A Crown With Purpose · Season 14 · Episode 1
The King’s Feast
Esther 1:1-9
SCRIPTURE: Esther 1:1-9 SHOW NOTES: As we begin this new season – A Crown with Purpose – it’s important to share some of the historical and cultural setting. “In those…
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Season 14
A Crown With Purpose
12 episodes · 4 hr 1 min · September – November 2023
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A Crown With Purpose · Season 14 · Episode 2
The Queen’s Dismissal
Esther 1:10-22
SCRIPTURE: Esther 1:10-22 SHOW NOTES: This story is set in a vast empire under the rule of a pagan king. Described as one who ruled the entire known world, the…
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A Crown With Purpose · Season 14 · Episode 3
Winning Favor
Esther 2:1-18
SCRIPTURE: Esther 2:1-18 SHOW NOTES: The second chapter in the book of Esther begins, “After these things,” so we ask this question, “What things?” King Ahasuerus had hosted a military…
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A Crown With Purpose · Season 14 · Episode 4
Powerful Positions
Esther 2:19 – 3:6
SCRIPTURE: Esther 2:19 – 3:6 SHOW NOTES: The book of Esther is a real story rooted in the middle of palace life in ancient Persia. This story is filled with…
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A Crown With Purpose · Season 14 · Episode 5
A Shrewd Proposal
Esther 3:7-15
SCRIPTURE: Esther 3:7-15 SHOW NOTES: The book of Esther draws the reader into a real-life story filled with drama and intrigue. While the name of God is never specifically mentioned,…
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A Crown With Purpose · Season 14 · Episode 6
For Such A Time
Esther 4:1-17
SCRIPTURE: Esther 4:1-17 SHOW NOTES: As you turn the page to chapter four in the book of Esther, you quickly recognize a pivotal point in this story. Haman has initiated…
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A Crown With Purpose · Season 14 · Episode 7
Walk In Wisdom
Esther 5:1-14
SCRIPTURE: Esther 5:1-14 SHOW NOTES: Queen Esther has appealed to her uncle, Mordecai. “Gather all the Jews in Susa and fast with me for three days and three nights. Then,…
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A Crown With Purpose · Season 14 · Episode 8
Delight To Honor
Esther 6:1-13 / 1 Chronicles 29:11-13
SCRIPTURE: Esther 6:1-13 / 1 Chronicles 29:11-13 SHOW NOTES: The book of Esther is complicated – filled with twists and turns, intrigue, plays for power in the palace including assassination…
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A Crown With Purpose · Season 14 · Episode 9
Request Revealed
Esther 6:14 – 7:10
SCRIPTURE: Esther 6:14 – 7:10 SHOW NOTES: Do we wait for the Lord or are we prone to run ahead, devising our own plans to “fix” the problem? As we…
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A Crown With Purpose · Season 14 · Episode 10
A New Edict
Esther 8:1-17
SCRIPTURE: Esther 8:1-17 SHOW NOTES: Following Haman’s death, the king gave Queen Esther the house of Haman. Mordecai is given the authority and signet ring Haman used to issue the…
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A Crown With Purpose · Season 14 · Episode 11
Rescue Accomplished!
Esther 9:1-19
SCRIPTURE: Esther 9:1-19 SHOW NOTES: The book of Esther is filled with many twists and turns – people in positions of power, and others who are wicked and evil. Where…
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A Crown With Purpose · Season 14 · Episode 12
Feasting And Gladness
Esther 9:20 – 10:3
SCRIPTURE: Esther 9:20 – 10:3 SHOW NOTES: Mordecai sent letters to the Jews instructing them to have days of feasting and gladness on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar.…