Angela Jenkins - The Thread and The Vine

Scripture & Study

Pruning the Early Church

Paul, Barnabas, Apollos, Ananias, Priscilla and Aquilla

Reflections & Stray Thoughts

Mordecai the Jew, part 4

Esther read the decree. The words seemed impossible. Unreal. She felt her breath catch, her pulse quicken, her knees weaken. Her people. Her family. Her blood. Destroyed. Killed. Annihilated. She looked at Hathach, her voice barely holding. She turned over Mordecai’s request in her mind- Go to the king.

Reflections & Stray Thoughts

Mordecai the Jew, part 3

News traveled strangely inside the palace. It did not arrive as facts or proclamations, but as whispers carried by servants, fragments of conversation drifting through corridors, half‑heard laments from the outer courts. Esther sensed something was wrong long before she understood it. The palace felt unsettled. The eunuchs moved

Reflections & Stray Thoughts

Mordecai the Jew, part 2

Mordecai did not remember leaving the gate. One moment he was standing in the heat, the officials’ faces blurring into a colorless haze; the next, he was stumbling through the outer courtyard, the world tilting beneath him like a ship in rough water. He moved without direction, without breath, without

Reflections & Stray Thoughts

Mordecai the Jew, part 1

The king’s gate was already warm when the morning procession began, the stone beneath Mordecai’s feet radiating yesterday’s heat. He stood where he always stood- close enough to fulfill his duties, far enough to avoid notice. A bureaucrat among bureaucrats. A third‑generation exile who had learned