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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...

problem (how can God be God and yet be so hidden?), but a person to be trusted. Since Jesus is the personal embodiment of God’s presence made real within the world and at the same time the embodiment of our experience of God’s seeming absence within the world, then it is through him—and only through him—that we are able to begin to understand God’s ways in the world and with us. So, in the end, we are back not only to the analogous experience of those in the Old Testament who struggled and grappled
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