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I’ve been drawn to the phrase, “flourishing in the house of God.” What does it mean to be in your house, place of dwelling, or habitation, Lord? And what does it mean to be outside your house, to dwell outside the shelter you have created for me? The Hebrew word for “flourish” is “raanan” which means “green, luxuriant, fresh.” My…
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What does your life look like on the other side of Resurrection Sunday? Each year, we have high hopes as we celebrate Jesus’ sacrifice and victory. We anticipate new life breathed into our circumstances that desperately need a change. But when the day passes by with little discernible improvement, it can be a serious disappointment. What if the calendar gets…
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We arrive in Judah and enter the story at another dialogue between Naomi and Ruth. This time Naomi asks Ruth to do something rather peculiar. Let’s take a look: Naomi said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home for you, where you will be well provided for. Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative…
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We join the story of Ruth this week at a crucial crossroads. In Ruth 1:8 Naomi urges her daughters-in-law, Ruth and Orpah, to return to their respective families as they have been widowed by the death of Naomi’s sons. She reviews their unfortunate situation, expressing her disappointment that she has nothing of value to offer her two sweet daughters. Ruth…
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Love is confusing. We love pizza, sunsets, kittens, diamonds, chocolate … and God. There are many more words in the Bible for love than we use in English: agape, phileo, and storge, to name a few. In the Bible, the concept of “love” seems to be a much richer notion than we comprehend with the use of our singular catch-all word. And…
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How do we allow God’s love to permeate our lives, to fill us up to overflowing with a steadfast confidence in His goodness? How can we become convinced that He is faithful and kind? Many of us know the theory of God’s love, but we lack certainty in our hearts. How does His love make that journey from our head…
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