Category: Tough Questions

First day of the month, first chapter of a new book. The book of Job. Which is actually a very old book. Possibly the oldest book in this whole library that we call the...

The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered.  Esther 3:15 That’s the very last sentence of Esther 3. The people of Susa are bewildered. And who can...

So. Moving on. The king is happy. He has a new queen. Esther is his new Queen of Hearts. A plot to end his life has been thwarted. Esther and her uncle Mordecai are...

Meanwhile…….. During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s officers who guarded the doorway, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes. But Mordecai found...

Don’t tell your children they are beautiful. Because they are not. They are clearly not. Not in the perfect airbrushed flawless definition of beauty that your children may believe is the only definition of...

It’s entirely subjective, right? Beauty, that is. This saying’s been around since the 3rd century in Greece and has been explored in poetry and literature and film and art ever since. And life. And...

This is what happened during the time of Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush: at that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel...

So over the last few days, we’ve looked at some natural responses to bad news. Why? Because we’re looking at the book of Nehemiah and in Nehemiah chapter 1, he receives some really bad...

When we hear bad news, it’s hard not to think ‘Where is God in all this?’ When someone is not responding to chemotherapy, it’s easy to ask ‘Is there even a God?’ When an...