A lesson in how the purposes of God prevail in our lives despite our failures As we start this new Message Series, some people might be thinking, “oh yeah, I was told the story of Samson in Sunday School” Let me say this politely, no – Samson is NOT a story A story is something that is made up A story is fiction A story is not true One of the reasons that many young adults don’t go on with the Lord is because when they were children in Sunday School, they were told Bi

As a veteran Pastor of 39 years, I have prepared well over 2, 500 Messages to preach and teach the Word of God, speaking to small groups of people and large groups of people here in New Zealand, Asia and Africa On average it takes about 30 hours to prepare a Message and about 40 minutes to preach it The reason I have done this for so long is because the Lord has called me to preach the Good News that Jesus Christ was crucified, buried, and was raised from the dead for o

Book of Esther In this last Message of this Series, we see the Providence of God at work in the Persian people and learn that God ordains our salvation In the Conclusion of the previous Message about the Providence of God at work in Israel, we were saying that Haman’s plot to mass genocide the Jews in Persia had failed but the problem remained – the King’

As we have been studying the Providence of God, we have been using the Old Testament Book of Esther which describes Haman’s wicked plot to kill all the Jews in Persia and how God saved them We see the Providence of God at work in Israel and learn that God has ordained His choice of Israel In Deuteronomy 7:6-8a God said of Israel, ‘For you are a holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. Of a