

Daily Prayers | Ruth 3 ERV
Who says the stories in the Bible are boring? In today's reading, we find Naomi working on a strategy to convince Ruth to propose to Boaz. You might remember from the reading two days ago that because of the loss of her husband and sons, she had become no-one in the...

Daily Prayer | Ruth 2 ERV
Yesterday, we started this week's journey along the dusty road between Moab (modern-day Jordan) and Israel where three women were walking back to the land of Elimelech, the late husband of the oldest of the three women. Perhaps you were able to envision yourself...

Daily Prayers | Ruth 1 ERV
When it comes to the book of Ruth, the way the story has been told for years was that there was one hero in this story: Boaz, the family member who saves Ruth and her sad mother-in-law. But then I read Carolyn Custis James' The Gospel of Ruth and later, Finding God...

Daily Prayers | Romans 12:1-2 ERV
One of my favorite passages in the Bible is from a letter to the church in Rome. I had read these verses to you not too long ago but used The Message paraphrase. Today, in light of the reality of Jesus having risen from the dead, I'll read these verses again but this...

Daily Prayer | Good Friday
What is good about Good Friday? Listen to today's reading and decide.