- Reasons for Reading
- Last Act
- Which redeemer? (vv. 1-4)
- The cost of redeeming (vv. 5-10)
- Last Words
- A wife for Boaz (vv. 11-12)
- A son for Ruth (vv. 13)
- A grandson (and a daughter-in-law) for Naomi (vv. 14-17)
- A grandfather for David (v. 17)
- The line of Perez (vv. 18-21)
- The line of Jesus (Matthew 1)
- Who can speak of his descendants? (Isaiah 53)
- Reasons for reading
- The story
- The story so far
- Scheme (vv 1-5)
- Success (vv. 16-18)
- Scandal (vv. 6-15)
- the surface scandal
- the deeper scandal
- Kindness (vv 9-13)
- seeing kindness
- showing kindness
- God’s kindness
- Kindness and the Commandments
- Micah 6:8, Hosea 6:6
- Matt 12:1-8, 23:2-24
- In your life and mine
- “According to the Scriptures”
- The story so far (Ch.1)
- The plot thickens… (Ch.2)
- Introducing Boaz (v. 1)
- A good day’s gleaning (vv. 2-16)
- Coming home full (vv. 17-23)
- Ruth’s God
- Redeemer
- Rewarder
- Refuge
- Our God
- The story of Ruth
- A family and a famine (vv. 1-5)
- “When Naomi heard…” (vv. 6-7)
- “Then Naomi said…” (vv. 8-15)
- “But Ruth replied…” (vv. 16-18)
- “When they arrived in Bethlehem…” (vv. 19-22)
- Naomi’s homecoming and the invitation of the Gospel
- Membership at PBC
- The design, origin and purpose of the local household of God
- Design
- Origin
- Purpose
- Belonging to the local household of God
- Belonging at PBC (the people)
- A letter to Gaius (v. 1)
- ‘It gave me great joy’ (vv. 2-4)
- ‘What you are doing for the brothers and sisters (vv. 5-8)
- ‘I wrote to teh church, but Diotrephes’ (vv. 9-12)
- ‘I hope to see you soon’ (vv. 13-15)
- ‘To the elect lady and her children’ (vv. 1-2)
- ‘Grace, mercy and peace’ (v. 3)
- ‘It has given me great joy’ (v. 4)
- ‘Not a new command’ (vv. 5-6)
- ‘…Because many deceivers…have gone out into the world’ (vv7-11)
- ‘So that our joy may be complete’ (vv. 12-13)
- Hope deferred makes the heart sick
- A tree of life, longing fulfilled