I thought today’s study was really good. This verse from Revelation 2:17 (NLT): “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches. To everyone who is victorious, I will give some of the manna that has been hidden away in heaven. And I will give [...]
I liked Selwyn’s conclusion: “This is what Eugene Peterson says, concerning the point that there are four women listed in the genealogy of Jesus, who were either foreign, immoral or undesirable. ‘Redemptive history is inventive and incorporative. It doesn’t make any difference who your mother was. Anyone can get into the family. Anyone’s personal history can [...]
Selwyn takes one more day to bring to light this important fact concerning God’s story: that ordinary people like you and me, are used by God in His story of salvation. Look at what Selwyn writes: “The words (from the verse Ruth 4:17), take us by the hand and lead us from a romantic story [...]
Selwyn spends another day looking at the book of Ruth. In today’s study I thought that this was a very good point: “There are some people who use their strength and substance simply to maintain themselves, possibly at the expense of others. The question each one of us must answer is this: Where is the [...]
Selwyn continues to look the story of Ruth and, in particular, how Boaz ‘took on the responsibility that came his way, lived up to his name, and did more than was required of him by the law.’ He concludes today’s study with these words: “The energy that pulsed through his soul was other-centred. That is [...]
I think the key element of today’s study is: “Boaz had an opportunity to act responsibility and he seized it, not simply because it was expected of him but because he wanted to.” It’s also of interest that the name ‘Boaz‘ means ‘strength’ or ‘substance‘ – throughout Scripture we see that a person’s name has [...]
Christ – God’s alphabet
Selwyn makes the important point that our lives, our stories, only have meaning when they are woven into Jesus’ story. Consequently, I liked the anonymous quote used by Selwyn: “Jesus is the alphabet out of which God frames every sentence, every paragraph, and every chapter of His salvation story.” The same theme is captured by [...]
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