Nehemiah 12: 43-45

Pray in the face of bad news

Nehemiah 1:4, Nehemaih 4:4, Nehemiah 6:9

Pray when you need direction

Nehemiah 1:1, Nehemiah 2:1

Pray when you fail

Nehemiah 1:6

Pray for something bigger than yourself

Nehemiah 1:11

Nehemiah 1: 1- 11God takes broken things and He restores them. He renews them. This is the whole story of the Bible from Genesis 3, When we broke it to the very end, when the new city of Jerusalem comes down out of heaven from God and the restoration of all things happens. No more tears when we take our weapons and we beat them into plowshares.

Matthew 5:14

You are the light of the world. 

Merry Christmas!

We are meant to know who we are by being known.

Psalms 50 : 3 - 4, 7

Beacon 20th Anniversary

Anxiety shows up at the intersection of importance and impotence. when things are important, we value them. We see them as being important, and yet we see ourselves as being impotent to protect those things from threats. That's where anxiety lives.

Being thankful because his loss became our life. And that's the Thanksgiving story that always going to be worth telling.