All In, with Kirk Crossing Sean Farver

The average adult makes 35,000 decisions a day. That is a lot of decisions and as Christians we want to process our decisions through the filter of wisdom. The book of Proverbs (along with Job, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs) is classified as wisdom literature and is meant to help guide God’s people to living a wise […]

In the final message of the series, we find a great wedding, a great birth, and a great legacy.  Boaz is finally able to marry Ruth; we’re not given any details but it certainly would have been a great celebration.  Ruth went from ‘foreigner’ to ‘servant’ to ‘wife’ – a remarkable transition in status and […]

In this part of the story of Ruth, Boaz follows through and brings the ‘case’ of Naomi’s property (and Ruth’s future) to the ‘other redeemer’ to see what his decision will be.  It will be a ‘legal’ decision in that Boaz has arranged for the matter to be decided before a ‘court’ of elders.  Once […]

In this part of the story of Ruth, Naomi and Ruth undertake a bold plan for Ruth to propose marriage to Boaz.  It was risky since Boaz could have misinterpreted Ruth’s intentions in meeting with him under cover of darkness at the threshing floor (after he had gone to sleep!).  He did not, in fact, […]

As we continue the story, we find Ruth showing initiative in going out to the fields to glean in order to provide for Naomi and herself.  We’re given a glimmer of hope in that Naomi has a male relative of good standing named Boaz.  Ruth ‘just happens’ to find herself gleaning in Boaz’ field (a […]

In the next part of the story of Ruth, we find a ray of hope, a remarkable kindness, and a painful reckoning.  The ray of hope is that Yahweh has visited his people and given them food (ended the famine).  This means he has not abandoned his people and that they have, one again, experienced his […]