For the next several weeks we turn our attention to one of the smallest but most loved books in all the Bible. Out of the sweeping, tumultuous history that is the period of the Judges, comes the encouraging, personal account of an obscure, ordinary family deeply impacted by a season of unprecedented hardship and suffering. Out of which emerges a story of unprecedented faithfulness, both theirs and God’s. We begin with a general introduction to that book in a message entitled “Ruth: Faithful Lives in Fateful Times”. We do not get to choose the times in which we live—but we do choose the way we live in the midst of those times. And no matter how difficult the times, God is always faithful and faithfully about his work.