Entries Tagged 'Holiness'

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Don't Burn the Burger (September 7, 2026)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 7:00 PM

Tonight’s message:

When repeated failure makes a person look like a lost cause, writing them off can feel less like cruelty than common sense. Yet Paul opens 2 Corinthians 1 by addressing a fractured, correction-resistant congregation as “the church of God” and “saints”—then speaking grace and peace over people who appear to deserve neither.

Sunday Sermon

Know What Season You're In (July 26, 2026)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 12:00 AM

Sunday night’s message:

We’ve all felt the pull to add one more pious act—fast a little longer, pray a little harder—convinced the right combination will finally make us right before God. In Matthew 9, John’s disciples bring that same assumption directly to Jesus, and his answer reframes not just the practice of fasting but the question of what season we’re actually living in.

Sunday Sermon

He Touches the Untouchable (June 7, 2026)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 12:00 AM

This week’s sermon:

We’ve sung it since childhood: He’s got the whole world in his hands. Yet when the personal “you and me” gets stripped away, what’s left is a distant abstraction. In Matthew 8 a leper kneels and forces the real question—does the Lord who can hold everything actually will to hold him?

Sunday Sermon

When Faith Gets the Yips (May 31, 2026)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 12:00 AM

This week’s sermon:

Even as a Christian, you can feel the yips—that moment when shame from old sins creeps back in, making you wonder if you’re really free, if God’s forgiveness is truly yours. Romans 6:23 speaks directly into that weight: the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Sunday Sermon

You Gotta Serve Somebody (May 24, 2026)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 10:30 PM

This week’s sermon:

We crave freedom, but Bob Dylan was right when he sang, “You Gotta Serve Somebody.” No matter how strong that craving, we’ll find ourselves serving either righteousness or unrighteousness.

Sunday Sermon

Beyond Getting Even: Dross, Not Destruction (March 8, 2026)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 10:30 PM

This week’s sermon:

When we want vengeance, we want to get back—but Isaiah 1:24–25 shows a God who wants to get back to good, and that difference is harder to hold onto than it sounds when the anger is righteous and the wrong is real.

Sunday Sermon

The Map God Already Drew (October 12, 2025)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 10:30 PM

Sunday night’s message:

When we’re desperate for direction, we tend to reach for whatever voice sounds most confident, be it horoscopes, politicians or just about anyone who seems to know something we don’t. Deuteronomy 18 speaks to our searching, reminding us God has never left His people without a trustworthy voice to follow, and what He promised there points somewhere specific.

Sunday Sermon

The Wrong Prescription (February 23, 2025)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 11:30 PM

This week’s sermon:

When God’s holiness draws near, our first instinct is often to back away—to put some distance between ourselves and the One whose law shows us how unholy we are. That’s exactly what Israel does in Exodus 20 after hearing the Ten Commandments: they tremble at the mountain and tell Moses, “You speak to us… but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”

Sunday Devotional

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

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 12:38 PM
I share during This Week at Little Hills this week:

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.

Sunday Devotional

This Week at Little Hills: What Do Justification and Sanctification Mean? (April 26, 2024)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 8:44 PM
I share during This Week at Little Hills this week:

Pastor Tim takes us to the question “What do justification and sanctification mean?” 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.

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