by Charlie Wolcott
There is an account in the Gospels where Jesus is pressed with urgency to heal someone on the verge of death only to be interrupted by a desperate woman who knew Jesus could heal when all else could fail. I am talking about the account of the raising of Jairus’ daughter...
by Katie Erickson
Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, "The LORD be with you!"
"The LORD bless you!" they answered.
Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, "Who does that young woman belong to?”
The overseer replied, "She is the Moabite who came back from...
by Charlie Wolcott
Jesus demonstrated some impressive control over things no human had ever done before. Elijah had commanded rain to not fall until he spoke another word, and Moses had called for hail to fall, but in two instances, Jesus demonstrated a control over nature that was above...
by Katie Erickson
Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor. ”
Naomi said to her,...
by Charlie Wolcott
One of the sermons that has left a lingering effect on me is David Wilkerson’s “The Hunter From Hell.” The sermon is about how the enemy goes after the “precious life,” especially those young people whom God has called from an early age. Throughout the sermon, Wilkerson...
by Katie Erickson
So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
“Don’t call me Naomi,” she told them. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life...
by Charlie Wolcott
There is only one time in all of recorded Scripture that left Jesus stunned, shocked, and amazed. If there ever was a time that it ever be said Jesus was caught off guard, it was a single moment described in Matthew 8 and Luke 7: the healing of the servant of a Roman...
by Katie Erickson
At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
"Look," said Naomi, "your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her."
But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from...
by Charlie Wolcott
Last week I started examining Jesus’ most famous teaching: the Sermon on the Mount, but I definitely ran out of space. So let me quickly highlight the major points in the message and continue examining why Jesus said what He said and what He was seeking in doing so....
by Katie Erickson
Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud and said to her, “We will go back with you to your people.”
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;...
by Charlie Wolcott
Jesus’ most famous sermon is recorded in full from Matthew 5-7 but with parts recorded in Luke 6. This is the longest single sermon in the entire Bible outside of Deuteronomy, which is Moses’ final speech to Israel before passing the baton to Joshua where most of the...
by Katie Erickson
When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she 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...
by Charlie Wolcott
Jesus was never someone who needed to prove Himself to anyone, but there were a few times He did things to demonstrate who He was and what He was about. Jesus was not going to merely proclaim some hard truths and hard messages. He was going to prove that He was the...
by Katie Erickson
Before we continue any further in the book of Ruth, it’s important to pause and look more in-depth at the Hebrew word hesed. This is a key theme and concept in the narrative of Ruth, and this word is one that it’s difficult to translate into English.
The Hebrew word...
