Guest speaker Rev. Steve Lawson I. What we are- v. 1 1See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (ESV) A. We are loved! […]
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Written by Dawn Rutan Last week I stopped by the library to pick up an autobiography that had been referenced in another book I was reading. I didn’t know much about the author, but I recognized her name as having written some Christian articles. However, after reading about 80 pages of her book I’d had
Written by Dawn Rutan I’ve spent several days in Ephesians 1 lately, and I noticed that Paul makes frequent references to God’s glory: 6- “…to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved” (ESV). 12- “…so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be
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Written by Dawn Rutan Sometimes having a vivid imagination can be both a blessing and a torment. Recently I was imagining a particular “what if” scenario, thinking about what life would be like now if something had been different in the past. In the process I realized that I would be faced with a very
Written by Dawn Rutan This weekend I was reading a couple different books that used the same phrase. The first was a novel by Marianne Evans, in which a character said that her infertility made her feel “less than.” In comparing herself to others, she felt she came up short every time. Mary DeMuth reflected
Written by Dawn Rutan Last night I read Amos 8:11, which at some point I had underlined in my Bible: “‘Behold the days are coming,’ declares the Lord God, ‘when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord’”