Lessons on Living from Ruth SUPER-GLUED

RUTH 1:14 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her. A number of years ago a new glue, characterized by an unusually strong holding power, was introduced on the market and sold under a variety of names. Advertisements for...

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Lessons on Living from Ruth SO RIGHT, YET SO WRONG

RUTH 1:11 But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?” When Egypt first conquered a land called Nubia, a regiment of soldiers was sent across the desert with an Arab guide. The...

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Lessons on Living from Ruth – THY LOVINGKINDNESS

RUTH 1:8 And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each to her mother’s house. The LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.” The great American novelist Henry James, in saying good-bye to his nephew Willie, said something the boy never...

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Lessons on Living from Ruth – HEADING HOME

RUTH 1:6 Then she arose with her daughters-in- law that she might return from the country of Moab for she had heard in the country of Moab that the Leno had visited His people by giving them bread. A Christian man took his eyes off God and committed a crime....

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Lessons on Living from Ruth – NEVER ALONE

RUTH 1:3, 5 Then Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons.Then both Mah/on and Chi/ion also died; so the woman survived her two sons and her husband. A man took his elderly mother out to the cemetery to decorate graves for Memorial Day. After placing...

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Lessons on Living from Ruth – TRANSIENT OR TENANT?

RUTH 1:2-4 The name of the man was Elimelech, the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mah/on and Chilion-Ephrathites of Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to the country of Moab and remained there. Then Efimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left,...

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Lessons on Living from Ruth DESPERATE TIMES

RUTH 1:1 Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. Desperation can drive us to...

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Lessons on Living from Joshua – A LASTING INFLUENCE

JUDGES 2:6-8 And when Joshua had dismissed the people, the children of Israel went each to his own inheritance to possess the land. So the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great...

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Lessons on Living from Joshua – NOT FOR SALE

JOSHUA 24:13 “I [God] have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you dwelling them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.” During the Spanish-American War, Clara Barton, the founder of the Red...

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