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Nehemiah 8

Nehemiah 7-8 (part 1)

Soon after after the walls are finished "all the people" Gather together and ask Ezra to read "the Book of the Law of Moses" to them.  They don't want Ezra to wax eloquent with his own musings on life and faith and they aren't gathered to swap their own ideas about God, they want to know how GOD has revealed Himself!

(Back from our East coast vacation to visit family)

Nehemiah 6

Nehemiah faces a persistent battery of temptations to stop him from his God-given effort to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 5 is a terrific example how Christians (individually) and the church (collectively) should respond to opposition and hardship.  Mistreatment & opposition from outsiders is to be expected (to some degree); but sometimes, the opposition originates from those expected to be allies!  What then?

Nehemiah 4

We begin by spending some time confirming the late juncture in which Nehemiah arrives -- by all accounts, in very close connection with Malachi.  Otherwise, in chapter 4, we see that as Nehemiah makes progress on the rebuilding effort, his opponents intensify their efforts to stop him!

Nehemiah 2-4

Nehemiah has only known life outside of Israel.  He is living a very comfortable, secure life serving the King of the Persian empire -- so WHY does he even care about what's happening in Jerusalem nearly 1000 miles away? 

Introduction to Nehemiah and chapter one

Before starting a lengthier series from Genesis 1-11 (starting in September?), we are going to do a shortened study of Nehemiah.  We recently finished Ephesians by spending four weeks on the subject of prayer.  As it turns out, Nehemiah is a wonderful example of godly prayer, so why not now?

Psalm 123 -  Guest speaker, John Davis (Pastor Cliff's son) comes to us from Louisville, Kentucky to open God's Word from one of the  psalms of ascent!

Ephesians 6:19-24 - Finding himself "an ambassador in chains" Paul adds a personal prayer request before writing his final benediction.  A terrific quote from Alexander Maclaren (1826-1910) concludes our study of the letter first delivered to the Ephesians.

Ephesians 6:18 --

A wide variety of persons are called upon to provide an understanding of what the Bible means when it calls upon Christians (the church!) to pray, "at ALL times with ALL prayer and petition in the Spirit, and to this end, being on the alert with ALL perseverance and petition for ALL the saints,"  (Legacy Standard Bible)