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Accomplishing the Lord’s Will
A lot of people want to know if there’s a way to know you’re hearing from God. I understand! I’ve wondered the same thing. In some circles there is this idea that if you submit everything properly to...
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My husband really blesses me
To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty...
View ArticleGod first, but who’s second?
So this is going around facebook Guiliana Rancic is Smart to Put Her Marriage Before Her Baby and her idea isn’t anything new – it’s been going around lots of church circles for years. Despite the...
View ArticleHidden Synagogue
This Hidden Synagogue was posted this morning on Imgur and I was so touched that I wanted to share it with you. It looks like an amazing teapot that you would be honored to have handed down from a...
View ArticleWhat do you teach when the purity stuff out there is unsettling?
I’m a mother who wants my children to embrace abstinence until marriage. A mother who wants her children to understand their personal value and the importance of sex and intimacy. I believe God gave...
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Disappearing
Sometimes when I go through challenges I feel like I disappear. I wrap all up inside myself – into the safe cocoon of privacy. I may think, “That would be a good thing to share,” about this or that,...
View ArticleYour Voice
I really believe that one of the most important things we can do for our children is to understand that they need a voice. If we focus on making sure they keep their voice, while learning how to help...
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Suffer not the little children
I am asked quite often about how to talk to children about God, when to introduce the idea of sin, and these are really good questions. Many parents are concerned about scaring their children, or not...
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How did I get here?
Yes, I have the Talking Heads song in my head – and now you do too. You’re welcome! I was recently asked if I have shared my story anywhere about how I became a Messianic/Torah Observant/Hebrew...
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God made me counter-cultural
Continued from Part One: How did I get here? I believe that I was made by God to be counter-cultural. I know that might seem like an odd thing to say, but it’s true. I’ve come to embrace so many...
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Jewish? Non-Jewish? What’s the big deal?
If you’re just joining me in answering the question “How did I get here?”, please check out these previous posts: http://crystallutton.com/how-did-i-get-here/ and...
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Change leads to awareness leads to acceptance
I know it’s been a couple of weeks since my last post about What’s so important about the Olive Tree? where I discussed the complicated reality of not wanting to appear as though I support a doctrine...
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‘Manspreading’ and ‘Shrinking Women’
I read this article yesterday Watch What Happens When A Woman Tries Manspreading On The Subway. Discussion about it had to do with the effect of size and gender on how you sit in various situations...
View ArticleLove Wins – Ch. 4
My guess is this chapter, more than the previous ones, are where people conclude that Bell is a Universalist. I don’t think that’s a fair conclusion *from this chapter*, but I see why they may think...
View ArticleLove Wins – Ch. 5 –“Dying to Live”
After explaining sacrifice (after talking about Eminem . . . these are the jump arounds that I think lose some people) Bell explains where some of the explanations for what Yeshua accomplished on the...
View ArticleBell on Hell
Sorry, I really couldn’t resist, I love a pithy rhyme. (Unfortunately now I don’t remember what chapter it is!) And I mostly appreciated Bell’s thoughts in this chapter. A few times I cringed at his...
View ArticleLove Wins – Ch 1-3
I’m putting these together not just because I read them together but because they really go together. In Chapter 1 Bell asks a lot of fantastic questions–questions I’ve been asking for my whole life! I...
View ArticleReview of Love Wins by Rob Bell – Start Here
I’ve got a long long list of books I need to read (I’ve got a long list of books I’m currently reading–present tense!) so what is it about this book that gets it bumped to the top of my list? Everyone...
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The Weaker Sex
Okay, I admit it . . . I sometimes wish Peter and the other Apostles were here to answer for some of their word choices. As much as I love learning about the culture and thoughts of their day to try...
View ArticleThe Husband is the Head of the Wife
Ephesians 5:23 “For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.” Most people are familiar with this verse and when issues of...
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