Today's story is about a man many people didn't like.  They called him a sinner, which is funny because aren't we all sinners?  Don't we all make mistakes and do things we shouldn't?

The story starts with Jesus entering a place called Jericho.  These days Jesus had been going around telling parables and performing many miracles. 

The word was spreading about this man named Jesus and the amazing things he was doing and saying.  So it was common when Jesus came to a place people would rush to see...

Saul had been king, but he kept disobeying God so God asked Samuel to find a new king.  God said to Samuel, "Go to Bethlehem and there is a man named Jesse with eight sons.  One of them will be the next king."

When Samuel first met the sons he automatically thought that the oldest son named Eliab would be the king that God had chosen.  But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look at the way he looks or how big he is.  Eliab is not the one I have chosen, the way he looks doesn't matter to me, I lo...

Long ago, in a country called Persia (Babylon), there was a king named Achashveyrosh (as known in Jewish...  His Persian name was Xerxes) and a queen named Vashti.  King Achashveyrosh  ordered his wife the queen to appear before him at a party so he could show everyone how pretty she was.  When she refused, the king was furious.

To make matters worse, a rather nasty man named Haman was one of the King's advisors.   Haman teased the king that if word got around, no one's wife would think she ha...