Queen Esther’s Banquet :: November 30, 2025
We have finally reached “Queen Esther’s Banquet.” It’s actually Queen Esther’s Second Banquet, isn’t it? Because she put one on in chapter 5, as well. Pastor Matt Mitchell preaching on Esther 7:1-10. Full manuscript available on Pastor Matt’s blog. You can listen…
Continue to Message...That Night the King Could Not Sleep :: November 23, 2025
Timing is everything. In so many areas of life, so much comes down to timing. What happened when. How fast something unfolded. What came first. What came last. What happened at just the right time…or at just the wrong time!…
Continue to Message...What Is Your Request? :: November 16, 2025
Queen Esther is about to do the bravest thing she has ever done. Queen Esther is about to embark on what might be, for her, a suicide mission. She is going to take her life into her own hands and…
Continue to Message...Who Knows? :: November 9, 2025
What was troubling Mordecai? By verse 5 of chapter 4, Queen Esther wants to know. But we already know what is troubling Mordecai: The genocide of the Jews has been placed on the calendar. Pastor Matt Mitchell preaching on Esther 4:1-17. Full…
Continue to Message...Bewildered :: November 2, 2025
I’ll be right up front with you. This chapter ends on a cliffhanger. You know, one of those moments where the hero of the story and their friends are in danger, hanging from a cliff, and you don’t know what’s…
Continue to Message...Hadassah :: October 26, 2025
“Where Is God?” That’s the title of our new series on this unique book of the Bible called, “Esther.” “Where is God?” That’s a question that we have all asked from time to time, and we have all felt in…
Continue to Message...Guest preacher, Pastor Jeff Powell, reminds us of what we can be certain about. Christ has appeared. Christ now appears, and Christ will appear again. We pick up this message a few minutes into his sermon. Pastor Jeff Powell preaching…
Read MoreOur sermon series is called “Working for the Lord” and it is all about our vocations, our daily labors, our jobs. In today’s message we discover a surprising companion in the Bible to our work: Rest. 1. Your Lord wants…
Read MoreWe continue with our sermon series “Working for the Lord. In today’s message, Pastor Matt raises the issue of hard work, of diligence at work, the concept of industriousness. He encourages us to Repent of Laziness and Get to Work,…
Read MoreWe continue our new series,”Working for the Lord”, with a message from Pastor Kirk Albrecht who teaches us about working at witnessing and witnessing at work. Using the delightful story of the young Israeli slave girl who kept her message…
Read MoreWe have started a new sermon series this fall in which we’re learning together that God cares about our jobs, that God cares how we do our jobs, and that God empowers us to do our jobs for Him. We…
Read MoreLast week, we started a new sermon series titled “Working For the Lord.” We are learning that God cares about our work. This week, we look at the big picture of the Bible while trying to answer the question “Is…
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- “Queen Esther’s Banquet” [Matt's Messages] November 30, 2025