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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Sounding Christian Isn't Enough (October 8, 2023)

Jesus warns in Matthew 7 that the most dangerous kind of false teaching comes from one dressed like a sheep. By the time you realize there’s a wolf underneath, it’s frighteningly close. How do we keep alert when such sounds deceptively good?

This Week at Little Hills: How and Why Did God Create Us? (October 7, 2023)

Pastor Tim takes us to the question “How and Why Did God Create Us,” the fourth question of the New City Catechism, as part of the launch of Sunday School Express.

Christmas at FaithTree

Celebrate the Season with FaithTree and Friends

FaithTree has so much happening this Christmas and so do our local church friends. If you’re looking for the best ways to celebrate the season, check out these great opportunities.

Faithtoberfest 2023

Call it "Decemberfest" This Year -- Join us on December 8

Unfortunately, we’ve had to make the difficult decision to pause Faithtoberfest for 2023 due to challenges for our participants. The good news is that means we’re going to have an even bigger and better O Christmas (Faith)Tree in place of Faithtoberfest this year.

O Christmas FaithTree 2023

O Christmas (Faith)Tree is something very special: a celebratory service at 7:00 p.m. on December 8 that interweaves favorite Christmas carols and songs — both old and new and in a range of styles — with the story of Christmas that runs from Genesis through Revelation.

Don't Wait Until Game 161 (October 2, 2023)

Our world moves us to ever increasing indifference, but as we pick up in 2 Peter 3, the Apostle calls us to be ready for Jesus’s return.

Layaway for the Kingdom (October 1, 2023)

How do so many other people seem to fall for the “wide gate” of worldliness and we don’t? Or have we fallen for it and we don’t even realize it?

This Week at Little Hills: How Many Persons are There in God? (September 29, 2023)

Pastor Tim takes us to the question “How Many Persons are There in God,” the second question of the New City Catechism, as part of the launch of Sunday School Express.

Pre-Pre-Christmas Celebration (September 25, 2023)

When we feel so far removed from the things to celebrate, can we still have a reason to rejoice?

Yellow Jackets or Carpenter Bees? (September 24, 2023)

In our sinful human nature we’re all hypocrites—quick to see the masks on everyone else, almost never on ourselves. Jesus meets that very tendency in Matthew 7:12 with a rule most people already know by heart: whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them.

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