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by David Strain | We love the book of Ruth because it narrates the delightful romance of Ruth and Boaz. We love it because it is full of delicious irony meant to make us laugh for joy at the goodness of God. We love it because it is a tale that focuses not on the exploits of warriors, judges, or kings, but on two destitute women trying to find a path back to wholeness...

by David Strain | The last ten years of Calvin’s life were quiet and productive. The final edition of his magnum opus, The Institutes of the Christian Religion, now expanded to four times its original size, was published in 1559. His lectures on Lamentations were concluded in 1563, as were his sermons on 1 and 2 Samuel...

by David Strain | Blessed lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast...

by David Strain | Martin Luther was a man racked by the agony of a sin-seared conscience. His spiritual struggles, his Anfechtungen, seemed to have no remedy. And so, Luther said, “I stood before God as a sinner troubled in conscience, and I had no confidence that my merit would assuage him. Therefore I did not love a just...

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