Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.

God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.

The Christian life becomes impossible. That is, it becomes supernatural.

If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.

God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, and you may be aware of three of them.

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.