Written by Dawn Rutan Pilate:Truth? What is truth? He says he is a king, bearing witness to the truth. Someone said he claimed he was “the way, the truth and the life.” The way to what? What truth? What life? None of it makes any sense. The truth as I see it is that these […]
Written by Dawn Rutan In one of his messages this week Alistair Begg commented, “My sin must be absolutely horrendous if it takes the death of God’s only Son to fix it.” A couple different songs contain lines like “It was my sin that held Him there.” While we accept that to be theologically correct,
Written by Dawn Rutan Earlier this week I read Psalm 17:15 (ESV), “As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with Your likeness.” In the preceding verses David is talking about the “men of the world whose portion is in this life.” Those who are seeking
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Discussion Starters Compare the miraculous feeding stories and Mark six and Mark eight. What is similar? What is different? What do you observe about Jesus? In Mark eight, compare Jesus interaction with the crowd and his interaction with the Pharisees. What do you notice? Why is Jesus compassionate with the crowd, and resistant toward the
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Written by Dawn Rutan A presidential candidate has been reported as saying he is a Christian but doesn’t ask God for forgiveness. No doubt there is a faulty understanding of what it means to be a Christian. This is the heresy of antinomianism that the Apostle John was addressing in his first letter: “If we
The Most Important Result The most important result that can come from you reading this sermon recap is not that you are impressed by my writing, or that you are entertained, or even that you are helped in regard to some practical issue in your life. The most important result is that you might understand and receive Jesus
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