Gospel for life with Nathaniel Timmermann

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.

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.