Teaching by George Lewellyn (Page 58)
Ruth 3 – “Love Me, That’s All I Ask”
Matthew 7
Ruth 2:4-23 – Love at First Sight
One of my favorites love songs of all time is Roberta Flack’s 1972 hit “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” The first couplet goes like this: The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyesIn those two lines, Flack was singing about love at first sight: the kind of love Boaz experienced the first time he laid his eyes on Ruth. The moment…
Matthew 6:14-34
Ruth 1:6-2:3 – El Roi
C. H. Spurgeon said the following about the sovereignty of God, “There is no attribute more comforting to His children than that of God’s sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe trials, they believe that sovereignty has ordained their afflictions, that sovereignty overrules them, and that sovereignty will sanctify them all. There is…
Matthew 6:1-13
Ruth 1:1-5 – Hopeless Times! Really!
G.K. Chesterton in his work Signs of the Times said, “Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is not virtue at all…As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude. It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be strength.” As we begin to look at the Book of Ruth today we will see that the main character lived in…
Matthew 5:13-48
2 Corinthians 12:14-13:14 – Test Yourself
“Latimer wrote Ridley once that when he was settled and steadfast about his own salvation he was as bold as a lion, but if that hope became eclipsed he was fearful and afraid and was disqualified for service. Many are disqualified for ser-vice because they are continually doubting their own…