“In those days, there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Judges 21:25 The days of Ruth was still the time period when the Judges ruled. What do we know about this time period of the Judges? Read Judges 2:8-22. The cycle goes like this: disobedience, defeat, and distress, desperately crying out, deliverance, and peace back to disobedience. This is the sin cycle in the book of Judges. In Ruth 1:1, there is a famine in Bethlehem. According to Ruth 1:2-3, what does this family face in Moab? What do you fin in Ruth 1:4? Marriage to a Moabite was not allowed in…
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Thanking God for Our Meals
And taking the five loaves and two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing, broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all. Mark 6:41 Do you thank God for every meal? What about snacking? Do you thank God for that? And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples and the disciples to the multitude. Mark 14:19 Then they took away the stone from the place where the…
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Jesus Walks On Water
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never go thirsty. John 6:35 What difficulties have you had in your life? Do you find life hard or easy? Can this be a mixture of both? Read John 6: 16-21. Many of the disciples were fishermen. They have experience of navigating in a boat from one side to the other. In this section of scripture, the men find themselves in a terrible storm. The winds were rocking the boat and they started to worry. Where is Jesus? Well, He became their answer. He showed by walking…