I’ve decided to do a little more to bridge the gap between my writing ministry and my ministry here at First Baptist Jasper. To this end I’ll occasionally post sermons that I’ve preached in the past that I believe may be helpful to others.
Have you ever had something that you just had to have? For me it was Christmas 1993 and I had to have a Sony Discman. Eventually it landed in the dump like all of my other one things.
Haman had his own one thing and it eventually destroyed him. His problem wasn’t singled-minded devotion. It was the object of his singled-minded devotion.
This isn’t a typical three-point sermon. Here I just try to tell the story in Esther 5 and use Haman’s one thing to point us to the only One that is worth all of our affection.
Here you can listen to the sermon–in which I quote both Tom Brady and Madonna:
