Has it been a long two months for you? I don’t know about you, but it has seemed like forever for me. I’m a people person. I love being around people and talking to people. I thrive when I’m interacting
There are defining moments that take place in each of our lives as individuals. There are experiences in life that bring us to the crossroads. We know at the time that the moment, the experience, could be a game changer.
Do you remember just a few months ago? We were heading into a new year with bright hopes and big plans that this year would be better than the last. That was the plan wasn’t it? What happened? It feels
Nehemiah 3 is an interesting chapter, one of those chapters in the Bible that, at first glance, seems not to have any relevance or application for us who live in Oklahoma City in 2020. Some Bible commentaries do not even
Early in 1990, a man named Harry Myers called me. Connie and I were in Plano, Texas at the time working at First Christian Church. I didn’t know who Harry Myers was at the time, but he told me all
Prayer. What a gift and yet so many of us struggle with prayer. I’ve heard story after story of those who prayed, earnestly prayed, pleaded with God, and they didn’t get what they asked for so they stopped praying, some
Rachel Freeman had been looking forward to Wednesday, February 5, for weeks, no months. She’d worked hard during her four years of high school and her hard work had paid off. On Wednesday of this past week, Rachel was set
It has only been one week since we were together and taking one final look at Ezra. Today we are starting our new study of Nehemiah. You’ll find the two books right next to one another, Nehemiah follows Ezra, but
Like a great Hollywood movie, we’ve experienced the highs and lows of the people of God during the past few months as we’ve been studying the book of Ezra. Last week, as we took a look at Ezra 9, we
I want to take you back to December of the year 458 B.C. It would be a pivotal moment for the people of God in Jerusalem. Ezra, a Jewish scribe who worked for the pagan King Artaxerxes in Babylon, had
