Category: Bible
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The Kinsman Redeemer – Ruth 2:18-3:18
Ruth meets Boaz, but Naomi doesn’t know it. Naomi is related to Boaz, but Ruth doesn’t know it. In this passage, it comes to light that Boaz is a relative and they hatch a plan to see if he will marry Ruth. He says he will, but there’s a catch that could derail the entire…
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The good harvest – Ruth 2:1-16
Ruth and Naomi have arrived in Israel. In an act of providence, Ruth “happens” to go into a field owned by a relative of her deceased husband. We see a man show extraordinary kindness to someone who was on the outside looking in of Israelite society. She wasn’t an Israelite and she was a poor…
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Homecoming – Ruth 1:6-22
Naomi has lost everything and she is fired to go to Israel and hope for a better life, but the fees an uncertain future. Her daughter-in-law Ruth has also had a life of difficulties, yet we see her faithfulness and trust in the Lord. Between these two women, we see two different pictures of how…
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Sermon: The Unpromising Land – Ruth 1:1-5
The Book of Ruth begins with a woman named Naomi. In the first five verses of this book, she has been dealt one blow after another. First she endures a famine, then her husband dies, then her sons both die. She has no prospects and little hope. Sometimes we can feel like Naomi. But this…
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Sermon: Feeding multitudes – Mark 8:1-21
It’s so easy to forget the ways the Lord has blessed us and provided for us. In this passage, we see Jesus provide for a skeptical group of apostles not once, but twice. Sermon manuscript
Josh Benner 