All day at home Naomi had to wait all day while Ruth went out to the fields that first time. She had no way of knowing what happened, and she probably didn’t expect what she found out.

The meeting Ruth meets Boaz in the field and is treated with unexpected kindness. She didn’t who he was at the time, nor how God would use him in her life.

Not a chance The famine has ended and the field are ready to harvest outside Bethlehem. Naomi and Ruth have arrived in Bethlehem at just the right time as there is literally food everywhere. However, that doesn’t automatically mean they will be fed. Has providence turned in their favor?

Is this Naomi? The return to Bethlehem caused quite a stir and not a few questions. Naomi speaks reflectively on her bitter experience.

What does faith require? A couple of widows wrestle with the hardships of life. Each make a choice. Ruth’s choice illustrates how faith is not a mere abstract set of interesting ideas, but affects and informs real life.

From Bad to Worse

Meet Naomi, whose life is about to be made much more difficult. Her hardships put her in the line suffering saints, like Job.

Why study the book of Ruth? What does the happenings in a rural grain field over three thousand years ago have to do with us today? Probably more than we think. Ruth is a story of universal human experience, speaking to the most fundamental human needs. Who cannot relate to the death of a spouse,…

How does it all end? Acts concludes with Paul’s interaction with the unbelieving Jews in Rome. Luke leaves Paul under house arrest and preaching Jesus Christ and the kingdom of God to all who would come to him.

Two months on Malta Paul and the rest of the people from the ship end up on the island of Malta after the shipwreck. They are closer, but still have a long way to go to get to Rome.

Making it out alive The ship had been at sea for two weeks in the midst of a driving, terrible storm. Paul succeeds in encouraging the crew and passengers, and the words of the angel are fulfilled.