Why can’t it always be like that?
Ruth 2: Why can’t it always be like that? Ruth 2: 1-25. 29/7/18 So last week we started the Book of Ruth. Last week we saw how often we don’t live our ordinary life really seeking out God, Naomi moved countries, didn’t ask God about it, her sons married foreign women, didn’t ask God about it, husband died and she stayed in the foreign country, didn't ask God about it. And the truth of last week was that none of that mattered....what mattered was that God still cared. And if s
Doing the best you can
Ruth 1: Doing the best you can Ruth 1: 1-22. 22/7/18 I don’t know about you, but part of me is still in holiday mode so I am not really up for a heavy deep sermon. Which is fine because Ruth isn't a heavy book. In some ways it is hardly a Bible book at all. God never speaks. Unlike the prophets where big decisions about the life and death of the nation are in the balance and God is speaking and people need to listen, unlike Exodus, which we were looking at recently and God ne
The Light of Truth
The Light of Truth 1 John 1:5-2:2 1/7/18 I want to talk about sin and redemption today. Those are two very theological words. And if there was any a time when I could hear a congregation switch off then it was probably now. My wife says there are times I drive her nuts because I think too much. I will be lying in bed and she will say out the blue, ‘Will you stop it I can’t sleep.’ And I will say, ‘But I am not doing anything.’ And she will say, ‘I can hear you thinking. Will
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