This Week at Little Hills: What is Baptism?
Pastor Tim helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“What is Baptism?”) as begin our examination of what baptism is and what it means to be baptized.
Stuffed on the Wrong Things at the Buffet
Pastor Tim cools off in the pool as we think about cooling off our uncontrolled wills and being more focused on the things God values.
We Do Not Want This Man
We’ve all got a part of ourselves we refuse to hand over—the place that says, You don’t get this, Lord. Heading toward Jerusalem, Jesus told a parable about a nobleman whose citizens hated him and sent word: We do not want this man to reign over us. The question is whether that refusal still has the last word.
This Week at Little Hills: What Are the Sacraments or Ordinances?
Pastor Tim helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“What are the sacraments or ordinances?”) as we start a section of the catechism considering Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
On the Way to Something Beautiful
We want our way to be heard right now. We want results yesterday. But, if that’s not the approach God takes towards us, is it the approach we should take towards others?
Jesus Sees You in the Tree
Most of us are quicker to panic over a dying phone battery than over a dying spiritual one—we coast along, confident we’re fine, while the indicator drops lower than we’d ever admit. As Jesus calls a written-off man in Jericho, He challenges all of us on this: “Do we know how much we need Him?”
This Week at Little Hills: How is the Word of God to Be Read and Heard?
Greg helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“How is the Word of God to be read and heard?”). How do we better get to know God and His Word?
Waterless Clouds or Life Giving People?
Are our words promising things we have no intent to do that leave people to die or are they much needed refreshment in a hurting world?
The Blind Man Who Could See
There’s a blind man sitting by the road outside Jericho in Luke 18, and the crowd wants him to be quiet—he’s an embarrassment, a distraction from something more important. He cries out anyway: “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.” Whatever it is that makes you feel like the person everyone else wants to go away, this passage is for you.
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?