What is joy? How is it different than happiness? Do we have to go out and find joy? Or does it come to us? Listen to find out more.

Ruth, a lonely foreigner in Israel, gets up and gets after it. She finds herself looking for food in a field, and that field just happens to belong to a rich, good man named Boaz. And the rest is history...

Naomi, crushed by the circumstances of her life, chooses not to hide her pain but to express it. It's a deep, gut-level, indescribably pain she's living through. And yet, in the middle of that, she puts one foot in front of the other and returns all the way back to Bethlehem, symbolizing a repentance and return to God's plan for her life. She laments, and repents, and draws out the kindness of God through these simple, rare acts of faith.

In one of the loveliest short stories ever written, packed with literary art and theological insight, we meet Ruth a few verses into the first chapter of this book. Just after meeting Ruth, we read about one of the most decisive moments in world history. Ruth has a decision to make. Which way will she go? Listen to find out more.

God makes all things work together for the good of those who love Him. If your story doesn't seem very good right now, Mary and Joseph can relate. But the story wasn't over for them and it isn't over for you. Take heart. The arrival of Jesus changes everything.

Paul starts and ends his letter to his spiritual son Timothy with the same word. Grace.

Life and ministry will be hard because people and the world are broken by sin. In spite of all the hardness, as Christians, we are never alone. The Lord stands by us. The power of the gospel cannot be thwarted by sinful humans.

2 Timothy 4:1-8 is the crescendo of Paul's last words to his spiritual son Timothy. He stresses that that Timothy (and all of us) that we need to strive to do the work of an evangelist if we want to run the race well.

The Bible is not a book of duties we need to do for God; it is the story of God’s love for us. It shouldn't cause us to think about all the things we need to do for God, but rather, it should make us pause, look up, and say, "Oh my God, look at what you've done for me!"

Rather than seeking new and improved, popular and widely-accepted theological ideas, Paul encourages Timothy to continue in the tried and true beliefs that he was raised up in. Listen to find out more.