Written by Dawn Rutan Some time back I wrote about Job’s entitlement mentality. I’m reading through Job again and noticed particularly in chapter 31 how Job repeatedly says “If I have…” The first verse of chapter 32 says, “So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.” It […]
Written by Dawn Rutan Recently I searched for the word “walk” in the New Testament, and I was struck by the variety of instructions for how we are to walk: Walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4) Walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit (Romans 8:4) Walk properly as in
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Written by Dawn Rutan As often happens to me, there has been a convergence of themes in books that I am reading. The first was a slightly modernized (in 1976) version of The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence. The second was Real Presence: The Christian Worldview of C.S. Lewis as Incarnational
Written by Dawn Rutan Something I read recently pointed out some details I hadn’t noticed before in Mark 5:21-43. That’s one of those passages that becomes so familiar that you don’t read it closely. One of the synagogue rulers, Jairus, comes to Jesus desperate for his daughter to be healed. While Jesus is on the
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Written by Dawn Rutan In Sunday school we’ve been studying the Spiritual Disciplines, based on Donald Whitney’s book Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life. A couple other good books are Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline, and his son Nathan Foster’s The Making of an Ordinary Saint, among others. The latter book illustrates one man’s attempts
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Written by Cara Brock Lately, the Lord has been speaking to me about life. And perhaps not just me, as the topic seems to be popping up all over the place, but He is showing me how it all connects. This past week has easily been one of the most devastating weeks of my, and