I recently come upon a TV makeover show called ‘Clean House’. Basically, the show is about a design team that helps people transform their lives by cleaning up the mess they have created in their home. I am always amazed to see how people live behind the closed doors of their homes. But, what fascinates [...]
I recently read a summary of the Psalms as, “We have walked together in hard and in pleasant places.” This is so true!
When I think back over the last few months, this came back to me. The first 8 months of this year has been just that – hard and pleasant! This has been a [...]
One of the best selling books of all time tried to answer this very question. In fact according to Enlightenment Magazine over 20 million copies of the book, Purpose Driven Life, have been sold. Yet thousands of people continue to ask the question, “What am I here for? What is my purpose?”
It’s a difficult [...]
Have you ever sarcastically asked yourself this question when you have been in a situation that is a bit out of the ordinary? There seems to be similarities between this question and the things that must have been running through Moses mind in Exodus 3. The story begins with Moses standing in the middle of [...]
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But Naomi said, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me—even if I had a husband tonight [...]
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When she heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, Naomi and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back [...]
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In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name Naomi, and the names of his two sons [...]
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So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. Then he went to her, and the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. Ruth 4:13
Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth,
Obed the father of Jesse,
and Jesse the father of King David.
…and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband [...]