Christmas 2023: Let All Mortal Flesh Spread Joy (December 25, 2023)

This week’s Steadfast:

Join us for a special Christmas Day Steadfast broadcast beginning our journey for the 12 Days of Christmas. We will celebrate the gift of Christmas and all that follows from it.

More than Melted Snow (December 18, 2023)

Tonight’s message:

When we see where God is actually headed with all of us, He equips us to run from “Fake Jesuses” and towards the true Jesus and His victory.

Inflating Towards God's Plan (December 11, 2023)

Tonight’s Steadfast:

When we see where God is actually headed with all of us, He equips us to run from “Fake Jesuses” and towards the true Jesus and His victory.

Why St. Nick was Slaphappy (December 4, 2023)

This week’s Steadfast:

Right in the Christmas story, we read the incredible mystery and wonder of what God has done for us.

Christmas Cilantro (November 27, 2023)

Tonight’s Steadfast:

Even timeless Christmas traditions ultimately prove… less than timeless. Is there anything we can really hold onto?

Look What Politics Makes Christians Do

Opening up X this week, I noted that the present beverage brewing tempests were the Internet meltdown over Taylor Swift’s new love interest and the honoring of an alleged Nazi in the Canadian parliament during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit. The invisible thread binding them was the Culture Warriors claiming to fight for Jesus who made these the cause célèbre.

What to Make of Lent

Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of the season of Lent. Countless Christians around the world will receive ashes in the shape of a cross on their forehead to mark the beginning of this time of reflection and repentance. Yet, for those who do not observe the season, this can look an awful lot like legalistic rule keeping or, even worse, an attempt to receive outward praise for superficial humility.

We Don't Get Him

Early in the baseball season last year, I heard a curious commercial on the radio. It was talking about a man rejected by his friends and suddenly ended with “He Gets Us. All of Us.” A few more airings and I realized it was a series of ads about Jesus, describing how his experiences on earth were like our own. Like Jesus Himself, the ads have managed to anger a wide variety of different folks. Jesus gets us, but once again, we struggle to get Him.

This Week at Little Hills: Malachi (February 9, 2023)

How do we think we become acceptable before God? Jason helps us to think about the reality of God’s grace.

This Week at Little Hills: Jonah (February 2, 2023)

Jim helps us to think about what we learn from Jonah’s attempt to flee God’s calling for his life.