2. Faith-n-Action Day, Sat, May 6th
Mother’s Day, May 14th, taking FREE family portraits for everyone
FREE Kids Camp the week of July 17th

3. Allegiance means loyalty
or devotion.

4. Ruth 1:15-18
15 “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.” 16 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you

5. Ruth 1:15-18
die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.” 18 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

6. With whom do you have that kind of allegiance, loyalty and devotion?
Do you have that kind of allegiance with God?

7. Ruth 2:19-20
19 Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!” Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she

8. Ruth 2:19-20
said. 20 “The Lord bless him!” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. “He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers.[a]”

9. “to set free by paying a price.”

10. One of the greatest obstacles we must overcome in this life
is to give our life to something
less than God’s best!

11. Ephesians 2:8-10
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

12. what God has saved us for.
Move past what we were saved from and move on to
what God has saved us for.

13. John 2:3-4
3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” 4 “Woman,[a] why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”

14. While Jesus was in the process of redeeming all of mankind, He remained loyal and devoted as a Son and a friend.

15. John 19:25-27
25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman,[a] here is your

16. John 19:25-27
son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

17. As Jesus is crucified, He encourages his mother and his friend to pledge allegiance to one another as family.

18. Matthew 28:1-6
28 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. 2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it.3 His

19. Matthew 28:1-6
appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.5 The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

20. Matthew 28:1-6
6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.