Articles by Timothy R. Butler

Timothy R. Butler is Editor-in-Chief of Open for Business. He also serves as a pastor at Little Hills Church and FaithTree Christian Fellowship.

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No Shadow of Turning (September 30, 2024)

How do we deal with darkness and uncertainty in life? Can we count on God’s blessing? James helps us to think about this.

When You Set the Forest on Fire (September 29, 2024)

Gaps make us uneasy, so we fill them by hook or by crook—inventing tidy origins for old phrases or forcing plans into place. Genesis 27 opens on Isaac’s household doing the same around the blessing he means to give, each scrambling to close what feels unfinished.

This Week at Little Hills: The Triune God Sends (September 29, 2024)

Pastor Tim reflects on why we dig into the truth about who God is even though it is mind boggling; it tells us about the One who sends us.

FaithTree Online Prayer Walk

Praying for Our Community Together

The Bible calls us to pray on all occasions and to constantly pray for God’s people (Ephesians 6:18). FaithTree Online Prayer Walks have each gathered hundreds of believers from around the world to pray before our faithful God. Let’s join together to pray in Jesus’s name once again at our eleventh Online Prayer Walk all day on January 30! We are excited to see what God will do through this time!

When the Laundry Tips Over (September 22, 2024)

We think we're so strong until we're not—and Genesis 26 puts that uncomfortable truth right in front of us, as Isaac moves almost without pause from a mountaintop moment of God's renewed covenant promise straight into lying about his own wife out of fear.

This Week at Little Hills: New Mercies Every Morning (September 22, 2024)

Pastor Tim reflects on the end of our New City Catechism Sunday School Express series and what comes next as part of thinking about how God’s mercies are always new.

True Riches, Wilting Riches (September 16, 2024)

We chase after riches, but what happens when those riches — and our lives — come to an end?

It Looks Like a Perfect World (September 15, 2024)

We instinctively read our circumstances as a verdict on where we stand with God—ease means favor, famine means failure. In Genesis 26, Isaac is stranded in exactly that famine, holding a promise that the land and its people seem to be disproving, and God's answer to him isn't immediate relief but something harder to trust.

This Week at Little Hills: What Hope Does Everlasting Life Hold for Us? (September 14, 2024)

Pastor Tim reflects on 9/11’s anniversary and then Greg helps us think about the final question in the New City Catechism (“What Hope Does Everlasting Life Hold for Us?”).

Where Do I Find Real Wisdom? (September 9, 2024)

James calls us to look for the real wisdom of God rather than the “wisdom” we normally chase after.

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