Pastor Taylor Shippy - Esther 4:1-17
Did you know that the book of Esther holds the distinction of being the only book of the Bible to not mention God once? This has caused many throughout the centuries, Jewish and Christian, to ask why should we care about this story if God seemingly isn’t in it? As God-fearing, men and women of faith, what are we to do with this story? But what if the lack of even mentioning or noticing God is the brilliance of the book, and the importance of its witness alongside the rest of Scripture? That just because we don’t see God explicitly, obviously doing and saying things in this moment in history, in the lives of these people, that doesn’t mean that God isn’t present or that God isn’t active…
