So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. The women said to Naomi: "Praise be to the LORD, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to yo...  Read More

For to us a child is born,To us a Son is givenAnd the government will be on His shouldersAnd He will be calledWonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of PeaceIsaiah 9:6 Virtually the whole world is celebrating today in commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ.Over the past two thousand years, countless numbers of songs, musicals, plays and books have been written about the li...  Read More

In the six month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin . . . The virgin's name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you."Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found fa...  Read More

Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family, there is another who is more closely related than I.   . . . But if he is not willing, as surely as the Lord lives I will do it. . . . Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer he had mentioned came along. . . . Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, "Naomi, who has come back from Moab, ...  Read More

One day Ruth's mother-in-law Naomi said to her, "My daughter, I must find a home for you, where you will be well provided for. Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don't let him know you are there until he has...  Read More

Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you glean today?  . . . Blessed be the man who took notice of you!" Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. "The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz," she said."The LORD bless him!" Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. "He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead." She added, "That man ...  Read More