I was not sure whether I would be standing up here this morning and sharing God’s word with you, not just because the arrival of our second child is imminent. There was a sign this week, a portent, that perhaps the end was drawing near and the consummation of all things must soon begin. “And... Continue Reading →
Sermon: What We Cannot Bear
I invite you to open your Bibles with me to the book of Esther. Esther, chapter 8, beginning in verse 1. Esther 8, beginning in verse 1. Esther is in the Old Testament - Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, and Job. Esther 8, beginning in verse 1. We have found ourselves this fall immersed in the book... Continue Reading →
Sermon: Haman’s Fall
I invite you to open your Bibles with me to the book of Esther. Esther, chapter 7, beginning in verse 1. Esther is in the Old Testament - Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job. Esther 7, beginning in verse 1. If you do not have a Bible with you this morning, please feel free to take one... Continue Reading →
Sermon: Gospel Laughter
I invite you to open your Bibles with me to the book of Esther. Esther 6, beginning in verse 1. Esther is in the Old Testament - Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, and Psalms. Esther 6, beginning in verse 1. As always, you are encouraged to leave your Bibles open as we read and study God’s... Continue Reading →
Sermon: Wisdom & Folly
In our jaunt through Esther, we have been listening to God’s Word as a story of redemption. The people are in exile, in great peril from the wicked plot of Haman. We hope, along with Esther and Mordecai, for God’s deliverance, which often comes in unexpected ways and from unexpected places. We have been listening... Continue Reading →
Sermon: For Such A Time As This
I invite you, this morning, to open your bibles to Esther chapter 4. Esther is in the Old Testament, before Job, Psalms, and Proverbs, but after Ezra and Nehemiah. Throughout the Fall we have been listening and learning from the Book of Esther. Esther is an interesting book of the Bible as it’s the only... Continue Reading →
Sermon: Haman’s Anger
I invite you to open your Bibles with me to Esther, chapter 3. Esther 3, beginning in verse 1. Esther is in the Old Testament - after Ezra and Nehemiah and before Job and Psalms. Esther 3, beginning in verse one. We are listening to God’s Word through the Book of Esther this fall because... Continue Reading →
Sermon: Invisible Providence
I invite you to open your Bibles with me to the book of Esther. Esther is in the Old Testament - at the end of all the history books. If you are in Ezra or Nehemiah you have not gone quite far enough, if you are in Job or Psalms, you have gone a little... Continue Reading →
Sermon: Learning to Laugh
It was 586 when the walls of Jerusalem crumbled. Ripped from the land God had given them, the people of God were carted off into exile. The Lord who had chosen them, who handed them over to be stripped from the land, promised to one day bring them home. But until then, the people of... Continue Reading →
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