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So Boaz said to Ruth, "My daughter, listen to me. Don't go and glean in another fieldand don't go away from here" (Ruth 2:8). Gleaning fields in ancient Israel was hard work with a lot of bending down and, hopefully, by when the work was done, coming up with an abundant armful of grain, sufficient for the needs of the day. The picture of Ruth bending down to glean remin...
Keep ReadingAt this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, "Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice mea foreigner?" Boaz replied, "I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husbandhow you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. May the Lo...
Keep ReadingNow Naomi had a relative on her husband's side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz. And Ruth the Moabitesaid to Naomi, "Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grainbehind anyone in whose eyes I find favor." Naomi said to her, "Go ahead, my daughter." So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters.As it turn...
Keep Reading"Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me - a foreigner?" (Ruth 2:10) "Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my peopleand your God my God. Where you die, I will die" (Ruth 1:16-17). No doubt you've heard these words exchanged as wedding vows. But did you know they were spoken by a daughter-in-law to her mother-in-l...
Keep ReadingBut because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressionsit is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness t...
Keep ReadingBUT GOD, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved) ... (Ephesians 2:4-5 NASB). Easter is a celebration! After watching Jesus die on the cross, His followers mourned and grieved. But just three days later, their sorrow turned to joy. Onc...
Keep ReadingBut because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressionsit is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness t...
Keep ReadingBut because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressionsit is by grace you have been saved (Ephesians 2:4-5). We have lots of choices in life. No matter our age, where we live, or our socio-economic situation. We get to choose how we think about ourselves, our upcoming day at school or work, etc. W...
Keep ReadingGod, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christeven when we were dead in transgressions (Ephesians 2:4). Jesus promised his followers "life abundant, life to its fullest measure." This week, we are reminded of what his delivery on that promise required, and requires. Yesterday we celebrated Palm Sunday, Jesus entering Jerusalem to the cheers of a crowd proclaiming...
Keep Reading"For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, 'Not all of you are clean.' When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, 'Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one...
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