Jesus is asking us to be salt and light with authenticity in our living, honesty in our testimony, frankness in our worship and intentionality in our holiness.

Big Idea: The beatitudes are Jesus’ way of saying that door to God’s kingdom is open to all, that what we value is often very different from what God values, they tell us of the deep satisfaction God offers to each of us and they call us to a holy life.

God gives us a prescription for the peace of God in our lives: Rejoice in the future promises as good as they are, and rejoice in our present circumstances however difficult they may be.

Ruth 4 calls each of us to act as redeemers in our lives, families and communities seeking to break the cycles of the past and to trust in the future God has for us. Big Idea: You and I are called by God to receive and join his plan to break cycles of sin, build the kingdom and live so that generations are blessed by your choices.

One of the holiest decisions you make is to walk the way of honoring God when everyone else says that way is foolish.

Be a Boaz. Use all that God has given you to bring others into the family of God.

Devotion says never give up. In the our case it says never give up on God and who he says you are.

Your decisions are holy and have the power to welcome the hand of God or the hardship of sin into your world.

Holy living results when you have counted the cost of following Jesus.

The Christian has the hope of Jesus no matter what story they find themselves in.