Gospel for life with Nathaniel Timmermann

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.

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.