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Let Go of That Ego!

We left Queen Esther last week resolved to risk her life and go before her husband, King Xerxes to make a plea to save the Jews. Her cousin and guardian, Mordecai, made the famous statement, “And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14bContinue reading “Let Go of That Ego!”

Hunger Games: The Old Testament Version

Last week, we left off with a drunken King Xerxes who got rid of his wife, Queen Vashti, because she refused his command to show off her beauty to the other drunken men at the king’s party. “Four years passed between chapters one and two of Esther. According to history, the king may have goneContinue reading “Hunger Games: The Old Testament Version”