Well, I do you, Pastor Mark Triscoll here, wanting to welcome you to my series on Ruth, the big little love story.

We're going through the Cinderella story of the Old Testament in six weeks with two amazing characters, Ruth, a Moabike gal who was widowed, Boas, an older, wealthy, affluent

single guy, they fall in love, get a little bad counsel from a gal named Naomi, and God works it all out so they can get

married, have a baby named Obed, and through him would come another guy you might have heard

about, his name is Jesus.

You're going to love this love story and I thank you for your

prayers. I thank you for your support and your gift of any amount as we get God's

word out to God's whole world. Thanks a bunch, Pastor Mark out.

If you've got a Bible, go to Ruth Chapter 3.

We are studying the book of Ruth together.

We love to go through books of the Bible

here at the Trinity Church, right?

Right, right?

This week, though, what a weird text.

This is one of the weirdest texts in all of Ruth,

one of the weirdest text in the whole Bible.

How many of you were reading ahead and wondering,

what is Pastor Mark going to do with this?

I'm curious myself.

And we'll jump right into it in a moment

to catch you up to speed.

If you are new, here's the story of

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