Opening Up Ruth

In the days when the judges ruled, “everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25)—but the Lord was quietly at work. The book of Ruth tells of a family driven from Bethlehem by famine, a Moabite widow who clings to her mother-in-law’s God, and a “worthy man” named Boaz whose costly kindness pictures a greater Redeemer to come.

Preached during Advent 2013 at Oceanside United Reformed Church in Carlsbad, in North County San Diego, this four-part expository series preached by Dr. Daniel R. Hyde traces how God’s hidden, faithful providence turns sorrow into rest, an outsider into an ancestor of King David, and a small-town love story into the family line of Jesus Christ.