This Week at Little Hills: Should Those Who Have Faith In Christ Seek Their Salvation Through Their Own Works, or Anywhere Else?
Greg takes us to the question “Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works, or anywhere else?” from the New City Catechism. We all need to think about what it means to have faith in the only one who can offer us true salvation.
God is With Us Even When Chocolate Isn't
We struggle with being thankful when things are still not right, but David helps us to see the opportunity to thank our God right now.
Keep Feeding the Starter
Believing that God will ultimately triumph over the grave is one thing; knowing what to do with yourself in the meantime is another. Ruth 3 presses that question through people who have lost everything and choose to prepare rather than wait it out—and what their ordinary faithfulness looks like, in the daily grind before the story resolves, may be more unsettling and more freeing than expected.
This Week at Little Hills: What Do Justification and Sanctification Mean?
Pastor Tim takes us to the question “What do justification and sanctification mean?” from the New City Catechism. We all need to think about what it means to have faith in the only one who can offer us true salvation.
The Smoker Takes Time
If God is a God of justice (and He is), then how do we live in a time of injustice? David wrestles with this in the middle of Psalm 7.
Will We Turn On?
In the Book of Ruth, Boaz finds a vulnerable widow gleaning in his field and he has to decide if he’ll do more than what the law requires. We, like Boaz have to answer the question Will love dictate we give more than the bare minimum? That’s much easier to tell others to do than for us to do ourselves.
This Week at Little Hills: What Do We Believe by True Faith?
Melanie takes us to the question “What Do We Believe by True Faith?” from the New City Catechism. We all need to think about what it means to have faith in the only one who can offer us true salvation.
The Sin-quake Will Be Dampened
If God is a God of justice (and He is), then how do we live in a time of injustice? David wrestles with this in the middle of Psalm 7.
Staying in the Cemetery
When commitment costs more than you have to give, and there’s a way out, the practical thing to do would be to take it. But, Ruth chooses to stay, speaking words we associate with weddings in the cold shadow of funerals. God calls us to be willing to hold fast in our darkest places, too.
This Week at Little Hills: What is Faith in Jesus Christ?
Greg takes us to the question “What is Faith in Jesus Christ?” from the New City Catechism. We all need to think about what it means to have faith in the only one who can offer us true salvation.
Love That Isn't Eclipsed
David doesn’t ask God to only judge others, but himself, too. How can he do that? Does he believe himself to be above sin? Or is it that his hope isn’t in himself?
Call Me Mara
Problems pile on until life feels more like a grave than renewed life, and we wonder where God is. The Book of Ruth opens with Naomi back from Moab empty and bitter, renaming herself Mara because the Almighty has dealt harshly with her—still certain God is King, yet unable to see whether that King still loves her. Is there hope when we find ourselves feeling the same way?
This Week at Little Hills: How Can We Be Saved?
Pastor Tim takes us to the question “How can we be saved?” from the New City Catechism. This is a challenging but important question.
We're the Fools
Sometimes our attempts to fix our situations we need rescue from go as badly as poorly planned April Fool’s jokes.
We See a Risen King
The disciples at first saw an empty grave, but not a Risen King. We can find ourselves doing the same.
This Week at Little Hills: Easter Saturday
Pastor Tim reflects on the empty tomb’s uncertainty before the disciples encountered the Risen Jesus.
Good News and Bad News: Are We the Punchline?
We pray the Lord’s Prayer anticipating God’s work, but a lot of times His glory and power feels quite distant. Is that the bad news that cancels out the good news that He cares?
The Gold Palm Branch Illusion
Sin makes us sick over and over, yet we keep charging right back to the buffet—unlike food poisoning, which at least teaches us to stay away from the contaminated food. That’s the human struggle Jesus faces head-on when He teaches us to pray “lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil” in Matthew 6:13.
This Week at Little Hills: What Happens After Death to Those Not United to Christ by Faith?
Melanie takes us to the question “What happens after death to those not united to Christ by faith?” from the New City Catechism. This is a challenging but important question.