Written by Dawn Rutan One of the arguments for the historicity of the Bible is the fact that the writers didn’t sugarcoat the narrative. They portrayed people with all their faults and failures. I was thinking about that particularly in relation to the Apostle Peter. The transformation that takes place in his life between the […]
Written by Dawn Rutan “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15 ESV). This verse came to mind recently, it occurred to me that I’ve noticed a correlation between those who handle Scripture
Written by Dawn Rutan Some time back I wrote about Job’s entitlement mentality. I’m reading through Job again and noticed particularly in chapter 31 how Job repeatedly says “If I have…” The first verse of chapter 32 says, “So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.” It
Just by taking one look at the news, you can see horrifying anger, crime, terror and disease. Politics is dark. Entertainment is dark. Social media is dark. And with all this going on around us, we can be tempted to shake our fists at God and cry, “Where are you in all this darkness? We
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Written by Dawn Rutan Recently I searched for the word “walk” in the New Testament, and I was struck by the variety of instructions for how we are to walk: Walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4) Walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit (Romans 8:4) Walk properly as in
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Written by Dawn Rutan As often happens to me, there has been a convergence of themes in books that I am reading. The first was a slightly modernized (in 1976) version of The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence. The second was Real Presence: The Christian Worldview of C.S. Lewis as Incarnational