Let the Children Come to Me.
Let the children come to me Luke 18: 15-17. 26/8/18 I have a huge problem with the Bible. And that problem is that I look at the Bible with my eyes and my experience. Every time I read the Bible I read it and think that the way I read it is the same way that everyone reads it, and if I see what the passage says then you should see it the same way too. And often that means that I miss what it might be saying to me. Let me give you an example. This passage today. It is short, i
What is needed.
Ruth 4: What is needed. Ruth 4: 1-22. 12/8/18 So for those of you who have been on holiday and missed this story so far... Naomi and her husband and sons go to Moab because there is a famine in Israel. There her sons marry a couple of local girls and all goes well for a while. After a while her husband and sons die. There is no one to look after Naomi so she goes back to Bethlehem where hopefully extended family will look after her. She sends the two daughters-in-law back to
What do you do when there is nothing you can do?
Ruth 3: What do you do when there is nothing you can do? Ruth 3: 1-18. 5/8/18 What do you do when there is nothing you can do? Here are the rules of the game that Ruth and Naomi are playing by... Women have four options. They marry and their husband and family look after them. They become beggars. They become prostitutes. They die. That is not a lot of options. The trouble was that women couldn’t earn money; they are looked after by the men. The husbands could own fields and