Most of us have a “Jerusalem crowd” — a person or a room that makes us go quiet when we know we should speak up. Peter had one too. And when that crowd showed up in Antioch, he stopped living out what he actually believed. Paul called him on it publicly. In Galatians 2, we look at what it costs when fear wins — and why grace with no conditions is the only thing that sets that right.
We turn to the book Esther for the next several weeks. In chapter 1 and 2 we discover what not to be like or even aspire to as a leader in King Xerxes.