John 316 is one of, if not the most, off-quoted verses of the Bible, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.

One of the reasons that this verse has become so popular is that it represents a simple summary of a profound truth.

God loves the world, including people like you and me. In this episode,

we study the powerful story of Ruth that illustrates his love for all of us. Welcome to the

Scripture Study Project. We are your host, Krista and Zach Horton, and this is our podcast where we study Scripture with you.

Our goal each week is to help you discover new or renewed excitement for God and His Word.

Invest your heart and personal life into your study and connect with others as you teach and learn together.

Hello and welcome back to this week's study. Connect with others as you teach and learn together.

Hello and welcome back to this week's study.

This week we are studying in the Book of Ruth, and we are kind of breaking protocol just a little bit

because you may notice that the Come Follow Me Manual

does have us studying the beginning few chapters in first

Samuel but we are going to cover those next week when we talk about Samuel we decided that

we wanted to pay full tribute to Ruth this week. Ruth deserves her own her own week she does and

you know what?

We deserve it.

We all deserve it for making it through these tough stories.

And maybe it's just because I make a big deal out of tough stories.

And I like to like dig into the hard sides of things sometimes.

And I have in the Old Testament.

But I just, Ruth was such a gentle story.

It was a gentle landing place after judges last week where we already talked about that,

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