Lessons on Living from RUTH UNDER HIS WINGS

RUTH 2:12 : “The LORD repay your work and a full reward be given you by the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.” Birds use their wings for many purposes other than flying. In times of danger, a mother bird’s wings provide a feathered...

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Lessons on Living from RUTH A GOOD REPORT

RUTH 2:10-11 : So she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?” And Boaz answered and said to her, “It has been fully reported...

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Lessons on Living from RUTH DIVINE PROTECTION

RUTH 2:9 : “Let your eyes be on the field which they reap, and go after them. Have I not commanded the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men have drawn.” An Alpine mountain climbing...

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Lessons on Living from RUTH BITE BY BITE

RUTH 2:8 : Then Boaz said to Ruth, “You will listen, my daughter, will you not? Do not go to glean in another field, nor go from here, but stay close by my young women.” Nebraska, where I live, has a lot of cattle ranches, and every once in a...

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Lessons on Living from RUTH NO FREE LUNCHES

RUTH 2:7 : “And she said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came and has continued from morning until now, though she rested a little in the house.” There’s a delightful story about a king, many years ago, who called his wise...

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Lessons on Living from RUTH NOT BY CHANCE

RUTH 2:5-6 : Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, ”Whose young woman is this?” So the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered and said, “It is the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.”...

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Lessons on Living from RUTH FINDING FAVOR

RUTH 2:2 : So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” Sometimes we try to buy people’s favor-and even God’s favor. We’re...

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Lessons on Living from RUTH REAL RICHES

RUTH 2:1 : And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a man of great wealth, of the family of Elimelech; his name was Boaz. John Jacob Astor one of the world’s richest men, was a passenger on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic. When the ship hit the...

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Lessons on Living from RUTH JUST IN TIME

RUTH 1:22 : So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. Now they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest. According to Business Week, time technicians at the National Institute of Standards & Technology recently switched to an...

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Lessons on Living from RUTH ANGRY AT GOD

RUTH 1:20-21 : So she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against...

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