From the Blog
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The God Who Turns our Sorrow into Joy
We are a forgetful people. We tend to remember our pain more readily than God’s faithfulness. We remember wounds, fears, disappointments, and losses, but quickly forget the ways God has sustained and delivered us. If we’re not careful, we’ll misinterpret God’s mercy and blessings as mere coincidence rather than His hidden hand at work in…
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The God Who Delivers From Death
In previous chapters, we saw that even when God is not mentioned, He is not missing. God positioned Esther as queen for a purpose she did not yet understand. We saw the crisis unfold as Haman’s hatred toward Mordecai turned into a genocidal decree against the Jewish people. Faced with fear and uncertainty, Esther chose…
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The God Who Turns the Tables
Have you ever watched someone do wrong and appear to get away with it? Have you ever wondered why the proud prosper, why dishonest people advance, why those who manipulate and wound others seem to succeed while the faithful suffer? Maybe you’ve prayed, waited, and tried to do what is right, yet evil still appears…
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The God Who is Already at Work
This week, as Esther approaches the king and Haman’s plot continues to unfold, something remarkable happens. There are no miracles, no visions, no dramatic interventions—just a series of ordinary events. A banquet. A delay. A restless night. A remembered deed. And yet, through all of it, God is at work. Because if we’re honest, this…
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The God Who Calls Us to Speak Up
There are moments in life when following God will cost us something. Moments when standing for what is right puts us at risk. Moments when silence feels safer than speaking, and compromise feels easier than conviction. And in those moments, God often feels hidden. We wonder: Where is God when evil is advancing? Where is…
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The God Who Works Behind the Scenes
Many of us struggle right here. We believe God is real—but when life feels chaotic, when circumstances don’t make sense, and when God seems silent, we start to wonder: Is He really at work in my life? If you’ve ever felt like God is distant, inactive, or hard to see, then this book is for…
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The Consummation
We started with creation, where everything was good. Then came the fall, where sin broke everything. We saw the flood, the covenant, the exodus, the giving of the law, the founding of the Davidic kingdom, the exile, the coming of Christ, the work of the cross, and the birth of the church. From beginning to…
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The Church
Today we are going to join the disciples and other followers of Jesus in their moment of limbo. They were with Jesus for 3 years during his earthly ministry, they watched him crucified but then they saw him after his resurrection. Jesus was with them for 40 days after the resurrection, and then he left…
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The Cross (It’s Empty Now)
So far in The Story, we’ve traced it from creation and the garden, through the fall and the flood, to God’s covenant with Abraham; from the exodus and the law, to the conquest and the kingdom under David; through the heartbreak of exile—and then last week, to the arrival of Christ, the long-promised Savior who…
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The Christ
If God has come near… do we recognize Him? Because it’s possible to: know the story… but miss the Savior; to be religious… but not have a relationship with God. That was the tragedy of the first century. And it is still the danger of the twenty-first. What we need is not more information about…