Ruth is the person after whom the Book of Ruth is named. She was a Moabite woman who married an Israelite. After the death of all the male members of her family (her husband, her father-in-law, and her brother-in-law), she stays with her mother-in-law, Naomi, and moves to Judah with her, where Ruth wins the love and protection of a wealthy relative, Boaz, through her kindness.
Pastor Stuart McAlpine introduces the book of Philemon, a personal letter from the apostle Paul to Philemon expressing him both as a man and...
"Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so" (Matthew 19:8)....
"There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached...