In Ruth 1, we meet three men and three women, who suddenly separate, leaving all in apparently impossible situations. By the end of the first chapter, there is a ray of hope for the women but none for the men. Even so, one of the women remains convinced that God is against her, since her life has taken tragic turns. As we face suffering in our own lives, we also can conclude that God is against us, unless we consider what he did by sending his own Son.
With so much insistence in Galatians on our being right before God through faith in Christ and not by the works of the law,...
Sooner or later every kingdom that opposes God will be “all gone,” but there is a kingdom that will not pass away.
Through a series of mistakes by the disciples, Jesus taught them and us what following him is not.