Timothy R. Butler is Editor-in-Chief of Open for Business. He also serves as a pastor at Little Hills Church and FaithTree Christian Fellowship.
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Jason looked to the Gospel of John to help us think about encountering Jesus as we begin Holy Week.
Reflecting on Jesus's Sacrifice and Celebrating His Love
Over Lent, we have been looking at God’s call to know Him and His merciful love for us as we struggle to do so. During Holy Week, we will continue to explore His patient care for all who turn to Him and the hope we find in the resurrection.
Easter Sunday Worship Service (April 5 at 5:30 p.m.)
Christ the Lord is Risen! Back at the origin point of sin, God promised that He would raise up the One who would crush the serpent and rescue humanity from death. On Easter, we see He did just that.
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Whatever looks triumphant—the people and things we hold out as the absolute measure of concrete, dependable success—still meets death that tramples it. Isaiah warns that rebels and sinners will together be shattered, and those who forsake the Lord will perish. What then are we going to hold onto?
We too often forget that the source is joyful and accept the far more mundane or depressing secondhand source.
How does a people God has blessed so richly turn their backs on him? Isaiah 1 opens with God’s lament over Jerusalem—once full of justice, now a harlot filled with murderers—and brings the question home for Lent: when he looks at you, does he lament?
What does God want us to rebuild? Pastor Tim turns to Nehemiah next in 52 Verses, 52 Books and 52 Weeks for 2026 as we think about that.
Are we a mess? So was Paul. Can God use us? Absolutely.
When we want vengeance, we want to get back—but Isaiah 1:24–25 shows a God who wants to get back to *good*, and that difference is harder to hold onto than it sounds when the anger is righteous and the wrong is real.
Who is supposed to teach whom? Pastor Tim thinks about that as we turn to Deuteronomy next in 52 Verses, 52 Books and 52 Weeks for 2026.
How can those who have known God's rescue still chase worldly compromise that looks so much like success? That is the exasperated cry of Isaiah 1:21 as the faithful city becomes a harlot—once full of justice, now only murderers, its silver turned to dross.
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