TC’s Sleeping Giant camping trip is a week away! If you’re planning to come but haven’t signed up yet, there’s a sign-up sheet on the table at the outdoor service, or you can let Lauren or Rachel know. 

When the painful, difficult, seemingly destructive circumstances of life press in on us, what are we looking at? How do we respond?  As long as we live in this broken world before Jesus comes back to make everything new, there will be trouble. Jesus said in John 16.33  “I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”  Peter said in 1 Peter 4.12 “Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you.”  And Paul said in Romans 8:28 “ And we know that all that happens to us is working for our good if we love God and are fitting into his plans.”

We will be looking together this Sunday at the life of Naomi, and Ruth, her daughter-in-law, and their responses to the extremely difficult circumstances of their lives – fleeing a famine, moving to a new country, losing sons, and husbands. The little book of Ruth in the Old Testament has four short chapters, I encourage you to read the whole thing and take careful note of the attitudes and responses of these ladies.

Looking forward to worshipping with you on Sunday!

Blessings,

Jeremy