Written by Dawn Rutan I’ve spent several days in Ephesians 1 lately, and I noticed that Paul makes frequent references to God’s glory: 6- “…to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved” (ESV). 12- “…so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be […]
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Written by Dawn Rutan Sometimes having a vivid imagination can be both a blessing and a torment. Recently I was imagining a particular “what if” scenario, thinking about what life would be like now if something had been different in the past. In the process I realized that I would be faced with a very
Written by Dawn Rutan This weekend I was reading a couple different books that used the same phrase. The first was a novel by Marianne Evans, in which a character said that her infertility made her feel “less than.” In comparing herself to others, she felt she came up short every time. Mary DeMuth reflected
Written by Dawn Rutan Last night I read Amos 8:11, which at some point I had underlined in my Bible: “‘Behold the days are coming,’ declares the Lord God, ‘when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord’”
Written by Dawn Rutan One day recently while reading a fictional story, I encountered the sentence, “Don’t try to fight alone.” As I moved on through the paragraph, I realized what I had heard in my mind was, “Try not to fight alone,” and I knew that was a very different idea. It’s not unlike
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Written by Dawn Rutan The following was written for our denomination’s Prayer Emphasis Month blog. “For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that One has died for all, therefore all have died; and He died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for Him
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