Gospel for life with Nathaniel Timmermann

Singing with a Savior about joy

You can't experience joy unless you've experienced loss, but if you've experienced loss you can receive incredible grace and with grace comes joy.

Singing with a Savior about hope

Do you have hope? It is possible to have hope and you need it. But along with other things, it will only come from words that work and a Lord that is beyond this all. From the depths of hopelessness, you can see the one in the most hopeless situation of all and discover real hope.

 

 

Singing with a Savior about generous feet

Are you going where no one else is, dancing and fighting the whole way? That's what we can do with generous feet. Generous feet come when we see how much God delights in us and how Jesus fights for us. He came dancing and fighting, now we go and do the same.

Singing with a Savior about generous hands

Generous hands don't just appear out of nowhere, but are produced from a context of goodness to all, trustworthiness before all, and righteousness in all our ways. That's the way the Lord deals with us, and when we see that, we'll handle others in the same way.

Singing with a Savior about generous hearts

Charity and generosity are two very different things. Generosity comes from a heart commited to God and defined by God. That makes it filled with and modeled after Jesus.

 

 

Becoming Giants by godly work

While 500 years ago the concern might have been that God only works through certain jobs - priests, nuns, and the like, today more people seem concerned if God works at all in the world. The Christian faith doesn't think that God works through the great and fantastic events of live as much as he works through the mundane parts of life: taking the kids to soccer practice, going to work, or picking up groceries at Meijer's. That should change everything about the way we look at life. God works through us. Could life get any better? 

Becoming Giants by holy access (believing priests)

How do we gain access to God? How do we get to know him and be known by him? Is it when we bring our sacrifices and offerings? Yes, but those sacrifices don't get us access. Too many stumble over Christ. Access comes not because of our service, but our status. As priests, we gain access to God in Christ. 

Becoming Giants by the gospel

How did God take such normal people as Martin Luther, Katie Luther, and Phillip Melancthon and make them into gigantic figures who changed the world? Specific ideas influenced them to produce significant life change. The most important was the gospel. Martin Luther was deeply and personally changed by it. Has it changed you? 

The Trouble with Christianity: Hell

Hell produces all sorts of questions and problems for people. That's understandable. It is really hard to reconcile the ideas of judgment and love both founded in God. But in Christ, God lets understand our own hearts and love him more because of hell. 

 

 

The Trouble with Christianity: Injustice

Christianity has a poor record regarding injustice. While we have righted some wrongs, we have also contributed to other wrongs. What can we say about this? Praise God he chooses the poor.