TURNING TABLES (8)
by Brad Whitt
Scripture: Esther 9:1-32, Esther 10:1-3
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Title: Turning Tables (8)
Series: Esther
Author: Brad Whitt
Text: Esther 9:1-10:3
INTRODUCTION
Take your Bibles this morning and turn to Esther, chapter 9. We've been in a series of
messages in this unfamiliar yet fascinating book in the Old Testament for the past couple of
months. We're learning to see God in the shadows of life.
CARTOON: Police oQicer to Pastor behind the pulpit - "You were preaching a 45-minute
sermon in a 25-minute zone. I need to see your license and ordination papers."
(I can't promise I won't do that this morning, but I will do my best to keep it under the sermon
"speed limit.")
Personal confession: I love turns of phrases and little idioms. A lot of folks do. That's why
we end up using them like we do. But most of the time, we use them without considering
where they come from.
Example: This hit me this past week as I was getting ready one morning; I saw on Facebook
a black and white picture of an old WW2 fighter plane and two men loading these big, long
belts of ammunition into the magazine in that plane's wings. Now, first, I'd never even
considered how or where the bullets were stored in those old planes, much less the fact that
one of our American English euphemisms came from the fact that back in WW2, U.S.
airplanes were armed with belts of bullets that they would shoot during dogfights and on
strafing runs. These belts were folded into the wing compartments that fed their machine
guns. These belts measured 27 feet and contained hundreds of rounds of bullets. A lot of
times, when the pilots would return from their missions having expended all their bullets on
various targets, they would say, "I gave them the whole nine yards," meaning they used up all
of their ammunition.
That got me thinking about where some of our other favorite phrases and sayings come from.
Now, I don't have time to cover all or even most of them, but here are a few of my favorite
sayings and where they come from.
- " ...
Series: Esther
Author: Brad Whitt
Text: Esther 9:1-10:3
INTRODUCTION
Take your Bibles this morning and turn to Esther, chapter 9. We've been in a series of
messages in this unfamiliar yet fascinating book in the Old Testament for the past couple of
months. We're learning to see God in the shadows of life.
CARTOON: Police oQicer to Pastor behind the pulpit - "You were preaching a 45-minute
sermon in a 25-minute zone. I need to see your license and ordination papers."
(I can't promise I won't do that this morning, but I will do my best to keep it under the sermon
"speed limit.")
Personal confession: I love turns of phrases and little idioms. A lot of folks do. That's why
we end up using them like we do. But most of the time, we use them without considering
where they come from.
Example: This hit me this past week as I was getting ready one morning; I saw on Facebook
a black and white picture of an old WW2 fighter plane and two men loading these big, long
belts of ammunition into the magazine in that plane's wings. Now, first, I'd never even
considered how or where the bullets were stored in those old planes, much less the fact that
one of our American English euphemisms came from the fact that back in WW2, U.S.
airplanes were armed with belts of bullets that they would shoot during dogfights and on
strafing runs. These belts were folded into the wing compartments that fed their machine
guns. These belts measured 27 feet and contained hundreds of rounds of bullets. A lot of
times, when the pilots would return from their missions having expended all their bullets on
various targets, they would say, "I gave them the whole nine yards," meaning they used up all
of their ammunition.
That got me thinking about where some of our other favorite phrases and sayings come from.
Now, I don't have time to cover all or even most of them, but here are a few of my favorite
sayings and where they come from.
- " ...
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