In the book of Revelation, there are seven churches in Revelation 2-3 that receive a letter written by John, but dictated by Jesus. In each of the letters, Jesus had something important to say to the seven churches. Jesus told
For as long as I have been a follower of Jesus, I have heard about how irrelevant the Bible is for modern-day people. They say, “It was written so long ago by people who knew absolutely nothing about what life
We started our journey with Ezra and Nehemiah one year ago this week. From exile in Babylon we made trip after trip with Zerubbabel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and the groups of courageous men and women who traveled with them back to
We’ve all seen the celebrations through the years. Choose any sport. Some of you are old enough to remember the celebration that followed after Kerri Strug’s final vault in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta to clinch the gold medal for
Today we will turn to Nehemiah 11. It’s a chapter filled with names. Lots of names. There are so many names that they spill over into chapter 12! The names that are listed in Nehemiah 11 are those who were
Jonathan Edwards was born on October 5, 1703 in East Windsor, Connecticut. He had ten sisters, all of them at least six feet tall! With that information you might think this is going to be a basketball story, but I’m
You may have read the email I sent out yesterday with the sermon title, “We Are In Great Distress…” and guessed that our study this morning would be about the current distress we are in as a people living in
The key to continuing to grow throughout our lives, regardless of what area of growth we desire, is to begin, make a commitment, and then keep showing up. Once you discover what it is that you’d like to do, become,
We’re going back to our study of Nehemiah today. Before we read our Scripture I want to remind you that even though Ezra and Nehemiah are two books in our English Bibles, they were one scroll in the Hebrew Bible
