Gospel for life with Nathaniel Timmermann

Follow: the attitude

What's your attitude when you follow? Fearful or fearless?

Follow: the invitation

Does religion strike you as a little odd or strange? Sometimes people do things that seem off to people from the outside. And maybe that is how Christianity strikes you. But there is a simple word for the Christian life: follow. When we follow someone that wants to be with us, that isn't od or strange. That is a life-changing relationship.

Defined by his success!

What defines us? What makes us us? When life is so full of failures and successes, we need someone else's success to tell us who we are!

Done for you

A Good Friday poem. The wonder of Christ.

A servant King

Who wants a king? I would take one if he actually pays attention to me.

I love my church: I get Jesus

What would you give up to get some glory, wonder, and majesty? The most foolish thing in the world is that someone would give up the highest place ever. This is what Jesus has done. In the aftermath, what's left? Just Jesus. And you can have him.

Jesus Christ our High Priest makes us priests

If you think you have access to God, he hears your prayers, you experience intimacy with him, and you can urge others, somewhat on his behalf, to do good -- if you think you can do all that -- are you confident? Let's get some confidence.

I love my church: I get faith

Faith is more than just a wish or a hope, it is the remedy for our soul sickness. It is the way we get rid of the horror, the poison, and the disgust which ravages our hearts at their deepest moments. Need to get rid of something in your soul. Then get faith.

I love my church: I get corrected

If any place should permit and encourge healthy correction, it should be the church. We should be able to readily take correction. But we often don't, and the reasons for that are many. At least three ideas can contribute to a framework where we can get corrected: if it is not for our glory, not by our authority, and not our story.

 

 

I love my church: I get to sacrifice

Is your life filled with sacrifice for the benefit of others? For sacrifice to really be good and inspirational, it needs two things: to be demanded by others and to do something. That's what we get from Jesus. That will give us real first love to drive our sacrifice.