Entries Tagged 'Sacrifice'

Sunday Sermon

Where's the Cream Filling? (June 21, 2026)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 12:00 AM

This week’s sermon:

It is easy to want Jesus for the healing, peace, and confidence he gives while keeping the rest of life safely under our control. In Matthew 8, however, the One who heals the sick also tells would-be disciples that the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. What does it mean to follow him rather than merely watch?

Sunday Sermon

Standing in the Lettuce (February 15, 2026)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 11:30 PM

Sunday night’s message:

How much religious activity would it take to make up for the parts of life we still withhold from God? In Isaiah 1, Israel brings a multitude of sacrifices, gathers for solemn assemblies, and makes many prayers—yet God addresses his people as Sodom and Gomorrah and says their worship has become a burden to him.

Sunday Sermon

Press the Siren Button: Risky Repentance Over Comfortable Steeples (November 16, 2025)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 11:30 PM

This week’s sermon:

Comfort, institutional preservation, and tribal identity can crowd out obedience to God’s call in our lives. Do we hear His call to reach those in need of His Grace and to live in the “risky repentance” that involves?

Sunday Devotional

This Week at Little Hills (June 15, 2025)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 2:12 PM
The latest This Week at Little Hills:

Greg helps us to think about what Jesus does for us through His death and Resurrection.

Sunday Sermon

What Really Counts as Gain (January 12, 2025)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 11:30 PM

Sunday night’s message:

We cruise along thinking everything seems worth rejoicing in—until something smacks us over the head and forces the question of what really matters. Paul faces that same reckoning in Philippians 3, listing every credential and mark of status he once counted as gain.

Sunday Sermon

When God Tells You to Take the Curvy Road (August 18, 2024)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 10:30 PM

Sunday night’s message:

We’ve all set out to pursue what we think God wants, only to watch the road curve in ways that make no sense. How do you trust Him when His path seems to undo the very promise He gave? In Genesis 22, Abraham faces exactly that moment as God calls him to offer Isaac.

Sunday Sermon

Life Resets to Zero (January 21, 2024)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 11:30 PM

Sunday night’s message:

Most of us navigate life by a quiet, practical question: what’s the minimum I need to get by with my time and my money? In Matthew 2, the wise men travel months across dangerous roads and then open their best treasures before the child—and the gap between what they did and what they could have gotten away with is exactly where this passage challenges us.

Sunday Devotional

Songs for Our Temple (Week 14: Ps. 40-42)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 12:24 AM

Please join me as we turn to our next three Psalms (40-42) and reflect on how they turn us towards our true hope as we look forward to Easter.

Sunday Devotional

Songs for Our Temple (Week 8: Psalms 22-24)

By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 7:54 PM

Jim Krenning shares from Psalms 22-24 — some of the most familiar words in the Psalms — this week as we continue our exploration of the Psalms this year.