I have listened to it many times since I found it in 2005.

In 2012, I listened to it with tears streaming down my face as I held my husband's hand and

as we drove to our first military duty station as newlyweds.

I especially remember this section in quote, and here's the sermon excerpt from his sermon

way back on July 22nd, 1984, it's titled Ruth, the best is yet to come.

Here's what John Piper said.

1912, John Henry Jowett gave a series of lectures in a, at Yale, called the Yale Lime and Beecher

lectures on preaching.

And in it, I've been reading those and in it, he describes great preaching and he does

it in such a way that I see Ruth that is the book and what the author of this book did

is what he thinks great preachers are supposed to do.

Let me read this paragraph for you.

He said, a great preacher seems to look at the horizon rather than at an enclosed field

or local landscape.

He has a marvelous way of connecting every subject with eternity past and with eternity to come.

It is as though you were looking at a bit of carved wood in a Swiss village window and

you lifted your eyes and saw the forest where the wood was nourished and higher still to

the everlasting snows.

Yes, that was Benny's way and Dale's way and the way of Bushnell and Newman and Spurgeon.

They are always willing to stop at the village window, but they always link the streets with

the heights and they send your souls a roaming over the eternal hills of God.

Now if all we had in the book of Ruth was a quaint story about how a destitute grandmother

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