Ruth’s character emulates Abraham and foreshadows Jesus. Her hesed love toward Naomi is the same hesed love God has for us and calls us to have towards him and his people.

The gospel shows us that Jesus’ grace precedes, accompanies, and follows disciples’ obedience — his strength goes before, alongside, and after his disciples’ responsibilities.

We often want to skip straight to the application and action — Jesus went low, so should I — Jesus washed feet, so should I. But before you act for God, you must allow God to act for you.

We’re starting a 3-week series looking at the identities and rhythms of Missional Communities where we grow together as disciples of Christ together in the everyday stuff of life.

God has forever called his people to show justice towards the fatherless (and the widow, the sojourner, and the poor) and we desire to live lives faithful to that call.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. — 2 Peter 3:17

The depth/level of our conviction that Christ will return is inextricably and proportionately linked to the Spirit’s work of conforming our character and conduct to Christ's Kingdom ethic.

Nick Parsons helped us dive into 2 Peter 3:8-10 and reminds us that followers of Jesus are to (eagerly) wait for Jesus’s return. We should do so with obedience, humility, faith, and wisdom.

There will always be scoffers/mockers of God’s kingdom. Because of this, Peter implores us to heed the moral requirements of the gospel, or what Paul in Galatians calls the ‘Law of Christ.’