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Welcome to the Churchyard
Welcome to the Churchyard
Ruth 2:4
And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, “The LORD be with you!” And they answered, “The LORD bless you.”
In its wider, uninterrupted narrative context, this imperative, “Behold” can be translated with shock and awe as if to say, “Pay attention, reader—you can’t make this stuff up!”, because it connects the previous action of Ruth happening to enter Boaz’s field with the corresponding action of Boaz happening to arrive at the exact same moment.
But, yet again, I’m stopped dead in my tracks by that little word, “Bethlehem.” It’s becoming a repeated theme in only the first two chapters of Ruth, as if the broad lens of biblical history is narrowing down now. The drone camera is hovering over this little dot on the horizon of earth, this tiny speck in an unending cosmos, focusing our eyes on the bread now rising from it while fading everything else out around it. And if we listen closely, we might even hear the faint sound of a baby crying, and we might see the fleeting silhouette of a manger, and we might feel the rumble of angel choirs singing in the skies—not so much as prophetic hints of a Salvation to come, but rather as imprints of a Salvation already carved into the soil of this sanctum sanctorum: a signature that God effectively placed into the foundation when He built the world.
Don’t you see Jesus in Boaz’s benevolence here, friend? Don’t you hear Immanuel’s voice in this benediction, “The LORD be with you!”? This is Bethlehem—the House of Bread—a place where hungry children are satisfied and where weary pilgrims are revived and where foreigners are welcomed as natives. Yes, and this is Boaz’s field. These are hisassets, his lucrative heads of grain, his stocks and bonds, his livelihood, his inheritance, his blood, sweat, and tears; yet, he gives freely to all. There’s a sign somewhere on the border of his field that reads, “Come, all you who are weary and hungry, and rest here!” Isn’t this a foretaste of a coming spiritual harvest? Isn’t this a hint of a heavenly feast to come, where One will give of His bounty for our need and of His toil for our rest and of His wealth for our poverty?
The church can glean in Redemption’s fields because a Redeemer has opened the storehouse.
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Latest Devotional
Welcome to the Churchyard
Welcome to the Churchyard
Ruth 2:4
And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, “The LORD be with you!” And they answered, “The LORD bless you.”
In its wider, uninterrupted narrative context, this imperative, “Behold” can be translated with shock and awe as if to say, “Pay attention, reader—you can’t make this stuff up!”, because it connects the previous action of Ruth happening to enter Boaz’s field with the corresponding action of Boaz happening to arrive at the exact same moment.
But, yet again, I’m stopped dead in my tracks by that little word, “Bethlehem.” It’s becoming a repeated theme in only the first two chapters of Ruth, as if the broad lens of biblical history is narrowing down now. The drone camera is hovering over this little dot on the horizon of earth, this tiny speck in an unending cosmos, focusing our eyes on the bread now rising from it while fading everything else out around it. And if we listen closely, we might even hear the faint sound of a baby crying, and we might see the fleeting silhouette of a manger, and we might feel the rumble of angel choirs singing in the skies—not so much as prophetic hints of a Salvation to come, but rather as imprints of a Salvation already carved into the soil of this sanctum sanctorum: a signature that God effectively placed into the foundation when He built the world.
Don’t you see Jesus in Boaz’s benevolence here, friend? Don’t you hear Immanuel’s voice in this benediction, “The LORD be with you!”? This is Bethlehem—the House of Bread—a place where hungry children are satisfied and where weary pilgrims are revived and where foreigners are welcomed as natives. Yes, and this is Boaz’s field. These are hisassets, his lucrative heads of grain, his stocks and bonds, his livelihood, his inheritance, his blood, sweat, and tears; yet, he gives freely to all. There’s a sign somewhere on the border of his field that reads, “Come, all you who are weary and hungry, and rest here!” Isn’t this a foretaste of a coming spiritual harvest? Isn’t this a hint of a heavenly feast to come, where One will give of His bounty for our need and of His toil for our rest and of His wealth for our poverty?
The church can glean in Redemption’s fields because a Redeemer has opened the storehouse.
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A Ship in the Wind
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Perfect Timing
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Missing Identity
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Sabbath Psalm (June 7-8, 2025)
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The Power of “I Will”
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No Turning Back
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By the Wind, to the Waters
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Barren
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From the Ground Up
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King of the Mountain
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Wasted Valor
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A Steeple in Death’s Valley
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Redeemed, Not Redacted
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Israel’s Darkest Day
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Sabbath Psalm (May 24-25, 2025)
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Calamity of Calamities!
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In the Shadows of Shiloh
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Men of the Cloth, Bought Off
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Rotten to the Core
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All Who are Lost, Wander
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Sabbath Psalm (May 17-18, 2025)
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Dirty Money
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A Family Business
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A Forgery of Faith
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A Grave and Graven Image
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Book End
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Sabbath Psalm (May 10-11, 2025)
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Infernal Laughter
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Revival Mills
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Three Strikes
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Mugshots
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What’s That Snapping Sound?
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Sabbath Psalm (May 3-4, 2025)
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Willing Ourselves to the Wolves
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Chicken Legs
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A Rude Awakening
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Old Habits Die Hard
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Battles Averted
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Sabbath Psalm (April 26-27, 2025)
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A River of Life
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A Donkey’s Jaw
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Blessed Be the Tie That Binds
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Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire
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A Robin Hood Story
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Sabbath Psalm (April 19-20, 2025)
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Catching Foxes
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The End and the Means
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Samson’s New Clothes
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The Gambler
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A Calling and a Choosing
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Sabbath Psalm (April 12-13, 2025)
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Lion Down
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Gut Check
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Spiritual Stirrings
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A Beautiful Balance
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Up in Smoke
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Sabbath Psalm (April 5-6)
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How Great Our Ignorance
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Faith Seeking Understanding
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Showers of Wisdom
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The Bottom Line
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The Mother of All Promises
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Sabbath Psalm, March 29-30
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A Fresh Start
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A Colorful Group
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The Good Fight
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Familiar Foes
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What a Woman
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Sabbath Psalm, March 22-23
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The Bribe, Pt. 2
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The Bribe, Pt. 1
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Rough Waters
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Whose Land Is It?
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The Facts Beneath the Frays
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Sabbath Psalm, March 15-16
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To Mizpah and Beyond
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A Knock, Knock Story
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The Curious Case of Jephthah
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There is No Pit So Deep
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Thirty for Thirty
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Sabbath Psalm, March 8-9
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A Clean Slate
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Stony, Scorched Earth
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I, Humpty Dumpty!
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A Call to Reason
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The Parable of the Bramble
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Sabbath Psalm, March 1-2
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Preaching from the Mountaintops
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Live by the Word
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What a Waste!
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A House Divided Cannot Stand
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Repetition and Remembrance
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Not All that Glitters is Gold
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A Garland for Gideon
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The Whole Story in Three Words
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Watery Words
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Answering the Late Call
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A Double-Sided Sword
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Stolen Valor