Reversal of Fortune - 9/27/2009

Sermon text: Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22

Remember the movie, Speed, from the mid-nineties? I think it was Sandra Bullock’s breakout role. She played Annie, a woman who rides the bus to work. There’s a bomb on Annie’s city bus.  Once the bus reaches 50 miles per hour, the bomb is armed. The bus, of course, reaches 50 miles per hour. If the speed then drops below 50 miles per hour, it blows up. So they have to keep on driving. Fast. No matter what the obstacle. And that makes for a decent action adventure film. ... Read full sermon here (PDF).