Rev. Tom Hathaway - June 21, 2026
How a Heart Changes
We think the world changes through the loudest voice in the room. The sharpest argument. The most devastating takedown. Ruth's story says otherwise. This week we open our summer series in the book of Ruth, where a grieving widow and a foreign daughter-in-law show us how a heart actually changes.
Scripture References: Ruth 1:1-22
From Series: "Ruth: Redeeming Love"
A famine leaves a foreign widow named Ruth with nothing but an aging mother in law and a refusal to walk away. What follows is small and slow, yet by the end it has redrawn a family and bent the course of history. That’s the gift of Ruth: it insists God’s redemption usually arrives not in the spectacular but in the ordinary, in quiet choices to stay, to act with integrity, to be generous when no one’s watching. This summer, come ask what the book is asking us. How might God already be at work in the unremarkable corners of our lives?
