Written by Dawn Rutan Since Pastor Matt is on a well-deserved vacation this week, I wrote the following “recap,” hitting the highlights of both Sunday school and the sermon plus a few thoughts of my own. This Sunday in Sunday school we were discussing 1 Timothy 1:12-17. Verse 13b in the ESV says, “I received mercy […]
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Written by Dawn Rutan One day recently while reading a fictional story, I encountered the sentence, “Don’t try to fight alone.” As I moved on through the paragraph, I realized what I had heard in my mind was, “Try not to fight alone,” and I knew that was a very different idea. It’s not unlike
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Written by Dawn Rutan The following was written for our denomination’s Prayer Emphasis Month blog. “For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that One has died for all, therefore all have died; and He died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for Him
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Written by Dawn Rutan I wasn’t going to post this since I’ve written similar things recently, but it occurred to me that if an idea is repeatedly stirring in my mind, it is probably doing the same to other folks. So here’s what’s on my mind: In Prone to Love, Jason Clark talks about the
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Written by Dawn Rutan for our denomination’s Prayer Emphasis Month blog. After memorizing Romans 8 last year, this year I jumped back a couple chapters to memorize Romans 6. Verse 6 in the ESV says, “We know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be brought
Written by Dawn Rutan I shared this quote from Tony Reinke in The Joy Project on Facebook: “God’s glory and our most blissful joy collide into one end. Our collective joy requires majesty. We can have no true joy apart from his grandeur. To delight in God’s glory is the weightiest matter in the universe.