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In our final entry about the life of Queen Esther we reveal the most important keys to her success. These are the weapons this righteous queen utilized to protect her people from annihilation, weapons available to all of us no matter what dire circumstances we wad through. Prayer and fasting. When Esther discovered the second…
What have you been called by God to do? Every once in a while, I still get recognized from my television days. Over the weekend, I served on the prayer team at Thelma Well’s Generation Love Conference and two different people remembered me either from my work in San Antonio or on HBO Sports. It’s…
Esther is now the queen of Persia and in our last blog entry we established this beautiful woman, with a Hebrew name meaning “myrtle tree,” was a humble and righteous person who developed a pattern of humility throughout her reign. Even though her Jewish parents died, Esther never forgot her Jewish roots. She always remembered…
When we last left the book of Esther, the Queen of the Medo-Persian Empire, Queen Vashti had taken a stand for righteousness and was removed from her position of influence. We learned taking a stand often has consequences, but that taking a stand for righteousness is the right thing to do. This shift in power…
How many of you like to be challenged? In college, I did almost anything for a dare. One of those questionable requests was to sing the Munchkin’s song from the movie Wizard of Oz. I do a pretty good Munchkin imitation. While eating in the school cafeteria, my friends begged me to belt out the “Lollypop Guild”…