Gospel for life with Nathaniel Timmermann

I love my church: I get to fight evil

Does it help to be part of the church to fight evil? Check it out, tell us what you think. It gives the right understanding of evil, the right way to fight evil, and the right place to fight evil.

 

 

Jesus Christ is our Compassionate High Priest

Any true advocate for us before a higher authority or even God himself needs to be both like us and not like. That person needs to be like us to truly know what we go through. That person needs to be not like us so the requests are heard and properly conveyed. We have such a priest in Jesus.

Change and personal transformation

There are a lot of people in life I would like to change, but at some point I need to see that the person who really needs to change is me. As I change, the rest will too. Only the gospel changes me to produce healthy change in the people around me.

Change and the gospel dynamic

The gospel is a powerful dynamic in a group of people. That dynamic creates movement. Are you and the people around you going somewhere?

 

Change and the changeless changing God

What perspective do you have a change? A Christian perspective starts with a changeless changing God. He himself never changes but he brings changes all around. He loves good change, that is why he has given us a living heritage. How could that help your perspective on change?

Getting to Know Jesus, Getting to Know God's pleasure and delight

Have you found pleasure and delight? Can you sustain delight through all of life? Stare at God's pleasure and delight within himself. It is a wonderful sight.

Getting to Know Jesus, Getting to Know God: fulfilled dreams

As life goes on, it is easy for dreams to be shattered on the rocks of reality. At the same time, many consider dreams their own responsibility to fulfill, something like the pressure we put on our children as we try to live through them. The gospel shows us a middle way. Simeon and Anna's dreams were fulfilled - more than their wildest dreams were fulfilled. But this wasn't their own doing. The Lord made their dreams greater, stronger, and then fulfilled them.

Getting to Know Jesus, Getting to Know God: personal truth

The amazing thing about the Lord Jesus is that he lets us know God personally. We don't know an abstract, impersonal God, we get a personal God. And yet he still speaks truth into our lives. Most people know us so personally that the can't speak truth into our lives or they don't know us well enough to speak truth to us. The Lord Jesus is both for us.

Getting to Know Jesus, Getting to Know God is Real

Is God real? Can we relate to him? Definitely. God is far more than we imagine and far more intimate than we could ever hope. Christmas tells us how real he is and how much we can relate to him.

Singing with a Savior about love

Love is a challenge, because it is more than either emotion or action, but it is not less than each. Jesus brings both action and emotion together, and that makes him the ultimate display of love from God.