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Inconspicuous Providence: The Gospel according to Esther is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Esther often seems like an anomaly. This book of the Bible never overtly mentions God or his direct intervention. However, Esther’s story feels closest to many Christians’ own experience. Few have experienced a dramatic divine intervention. Our world today seems just as secular as Esther’s did then. Moderns are tempted to ask of her world and our own—where is God in all this? If he is...

“We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose” (Rom. 8:28). One consequence of this realization is that the message of Esther and the larger theological problem of divine hiddenness can be understood only as they are related to God’s covenant promises and commitments; and that, of course, is simply another way of saying that they can be understood fully only in light of the person and work of Christ, who is the climax of
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