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Reflections
Reflections on Ruth: The Butterfly Effect
In my reflections on Ruth (this being the last one), I’ve described the characters as ordinary, imperfect folks who received extraordinary love from God. But Ruth is, ultimately, not remembered as an ordinary person, and her story is more than a tragedy that God turns into a quaint, happy ending. Boaz marries Ruth and theyContinue reading “Reflections on Ruth: The Butterfly Effect”
Reflections on Ruth: Foreshadowing
In my previous post, I introduced an unremarkable Israelite family that moved to Moab to ride out a famine. I described them as “ordinary people trying to live decent lives,” and I think they were. But the ordinary human condition is brokenness, not holiness, and this family was no exception. When Naomi and her husbandContinue reading “Reflections on Ruth: Foreshadowing”
Reflections on Ruth: The Famine
The Book of Ruth is about a family that is unremarkable and, therefore, relatable. There’s a husband, a wife, and their two sons. They live in Israel, in a town about thirty miles from where God’s ark sat in a tent. But it’s hard to say how often they visited the tabernacle. We know howContinue reading “Reflections on Ruth: The Famine”
My Journey to First Pres
It’s April 2019, 8:30 am on a Tuesday. I am wearing a knee-length black down jacket taking the 47 down Geary to FiDi. A classic SF day- Carl, the fog has taken over west SF while east SF remains nice and sunny. On the bus, I’m listening to my 3rd Joel Osteen podcast episode ofContinue reading “My Journey to First Pres”
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