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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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.

Be Kind, Rewind (August 7, 2023)

What does Paul have in mind when he talks about the gift of generosity? Living a generous life is more than just giving a certain percentage of what we have.

What Does a Healthy Church Sound Like? (August 6, 2023)

Grace saves us—we don’t deserve it, can’t earn it, and have no grounds to boast about it, as Paul makes plain in Ephesians 2:8–9—so what does it look like when a community of undeserving people actually lives that out together as the church God is building?

This Week at Little Hills: the Opposite of Gentleness (August 5, 2023)

Pastor Tim continues our exploration of the Fruit of the Spirit by looking at the opposite of “gentleness” in this week’s devotional.

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