So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with …
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of …
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As with the poem of the excellent wife in Proverbs 31, the book of Ruth is often left for women's studies. And it makes sense. Ruth and Esther are the only two books of the Bible that have a woman's name for the title, and within Ruth, two of the three main characters are women. …
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The Lord used Martin Luther mightily to start the Protestant Reformation. While other Reformers like John Calvin would refine Protestant doctrine, Luther was a bull in a China closet who brought the Middle Ages to a close and ushered in the Modern Era of history. And like Athanasius before him, Luther stood contra mundum, against …
Karl Marx had a point. If you need to be refreshed on the overall concept of Marxism, allow me to help. Marx viewed life as one great power struggle between socioeconomic classes. Specifically, he saw capitalism as creating a large gap between the bourgeoisie (elite upper class) and the proletariat (poorer lower class), and that …
Continue reading The Christian Vision of Marriage | Ephesians 5:22-33
The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son?What are you doing, son of my womb?What are you doing, son of my vows?Do not give your strength to women,your ways to those who destroy kings.It is not for kings, O Lemuel,it is not for kings to …
Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote: In many churches the Psalms are read or sung every Sunday, or even daily, in succession. These churches have preserved a priceless treasure, for only with daily use does one appropriate this divine prayerbook. When read only occasionally, these prayers are too overwhelming in design and power and tend to turn …
See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. For even those who are circumcised …
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Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to …
Continue reading Whatever One Sows, That Will He Also Reap | Galatians 6:6-10
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But …
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B. C. Newton 