Sermon
God Is in Control When You Feel Out of Control
Center Church
Speaker: Josh Miller
April 26, 2026 · 47 min
Summary
Through Ruth 1, God's providence—His intentional involvement in directing His people toward His purposes—is illustrated through Elimelech's cautionary failure to trust God and Naomi's redemptive return to faith. The sermon calls listeners to trust God's provision rather than following worldly wisdom, and invites those in spiritual exile to repent and return to the Lord.
Highlights
We cannot make our kids believe the gospel, but we can make the gospel more believable to our kids. And we do that through the way that we live and the way that we raise them.
God is intentionally involved in your life, directing it towards his purposes. Every single detail of your life he's involved with, even the stuff you didn't think he was involved with.
In a famine we can get better or we can get bitter based on how we respond. And which we choose will shape the trajectory of our future.