Your Advert here
cure-real
View RSS Feed

Recent Blogs Posts

  1. slightlypuzzled's Avatar

    Ruth and Esther...part 5

    by
    slightlypuzzled
    , Apr 19th 2010 at 03:39 AM
    "Famine and Death"

    Ruth1: In the days when the judges ruled…

    The line brings us full circle in Israel’s experience. They are now in the Promised Land, but they have no effective law ‘Every man did as he pleased’. The Israelites had rebelled against God for much of the ‘trip’ from Egypt to Canaan, and continued in their same stubborn ways. Famine and an escape to Moab seem to paint a sad, desperate picture; but hope is coming, and out of Moab of all places.
    ...
    Categories
    Theology , Teaching
    Comments 0 Comments
    Read MoreRead More
  2. slightlypuzzled's Avatar

    Ruth and Esther...part 3

    by
    slightlypuzzled
    , Mar 23rd 2010 at 12:45 PM
    "Ruth, The Moabitess"


    Her people were born of a drunken, incestuous tryst in a cave near the Dead Sea close to a small town called Zoar. God had saved Lot and his family from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The tragic events cost him his wife, and no doubt left a bad mark on him and his surviving daughters. They could not stay in the small town, Zoar ( a pun), so they left to live in the mountains. It was in these caves that the shattered family of Lot hatched the ...
    Tags: ruth
    Categories
    Poetry , Family
    Comments 1 Comment
    Read MoreRead More