Tag: God’s sovereignty
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Restorer of Life (Ruth 4)
In Christ, your story will be one of death and division and resurrection and redemption and restoration—of fertility made barrenness to be made abundantly fruitful at last. It is a fruitfulness that will cost you absolutely everything, but when you do finally let go—step off the side of that cliff and desperately and hopefully pray…
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Strategic Righteousness (Ruth 3)
It’s my hope that as we grow up in our knowledge of Christ, Christ Fellowship Church will come to trust and to feel the sovereign kindness of God in all things—sweet and bitter. That from a firm hope in God, we would be a zealous and strategically righteous people who are completely reliant upon the…
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Divine Conspiracy (Ruth 2)
Before, Naomi could only see the bitterness of God’s providence. But it is like putting a cake into the oven and about halfway through you finally start to smell the sweetness. Now it is so obvious, there is a sweet aroma in the air—a sweetness that is beginning to be realized. This is not a…
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Hope In Our Bones (Ruth 1)
As believers in Christ, the pattern of death then resurrection—darkness then light—is a familiar one, but it needs to be familiar in the right way. Hope must have roots in our bones, in order that we would be a people who do not forget God’s promise in the valley of shadows.
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Is God sovereign over every single event that takes place on earth?
In light of a brief and encouraging discussion in Sunday School yesterday, also in light of a few of my FB friends talking about the subject this morning, here is some sound, Biblical truth on this matter.