{"id":2765,"date":"2026-09-16T11:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saintalbans.net\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:01:14","slug":"adult-education-the-book-of-esther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/saintalbans.net\/?p=2765","title":{"rendered":"Adult Education &#8211; The Book of Esther"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m_-5825063673741142996x_x_Signature\">\n<div>Sunday SEPTEMBER 20 JOIN US at 9:45am in the Fellowship Hall between services as Tim Lyon leads the last of three sessions on The Book of Esther. PLEASE READ the 10 chapters of this book of Esther in one sitting. It will take about 40 minutes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>September 20<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>The Book of Esther<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Famed as a book for not mentioning the name of God in its 10 chapters, this story has a beautiful heroine, a romantic thread, threats to good people, a despicable villain, suspense, irony, exotic locales,\u00a0 and poetic justice. We will discuss these topics as well as an important matter for Christians (and, indeed, all humankind and the world) if Haman\u2019s plot to kill all the Jews succeeded, the promised lineage from Abraham to the Messiah would never have occurred.\u00a0 Led by Tim Lyon of Saint Alban\u2019s Adult Education team.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>September 27-October 18<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Four Mountains Book Study Begins\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Read the Bible Like the Early Church: Seeing Christ on Every Page of the Bible<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Led by Craig Huntington and Fred Carlson<\/div>\n<div>This class will be valuable for new Bible readers and experienced Bible readers alike. You do not need the book to participate in the 4 classes, there will be handouts provided for everyone. Those who ordered books have received them. The series will grow your own personal discipleship and help strengthen your evangelism to others.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Questions? Contact Fred Carlson\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:fred@carlsonstudio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fred@carlsonstudio.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"tel:(412)%20389-3289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">412-389-3289<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday SEPTEMBER 20 JOIN US at 9:45am in the Fellowship Hall between services as Tim Lyon leads the last of three sessions on The Book of Esther. PLEASE READ the 10 chapters of this book of Esther in one sitting. It will take about 40 minutes. September 20 The Book of Esther Famed as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-education","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/saintalbans.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/saintalbans.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/saintalbans.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saintalbans.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saintalbans.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/saintalbans.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"http:\/\/saintalbans.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/saintalbans.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saintalbans.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/saintalbans.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}