Category: birth of christ, christmas eve, nativity / Speaker: Matthew Ruttan
December 25, 2024
A lot has happened in the past 100 years. In 1924 there were 1.9 billion people in the world. Most household didn’t own cars. Over the next 10 decades there would be the great depression,...
Speaker: Matthew Ruttan
December 16, 2024
The angel told Joseph to name the baby Jesus “for he will save his people from their sins.” What does this mean? Our first thought is often that he will save us from “the consequence...
Speaker: Matthew Ruttan
December 09, 2024
Give me his head on a platter! And so it happened that the holy man, John the Baptist, was decapitated in prison because of a grudge. This twisted and bloody story is a contrast between...
Category: rejection / Speaker: Matthew Ruttan
December 02, 2024
Rejection is fun, right? Wrong. And yet, it’s something that many of us have to deal with at some point or another, including those who try to follow Jesus. Anthony was a monk who lived...
Category: saviour / Speaker: Matthew Ruttan
November 25, 2024
Faith isn’t just about pursuing life after death, but life before death. Or, put another way, it’s not just about the after-life, but the during-life. When we think of Jesus as “Saviour” we tend to...
Category: demons, faith, Jesus Christ / Speaker: Matthew Ruttan
November 17, 2024
This sermon was originally called “Closing doors to demons” and was delivered on November 17, 2024. But I changed the title to this: “Is this the sermon demons don’t...
Speaker: Matthew Ruttan
November 10, 2024
World peace. We all want it. But how do we get there? Is there even any hope when we have had so many wars, when nations (and peoples) continue to fight, and when individuals continue...
Category: Jesus, transformation / Speaker: Matthew Ruttan
November 04, 2024
Let’s pretend that we all get together and decide to imitate someone named Ischyros. Great! Let’s do it! But hold on, there’s a problem. We first need to know what Ischyros is like before we...