Tag: Bible
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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]
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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Why trust the Bible?
Recently I led a sermon series called “Heaven and Hell: What does the Bible teach about what is true (instead of what we want to be true).” If you’ve ever wondered about what heaven is like, or what hell is like, or what Jesus teaches about these things, then you might want to take a…
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![Heaven & Hell, Part 1 – How do we know? [Podcast]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/heaven-hell-7.png?w=560)
Heaven & Hell, Part 1 – How do we know? [Podcast]
A Gallup poll revealed that 81% of people believe in heaven, but only 69% believe in hell. We like to believe in things we like, like heaven; but not in things we don’t, like hell, right? But speaking about final judgment in Matthew 25 Jesus said that some people will “go into eternal life,” but…
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How to be a person of your word in a world of verbal mistrust
Before the world of contracts and fine print, do you remember hearing about agreements that were made on the shake of a hand? Remember when someone could be trusted “at their word”? Nowadays, that seems rare. We live in a world of verbal mistrust. So many people break promises that it doesn’t even surprise us…
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Is There Evidence for the Resurrection?
What if there were actual reasons for believing in the resurrection? This post responds to the 4 major conspiracy theories against the resurrection and outlines other evidences that bolster the foundation of the Christian faith.
