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.

Holy Week at Little Hills

We can Noah Hope

Join us for our fourth anniversary of Steadfast, during which we look at how God provides hope even in dark and discouraging times.

The $10 Billion Debt You're Ignoring

We often treat sin as a handful of inconsequential debts, so asking God for forgiveness—or forgiving someone else—can feel unnecessary. In Matthew 6:12, Jesus places both debts before us in a single petition: “Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” Do we understand the balance we have run up?

This Week at Little Hills: Are All People, Just as They Were Lost Through Adam, Saved Through Christ?

Pastor Tim takes us to the question “Are all people, just as they were lost through Adam, saved through Christ?” from the New City Catechism. What do we need to do to be saved?

What if We Could Live as Long as Methuselah?

Methuselah lived 969 years — longer than anyone else recorded in Scripture. Does that mark success or remind us of failure that creeps around even that long of life?

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.