Entries Tagged 'Good Works'

They Needed Something Different -- and So Do We (September 1, 2025)

The Pharisees had a standard to make themselves feel justified, but was it good enough to make them truly justified?

This Week at Little Hills: Must We Still Do Good Works and Obey God’s Word? (May 11, 2024)

Pastor Tim takes us to the question “Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through Christ alone, must we still do good works and obey God’s Word?” from the New City Catechism. We all need to think about what it means to have faith in the only one who can offer us true salvation.

This Week at Little Hills: Should Those Who Have Faith In Christ Seek Their Salvation Through Their Own Works, or Anywhere Else? (May 5, 2024)

Greg takes us to the question “Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works, or anywhere else?” from the New City Catechism. We all need to think about what it means to have faith in the only one who can offer us true salvation.

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.

Rest Is Not a Bug (May 7, 2023)

God calls us to do His good work — and sometimes that means taking time for rest.

Not Far Off, But Not Yet (June 26, 2022)

Our good deeds can bring us close to Jesus, however, they are not enough. We must believe in Jesus and that’s what gets us in the family of Jesus.

52 Verses, 52 Books, 52 Weeks (Week 35: Ezra)

Are we simply knowing God’s Word or have we learned how to do what God’s Word calls us to do?

Doing God's Work in the "Off Season" (July 7, 2021)

Pastor Brad speaks about how we focus on God’s calling to us even during the “off seasons” of life. Are we sleeping during those times or are we putting in the work?

52 Verses, 52 Books, 52 Weeks (Week 12: 2 Thessalonians)

This week, we’re turning to Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians as we continue our journey through 52 books of the Bible over the course of 2021!