Christmas Inspiration

The Son's Glory is the Father's Glory

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM

God’s glory is God’s glory — there is only one God. So if we want to share God’s glory and see it spread through the world, we share the hope of Jesus.

Who's in Charge Now?

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 06, 2025 at 4:48 PM

Pastor Tim talks about how we live and understand God’s control of the world in the time before Jesus returns.

Who Gets a Car for Christmas Anyway?

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 30, 2024 at 3:11 PM

Pastor Tim talks about extravagant gifts and what the Bible says about the truly extravagant gift we receive at Christmas because of the very first Christmas.

O Christmas Stream

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 26, 2024 at 12:58 PM

Join Little Hills and other FaithTree partner churches for a continuous rotation of Christmas music, nostalgic fireplace scenes, meditations from Scripture and more throughout Christmas weekend and the 12 Days of Christmas. Whether you want just a few moments of Christmas joy or want to watch the whole thing, it will be streaming 24x7 until Epiphany. Come back here for the link starting Christmas Day.

The Joys of Christmas

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 25, 2024 at 6:43 PM

As we give gifts small or large, simple or snazzy, this Christmas, this year’s devotional booklet invites us to reflect on the profound ways in which God gifts us to give the best sort of gifts to others. We will go on a twelve day journey through Galatians 5:22-26, exploring how the Holy Spirit transforms us to embody the essence of Christmas hope in the year ahead.

A Year's Changes Come Slowly

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 23, 2024 at 7:38 PM

Pastor Tim spent time in Busiek State Forest to better think about the time between the Newborn servant coming into the world and when we, His followers, will get to experience His triumph.

This Week at Little Hills

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 21, 2024 at 11:14 PM

Pastor Tim thinks about how God brought light into existence, we turn from the light, but Christmas is the story of God bringing that light back to us.

He Was Like Me, I'll Be Like Him

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 16, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Two truths come out of Jesus being a human being: one that reminds us of His understanding of our situation and one that reminds us our present state is not the destination.

This Week at Little Hills

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 12, 2024 at 12:22 AM

Pastor Tim thinks about how we look to the wrong things in life and how Christmas calls us to a corrective.

O Christmas FaithTree 2024

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 06, 2024 at 7:03 PM

O Christmas (Faith)Tree is something very special: a celebratory service at 7:00 p.m. on December 6 that interweaves favorite Christmas carols and songs — both old and new and in a range of styles — with the story of Christmas that runs from Genesis through Revelation.

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The Joys of Christmas

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 25, 2024 at 6:43 PM

As we give gifts small or large, simple or snazzy, this Christmas, this year’s devotional booklet invites us to reflect on the profound ways in which God gifts us to give the best sort of gifts to others. We will go on a twelve day journey through Galatians 5:22-26, exploring how the Holy Spirit transforms us to embody the essence of Christmas hope in the year ahead.

The Christmas Fruit

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 22, 2023 at 3:21 PM

As we give gifts small or large, simple or snazzy, this Christmas, this year’s devotional booklet invites us to reflect on the profound ways in which God gifts us to give the best sort of gifts to others. We will go on a twelve day journey through Galatians 5:22-26, exploring how the Holy Spirit transforms us to embody the essence of Christmas hope in the year ahead.

Twelve Told

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 23, 2022 at 2:57 PM

While the four Gospel writers tell us much about what happens at Christmas and we’ve explored that this Advent in our series Four Told, the rest of Scripture speaks either to the coming of Christmas or reflects back on its significance. The Twelve Days of Christmas give us an opportunity to reflect on the multifaceted meaning of Jesus’s birth.

Because of Christmas

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 24, 2021 at 5:52 PM

Over the Twelve Days of Christmas, Because Of Christmas will help us to see what happens for each of us because Jesus was born that first Christmas morn.

The Light of the World

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 22, 2020 at 11:58 AM

Over the coming days we will embark on a journey through Scripture and the pictures it gives us of our God lighting our way through the darkness we face throughout life.

Jesus Came for Us

By Timothy R. Butler | Dec 25, 2019 at 1:12 PM

Please join us in devotional journey as we look at some gifts far more incredible than a partridge in a pear tree. These are the gifts from our God as Paul describes them in the Letter to the Romans. This devotional has twelve readings exploring the ways Jesus coming into the world is for us.