Amidst the Christmas crush of decorating, shopping, planning and attending programs; it’s good to remember Jesus. Let’s move beyond the sentimental baby and observe the man himself in a real-life situation, caught in a storm at sea. 35On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other […]
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Written by Dawn Rutan As our choir was practicing one of our songs for Christmas, I was thinking about the seemingly conflicting messages we hear. One verse of “Tell the World” says “Tell the hopeless He’s the Promise now fulfilled before their eyes. Tell the restless in His presence ev’ry need is satisfied.” But historically,
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Written by Dawn Rutan There has been much speculation about who the wise men were who came to find the baby Jesus. Where did they come from? How did they read the stars? Were they Zoroastrians? The Bible doesn’t give much detail in Matthew 2 aside from the fact that they were from the East.
Written by Dawn Rutan I wonder what it was that enabled Mary to say to the angel “Let it be to me according to your word” (Luke 1:38 ESV)? How did she develop such a faith in God that allowed her to accept the news, apparently with a glad and sincere heart? It’s not clear
30And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? 31It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, 32yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than
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26 And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. 27 He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. 28 The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the
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