When we open the New Testament, we are met first with the genealogy that is at the beginning of the gospel of Matthew: “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1). Included in this family record of Jesus are the...
The curse of a complaining spirit can be read about in our Bibles, in the book of Numbers. The people were unhappy with God and with Moses, the man whom God has raised as their leader. It got so bad that a number of the people thought of their old...
Hope was planted in a heart. It would not be denied. The heart belonged to Ruth. That hope that took root in her must be classified as a true work of God, for she had many reasons to be hopeless. Her husband was dead, so were her father-in-law and her...
Psalm 73 puts down in verse things that we have all thought at some time or another. We groan at the success of those seemingly so rooted in evil practices. The psalmist labeled such thoughts as envy as he made a confession. He related a series of observations on how...
Ruth came out of Moab, a nation with a strange and despicable origin. This people group’s ancestry reached back to Lot and the days after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. In the midst of his family’s escape from the fire fall, Lot’s wife lagged behind and turned her gaze...
His name is George, and he has no place to lay his head. He “lives” in a park in Dundalk, a community situated just outside the Baltimore City limits. Most of the time, George can be found in his wheelchair near the fountain located in front of the area Post...
“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” (Proverbs 4:21). The book of Ruth is viewed as a love story. Widowed girl comes to Bethlehem with widowed mother-in-law. Girl gleans in field and gets noticed by owner of said field. Mother-in-law tells girl...
I’m full. It’s what we sometimes say at the dinner table when someone offers us another helping of food. It means we have had enough to eat, or it could mean that we would rather not eat anymore of what was served. We can be full in the wrong way,...
