No Shadow of Turning
How do we deal with darkness and uncertainty in life? Can we count on God’s blessing? James helps us to think about this.
When You Set the Forest on Fire
Gaps make us uneasy, so we fill them by hook or by crook—inventing tidy origins for old phrases or forcing plans into place. Genesis 27 opens on Isaac’s household doing the same around the blessing he means to give, each scrambling to close what feels unfinished.
This Week at Little Hills: The Triune God Sends
Pastor Tim reflects on why we dig into the truth about who God is even though it is mind boggling; it tells us about the One who sends us.
Looking to Next Season
Can we keep our eyes on the true prize even when things are tough and don’t seem to be going how we would hope? Part of doing so is recognizing the source of the problems we face and distinguishing that from our source of hope.
When the Laundry Tips Over
We think we’re so strong until we’re not—and Genesis 26 puts that uncomfortable truth right in front of us, as Isaac moves almost without pause from a mountaintop moment of God’s renewed covenant promise straight into lying about his own wife out of fear.
This Week at Little Hills: New Mercies Every Morning
Pastor Tim reflects on the end of our New City Catechism Sunday School Express series and what comes next as part of thinking about how God’s mercies are always new.
True Riches, Wilting Riches
We chase after riches, but what happens when those riches — and our lives — come to an end?
It Looks Like a Perfect World
We instinctively read our circumstances as a verdict on where we stand with God—ease means favor, famine means failure. In Genesis 26, Isaac is stranded in exactly that famine, holding a promise that the land and its people seem to be disproving, and God’s answer to him isn’t immediate relief but something harder to trust.
This Week at Little Hills: What Hope Does Everlasting Life Hold for Us?
Pastor Tim reflects on 9/11’s anniversary and then Greg helps us think about the final question in the New City Catechism (“What Hope Does Everlasting Life Hold for Us?”).
Where Do I Find Real Wisdom?
James calls us to look for the real wisdom of God rather than the “wisdom” we normally chase after.
Why Can't God Just Draw a Straight Line?
God told Rebekah before her sons were born that the older would serve the younger—yet in Genesis 25, Isaac loves Esau most. Nothing looks like it’s heading where God said it would. When the path to God’s promises feels unnecessarily tangled, can we still believe he’s working?
This Week at Little Hills: Of What Advantage to Us is Christ’s Ascension?
Pastor Tim helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“Of What Advantage to Us is Christ’s Ascension?”).
The Low and Slow of Trials
How do we understand the difficulties we face in life? James says we can find joy in them — how can that be?
The Patriarch Who Waits
Waiting is hard—praying for years with silence the only reply, watching others move while you stand still, wondering if God has forgotten or if you took a wrong turn. That was Isaac in Genesis 25: married at forty, still childless nearly twenty years later, the promise hanging unfinished. What do we do in the long stretch when nothing seems to move?
This Week at Little Hills: What Does Christ’s Resurrection Mean for Us?
Pastor Tim helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“What does Christ’s resurrection mean for us?”).
Flopping on the Deck
James challenges where we find hope as we begin this new series in the first chapter of the Epistle from James.
Ladders Over the Wall
It’s easy to hunker down when life gets complicated. We’ll just manage what’s in front of us and quietly wonder whether God’s bigger plan still has a place for us in it. Genesis 24 takes us to the story of a family facing down that same question.
This Week at Little Hills: Where is Christ Now?
Pastor Tim helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“Where is Christ now?”), a question that relates to how we view subjects such as communion.
We Need Good -- and True! -- News
The next set of Proverbs challenge us to think about how our words — even seemingly insignificant ones — can have a huge impact on those around us.
When God Tells You to Take the Curvy Road
We’ve all set out to pursue what we think God wants, only to watch the road curve in ways that make no sense. How do you trust Him when His path seems to undo the very promise He gave? In Genesis 22, Abraham faces exactly that moment as God calls him to offer Isaac.