Theology That Bites Back
As believing Christians, we look to the book of Genesis for a divine account of how God created all things. It is right and proper that we do so. For example, we can clearly see that He created the heavens and earth, and the sun and moon, and the sea and dry land. He is …
Introduction: Sermon Video In this passage, we can see the envy and conceit of Haman on full display, as well as the shrewdness of Esther on full display. She knows how treacherous the terrain ...
Great God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,I turn to You now, and I ask You for grace.I pray for the grace that descends from above,That is quiet, and peaceable, and easily entreated. I ask for the grace of Your wisdom and peace. I ask for the grace of Your power and mightThat Your …
Introduction: In this passage, the evil design that Haman has for all the Jews is revealed to everyone, and it hits like a thunderbolt. Mordecai reacts with great grief in the city of Shushan, but ...
Introduction: Thus far we have seen the writer of Esther setting the stage for the conflict, and it is here in this chapter that the conflict actually begins. In the aftermath of the discovery of an ...
Introduction: Now if you have been following how this story has unfolded thus far, we have to this point seen that Vashti was likely courageous, that Ahasuerus was feckless and easily manipulated, ...
As we look around at the unraveling of the last several years, and at the resultant condition of our marriages and families, it is easy to become dismayed. Where did this come from? How long has this ...
Introduction: In the first message, we considered the broad context and setting. As we come to treat the first chapter of Esther, we are looking at particular events that begin to drive a very intricate ...
Introduction: We are going to be studying the book of Esther, and most of the action in this book occurs in the ancient city of Susa. This was located about 300 miles southwest of modern Tehran, and ...
Introduction: We live in egalitarian times, and consequently I have selected a text which makes many moderate complementarians flinch, and which makes patriarchal types, of the eighth-grade-boy school ...
