Category: Sermons
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![The Advocate: The Holy Spirit, Part 1 of 2 [Podcast]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/holy-spirit-15.png?w=1024)
The Advocate: The Holy Spirit, Part 1 of 2 [Podcast]
A lot of people have questions about the Holy Spirit: Is the Holy Spirit an “it” or a “who”? Is the Holy Spirit the same as God? What does the Holy Spirit actually do? If Christians are supposed to “have” the Holy Spirit, does he work the same way in everyone? Does it make you…
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![Emerging from the ashes of what you’ve been through: “Help When It Hurts” – Part 3 [Podcast]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sunday-slides-2019-05-25.png?w=1024)
Emerging from the ashes of what you’ve been through: “Help When It Hurts” – Part 3 [Podcast]
Hurts and hardship changes us. But in a good way, or a bad way? Who you are and who you can be emerges from the ashes of what you’ve been through. Listen in.
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![How Having a Purpose Helps With the Pain: “Help When It Hurts” – Part 2 [Podcast]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sunday-slides-2019-05-15.png?w=1024)
How Having a Purpose Helps With the Pain: “Help When It Hurts” – Part 2 [Podcast]
Worries, broken relationships, illness, financial hardship, a pain from your past that never seems to go away. Yup, life can hurt. Right now I’m leading a series called “Help When It Hurts.” Biblical teachings don’t assume that life will be a cakewalk. In fact, they presume that life will be difficult. None of us are offered a free pass; but…
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![WITHness: “Help when it hurts” – Part 1 [Podcast]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/sunday-slides-2019-05-14.png?w=1024)
WITHness: “Help when it hurts” – Part 1 [Podcast]
Let’s be honest. Life can hurt. There are worries, disappointments, broken dreams, challenging relationships, health problems, pain. Max Lucado once said: “If hurts were hairs, we’d all look like grizzlies.” So true. Sometimes people can’t see the hurts and burdens that we carry around, but that doesn’t mean they’re not there. Well, biblical teachings take…
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![Big Hope in The Age of Melancholy [Podcast]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sunday-slides-2019-05-8.png?w=1024)
Big Hope in The Age of Melancholy [Podcast]
Psychologist Daniel Goleman describes our time as Age of Melancholy. He chronicles how depression, sadness, paralyzing listlessness, dejection, self-pity and overwhelming hopelessness plague more and more people. In 2016, a New York Times article highlighted how suicide rates are going up. Various people tried to explain it. Some said it must be due to economic…
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![But Deliver Us From Evil: Understanding the spirit-world battle you’re already in [Podcast]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sundaygraphmay12.png?w=560)
But Deliver Us From Evil: Understanding the spirit-world battle you’re already in [Podcast]
What do you mean about a “spirit-world battle”? I know, I know. To a lot of people, it sounds pretty crazy. It sounded crazy to me for a long time too. I get asked about demons, angels, and Satan a lot. High-schoolers to senior-homers are curious. People wonder, ‘Is all this stuff for real?’ ‘Does…
