Hosting Your Own Little Haman Party

It often surprises me how inadvertently selfish we human beings can be and how obliviously self-centered our behavior can become. I see this in many ways, but one has stood out to me over the past little stretch of time. A while ago, I had the opportunity to have lunch with a young man who had questions he wanted to ask of a more mature Christian. I was, of course, glad to meet with him. Yet he did not begin the meeting with a question. Rather, he began it by telling me about himself. He al