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 like the...

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...

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 atomic...

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 me,...

RUTH 1:16-17 But Ruth said: “Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die,...

RUTH 1:15 And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” Husbands are notorious for not asking directions. One wife said that her husband and she left a wedding to go to the reception. Not knowing how to find...

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...

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...

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...

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....