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Ruth (Part 4)
I finished off Ruth on Friday and I love how God allows everything to come full circle in our lives for His glory! We seen the man that was closer kin than Boaz give up his right as redeemer. He was all for taking the land, but when it was mentioned that he would have…
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Ruth (Part 3)
In Chapter 3, we see Ruth getting all “gussied up” to go to Boaz on the threshing floor after he had some supper and fell asleep. Now, don’t get it twisted…she wasn’t throwing herself at this man that she took a liking to. I think our immediate response in today’s world is to say that…
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Ruth (Part 2)
Ruth meets Boaz. Girl meets boy. Oh, but it’s so much more than that. My girl Ruth is doing what all the other poor and widowed are doing…gathering fallen grain. This was God’s provision for the poor and the homeless in the Old Testament. She could gather in any field she chose, but she somehow…
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Called Holy
As I was reading in Isaiah 3 and 4 this morning, it talks about the daughters of Zion being called many things…beautiful and attractive and being adorned with jewelry. They were prideful and flirtatious. Let’s just say they were called some nice things, but they were not called holy. At one point, Isaiah talks about…
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Squirrel Crossing
Sunday morning during the pastor’s message he used the analogy of a squirrel in the middle of the road unable to move because he is paralyzed by fear and compared it to how the devil works in our lives. I had this mental picture of a squirrel standing still as a car is zooming towards…