Sunday 1 November

The God Who Is In Control When We Hit Rock Bottom                                           Paul Harrington | Ruth 1:1-22

Everyone enjoys a good love story

• Ruth and Boaz

 

1.         Setting the scene (1:1-2)

1:1 In the days when the judges ruled…

•  The days of the judges – Judges 17:6 
  • A nation

• • A family
• • A famine

 

Moab – an obvious solution? (Deuteronomy 23:3)

 

 

2.         Tragedy strikes (1:3-5)

 

 

Time to go home (v6)

 

 

 

3.         Heading for home: but where is God in all this? (1:7-21)

Why did God allow suffering to come on this family?

 

        God’s sovereignty over suffering (Romans 8:28-30)

 

        God cares for us through his people

 

 

Is Naomi’s story your story?