8 messages in this series
William Heinrich · Esther 1:1-22
God's name doesn't appear once in the Book of Esther. Not once. And yet the whole book is full of his fingerprints. That's the question this sermon sits with. What does it mean...
William Heinrich · Esther 2:1-23
Esther chapter two reads like a series of small, ordinary events. A king needs a new queen. A girl gets assigned a good room. A man happens to be sitting near a gate at the right...
William Heinrich · Esther 3:1-15
Esther 3 is the chapter where the trap gets set. Haman has just been promoted to the highest office in the Persian Empire, and there's one man at the king's gate who won't bow to...
William Heinrich · Esther 4:1-17
Esther chapter four opens with Mordecai in sackcloth and ashes, crying through the streets, and it's the image the whole sermon turns on. He wants Esther to notice. She does, and...
William Heinrich · Esther 5:1-14
Esther walks into a room she's not allowed to enter, and the law says she dies for it. That's where chapter five picks up, and the sermon sits with that moment long enough to let...
William Heinrich · Esther 6:1-14
There's a night in Esther 6 where everything hangs by a thread. Haman's gallows are being built. A death decree hangs over every Jew in the Persian Empire. And the king can't...
William Heinrich · Esther 7:1-8:17
Haman has built a gallows to hang Mordecai. The decree to wipe out the Jews is already sealed and can't be undone. Things look as bad as they can get. This sermon works through...