew 2, the wise men travel months across dangerous roads and then open their best treasures before the child—and the gap between what they did and what they could have gotten away with is exactly where this passage challenges us.
On Easter, we celebrate God’s great reversal, yet many of us still carry wildernesses where things feel anything but right. Mary Magdalene was in such a wilderness in John 20 as she wept outside of the tomb. In the wilderness, we often cannot see when Jesus is right in front of us.
We all know what it’s like to finally commit to following God’s call—and then watch the enemy show right back up. In 2 Samuel 5, David faces that exact moment, and what God tells him to do next is not what a warrior would expect.
Join Pastor Tim for This Week at Little Hills — a moment of Scriptural encouragement from Matthew 22 as we reflect on the death of George Floyd, protests around our nation and our calling as Christians.
Join us tonight as Pastor Tim begins a series on the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), thinking about how we love the people God places into our lives.
Pastor Tim talks about loving our neighbors whom we separate out as “different” than ourselves as we continue our series on the parable of the Good Samaritan.
What does it mean when God calls us to “knowledge” as a way to bolster our faith? What is God’s knowledge like? That’s the subject of this week’s Steadfast.
Pastor Tim continues our series “the Temptations,” looking at how we are all tempted to misuse God’s faithfulness and what God calls us to do to avoid that.