Does God Care About Today?
When something’s keeping you up at night—an unexpected bill, a looming deadline, a need you can’t see your way through—it’s easy to wonder whether those worries are too ordinary to bring to God. Jesus is clear in the next part of the Lord’s Prayer that simply isn’t the case.
This Week at Little Hills: What Else Does Christ’s Death Redeem?
Pastor Tim takes us to the question “What else does Christ’s death redeem?” from the New City Catechism. Does Christ’s death and resurrection “only” grant us salvation or does His work do even more?
Breaking the Norm
God calls us to fully face the “norm” of death so we can better understand how He works and how our lives fit into His work.
Planting Banana Trees
We’ve all looked at this world and thought, it just doesn’t seem like God’s will is being done. Underneath that thought is a deeper fear that God’s reserve of will and ability runs dry the way ours does. That fear is exactly what Jesus targets when He teaches us to pray “your will be done.”
This Week at Little Hills: Does Christ’s Death Mean All Our Sins Can Be Forgiven?
Pastor Tim takes us to the question “Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven?” from the New City Catechism. Can God really forgive us?
What is God's Image in Us?
We can get confused about the image of God in us. Is it just a “photocopy” of God? No, but it does tell us what He values and what He calls us to do.
Whose Kingdom Are You Building?
Most of us pray “thy kingdom come” without stopping to ask whether the kingdom we’re actually building day to day is God’s—or our own. That tension sits at the heart of Matthew 6:10, and Daniel 4 shows just how far God will go to get our attention when we forget who’s really in charge.
This Week at Little Hills: Why Was It Necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to Die?
Melanie takes us to the question “Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die?” from the New City Catechism. This question takes us to the amazing and wondrous beauty of the Gospel.
Is A Good Creation a Lost Dream?
Sin distorts our ability to understand what God is saying to us and how much we need His mercy.
Prayer for Dummies
How do we come before God when our prayers so easily become empty phrases, desperate demands, or distant formalities? In Matthew 6, Jesus says our Father knows what we need before we ask, then gives His disciples words for approaching Him: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.”
This Week at Little Hills: Why Must the Redeemer Be Truly God?
Pastor Tim takes us to the question “Why must the Redeemer be truly God?” from the New City Catechism. The question leads us to wrestle with the fullness of who God is and how we can come before him, the subject of this week’s sermon.
Distortion
Sin distorts our ability to understand what God is saying to us and how much we need His mercy.
Bringing the Wrong Bowl
Bold faith can feel clearest in a crisis; the harder question is how to live when the rush is over and ordinary life must begin again. Matthew 2:19–23 meets Joseph at precisely that point: Herod is dead, God calls his family home from Egypt, and the road ahead still demands careful listening. What does faithfulness look like when obedience is clear, but the next step is not?
This Week at Little Hills: Why Must the Redeemer Be Truly Human?
Jim takes us to the question “Why must the Redeemer be truly human?” from the New City Catechism. The question helps us to understand how Jesus takes on our sin for us.
Ash Wednesday
Does God Oppose Technology?
Sometimes we look at technology as a force opposed to God. But is that what the Bible actually says about about human innovation?
When Boldness Looks Absurd
It’s easy to talk about being bold for Jesus until opposition comes—when it’s dangerous, uncomfortable or people may look down on us. In Matthew 2, Joseph and Herod both have choices to make in response to God coming into the world. Do our own responses to God look show bold faith or frantic fear?
This Week at Little Hills: What Sort of Redeemer is Needed to Bring Us Back to God?
Jim takes us to the question “What sort of Redeemer is needed to bring us back to God?” as we start part 2 of the New City Catechism.
The Mercy Can in Front of Us
When we find ourselves demanding mercy from God do we see all the mercy He’s already provided? Do we understand the true mercy He’s offering?
Streaks on the Canvas
We have a hard time listening to God. A phone vibrates, a mind runs off, and even when nothing interrupts we still lose the thread. The wise men of Matthew 2 trusted His word enough to travel months toward a king they couldn’t yet see—can we listen and trust Him when our own picture still looks unfinished?