You already have everything you need to live a godly life. You have the faith, you have everything else that is necessary, you have the power of God behind it all and you have all of God's magnificent promises.

In this episode, we begin a new season looking at 2 Peter. Knowing that he's nearing the end of his time on earth, Peter's writing to warn the believers under his care to stay strong. In his introduction, he drops in an interesting thought: we all have the same kind of faith he had.

We've come to the bit where every good love story finishes: “They got married and they all lived happily ever after.” But our storyteller has more to say, for this story is part of a much bigger story.

Bethlehem, in the days of Ruth, shows us what a community of God's people should be like. It also helps us to understand what God is like.

Naomi's risky plan has left us with a beautiful picture of marriage as God intends it to be, but better still, it opens up to us a deeper understanding of God's lovingkindness.

The story of Ruth is really a story about God, the knowledge of whose hesed gives His people the nerve to grab opportunities and take risks in order to show His hesed to the people around them.

The Hebrew word Hesed is one of the most important words in the Bible. It describes how God relates to us and it describes how we ought to relate to one another.