Leaders in the Church: Speaking and Living God’s Word
Does church leadership seem endlessly complicated? Take heart. Christian leaders guide God’s people from where they are to where God wants them to go, using God’s methods.
Ruth: Sweet and Bitter Providence
en-usSeptember 02, 2008
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The book of Ruth demonstrates that God is at work even in the darkest of times, and that he will bring about his ultimate purpose to glorify his grace through Jesus Christ.
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