It’s a stunning promise: 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask...

The book of Esther may be one of the most misunderstood and sanitized books of the Bible. The story is a Sunday school staple: Xerxes, King of the Persian Empire, is angered by his wife’s disobedience and holds a “beauty pageant” to find a new...