Category: Sermons
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![Load-bearing walls—for your life [Sermon]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/fasting-6.png?w=1024)
Load-bearing walls—for your life [Sermon]
What if we were like houses, and what if we needed to safeguard certain load-bearing walls to avoid collapse? In this sermon on Acts 2:42-47 I explore 4 critical and sustaining practices for disciples (then and now).
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![Carriers of the Holy Spirit [Sermon]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/fasting-7.png?w=1024)
Carriers of the Holy Spirit [Sermon]
The Holy Spirit can be neglected. That’s a mistake. This Pentecost sermon on Acts 2:1-41 explains who the Holy Spirit is, the significance for believers then (and now), our basis for church unity and how low-drama spirituality can have a highly dramatic impact.
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![Christ is in the Control Room [Sermon]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/fasting-2.png?w=1024)
Christ is in the Control Room [Sermon]
The one who needs to be in control is. (And it’s not you.) In this sermon on Luke 24:50-03 about the ascension of Jesus, I discuss how his cosmic coronation is very good news for his people today whether in Tokyo, Rio or Oro.
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![Open lips open doors. Sometimes. [Sermon]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/fasting-9.png?w=1024)
Open lips open doors. Sometimes. [Sermon]
Truth is silenced when witnesses are silent. In this sermon on Luke 24:36-49 I explore what it means to be a witness of Jesus today even when that puts us at odds with majority culture.
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![God’s dirt, word and work [Sermon]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/sunday-titles.png?w=1024)
God’s dirt, word and work [Sermon]
How does God work in and through our lives (even when we’re imperfect)? That’s what Jesus answers in the parable of the sower (Luke 8:4-15) and is the theme of this message.
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![The rope at the end of your rope [Sermon]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/sunday-titles-1.png?w=1024)
The rope at the end of your rope [Sermon]
You don’t tend to know where “the end of your rope is” until you get there. In this sermon on Luke 18:35-43, I highlight how God can work in and through the desperate situations in our own lives.
