In The Word Read: Ecclesiastes 3:1-4:8 A Time for Everything 3 There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every matter under heaven— 2 A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. 3 A time to kill and a […]
Vanity
In The Word Read: Ecclesiastes 1-2 The Futility of All Endeavors 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 “Futility of futilities,” says the Preacher, “Futility of futilities! All is futility.” 3 What advantage does a person have in all his work Which he does under the sun? 4 A generation goes and […]
God Is Always At Work
In The Word Read: Esther 9-10 The Jews Destroy Their Enemies 9 Now in the twelfth month (that is, the month Adar), on the thirteenth day, when the king’s command and edict were to be put into effect, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, it turned […]
Unselfishly Serve
In The Word Read: Esther 7-8 Esther’s Plea 7 Now the king and Haman came to drink wine with Esther the queen. 2 And the king said to Esther on the second day also as they drank their wine at the banquet, “What is your request, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your […]
God Has Trusted Us To Do Our Part
In The Word Read: Esther 5-6 Esther Plans a Banquet 5 Now it came about on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner courtyard of the king’s palace in front of the king’s rooms, and the king was sitting on his royal throne in the throne room, opposite […]
Willing To Die For The Kingdom
In The Word Read: Esther 4 Esther Learns of Haman’s Plot 4 When Mordecai learned of everything that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and wailed loudly and bitterly. 2 And he came as far as the king’s gate, for no one […]
God Is At Work
In The Word Read: Esther 2:19-3:15 19 Now when the virgins were gathered together for the second time, then Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate. 20 Esther still had not revealed her relatives or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her; for Esther did what Mordecai told her just as she had when under his […]
Do Not Dress As The World Does
In The Word Read: Esther 2:1-18 Vashti’s Successor Sought 2 After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done, and what had been decided regarding her. 2 Then the king’s attendants, who served him, said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king. 3 And may the king […]
Solutions In His Word
In The Word Read: Esther 1 The Banquets of the King 1 Now it happened in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Cush over 127 provinces, 2 in those days as King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne which was at the citadel in Susa, 3 in the third year of his reign […]
God’s Great Compassion
In The Word Read: 2 Chronicles 36 Joahaz, Jehoiakim, Then Jehoiachin Rule 36 Then the people of the land took Joahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem. 2 Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem. 3 Then the king […]