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Keisha wrapped up the Ruth series with honesty and vulnerability, reflecting on how challenging it can be to engage scripture when faith feels uncertain or evolving. She acknowledged her own discomfort returning to the Bible after years of spiritual questioning, and centered her message on Ruth’s quiet resilience amid grief, uncertainty, and risk. Rather than framing Ruth’s story as a tidy fairytale, Keisha invited listeners to imagine Ruth’s inner world—her grief, exhaustion, and courage in choosing love and loyalty despite personal cost. Drawing from the song Sunday by Joy Oladokun, Keisha likened Ruth’s perseverance to a prayer born from struggle. Ultimately, she challenged the community to ask where they need to sit with grief, confront their biases, and take action that creates belonging and justice—reminding us that Ruth’s legacy is a radical testament to God’s inclusion of all people
Speaker: Keisha Olsen
In his sermon on Ruth 3, Ryan reframes the story not as a romantic tale centered on Boaz, but as a bold narrative of radical inclusion with Ruth as its courageous, Christ-like hero. He challenges the traditional reading that casts Boaz as the redeemer, instead lifting up Ruth’s agency, loyalty, and willingness to take great personal risk to secure dignity and belonging—not just for herself, but for Naomi and even for Israel. By drawing connections to the stories of Tamar and Rahab—outsider women who also defied societal boundaries—Ryan suggests Boaz’s openness to Ruth may stem from being raised in a lineage shaped by such redemptive acts. Ultimately, he calls the church to embrace the Christ-like path of inclusion, recognizing that true transformation happens in proximity to those we’ve othered, and asking what bold steps we might take for the good of another.
Speaker: Ryan Day
Heather opened her message by acknowledging the emotional dissonance of living in a world full of both celebration and suffering—a tension that made the story of Ruth 2 particularly grounding for her this week. She revisited Ruth's journey as a Moabite foreigner navigating grief, poverty, and social exclusion, highlighting how her courage and steadfast love sparked unexpected hospitality and transformation. Heather emphasized that while Boaz holds power and privilege, it is Ruth’s bravery and resilience that anchor the story. She invited listeners to view Ruth not as a passive romance but as a radical reimagining of community, belonging, and justice—especially in a world shaped by inequality and displacement. Her reflection closed with a call to consider whose stories we center, how we use our power, and what new stories we’re writing, offering a Father’s Day blessing that expanded the vision of fatherhood to include tenderness, grief, and liberation.
Speaker: Heather Ingersoll
Jayme opened the new series on the book of Ruth by framing it as a story of radical faithfulness, belonging, and God’s heart for the foreigner and the marginalized. She emphasized how Ruth challenges nationalism and exclusion by centering a Moabite woman—someone seen as “other”—as a central figure in the lineage of Jesus. Drawing connections between ancient and modern struggles over identity, power, and inclusion, Jayme invited the community to see themselves in the story: as foreigners, as people who’ve experienced loss like Naomi, and as those called to embody Ruth’s steadfast love. She closed by asking how we relate to bitterness, loyalty, and the courage to stand with others when it would be easier to walk away.