What reason does Boaz give Ruth for not helping her immediately? Instead, the reason Boaz gives isRuth's faithfulness to Naomi and to the Lord– two things that do not benefit him personally at all. Boaz does not help Ruth because she has helped him. Boaz does not help Ruth because she...
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Ruth, who was from Moab, said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field of anyone who will be kind to me. There I will gather the grain left behind by
“May he be blessed by the LORD, who never fails to show kindness to the living and to the dead,” Naomi exclaimed to her daughter-in-law. She
‘It’s almost becoming the new normal,’ says Ruth Van Reken, co-author of TCK bible Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds. Van Reken is a TCK herself: she grew up between Nigeria and the US, and has been studying and working with TCKs since 1984. ‘A...
of God, from generation to generation, does not depend upon the minor incidents of the Biblical stories; it would not be destroyed or weakened, even though human traditions could be shown to have overgrown some parts of this sacred history, as the ivy, creeping up the wall of the church,...
The Greek word for “elect” is “eklektos,” which means to be chosen or selected. This word appears 23 times in the Greek New Testament.But who are God’s elect, and what does it mean to be among them? Is it an exclusive club that doesn’t allow outsiders? Is it wrong to wish...
Seriously, God has Hosea marry a prostitute and have a few kids (Hos 1:2). And Hosea does. When his wife takes up her old trade and starts sleeping with other men, God tells him to go bring her back home as his wife again. ...
According to the historian Eusebius, Semiramis was the wife of Nimrod. In the Sumerian language, her name is “Sammur-amat.” According to less trustworthy traditions, Semiramis was Noah’s granddaughter, and both the mother and wife of Nimrod. ...