(This was a Mother’s Day sermon.) This Mother’s Day, I want to share a foundational word from Deuteronomy 6:4-9. Let’s read it, and then I’ll point out to you a truth, a command and an application. 4“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.5You shall love the Lord your God with all […]
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By Dawn Rutan I’ll admit it—I hear voices. I have conversations in my head, sometimes with real people and sometimes imaginary. This week I was imagining sitting next to Brennan Manning on an airplane. That scenario is an impossibility since this messenger of Love passed away last month, which I just learned today. I was
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By Dawn Rutan I think we’d all agree that there are things that can distract us from the experience of worship. Thinking specifically of Sunday mornings, we may get distracted by crying babies, technical difficulties, music styles, worries from the week past or the week to come, etc. When we speak of worship leaders, we
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There are two passages that stand out in Romans as being tricky for preachers. These are the two passages that other ministers laughed about when they heard I was preaching through Romans. Everyone wanted to know how I would handle chapter 9, which deals with predestination and election, and chapter 16, in which Paul greets
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This Sunday we’ll be singing Blessed Be Your Name, In Christ Alone, Mighty to Save and How Great Thou Art; under the leadership of a guest music leader named David Lipp. Blessed Be Your Name was written by Matt Redman and won Worship Song of the Year in 2005 at the GMA Music Awards. It
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By Dawn Rutan Have you ever had the thought, perhaps just subconsciously, that now that I’m a Christian the big change is over and it’s just a straight road from here? I’ve been realizing more and more that that’s not how it works. We’re a little bit like parents who think that once their child