I feel a little bit like Ruth did when she came home to Naomi after her long days of gleaning, carrying a huge bundle that would take days for the two of them to eat. So too, has God been extra gracious to me as I have studied His word this week. He has intentionally […]
Vs 1 Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. Naomi was in the family. Boaz was man of great wealth – cattle on a 1000 hills. Elimelech – Messiah family line. Enter Boaz. Boaz was the son of Salmon whose […]
In Ruth 1:18, we saw that once Ruth showed her determination in her decision to return to Bethlehem with her, Naomi quit trying to persuade Ruth to turn around and go back to Moab with Orpah. For Naomi to attempt to persuade Ruth to turn back now would surely invoke a curse on her that […]
As a child I learned the poem by Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken”. Although it is not a Christian poem the last verse has remained in my memory and does reflect a fact in the life of faith: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, […]
I’ve been scouting the land ahead to see what lies before us before we all travel down and begin our study on the book of Ruth. As I mentioned before, I’ve never done a personal study on the book of Ruth before so I wanted a general idea of the layout of the land so […]
I’ve spent the past few days gathering information on Ruth, trying to get a general overview of the book and a feel for the upcoming study. I have been looking forward to this study since we drew it’s name out of the basket. It’s a book I’ve read several times, and read several studies on, […]
Sometimes it may seem that God is a big blank face in the sky and we can paint any face on him that we like according to our culture, according to our experiences, according to popular opinion, according to our personal opinion. This makes the opinions of what God looks like as numerous as […]
