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
Starting is important, but not nearly as important as finishing. How many projects have been started and abandoned before they were finished? How many runners were inspired to run a marathon, but when the going got tough they bailed? How
As I was studying Nehemiah 6 this past week I was struck with the reality of the time I have wasted during my life. It didn’t happen the first time I read through the chapter, but as I settled in,
Having to deal with conflict and opposition are part of what it means to be human. There are those who try to avoid them, those who will do anything to try and please everyone so that conflict and opposition will
