Speaker: Matthew Ruttan
January 27, 2025
We’ve devalued words. We’ve all heard the playground chant: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” It’s untrue, of course. Words can bruise, and can often leave an (invisible)...
Speaker: Matthew Ruttan
January 19, 2025
Picture someone you think is hypocritical, a pretender. They say they believe in God, but when you look at what they say and do, there’s no way! Honesty calls. When we think of someone who...
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January 13, 2025
Proximity. Noun. “nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation; closeness.” Being in close proximity to the right people in the right situations makes all the difference. If you have a guard dog beside you...
Category: discipleship, faith / Speaker: Matthew Ruttan
January 06, 2025
If only… If only I had fewer problems in my past… If only I was a better speaker… If only I had more influence… then God might use me for something important. Think kind of...
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...