Religion that --- [is] pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress. ㅡ James 1:27정결하고 더러움이 없는 경건은 곧 고아와 과부를 그 환난 중에 돌보고 --- (약 1:22-27)According to a recent newsflash, four out of every ten children in our culture are living in homes without their father. Close to h…
Therefore, get rid of all moral fifth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. - James 1:21그러므로 모든 더러운 것과 넘치는 악을 내버리고 너희 영혼을 능히 구원할 바 마음에 심어진 말씀을 온유함으로 받으라(약 1:21).At the mission conference that I mentioned yesterday, we were able to hand out a…
The women living there said: "Naomi has a son." - Ruth 4:17그의 이웃 여인들이 --- "나오미에게 아들이 태어났다" 하더라 (룻 4:17)Isn't it strange? Ruth was pregnant and gave birth, but the women exclaimed that Naomi had a son. Actually, this is the point of the story: not only did Ruth fill Naomi's emptin…
"May you --- be famous in Bethlehem --- through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman ---" - Ruth 4:11-12"네가 --- 베들레헴에서 유명하게 하시기를 원하며, 여호와께서 이 젊은 여자로 말미암아 네게 상속자를 주사" (룻 4:11-12)The story of Ruth is one of the Bible's great love stories. It overflows with kindness …
"Pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don't rebuke her." -Ruth 2:16"또 그를 위하여 곡식 다발에서 조금씩 뽑아 버려서 그에게 줍게 하고 꾸짖지 말라 하니라."(룻 2:16)Righteous Israelites were scarce in the time of the judges, for people generally did as they pleased. What…
Ruth went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. - Ruth 2:3 -룻이 가서 베는 자를 따라 밭에서 이삭을 줍는데. (룻 2:3)Many of us can identify seemingly chance events that change the course of our future. Perhaps an unexpected encounter led you to meet your husband or wife, or a casual comment led …
Ruth --- Said --- "Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor."- Ruth 2:2모압여인 룻이 나오미에게 이르되, "원하건대 내가 밭으로 가서 내가 누구에게 은혜를 입으면 그를 따라서 이삭을 줍겠나이다." - 룻 2:2When you don't have food, you search for it. Ruth is going to glean the field…
Naomi returned from Moab --- arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning. - Ruth 1:22 -나오미가 모압 지방에서 돌아왔는데 --- 보리 추수 시작할 때에 베들레헴에 이르렀더라(룻 1:22)Around the world today, tens of thousands of people live as refugees, foreigners in a country not their own. They often face a difficult life, c…
"The Almighty has made my life very bitter. I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty." - Ruth 1:20-21"전능자가 나를 심히 괴롭게 하셨음이니라. 내가 풍족하게 나갔더니 여호와께서 내게 비어 돌아오게 하셨느니라." (룻기 1:19-21)The women of Bethlehem can't believe this Naomi. "You're right," she implies; &…
A man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab - Ruth 1:1유다 베들레헴에 한 사람이 그의 아내와 두 아들을 데리고 모압 지방에 가서 거류하였는데 (룻 1:1)In Bethlehem, which means "house of bread," cupboards were bare. So, like Abraham, who left the promised lan…