This Week at Little Hills: What is the Lord’s Prayer?
Pastor Tim helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“What is the Lord’s Prayer?”). How does the prayer Jesus taught us help us to understand Him and His will for us better?
Pooling the Truth
How does showing care in how we relay information speak to our state before God? It is part of the broader picture of who we are in Jesus.
Why We Can't Hear What God Is Saying
Clear words can still sail right past us when they aren’t the news we want. In Luke 18, Jesus tells the Twelve exactly what’s about to happen to Him, yet they were just like us: they didn’t want to hear.
This Week at Little Hills: What Should We Pray?
Melanie helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“What should we pray?”). She helps us to think about the sorts of things we can and should spend time on in prayer.
Socks Against Sin
Do you like receiving critique and correction? Me, neither. But God offers us loving correction that draws us closer to the beauty He intends and, when we do it right, the correction we give and receive each other can do the same.
What Are You Still Holding Onto?
There’s always one thing we’d rather not put on the table when God asks us to give something up—and we usually know exactly what it is. In Luke 18, a rich man walks away from Jesus grieving because that one thing is precisely what Jesus names, and the disciples’ stunned question in response—”then who can be saved?”—turns out to be our question too.
This Week at Little Hills: With What Attitude Should We Pray?
Pastor Tim helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“With what attitude should we pray?”). How do we approach talking with God?
What's the Difference Between an Eclipse and an Apocalypse?
Even when we have the truth, we need to figure out how to convey it in love. Conveying truth in love involves caring about how the person we’re speaking to will hear it because of how we say it and when we say it.
One Thing You Still Lack
Most of us have something we’d rather not put on the table before God—something we’re holding just tightly enough that we hope He won’t notice. In Luke 18, a ruler who has kept the commandments since his youth comes to Jesus asking what he still must do to inherit eternal life, and Jesus names exactly the one thing he isn’t ready to hear.
This Week at Little Hills: What is Prayer?
Greg helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“What is prayer?”). How does prayer explain the ways we get to relate to our God who loves us.
Spot the Differences
When we’re ready to accuse others of missing the mark of righteousness, are we prepared to explore the differences between ourselves and the righteous person too?
Empty Buildings and Deep Roots
We’re drawn to people who seem useful, impressive, ready to contribute—and in Luke 18, the disciples felt the same way when they turned away parents bringing infants to Jesus. But Jesus stopped them: “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”
This Week at Little Hills: How Does the Holy Spirit Help Us?
Pastor Tim helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“How does the Holy Spirit help us?”) as we continue to explore how God the Holy Spirit helps us.
Level Up (or Not)
We constantly seek to strive for the better position in society, but what if we stopped trying to see ourselves as important and instead saw ourselves humbly?
The Blood Is Still Fresh
It’s easy to look across the room and thank God we’re not like that person—the failure, the compromiser, the obvious sinner. In Luke 18, Jesus tells a parable to confront such self-righteousness in us.
This Week at Little Hills: What Do We Believe About the Holy Spirit?
Melanie helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“What do we believe about the Holy Spirit?”) as we continue to explore how God the Holy Spirit is with us.
Our New Clothes
Seeking wise counsel that will lead us closer to the Lord is at the heart of helping good leaders and being good leaders.
Don't Hang Up on God
We’ve all prayed about something so long that we start to wonder if God has put us on hold—and whether anyone is ever going to pick up. In Luke 18, Jesus tells a parable about a powerless widow who keeps pleading before a judge who neither fears God nor respects people, and asks whether his people will keep crying out to him day and night or simply lose heart.
This Week at Little Hills: Where Does This Faith Come From?
Pastor Tim provides an update about our new sermon series and special Sunday school class tonight along with a brief look at our next catechism question (“Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through faith alone, where does this faith come from?”) and accompanying Scripture.
Neither Waves Nor Still Waters
As we continue to explore what good leadership looks like, the next verse in Proverbs 25 helps clue us in: God values virtuous curiosity that neither seeks to needlessly cause trouble nor values stability over truth.