Synopsis: God’s unseen hand is our hope because it is our constant help. God’s providence provides certainty; unseen to eyes of flesh because it require eyes of Faith. Even at our most desperate hour, we must fight God’s war, God’s way, anticipating victory for he has already won.

Sermon Text: Esther 9:1-19

Synopsis: God has openly mocked and shamed Israel’s adversaries and impaled the writ of death on Haman’s execution pole along with him, foreshadowing the great Peripety of the Cross (Colossians 2:13-14).

Sermon Text: Esther 8

Synopsis: Haman’s conspiracy to commit mass murder is revealed to be a trap set for himself. His every evil decision has brought about the divine promises of God to protect Israel and crush the head of her enemies.

Sermon Text: Esther 7

Synopsis: Esther 5-6 demonstrates the difference between faith and religious fatalism. God is the grand chess Master of History, who requires humans to make decisions based on his revelation and sanctified wisdom or to make decisions according to fallen reason. Faith submits life to God, while fatalism is hopelessness bound for destruction.

Sermon Text: Esther 5-6

Synopsis: Refusing to bow to the idols of the age is a declaration of war on those idols. Worship is warfare and Esther goes to war on behalf of her people, God’s people, by fasting, praying, and submitting herself to the will of God, the only being worthy of our prostration.

Sermon Text: Esther 3-4

Synopsis: Esther opens like an elegant Chess game as each person is moved into position with divine cunning and sovereignty.

Sermon Text: Esther 1-2

Sermon Text: Luke 18:9-14

Synopsis: To address the habitual sin of anxiety biblically, we must understand its individual causes and its universal cure.

Sermon Text: Psalm 56:3-4; Philippians 4:6

Synopsis: No evidence can convince the man who rejects the living Word of God.

Sermon Text: Luke 16:19-31

Sermon Text: Luke 16:1-13