What do you do when God’s plan looks nothing like the one you had for yourself? Professor Lori Newbold explores the timeless stories of Ruth, Naomi, and Hannah, uncovering what loyalty, grief, and a relational faith in Christ can teach us about trusting God through life’s most unexpected detours.

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TIMECODE
0:00 - Part 1 - Professor Lori Newbold
2:09 Thematic set up
6:43 Come, Follow Me Manual
7:24 Gratitude for unanswered prayers and Naomi
9:30 The healthiness of grief
11:45 Sitting with sadness
14:10 Emotional pain has no painkiller
16:16 Naomi’s love for her daughters-in-law and hesed
19:25 Ruth’s declaration and Mosiah 18
20:46 What kind of mother-in-law was Naomi
24:51 Ruth replaced her gods with Jehovah
27:52 Part-member families and “I will go”
28:25 Writing dreams in pencil
30:19 Ruth gleaning in the fields and Boaz
33:55 Kanap–wings and the skirt
35:25 The Goel–Redeemer and kinsman
41:47 Leaving Jerusalem–faith and relational not outcome based
43:48 “But if not” faith
46:06 Ruth’s request at the threshing floor
51:12 Boaz keeping the Law and seeking answers to others’ prayers
53:56 President Christofferson on God’s PLan
1:01:28 Bitter and sweet–Boaz as type of Jesus Christ
1:02:26 Meekness as a defining attribute
1:05:36 Developing meekness
1:08:12 What would Hannah want us to know?
1:12: 22 End of Part 1 - Professor Lori Newbold


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