By Dawn Rutan I’ve been listening to a Bible study series called “Rebuilding Your Broken World” by Chip Ingram based on James 1. I don’t know about anyone else, but verses 2-4 aren’t exactly the encouraging word I want to hear most of the time: “Count in all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials […]
I’m not sure if I’m legally allowed to do this, but I wanted to share a couple of pages from Total Church with my youth ministry friends. If I get arrested for copyright infringement, please bail me out. The authors give the following contrasting glimpses at different ways of discipling young people: “Brian dropped into
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14I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another. 15But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God 16to be a minister of Christ Jesus
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(By Dawn Rutan) I’ve been thinking lately about Zephaniah 3:17: “The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with his love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” Have you ever thought about God delighting in you? That’s hard for
It is important to remember that Jesus is both the Savior and the Lord. Philippians 2:1-11 reminds us. 1So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full
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Isaiah prophesied roughly 700 before Jesus’ life that he would be rejected (Isaiah 53:2-3). Looking back some 2,000 years after Jesus’ life we know that this rejection culminated in his crucifixion. The following sermon, preached in a darkened sanctuary on Good Friday, is a meditation on Isaiah 53:4-6, which explains what Jesus accomplished on that cross.
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