Podcasts about ruth week

Ruth: Week 1 / Pastor Katie Bowman by Hope City Church

Jessica Carolissen continues week 4 of our Ruth series, exploring Ruth 3:1–18 and The Redeemer's Promise. Naomi sets a bold plan in motion, Ruth responds with risky obedience, and Boaz reveals the redeemer's response. Though Ruth does not yet have the wedding, land, or heir, she is upheld by Boaz's word, provision, and character. This points us to Jesus, our greater Redeemer, who fulfils God's radical plan, bears the cost of redemption, and secures our eternal hope.

A deep study of the Old Testament Book of Ruth.

Sheldon Moultrie continues week 3 of our Ruth series, unpacking Ruth 2:1-23. We follow Ruth as she steps into the unknown, meets the generous Boaz, and sees God's kindness and providence at work. This encounter brings provision for the present and hope for the future, pointing us to the ultimate Redeemer, Jesus Christ.

We often define our lives by the big important moments. But most of our lives consist of ordinary and consistent daily decisions. They may not feel significant, but ultimately end up changing everything. In our new series, The Book of Ruth, we'll discover the hidden beauty of life's ordinary moments, and how obedience leads to blessing.

Message from Glyn Knight on September 21, 2025

Cam Venter continues week 2 of our Ruth series with a message from Ruth 1:15–22. As Naomi and Ruth return to Bethlehem, we are encouraged to see suffering honestly, recognise God's hand in it, and find the hope that carries us through.

We often define our lives by the big important moments. But most of our lives consist of ordinary and consistent daily decisions. They may not feel significant, but ultimately end up changing everything. In our new series, The Book of Ruth, we'll discover the hidden beauty of life's ordinary moments, and how obedience leads to blessing.

Message from Dave Jane on September 14, 2025

Lee-Ann Maughan opens our new series on Ruth with a message from Ruth 1:1-18. We see how God is sovereign over every detail, how He works through ordinary people, and how even suffering can draw us back to Him. The story of Ruth points us to redemption, community, and the fullness we receive in Christ.

We often define our lives by the big important moments. But most of our lives consist of ordinary and consistent daily decisions. They may not feel significant, but ultimately end up changing everything. In our new series, The Book of Ruth, we'll discover the hidden beauty of life's ordinary moments, and how obedience leads to blessing.

We often define our lives by the big important moments. But most of our lives consist of ordinary and consistent daily decisions. They may not feel significant, but ultimately end up changing everything. In our new series, The Book of Ruth, we'll discover the hidden beauty of life's ordinary moments, and how obedience leads to blessing.

Redemption Requires Sacrifice | Ruth Week 4Jordan Raybon Sermon PointsThe Worthless RedeemerThe Worthy RedeemerThe Wonderful Redeemer LifePoint Church sur Instagram : https://lifept.cc/insta-bruLifePoint Church sur Facebook : https://lifept.cc/fb-bruSe connecter avec nous: https://lifept.cc/connect-bru _______________ Stay ConnectedWebsite: https://lifepoint.beLifePoint Church on Instagram: https://lifept.cc/insta-bruLifePoint Church on Facebook: https://lifept.cc/fb-bruConnect with Us: https://lifept.cc/connect-bru

Join Kelly, Jodi & Kayce as they dive deeper into the book of Ruth!Thanks for listening! Follow us on Facebook or YouTube.

We often define our lives by the big important moments. But most of our lives consist of ordinary and consistent daily decisions. They may not feel significant, but ultimately end up changing everything. In our new series, The Book of Ruth, we'll discover the hidden beauty of life's ordinary moments, and how obedience leads to blessing.

What Is Kindness? | Ruth Week 3Jordan Raybon Sermon PointsConcern for OthersCompassion for OthersCommitment to Others LifePoint Church sur Instagram : https://lifept.cc/insta-bruLifePoint Church sur Facebook : https://lifept.cc/fb-bruSe connecter avec nous: https://lifept.cc/connect-bru _______________ Stay ConnectedWebsite: https://lifepoint.beLifePoint Church on Instagram: https://lifept.cc/insta-bruLifePoint Church on Facebook: https://lifept.cc/fb-bruConnect with Us: https://lifept.cc/connect-bru

We often define our lives by the big important moments. But most of our lives consist of ordinary and consistent daily decisions. They may not feel significant, but ultimately end up changing everything. In our new series, The Book of Ruth, we'll discover the hidden beauty of life's ordinary moments, and how obedience leads to blessing.

Dark Before the Dawn | Ruth Week 2Jordan Raybon LifePoint Church sur Instagram : https://lifept.cc/insta-bruLifePoint Church sur Facebook : https://lifept.cc/fb-bruSe connecter avec nous: https://lifept.cc/connect-bru _______________ Stay ConnectedWebsite: https://lifepoint.beLifePoint Church on Instagram: https://lifept.cc/insta-bruLifePoint Church on Facebook: https://lifept.cc/fb-bruConnect with Us: https://lifept.cc/connect-bru

A sermon on Ruth chapters 3 and 4.

We often define our lives by the big important moments. But most of our lives consist of ordinary and consistent daily decisions. They may not feel significant, but ultimately end up changing everything. In our new series, The Book of Ruth, we'll discover the hidden beauty of life's ordinary moments, and how obedience leads to blessing.

A Bitter Life or a Better Life? | Ruth Week 1Paul Every LifePoint Church sur Instagram : https://lifept.cc/insta-bruLifePoint Church sur Facebook : https://lifept.cc/fb-bruSe connecter avec nous: https://lifept.cc/connect-bru _______________ Stay ConnectedWebsite: https://lifepoint.beLifePoint Church on Instagram: https://lifept.cc/insta-bruLifePoint Church on Facebook: https://lifept.cc/fb-bruConnect with Us: https://lifept.cc/connect-bru

The first of two sermons on the book of Ruth!

We often define our lives by the big important moments. But most of our lives consist of ordinary and consistent daily decisions. They may not feel significant, but ultimately end up changing everything. In our new series, The Book of Ruth, we'll discover the hidden beauty of life's ordinary moments, and how obedience leads to blessing.

Kelly Bridges, Jodi Miller & Kayce Eilerman Thanks for listening! Follow us on Facebook or YouTube.

A sermon on Judges 19-21. Marked explicit for graphic violence in the narrative.

A sermon about the first half of the Gideon story.

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. Every year during the festival of Weeks, the time more commonly known as Pentecost, the people of God would read the little book of Ruth. Annually they would take this short story from their past and listen to it again as it spoke into the current realities they were facing as well as the unknown, unseen possibilities of the future. Starting Sunday, we will walk in the fullness of Pentecost, reflecting on the story of Naomi and Ruth and what their Spirit-inspired story reveals to us about yesterday, today, tomorrow, and overmorrow.  Most likely, you're well-acquainted with the first three time orientations, but that fourth might be new. Always a fan of a nuanced word, I stumbled across the Old English word while praying about this series. Overmorrow, in its simplest definition, is the day after tomorrow. Why did we ever stop saying it!? That little word lit my brain on fire! As I read and reread Ruth, I watched these four time stamps come alive. I found my soul kindled by the bright fire of overmorrow, illuminating hope beyond the horizon of tomorrow. But we only arrive at overmorrow by walking through yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We all, like Naomi and Ruth, have painful stories in our past. Our yesterday's tragedies can easily swallow up any hope we might have for the future. Ruth 1 does not shy away from the lamentable story of yesterday. It lays the weight of the past heavily on our shoulders with all its grief and tragedy. But it does not leave us there. Before we arrive at today, there is a glimpse, a glimmer…a hope of overmorrow.

A Sunday morning sermon by Peter DuMont. Gregory Wagenfuhr, member of the ECO Standing Theology Committee, has spoken of time as a difficult thing to live within. In his telling, we are continually ground between two stones: between processing and making sense of the past, and anticipating and planning for the future. Our task as humans is to live between the weight of past experience and the looming shapes and questions of the future.    In this pressure-packed space, it can be very easy to become paralyzed, overwhelmed, discouraged, distracted, or addicted. In the process, we can find ourselves losing our sense of agency, power, and freedom, the things that make us human! We lose our sense of being alive and empowered within our present moment, our “today.”    Into this dilemma, the reign of God the Father, the victory of Jesus, and the filling of the Holy Spirit function together to bring liberty from our captivity and enable us to live powerfully within each successive present moment of our lives.    Ruth is an example of someone who triumphs through this vitality and trusting action within her present. She experiences deep loss and dislocation, yet she ultimately encounters the greatness of God's purposes as she acts decisively within her present moment—God's actions meeting her actions!    May we move toward worship this Sunday preparing our hearts to encounter the Lord of Life who has worked, is working, and will work to give us freedom to be and become who we are made and called to be—one “today” at a time!

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. I think Mark Twain was right when he said, “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” The little book of Ruth is driven by kindness. Amid famine, decimation, and loss, the whisper of kindness soothes deafened ears. In the clashing cymbals of time, when the cacophony of anxiety and worry flood our vision, kindness reveals the movement of God's invisible hand. To paraphrase Nietzsche, an enduring kindness in the same direction is transformative. Where Naomi was left embittered by past pain, kindness led her into renewed freedom for today. Where Ruth, a young widow was left caring for her devastated mother-in-law, kindness led her into a renewed assurance for the future. Where we have been is not permanent. It's where we are, but it doesn't have to be where our story ends. Kindness, born from the love of God into our lives and relationships, transforms our doubt and despair into renewed hope for eternity. This week, be inspired by the kindness that transformed Naomi's life. In the first chapter she was blinded by her loss, unable to escape the shroud of bitterness that consumed her past. In the second chapter, she was semi-conscious as Ruth went out to provide for them in their present poverty. But in the third chapter, Naomi was the one looking to the future. Kindness rekindled the fire in her eyes. Transformed by kindness, Naomi told Ruth, “Wash, put on perfume, get dressed in your best clothes and go” (Ruth 3.3-4a). Naomi was inspired to hope again by the enduring kindness of those around her. May the same be said of us.

A Sunday sermon by Pastor Brett Deal. I once found myself in conversation with a futurist. He'd published several books and was well-known for his study of the future and his predictions on where things were headed. At times it was as if he was looking past the curve of the earth and seeing what tomorrow was bringing. When I asked him how he went about making his predictions for the future, his response was just as surprising. He said the best way to predict what will happen tomorrow is to be fully present today. What a short answer but such a tall order. As we've been reading the book of Ruth, we've seen Naomi overcome by the suffering of yesterday, overwhelmed with the difficulties of today, and full of anxieties for tomorrow. It would be easy to predict a tragic ending if this was the sum and substance of the book! But all of that is outweighed by the actions of two people. Ruth's friendship and Boaz' covenant obedience foreshadow the hope of chapter four. If we've read each chapter well, the kindness of God, poured out through Ruth and Boaz into the life of Naomi, tells us where the story's going. Friends, being present today in Christ, we know what the future holds, we can see where our story's headed. In Jesus, the hope of overmorrow colors every day and every dawning. In Jesus, eternal hope is written on every page and every paragraph of our lives. We feel this hope in the Holy Spirit's invitation to unpack our past. We see it in the fellowship of our brothers and sisters in Christ. We perceive it in the empowering move of the Spirit calling us to deeper faith, to greater trust. Knowing the kindness of God, we are giving new space to surrender our anxieties, bringing our prayers and petitions to the Father with hopeful confidence, as the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, guards our hearts our minds in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4.6-7). Today, be present in someone else's life. Share with them the hope of overmorrow, your hope for eternity.

Our first sermon on the book of Judges!

Our second sermon on the book of Joshua.

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The first sermon in our new series addressing the book of Joshua.

As Pastor Jon closes our journey through Ruth, he invites us to anchor our lives in the truth of God's sovereignty. No matter what we face, God's redemptive plan is unfolding, bringing restoration, purpose, and hope. In Ruth 4:13-17, we witness God's sovereign hand bringing hope and new life out of hardship, pain, and uncertainty. The story culminates in a joyful birth—a baby who secures a family line and a future, pointing forward to Jesus, our Redeemer. This passage reminds us that God is at work in the everyday and the extraordinary, in moments of joy and sorrow alike. Through Ruth and Naomi's story, we see a powerful picture of God's providence—His active, faithful presence in history and our personal lives. Speaker: Pastor Jon Thompson Publication: June 8, 2025

The Book of Ruth | Week 6 | Ruth 4:13-22 by Refuge Community Church

We make and break promises all the time. Even those of us who try our hardest not to, eventually fail. Pastor Jon uses Boaz's efforts to rescue Ruth and Naomi to illustrate how Jesus, the better Boaz, bought and paid for us not because he had to, but because he loves us. Speaker: Jon Thompson Publication: June 1, 2025

The Book of Ruth | Week 5 | Ruth 4:1-12 by Refuge Community Church

Ruth 3 opens with Ruth and Boaz alone for the first time. In a moment of vulnerability and temptation, they choose obedience, worship, and integrity. Pastor Jon unpacks how their faithfulness points us to Jesus, our ultimate Redeemer, and calls us to pursue purity—even when no one is watching. This moment, though quiet, is part of God's bigger plan. We're reminded not to live just for the moment, but beyond it—because our daily faithfulness can impact generations, and only in heaven may we see its full effect. Speaker: Jon Thompson Publication: May 25, 2025

The Book of Ruth | Week 4 | Ruth 3:1-18 by Refuge Community Church

How do you think about the people in your world who are 'others'? Do you welcome them as loved neighbours towards whom you can show the same generosity God has given you? Pastor Jon looks at Boaz's response to Naomi - a foreigner and a widow's daughter-in-law - and how his understanding of God's mercy and care shape how he treats her.  Speaker: Jon Thompson Publication: May 18, 2025

The Book of Ruth | Week 3 | Ruth 2:14-23 by Refuge Community Church

Join us today as Pastor Gina wraps our time in the book of Ruth. 

The Book of Ruth | Week 2 | Ruth 2:1-13 by Refuge Community Church

The Book of Ruth | Week 1 | Ruth 1:1-22 by Refuge Community Church