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🗓️ 29 July 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Ruth isn’t just a book about a single girl getting a husband. In this bonus episode, Emma Dotter is joined by faithful Watermark staff member, Kimberly McNiece to unpack how much we can learn from just 4 chapters and point out some misconceptions we may have about the book of Ruth.
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0:00.0 | Reading our Bibles regularly can be a challenge, but we're all on this journey together. |
0:05.8 | We're praying that this podcast inspires you, helps you better understand God's word, and builds your faith. |
0:12.2 | This is Join the Journey with your host, Emma Daughter. |
0:16.2 | Thanks for joining. |
0:18.0 | This is a bonus episode covering the Book of Ruth, and I am in the podcast studio with a faithful Watermark staff member, pretty new staff member, Kimberly McNeese. |
0:28.1 | Yes, hey, Emma. Did I get your last name right? Yes, you crushed it. That was perfect. Okay, I was practicing. Kimberly, tell us a little bit about you. What do you do at Watermark? Yes, so I am the financial |
0:38.8 | controller, so I'm an account. That goes way over my head. You know, yeah, control in the title |
0:45.3 | always sounds fun. But no, I'm on the finance team, which means we're just helping behind the |
0:51.2 | scenes to make sure finances are furthering the kingdom. I love it. It's an |
0:54.6 | important job. Today we are in Ruth, which is maybe a little confusing. If you've been tracking along |
1:00.9 | with the reading plan, Ruth is not on the adults plan. It is, however, on the junior reading |
1:06.3 | plan for the kiddos, primarily because a lot of judges isn't super appropriate for young children. |
1:11.7 | So we thought, hey, let's give them Ruth. It happens actually at the same time. So chronologically, |
1:17.2 | this story is unfolding while Israel is in turmoil during the period of the judges. And people, |
1:24.7 | they've got some assumptions they make about this book. |
1:29.1 | Kimberly, I'm going to let you address. |
1:33.5 | What is the primary mistake you see people make when studying Ruth? |
1:40.3 | Yeah, well, I think this is kind of coined in youth group as the like single girl gets a guy. |
1:45.1 | There's a wedding, but there's like the scandalous, frustrating floor scene in the middle. |
1:49.2 | And then it just, I don't know if a lot of men think that they can relate to the book of Ruth. |
1:50.1 | Or if they read it. |
1:51.1 | Or if they, yeah, I mean. |
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