Written by Dawn Rutan I’m posting the following as sort of a Public Service Announcement. I’ve always heard about the “stigma” of mental illness, but until recently I was only aware of it in a vague sense, as in feeling like I don’t quite fit in culture’s standards for happiness. For a long time I […]
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Written by Dawn Rutan I’ve shared some quotes from Ed Tandy McGlasson’s book The Father You’ve Always Wanted, and he makes some good points. However, someone reading the book might get the false impression that when a person becomes a Christian and accepts God as their Father, they will immediately become a perfect father or
Written by Dawn Rutan I was recently reading the book of Revelation and particularly noticed the words Jesus wrote to the seven churches. In brief summary: 2:3, 7 (ESV)- “I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for My name’s sake, and you have not grown weary… To the one who conquers I will
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Written by Dawn Rutan I’ve been inspired and challenged lately by reading Lloyd John Ogilvie’s book Autobiography of God, which studies the parables Jesus told as a reflection of who God is. One chapter is on the parables of the “new patch and new wine” in Luke 5:33-39. In these parables, Jesus is not very
Written by Dawn Rutan As happens to me periodically, I’ve received similar messages from multiple sources in recent weeks. The first source was Tim Keller’s book Prayer. He was talking about the Lord’s Prayer and the fact that the provision of needs and deliverance from temptation are daily prayers, not just occasional or spur of
The following quote may be helpful in understanding the steadfast love of the Father and applying it in our families. This comes from The Father You’ve Always Wanted, by Ed Tandy McGlasson (pp. 26-29): Many of us have grown up as spiritual orphans, never knowing the delight that our loving heavenly Father feels toward us. How
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