by Dawn Rutan The following thoughts are based on recent discussions at church, books I’ve read, as well as my personal experience. I don’t claim to be any kind of authority on the subject of discipleship, so I’ll just say these are my own opinions and should be run through the filter of Scripture for […]
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John 1:1-3 John wrote his gospel (biography of Jesus) with two hopes (John 20:31): That we would believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. That by believing we would have life in his name. For the next four weeks we will read John 1 and my prayer is that our belief will
Challenge Prayerfully select one of these ideas to begin immediately. If you accept this challenge, please leave a comment letting me know what you’re going to do so I can be praying for you and help you in any way I can. Prayer: List out those you’re around most often or are most concerned about
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(Read part one here.) What follows is a continuation of our walk through the Bible for clues. Clues to help us sort out how God can tell us to be subject to all human authorities, even bad ones. It springs from Romans 13:1-7, in which God tells us that all authorities are instituted by him. Luke
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Books over Topics I prefer to preach through books of the Bible rather than individual topics for several reasons, one of which is the way God steers us to appropriate passages each Sunday. We arrived at Romans 13, the most politically themed passage in Romans, the Sunday before the 2012 election. Once again, God shows himself sovereign even in my stubborn preference for preaching
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Romans 12:14-21 Do you know any difficult people? Are you forced to work with them? Live with them? Be the church with them? These relationships are no accident. God has sovereignly placed you in them so you can worship him by loving difficult people. In Romans 12:14-21, we see six ways to do so. But before
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