The Well: Sermon Audio

The Book of Esther is the only book of the Bible that does not mention God by name, yet His hand is all over it. God uses unlikely characters to bring about His purposes to preserve His people. As we see in Mordecai's role and all the coincidences that just so happened to bring about the salvation of the Jewish people, God's silence does not mean his absence, and this story invites us to trust in God's providence. 

The Book of Esther is the only book of the Bible that does not mention God by name, yet His hand is all over it. God uses unlikely characters in unlikely ways to bring about His purposes to preserve His people. God's silence does not mean his absence, and this story invites us to trust in God's providence even in the waiting. 

The Book of Esther is the only book of the Bible that does not mention God by name, yet His hand is all over it. God uses unlikely characters in unlikely ways to bring about His purposes to preserve His people. God's silence does not mean his absence, and this story invites us to trust in God's providence life or death. 

When he first called Matthew, Jesus had recently healed a man with leprosy and commanded a paralyzed man to walk. At Matthew's celebratory feast, Jesus reminded the Pharisees that it is not the healthy who need a physician but the sick. We are all dead in our sins and need a saving that only Jesus provides. 

The wedding at Cana was never about the wedding but always about the wine. Jesus begins his ministry by transforming water into wine, demonstrating his focus on the cross and replacing Old Testament purification processes with the sufficiency of the blood of Christ.