SERMONS ON RUTH
Our sermon ideas on the book of Ruth will help reveal deep truth of survival, despite hardship. Ruth and Naomi are categorized as great heroes of the faith because of their survival. The book of Ruth offers readers great insight into the importance of women to Israel’s history and the strength found in steadfast love. While Ruth is an outsider (Moabite), she is still celebrated and a part of God’s movement. Prepare your message on the book of Ruth with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series.
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Preparation for the Redeemer
by Jerry Vines
The love story of Ruth and Boaz takes place at the village of Bethlehem. Here our Savior, the Lord Jesus, was born. The Old Testament predicted that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem.'But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel;'' (Micah 5:2) There would be born in Bethlehem the One who would be known as BethIehem' s Ruler. The Bible furtther indicates that the Bethlehem Ruler will also be the Bethlehem Redeemer. When Jesus was born there was a woman in Jerusalem named Anna. When she saw the baby Jesus...
The Woman Who Impressed God (1 of 2)
by Jeff Strite
OPEN: A Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern California, was eager for the title of "doctor" - until one newly degreed professor shared his story. He said: A friend had called his home and asked, "Is the doctor in?" The Professor's 10 year old son replied, "Yes, but he's not the kind that can do you any good." APPLY: Credentials are important. When we see the letters: Ph.D. MD. DDS. and so on, these titles indicate that the person bearing those letters is valuable to us as individuals, or to society at large. These credentials indicate that an authorized organization or individual has placed their stamp of approval on that person...
The Long Road Home (1 of 4)
by Chris Brown
We read this weekend about Naomi's openness toward the difficulties and tough times in her life. The Bible has a lot to say about when life gets tough. In the book of Psalms, over half of the 150 Psalms are classified as lament psalms because they express concern over a difficult situation the author is facing. Read the following psalms for some good examples. How could these psalms give you hope in the midst of a tough situation you're currently facing? Each lament psalm has at least four similar elements - description of present need, prayer for help, commitment to offer praise, and sincere thanks to God. Because of this structure, these...
True Love Is Loyal Love (1 of 4)
by Steve Jones
INTRO: Some of the great love stories of history and literature would probably include Adam and Eve, Mary and Joseph, Anthony and Cleopatra, Napoleon and Josephine, Romeo and Juliet, Gable and Lombard...Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly. Not! Why don't Harding and Gillooly fit in that line-up. Didn't they love each other? Probably in a certain sense. But as their story played out in the national media, it became apparent that their love was missing an element that is present in all great loves - loyalty. One newspaper wrote about their conspiracy in the attack on ice skater Nancy Kerrigan: 'They had vowed...
The Book of Ruth (1 of 5)
by Harley Howard
The book of Judges reveals the beginning of the rapid downfall of the nation of Israel after the death of Joshua and after being in the land of promise. The people ignored God continually, and God allowed them to be taken by many vicious and ruthless captors as a means of judgment against His own people. As the Lord...1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem- judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. The book of Judges reveals the beginning of the rapid downfall of the nation of Israel after the death of Joshua and after being in the land of promise. The people ignored...
Ruth - The Study of God's Goodness
by Zach Terry
The word ''husband'' is of Anglo-Saxon origin and means ''band of the house'' or ''house band.'' He is intended to be one who holds things together.But, a simple observing of the recent media outlets would seem to tell you that we aren't doing a very good job. It seems like every time you turn on the television you are presented with a new good husband gone bad. It all started in 1995 with O.J. Simpson as a seemingly story book romance turned in to a gruesome murder. Since then.... Mark Hacking, Scott Peterson, Jim McGreevy, Kobe Bryant and many others have been seen on practically every media out available...
Ruth's Journey
by Tony Nester
I'm old enough to remember when televisions were first becoming a household possession. Today, of course, most homes have several televisions, just as we have more than one phone. But that's now how it was when I was a young child. I remember the day when we learned who on our street had a television - black and white, of course. Several of us children would go up onto our neighbor's porch, put our faces up against their living room window, and peek through to see what we could on their TV screen. That's one of my memories of being an outsider - peeking through that window looking in on someone else's living room...
The Choice Is Yours (1 of 4)
by Jeff Schreve
Tonight we are starting a new series on the book of Ruth. The Old Testament book right after Judges. Joshua, Judges, and then Ruth. It's just a little book; just four chapters. But it's such a great book. It's about God's amazing grace. Now, I wonder, have you ever been really amazed in your life? Have you ever read something, seen something on TV that you just say, ''Wow, that is just amazing?? I had an e-mail sent to me not too long ago, and it was about some different things that had happened, some true stories, and they're just simple amazing. Sometimes amazing things can be good amazing and sometimes they can be not...
The Book of Ruth (15 of 54)
by Stan Coffey
AUTHORSHIP: The authorship of Ruth is not identified by the text. Many name Samuel as author. Others suggest Hezekiah, Ezra, or even David as having penned the book. DATE: Ruth 1:1 places the historical setting of the book during the period of the Judges 1373 - 1047BC. The genealogy in Ruth 4:18-22 suggests the latter part of that era. David is mentioned by name in Ruth 4:22, so the Book could hardly have been completed earlier than the time of David. If the book had been written as late as the time of Solomon, it seems likely that this notable figure would have been included in the genealogy. Therefore, the authorship of Ruth is dated...
Ruth - Flaming Hearts in Fields of Hope (1 of 10)
by Donald Cantrell
In this section we will look at the book of Ruth from a historical, practical and applicable point of view. The book of Ruth is of utmost importance in the canon of scriptures, if not for this book we could not link the house of David to the tribe of Judah. Ruth 4:17-22 (KJV) 17 And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David. 18 Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, 19 And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, 20 And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, 21 And Salmon...
A Redeeming Proposal (3 of 4)
by Keith Krell
Shalom (''peace''), my name is Boaz. It's my great privilege to be with you today. I don't know about you, but I don't like to wait on God. Deep down, I'm just like you: I want what I want and I want it now! I guess you could say that I hate to wait. Can you relate? I've been told that you speed date, eat fast food, and use the self-checkout lines in grocery stores. Apparently, you also try the ''one weekend diet,'' pay extra for overnight shipping, and honk when the light turns green. Honestly, I don't fully understand some of these things because I lived many years ago. But I get the gist: Like me, you hate to wait. What are you...
The Damage of Disobedience (1 of 5)
by Bob Ingle
I'm excited to invite you this morning to open your bibles to the book of Ruth. If you don't know where that is go to front of your bible, go forward 8 books, and boom...there's Ruth. How many of you have already read Ruth? Good. We still have a few of you who are Ruthless. Hahaha. Over the next six weeks I'm going to give you the Ruth, the whole Ruth, and nothing but the Ruth! Ruth is one of only two books in the bible named after a woman. Can you name the other? Esther. Very Good! Though both were women, their lives and stories were very different. Ruth was a Gentile married to a Jew. Esther was a Jew married to a Gentile...
Wanted and Redeemed (4 of 5)
by Jeff Schreve
If you have your Bibles, please turn to the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament, right before 1st Samuel. We are in a study in the Book of Ruth called Beauty for Ashes. And today, we want to talk about the subject of redemption. He was born in 1838 and died in 1876. His name was Philip Bliss. He became one of the great singers and hymn writers of his day. We sing his hymns even today. He had a short life. Died at 38. He died on a train trip with his wife. He was on a train, and the train went over a bridge, and the bridge collapsed, and the train derailed. And he was saved from that accident, but then there was a fire on the...
Stay In This Field (9 of 14)
by Ken Trivette
1. As a Christian, there is probably nothing anymore important in the Christian life than understanding the will of God and undertaking the will of God. Finding the will of God and following the will of God is an essential, expedient, and exciting part of being saved. 2. George W. Truett said: "To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge; to find God's will is the greatest discovery; and to do God's will is the greatest achievement." 3. Miriam Booth, daughter of William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, was a brilliant and cultured woman who began her Christian work with great promise and unusual success. However, disease...
The Massacre at Moab (1)
by Donald Cantrell
Theme: ''The danger of stepping out of God's will'' Custer's Last Stand - ''The Battle of Little Big Horn'' The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to Lakota as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which occurred June 25-26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory, was the most prominent action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. The fight was an overwhelming victory for the...
Ruth Reaping! (3 of 4)
by Dennis Marquardt
INTRO: Did you hear about the farmer that never had time to plant his Spring crops and yet in the Fall he was able to reap a great harvest of wheat from his fields -- or the man who received the "employee of the month" award from a company he worked at but who was lazy and never did any work for them?Of course not! ... Because they never happened! Why did neither one of these happen, because in both cases the farmer and the lazy man never did the work in order to reap the reward! In order to reap, either we or someone has to have sown first! This law is followed in all of nature by both man and beast! It is a law of the...
Faith That Works (2 of 5)
by Jeff Schreve
We're in a series on the Book of Ruth. We started it last week. We're entitling this series Beauty for Ashes. And today, we want to talk about a very important subject in the Bible. It's the subject of faith. Now the word faith - I did a little word search - the word faith in the New American Standard Bible, that word is used 250 times in the Bible and is primarily used in the New Testament. Obviously, we have other words that are synonyms of faith - belief and trust and things like that - but just the word faith is used that many times in the Bible. And we know that faith is critical, so important. That's how a person...
A Christmas Love Story (2 of 3)
by Ernest Easley
Now with ten days before Christmas, we're going to begin today in Matthew 1 where again we find: The Christmas Family Tree. Don't confuse The Christmas Family Tree with the Family Christmas Tree. And that Christmas Family tree is found in Matthew 1 where we discover the Family Tree that led up to that first Christmas Day. Matthew 1.1, ''The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.'' Those are some names you would expect to see in the Family Tree of Jesus. But like your Family Tree, if you keep scratching around, you're going to find a few surprises, that at first, will raise an...
Birthstones in Bethlehem (5 of 5)
by Jerry Vines
These are the concluding verses of Ruth which has its theme, ''The birth of a baby in Bethlehem.'' Ruth is one of two books in the Bible which bare the name of a woman. The other is Esther. The book of Ruth is the story of how this Moabitess woman came back to Bethlehem with her mother in law, Naomi, and how Boaz redeemed her, married her and brought her into the family of Israel. As a result of that union a little child was born. That's why the book of Ruth parallels the Christmas story. In the little village of Bethlehem some 2,000 years ago now, our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ was born, and this is the time of year when we...
Ruth: From Pauper to Princess (3 of 12)
by Stan Coffey
Today we continue our series of messages from the books of history entitled, "Profiles In Courage." This is part of our "Route 66" series as we preach a sermon from each of the sixty six books of the Bible. Ruth is truly a "Profile In Courage." As we are going to discover in the message today she is one of the most courageous women in all of scripture. The story of Ruth is not only the story of a true heroine, but it is a flawless love story in a compact format. It is not an epic tale, but a short story in four chapters. It runs the full range of human emotions from the most gut-wrenching kind of grief to the very heights of joy and triumph. Ruth's...
