Articles by Timothy R. Butler

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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Skewering Each Other (September 3, 2023)

When Jesus says that we should get the log out of our own eye before helping someone get a speck out, what does He have in mind? Is He calling us to stop making any moral judgments?

Rain on the Fair (August 28, 2023)

What happens when the rain comes in and it felt like we were following God’s call?

The Burnt Cookie Gospel (August 27, 2023)

Our past can feel like the wrong ingredients for a quality life recipe. But the case of the Apostle Paul shows God thinks otherwise. He does not waste our past but uses it as He sends us out as agents of the same transformation we have received.

Be a Pickle Jar (August 21, 2023)

As the body, we’re called to show God’s mercy. Can the world see it?

FaithTree Online Prayer Walk

Praying for Our Community Together

The Bible calls us to pray on all occasions and to constantly pray for God’s people (Ephesians 6:18). FaithTree Online Prayer Walks have each gathered hundreds of believers from around the world to pray before our faithful God. Let’s join together to pray in Jesus’s name once again at our seventh Online Prayer Walk all day on March 9! We are excited to see what God will do through this time!

FaithTree Online Prayer Walk

Praying for Our Community Together

The Bible calls us to pray on all occasions and to constantly pray for God’s people (Ephesians 6:18). FaithTree Online Prayer Walks have each gathered hundreds of believers from around the world to pray before our faithful God. Let’s join together to pray in Jesus’s name once again at our seventh Online Prayer Walk all day on August 24! We are excited to see what God will do through this time!

Running the Wrong Way (August 20, 2023)

Sometimes we become so fixed on where we want to go that we cannot see how we are defeating ourselves. Jonah runs in the opposite direction when God sends him to Nineveh, raising questions we often avoid: Do we understand who God is, who we are, and how He sees the people we would rather leave behind?

This Week at Little Hills: Showing Jesus's Heart (August 18, 2023)

Pastor Tim talks about what the Rich Young Ruler was missing and how it parallels the experience of the Prophet Jonah.

Zeal, Not Big Heads (August 14, 2023)

What does Biblical leadership look like? It looks just a “bit” different than what we see in the world.

God Uses Dead Ends (August 13, 2023)

What happens when the life you planned collapses and your worst failure seems to have settled what you can ever become? Exodus 3–4 brings that question to Moses, a fugitive tending sheep in the wilderness, when the holy God calls him from a burning bush and sends him toward the people and place he fled.

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