Ruth Introduction

In this opening session of Redemption: Through the Lives of Ruth and Esther, Christy Duff introduces the study by tracing the threads woven through both women's stories — sorrow, surrender, and service — and showing how each of those places became the very ground where God's redeeming power broke through in their lives. Drawing from her own journey of illness, uprooting, and stepping into unfamiliar territory, she makes the case that the God who stored every tear in a bottle and worked beauty from ashes for two ancient women is the same Redeemer actively at work in every broken, uncertain, and surrendered moment we face today. Whether you find yourself in the pre-redemption chapter of your story — the place of loss, the moment of letting go, or simply the daily act of showing up to serve — this message is an invitation to trust that God is never done working, never done redeeming, and never once unaware of where you are.