Help When it Hurts, Part 3
This week Pastor Ruttan wrapped up his teaching series called “Help When It Hurts” because, let’s face it, life can hurt… worries, broken relationships, illness, financial hardship, a pain from your past that never seems...
Help When it Hurts, Part 2
This week Pastor Ruttan continued the series: “Help When it Hurts” with Part 2. “Hurts. They happen. To all of us. In fact, the only people who haven’t experienced some kind of hurt in their...
Withness – Help When it Hurts
This Sunday Pastor Ruttan explored a new teaching series at Westminster: “Help When It Hurts.” Let’s be honest. Life can hurt. There are worries, disappointments, broken dreams, challenging relationships, health problems, pain. Max Lucado once...
Big Hope in The Age of Melancholy
On Sunday Pastor Ruttan delivered the final installment of the Apprenticeship 2.0 series, a message about “Big Hope”. The idea was that when we know what will happen at the end of time, this has...
We welcome new members
This week’s “sermon” is a bit different. Pastor Ruttan did not deliver a message but rather we welcomed several new members into the church family who are professing their faith. In the place of the...
But deliver us from evil
Have you ever wondered about the Devil or demons? For a lot of us, we know that Jesus (and others in the Bible) talk and teach about the Devil and the presence of real evil...
The Cardinal Virtue
This Sunday Pastor Matthew continued with his teaching series “Apprenticeship 2.0: Working more closely with the Master to learn the Master’s craft more clearly.” In Part 1 we explored the resurrection of Christ as the...
A New Allegiance
Today’s sermon was part 2 of the Apprenticeship 2.0 Series, called “A New Allegiance” Pastor Ruttan talked about how we need to apprentice under our Master. But who is an apprentice? Well, it’s someone who...
Apprenticeship 2.0
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! This Sunday we reached the end of Lent and rejoiced at Christ’s resurrection. Pastor Ruttan used this as an opportunity to launch a new series: “Apprenticeship 2.0.”. A...
The Force Awakens
“The Force Awakens.” You’re right, it’s an allusion to the Star Wars movies. But combined with the idea of the Rebel Force, it’s an idea that can help clarify our thinking about what it means...