Sermons

The book of Ruth is a story about very ordinary people facing very ordinary events. We meet Naomi who underwent much hardship in famine and bereavement, but who eventually won through to peace and security. We meet Ruth, the foreign girl from Moab, who attached herself to Naomi her mother-in-law, and to Naomi’s God, and received his blessing. We meet Boaz, Naomi’s kinsman by marriage, who showed kindness to Ruth and to Naomi, and who by marrying Ruth fits into God’s purposes for history—and such a significant history that the great King David and therefore our Lord Jesus Christ himself are numbered among their descendants.