Redeemed from Loss - by a Field Goal

• Tynes misses 2, kicks 3^rd to win championship

• Credits team-mates for getting the ball back to try again

To Redeem – or Not to Redeem?

• Kinsman first accepts, then rejects offer of land/Ruth (3ff)

• Witnesses bless Boaz for receiving relative’s widow (11f)

• Highlights cost of redemption: demanded a lot, risk involved

God Redeems Naomi’s Emptiness

• Gift of descendant to nurse, loving daughter-in-law (14f)

• Fullness displaces earlier emptiness (1:20f)

• Jesus brings adoption, grace, redemption, forgiveness/covering, lavished love (Eph 1:4ff)

A Health Loss Redeemed

• Lifetime missionary discovered cancer, but compassion for Rwandan victims

• Discontent workers shocked by selflessness despite medical condition

• God uses our weakness/inabilities when we give them to Him