Written by Dawn Rutan I’ve been reading a book by a well-known author and learned that this person experienced the same temptation that I have (and no, I’m not going to be any more specific than that!). Upon reading that, my thought was, “Ah, I’m not the only one. Even X has been there and […]
Written by Dawn Rutan I’m finally getting back to routine after a couple weeks of convention chaos, and so I thought I’d borrow an idea from Rev. Clio Thomas’s sermon “Everybody Has Something.” We all have some challenge we’re trying to cope with. Each one is different in type, complexity, and our response to
Written by Dawn Rutan The other night I read Isaiah 64:8 (ESV): “But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our Potter; we are all the work of Your hand.” Thinking about that in the context of my life, I wrote: There is so much I would do
Written by Dawn Rutan Recently www.DesiringGod.org has posted a series of blogs on worship. As I was rereading some of them I had the thought, “How do we move from gathering together to worshiping together?” There are plenty of times when Christians gather and no worship takes place, even in so-called worship services. It’s
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Written by Dawn Rutan Once again circumstances have converged to make me think about a particular topic, in this case, what is abiding in Christ? One trigger was an email from Pastor Matt and the other was the book Growing in Grace, by Bob George. What they said was that abiding in Christ (John 15:4),
Written by Rebecca Brooks Chasteen I was raised in the Christian church and a phrase you hear constantly is “put God first” and “as long as you put God first, everything will work out” or “just remember to always put God first and you will know what path to take”. While I understand the why
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