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This Sunday, Pastor Peter began by asking the question, “How can we find Christ faithful in the midst of suffering?” Through Esther and Joseph’s stories we learn that the pit and suffering is a blessing we never wanted but desperately need because it brings us to God. 2 The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master. 3 When his master saw that the Lord was with him and that…

1 At that time Judah left his brothers and settled near an Adullamite named Hirah. 2 There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua; he took her as a wife and slept with her. 3 She conceived and gave birth to a son, and he named him Er. 4 She conceived again, gave birth to a son, and named him Onan. 5 She gave birth to another son and named him Shelah. It was at Chezib that she…

This Sunday, Pastor Peter continues the series through Esther but brings us back to Genesis to make a distinct connection between Esther and Joseph. He reminds us that faith and perseverance are forged through many acts of surrender. 13 Mordecai told the messenger to reply to Esther, “Don’t think that you will escape the fate of all the Jews because you are in the king’s palace. 14 If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to…

This Sunday, Pastor Peter continues working through the inspiring book of Esther. 14 If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s family will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.” 15 Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for…

This Sunday, Pastor Peter opens the word to Esther chapter 3. 5 When Haman saw that Mordecai was not bowing down or paying him homage, he was filled with rage. 6 And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, it seemed repugnant to Haman to do away with Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom. 7 In the first month, the month of Nisan, in King Ahasuerus’s twelfth year, the pur—that is,…

This Sunday, Pastor Peter opens the word to 1 Samuel in the Old Testament to explain some background on the book of Esther. 12 Early in the morning Samuel got up to confront Saul, but it was reported to Samuel, “Saul went to Carmel where he set up a monument for himself. Then he turned around and went down to Gilgal.” 13 When Samuel came to him, Saul said, “May the Lord bless you. I have carried out the Lord’s…

This Sunday, Pastor Peter guides us through Esther chapter 2. He challenges to hold tightly to God’s kingdom and our identity as children of God instead of the world. 5 In the fortress of Susa, there was a Jewish man named Mordecai son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite. 6 Kish had been taken into exile from Jerusalem with the other captives when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took King Jeconiah of Judah into exile. 7 Mordecai…