RUTH (5 OF 9)
by Jim Perdue
Scripture: Ruth 1:1-5, Ruth 1:16-17, Ruth 2:8-10, Ruth 4:13-17
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Ruth (5 of 9)
Series: Heroes of the Faith
Jim Perdue
Ruth 1-4
Intro/Attention
Today, in our series called Heroes of the Faith, I’m preaching on the life of a lady named Ruth. Find the book named for her in the Old Testament. It’s right there after Joshua and Judges and before you get to 1 and 2 Samuel. Ruth’s story reveals to us the love, grace, and favor of God. *In our home growing up, photographs were often stored in shoeboxes that fit under the bed or up in the closet. Now and then, those boxes would come out, and we would begin our trip down memory lane. Scenes in black and white took me back to my roots, rekindling bygone feelings and reminding me of precious stories. Pictures and the memories they evoke help us to keep our story alive. In a way, that’s what we’re doing in this series of messages from the Old Testament. We’re thumbing through the biblical pictures of some of the lesser-known people of the Old Testament - common people like us whose choices impacted their time and ours. We keep the story alive by gaining godly wisdom from their experiences that will help us today. Today we open a scrapbook of biblical pictures, this time from the book of Ruth. In the 85 verses of the book of Ruth we follow one family and a foreign woman named Ruth as they eke out a living during the difficult days of the judges - a time of moral chaos and national instability, described in the last verse of Judges by the frightening words, everyone did what was right in his own eyes (Judges 21:25). The story takes unexpected twists and turns that fire the imagination and soothe the soul. Ruth is for people who wonder where God is when one tragedy after another pounds their faith. For those wonder whether a life of integrity in tough times is worth it. And it is a story for people who can’t imagine that anything great could ever come of their ordinary lives.* READ 1:1-5, 16-17; 2:8-10; 4:13-17.
*When I turned 40, the church graciously paid the way for Stephanie ...
Series: Heroes of the Faith
Jim Perdue
Ruth 1-4
Intro/Attention
Today, in our series called Heroes of the Faith, I’m preaching on the life of a lady named Ruth. Find the book named for her in the Old Testament. It’s right there after Joshua and Judges and before you get to 1 and 2 Samuel. Ruth’s story reveals to us the love, grace, and favor of God. *In our home growing up, photographs were often stored in shoeboxes that fit under the bed or up in the closet. Now and then, those boxes would come out, and we would begin our trip down memory lane. Scenes in black and white took me back to my roots, rekindling bygone feelings and reminding me of precious stories. Pictures and the memories they evoke help us to keep our story alive. In a way, that’s what we’re doing in this series of messages from the Old Testament. We’re thumbing through the biblical pictures of some of the lesser-known people of the Old Testament - common people like us whose choices impacted their time and ours. We keep the story alive by gaining godly wisdom from their experiences that will help us today. Today we open a scrapbook of biblical pictures, this time from the book of Ruth. In the 85 verses of the book of Ruth we follow one family and a foreign woman named Ruth as they eke out a living during the difficult days of the judges - a time of moral chaos and national instability, described in the last verse of Judges by the frightening words, everyone did what was right in his own eyes (Judges 21:25). The story takes unexpected twists and turns that fire the imagination and soothe the soul. Ruth is for people who wonder where God is when one tragedy after another pounds their faith. For those wonder whether a life of integrity in tough times is worth it. And it is a story for people who can’t imagine that anything great could ever come of their ordinary lives.* READ 1:1-5, 16-17; 2:8-10; 4:13-17.
*When I turned 40, the church graciously paid the way for Stephanie ...
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