encrusted words

Tag: loving kindness

  • salvation by courage alone

    Another sermon in our series on Ruth. Again, I largely follow the Interpretation series commentary on Ruth. _______________________________________ It was a fateful evening on the threshing floor – no doubt the events of that night were burned into the memory of Boaz. It was a night like no other.  The threshing floor is out in the…

  • Dumpster Diving (Ruth 2)

    A sermon preached today – the second in a short series on Ruth. ____________________ Have you heard of Dumpster Diving? It describes the practice of salvaging food or other material that has been thrown away. As Wikipedia informs us, “the term dumpster diving originates from the fanciful image of someone leaping head first into a dumpster…

  • loving kindness (hesed)

    The first sermon in a 5 part series on the Book of Ruth. In this sermon I largely follow the interpretation of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, from the Interpretation series. ______________________________ As we begin taking a look at the story of Ruth this morning, I’d actually like to begin by drawing our attention to something that…