Little Hills Church

A tourist reads a mistranslated volcano warning about “mermaids” when it really means sirens—absurd until you realize it points to something humans do constantly. Genesis 11 shows people with genuine talent and ability choosing to build a tower not for survival, but for their own glory. How easily do we wrap our ambitions in a report cover and call it achievement?

Maybe you had a childhood toy that took your voice and sent it back distorted and amplified. Small choices work the same way in Proverbs 3:34-35 — God reciprocates what we put out into the world, amplifying our foolishness so we see it clearly, or honoring our wisdom in ways that matter eternally.

When we try to live by “Don’t Be Evil,” we find that we end up being evil in the end. There’s a better way.

When we try to live by “Don’t Be Evil,” we find that we end up being evil in the end. There’s a better way.

Most of us feel satisfied if we manage not to do evil—if we avoid the obvious wrongs, the cruelties we can see. But there’s a quieter failure Proverbs 3:27–28 names: the moment when you know exactly what good you could do, right now, and you choose not to do it. Google once promised not to be evil as it rose above other tech firms, yet the real challenge—for companies and individuals alike—comes in everyday decisions about whether to give good or hold it back. When does restraint from wrongdoing become complicity with harm?

We can gather up what feels like security, but are we actually secure? Proverbs challenges to make sure we have the right point of security.

Can we choose our own adventure wisdom? The Bible says “no” for a very important reason.

We have a lot of things we think are signs of the “blessed life”? Proverbs has a clear answer that challenges our assumptions.

God’s discipline isn’t a topic we like talking about or facing in any way. It feels intimidating and leaves us wondering if God is angry at us. But Proverbs gives us a different story.

Most people instinctively know the difference between ordering at a restaurant and eating at a friend’s table—yet that same distinction somehow disappears in how they approach God. Proverbs 3:9 calls believers to honor the Lord with their wealth and the first fruits of all their produce, not as a business transaction or a path to guaranteed earthly blessing, but as an act of worship that reshapes what winning actually means.

We can say things like “In God We Trust,” but what do we mean? Do we really trust?

God’s way doesn’t always look the most successful in the moment, but it is the path to true success.

When it feels dark, we need the well trod paths of God’s Word to strengthen us so we don’t lose hope.

In a snowstorm, the signs showing miles to safety keep you moving even when relief feels hours away. You eat, you sleep, you feel better—so you believe that’s where strength comes from. But what happens when food runs out, rest doesn’t help, and the world keeps breaking? David pleads the same in Psalm 13, cutting to the real source of life: “Look at me, answer me, oh Lord, my God, revive me, or else I will die.” When personal storms and world chaos collide, what keeps hope alive?

When evil seems to be prospering, the temptation can be to find a backup plan instead of God’s way. Do we need one?

Easter is God’s profound statement that He not only listens, but He also saves.

We begin a new series in the Psalms tonight, looking at David’s lament in Psalm 12. What happens when we feel like evil has triumphed and whatever good we do is fruitless?

It’s great to know about how amazing Jesus is and wonderful to find out that the angels are incredibly powerful creations He made, too. But, where does that leave us?

We know if a business or sports team rebuild, there is a lot of uncertainty. So what about when God rebuilds the whole universe?

Why are we so fascinated with angels and the spiritual world as a culture but often pause when it comes to fully embracing who Jesus is? It isn’t necessarily a new problem.

Sin is really sticky — far more persistent than those obnoxious tags stuck on things that we struggle to get off. But, Jesus’s mission in this world was to do what we can’t: remove that sin from us.

God takes us as those who are lost in the dim darkness and offers us a light so overpowering that nothing can stop it — or His mission He sends us on.

Jesus shows us both His nature and a recognizable “name” so that we can understand Him — and understand what we really need to know.

We need something that lasts, not just a temporary banner of God’s love. Fortunately, that’s exactly what God provides for us.

Are we looking for the right thing and do we understand the right “time” for it? As we get everything synchronized for Christmas, the author of Hebrews encourages us to be synchronized with Christ.

We don’t want to simply know about a miracle that happened long ago and was forgotten thereafter. We need to know that there is a consistency in God’s care, too.

As we continue in Ephesians 2, Paul helps us to think about the difference between being called to do “good works” and earning God’s favor through our works.

The wonder of what God does for us is so much greater when we don’t forget the story behind it.

As we continue in Ephesians 2, we’re reminded of how God loves us even when we are of no value at all.

We return to Ephesians in a new series in the second chapter and to start us off Pastor Tim reflects on our state without God.

As we wrap up our series in John 5, we are confronted with the most important question: do we believe His words?

Are we trying to light up our lives with our own glory or God’s? Pastor Tim takes us back to John 5, looking at verses 41-44 in tonight’s Steadfast.

We are right to realize we can’t do it all and that we need God’s Word to guide us. But if in our pursuit of doing things right before God, we miss Him, what have we accomplished?

Lots of things claim to be of value — but which ones really are? Which ones are just so much “Monopoly money”? Pastor Tim explores the question as we continue in John 5 tonight.

We all want justice against the wrongs we see and experience, but Jesus calls us to better understand just what we really need.

We need something that won’t break right away, but everything in life seems to. Jesus addresses what we need and then gets to the deeper thing we need below that.

Last week we looked at solutions we try to find meaning and validation. But they fall short. Thankfully, God has a better plan for us.

The Pharisees had a standard to make themselves feel justified, but was it good enough to make them truly justified?

The Pharisees had a preconceived notion about God that was unyielding and prevented them from understanding the fuller unveiling before them. We too can struggle as God calls us to greater conformity to His Will.

God wants us to jump in the pool of grace to swim, not to struggle. How we interact with His grace makes all the difference in our experience of the Christian life.

We can miss the more urgent thing because we get distracted by the immediate. As we begin exploring John 5, Jesus encourages us not to miss what’s truly important.

What does the righteousness God wants in us really look like?

Wisdom isn’t something meant to get on and off of. So do we want on?

Proverbs challenges us to be aware of where we are leaving the gracious confines of God’s way. The trouble for us is that we don’t even notice as we wander.

We can’t always discern in the moment what’s right and wrong on our own. We need to be focused on God’s glory so we can see where the dangerous paths are.

The World says, “if you don’t know what to do just do something.” God says, “if you don’t know what to do, follow me.”

We have so many different directions we could follow, but God has a particular one for us that allows us to be part of a masterpiece rather than a cacophony.

If the wisdom the world offers so often seems to point to doing the wrong thing, do we want to give up on wisdom entirely?

We try to draw out what reverence and recognition of God looks like, but our drawings end up a mess unless we let God guide us.

As we return to Proverbs this summer, we look to Proverbs 2. The challenge in seeking wisdom is that the results often take time — are they worth the wait?

The truth of Pentecost is that we live between the Ascension and Jesus’s return, but we do not live between God’s love.