When Sin Doesn't Get the Last Word (October 13, 2024)

This week’s sermon:

Family conflict. Our attempts to force a good outcome. So often our all too human messes and efforts leave life looking like a train wreck that gives sin the final word. Yet Genesis 35 closes Isaac’s story by calling him “old and full of days” and placing his divided sons together at his burial. Maybe even our broken lives still have hope of being full?

The Low and Slow of Trials (September 2, 2024)

Tonight’s Steadfast:

How do we understand the difficulties we face in life? James says we can find joy in them — how can that be?

This Week at Little Hills: How Does the Holy Spirit Help Us? (June 1, 2024)

Pastor Tim helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“How does the Holy Spirit help us?”) as we continue to explore how God the Holy Spirit helps us.

This Week at Little Hills: What Do We Believe About the Holy Spirit? (May 26, 2024)

Melanie helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“What do we believe about the Holy Spirit?”) as we continue to explore how God the Holy Spirit is with us.

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: What Do Justification and Sanctification Mean? (April 26, 2024)

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.

Planting Banana Trees (March 3, 2024)

This week’s sermon:

We’ve all looked at this world and thought, it just doesn’t seem like God’s will is being done. Underneath that thought is a deeper fear that God’s reserve of will and ability runs dry the way ours does. That fear is exactly what Jesus targets when He teaches us to pray “your will be done.”

When Your Cup Runs Over with Sorrow (November 19, 2023)

This week’s sermon:

The holidays can bring back the empty chair, the family hurt, the memories of when everything felt joyful—and before long, sorrow and anxiety begin to take over. The words of Romans 8 help us in times when grief feels stronger than truth.

The Casaba Melon Church (November 12, 2023)

This week’s sermon:

Rules, hypocrisy, conflict—those are the words people most often reach for when they describe the church, and if we’re honest, we’ve sometimes given them reason to. Galatians 5 doesn’t flinch from that indictment; it sets the works of the flesh against a vision of the church so different, so beautiful, that it could only come from one source.

The Leaning Tower of Life (October 22, 2023)

Sunday night’s message:

We’ve all sensed it—a choice that seemed perfect in the moment, but leaves us listing further down the road. Matthew 7:24–27 presents two builders, two houses, nearly identical except for what lies beneath, and asks which foundation will hold when the rains come.