Tag: change
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![Be the [counter-cultural] change [Sermon]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/sundaygraph2-5.png?w=1024)
Be the [counter-cultural] change [Sermon]
Have you heard it? “Be the change you want to see in the world.” But what KIND of change are we talking about as followers of Jesus?
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![Better Than Before? [Interview]](https://matthewruttan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/better-than-before-pic.png?w=1024)
Better Than Before? [Interview]
I hear a lot of people saying something like this: ‘I really want things to go back to how they were before COVID-19.’ I get it. There are a lot of things I’d like to see go back to how they were before as well. I’m looking forward to going to the park, family dinners,…
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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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12 Trends In The Church Today
We’re not in Kansas anymore. That’s pretty obvious. But maybe that’s a good thing. Lately I’ve been doing a lot of research on what’s happening in today’s church. So I thought I’d share. This isn’t an analysis of cultural trends, or a commentary on the church’s capacity to evolve. It’s a sharing of observations, through my own lens,…
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Three Of The Biggest Misunderstandings About Jesus
Albert Schweitzer famously said that when looking for the “real” Jesus, it can be like looking down a well: Our search can be so polluted with personal motives that instead of finding Jesus, we find our own reflection staring back at us. Jesus is, in a way, the perpetual Stranger. As Schweitzer wrote, “He comes to us as…
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Courage (A Christmas Day Message)
It’s Christmas Day. A baby cries. It will not be the last time. A mother is tired. It will not be the last time. Hope muscles her way through the naysayers to the edge of a ledge in the dark and prepares to fly. In response to the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster in 1986, Ronald…
