JOHN PIPER is pastor for preaching
“. . . TELL ME ALL ABOUT GREAT GRANDMA RUTH”
and vision at Bethlehem Baptist
LIFE WAS BLEAK FOR NAOMI. HER HUSBAND WAS DEAD, AS WERE HER SONS. SHE FOUND HERSELF IN A FOREIGN LAND WITH ONLY ONE FRIEND— HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW RUTH. BUT AS SHE RETURNED TO HER HOMETOWN OF BETHLEHEM, A RAY OF DIVINE HOPE BROKE THROUGH THE DARK CLOUDS OF PROVIDENCE.
Church in Minneapolis. His other poetry books include The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God, The Innkeeper, and The Prodigal’s Sister.
CORY GODBEY is a writer and artist for Portland Studios. He has illustrated
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several children’s books and was recently accepted into the Society of Illustrators Annual 50. He lives in South Carolina
h This beautifully illustrated cycle of poems by John Piper tells the story of Ruth is the companion to A Sweet and Bitter Providence, which takes a more expositional approach to
God’s care for Naomi and the romance between Ruth and Boaz through the eyes of their son, an aged Obed, as he narrates the account to his 8-year-old grandson David, the future king of Israel.
IT WAS THE BARLEY HARVEST, AND SHE WASN’T ALONE.
JOHN PIPER
with his wife, Erin.
o Walk with Boaz from promise to fulfillment, with Ruth from widow-
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the biblical account.
hood to motherhood, and with Naomi from death to life. CHRISTIAN POETRY
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JOHN PIPER