(By Dawn Rutan) I’ve been thinking lately about Zephaniah 3:17: “The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with his love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” Have you ever thought about God delighting in you? That’s hard for […]
It is important to remember that Jesus is both the Savior and the Lord. Philippians 2:1-11 reminds us. 1So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full
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Isaiah prophesied roughly 700 before Jesus’ life that he would be rejected (Isaiah 53:2-3). Looking back some 2,000 years after Jesus’ life we know that this rejection culminated in his crucifixion. The following sermon, preached in a darkened sanctuary on Good Friday, is a meditation on Isaiah 53:4-6, which explains what Jesus accomplished on that cross.
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Isaiah 53:1-3 Jesus is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. He is the way, the truth and the life. He is all of these things, but he didn’t seem like it while he was on the earth. In Isaiah 53:1-3 we
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14I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another. 15But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God… Paul transitions into the end of his
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By Dawn Rutan I recently read The Healing Path by Dan Allender. He invites us to look at our lives through the lenses of faith, hope and love. The difficulty we all face is that humans are imperfect. Faith in people will eventually result in betrayal by someone. It may be in some small way