Written by Dawn Rutan This morning I listened to three podcast by Alistair Begg on the faithfulness of God (www.truthforlife.org broadcasts for August 19-21, 2014). In the second half of “God’s Faithfulness in Affliction,” he presents ten purposes of God in allowing us to go through affliction, which I thought were well worth sharing: To […]
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Written by Dawn Rutan While my last post dealt mainly with our calling (vocation), I realize the question “Why am I here?” can have many other nuances as well. The variation I’ve been wrestling with lately is “Why has God allowed this particular set of circumstances in my life?” I picked up When God Weeps:
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Written by Dawn Rutan What is the purpose of life? A quick internet search brought up the following quotes: “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” –Eleanor Roosevelt “The purpose of life is not to be
Written by Dawn Rutan A couple things have occurred today that have gotten me thinking about stewardship. I’m reading Ken Shigamatsu’s book God in My Everything, and he has a good chapter on finances. He talks about “proportionate giving,” meaning “we first determine the amount we need (adjusted regularly for inflation) and choose to
The following combines blog posts by Dawn Rutan and Rebecca Chasteen. Keep On Keeping On by Dawn Rutan I’ve been trying for a couple days to write this post following the apparent suicide of Robin Williams. I’ve been hesitant to try to say what others can say, and many others have already made their contributions.
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Written by Cara Brock It’s not that I haven’t wanted to blog, it’s that I haven’t been hit with inspiration. Because I want my words to maintain some value, I cannot force myself to churn out entries if I’m not passionate about their substances. This sounds much nicer than ‘I was too busy marathoning British
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