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The Message of Esther: God Present but Unseen is unavailable, but you can change that!

By any assessment, Esther is a rather strange book to find in the Bible. Not only is it, along with Daniel, the only books of the Bible to be set entirely outside of the Promised Land, it also shows no interest in that land. Esther is the only book in the Bible which definitely does not mention God. None of this should be taken as meaning that the book has no theological intention. On the...

Tied into this is the second key theme, which is to be aware that God continues to work in and through his people, often in ways we cannot immediately discern, and that those ways may even for a period lead us to pass through experiences we would not otherwise choose. But, and this is vital, God’s providential purposes are being worked out even if they can only be seen with hindsight. But we must see this theme in light of the first. William Temple is reputed to have said, ‘When I pray, coincidences
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