God's Presence in the Life of Esther - Dr. Mark Gignilliat

In what way does God exist and is He present in the book of Esther? And what does it mean to live life faithfully when God's absence seems to be real?

When Esther has finally become the queen and the crisis is now emerging in the book, her Uncle Mordecai says to her, "Who knows Esther, maybe you became Queen for such a time as this."

That is a claim about God's providence, God's ordering of creaturely human affairs towards His own ultimate redemptive purposes.

Dr. Mark Gignilliat is professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School, where he teaches courses in Old Testament and Hebrew. Mark also serves as theologian in residence at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Birmingham. Dr. Gignilliat is married to Naomi, and they have four children.