2 Corinthians 1:3-4

“Here the two greatest human needs are met by two of the greatest divine provisions. Man is born a sinner and a sorrower. He needs mercy for his sin, and comfort for his sorrow.”

Hebrews 13:5bMark 14:34a

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“Poised between memory and hope”

Mark 10:17Romans 6:231 Corinthians 1:7-9Mark 10:18Proverbs 14:3

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. . . . Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God.”

Mark 10:19-22

“When Jesus called this young man to give up his money, the man started to grieve, because money was for him what the Father was for Jesus. It was the center of his identity. To lose his money would have been to lose himself”

“I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t want enough of God to make me love my enemies or pick beets with a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation. I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.”

Mark 10:23-27

“The human heart is an idol factory, churning out new idols like the conveyor belt in a manufacturing plant rolling out new widgets.”

Revelation 22:1-7

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“Advent allows for a slowed reflection upon the Christian’s reason for celebration on Christmas. In the midst of chaotic cultural practices, observing Advent promotes reflection on God’s past actions and building anticipation for the fulfillment of God’s future promises in the return of Christ.”

Isaiah 6:1

“It takes pride to be anxious. I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.”

Isaiah 6:2-4

Isaiah 6:5

Isaiah 6:6-8

Proverbs 29:25

Hebrews 1:1-4Revelation 4:11

Revelation 21:1-7 Revelation 22:20

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Nehemiah 13:1-3

Romans 8:31Nehemiah 13:3-9Mark 11:25Nehemiah 13:8-13

“Reliability is a weighty biblical requirement. If a person is committed to the local church, that is weighty. If a person is committed to a spouse, that is weighty. If we raise our children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, it is weighty. If we go to work on time, if we pay our bills on time, it is weighty. It is significant. It is living the way God wants us to live. It is being like God, who is always faithful.”

Nehemiah 13:14-25

“A single generation’s compromise could undo the work of centuries.”

Nehemiah 13:25-281 Kings 11:1-4Nehemiah 13:29-30Galatians 3:23-26Revelation 22:20-21

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Nehemiah 12:27-31

Nehemiah 12:27-31

Nehemiah 12:27-31Nehemiah 12:45-47Nehemiah 12:36Psalm 48:9-14

“Singing has always been a striking feature of the worship of God’s Old Testament and New Testament people. This is not true of other religions. Many use repetitive chants. In some, clergy sing. But generally, the religions of the world are grim. It is only in biblical religion that the people of God are characteristically joyful and express their joy in great singing… Why is this? Obviously because Christianity is itself joyous. It is a response to the great acts of God on our behalf, particularly in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which secured our salvation.”

“Any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by (song) worship is not ready for heaven.”

“To enjoy worship for its own sake, or simply out of a cultural appreciation of the ‘performance’…would be like Moses coming upon a burning bush and deciding to cook his lunch on it.”

Nehemiah 12:27Nehemiah 12:38Nehemiah 12:40Nehemiah 12:43

Nehemiah 12:44Give Website2 Corinthians 9:7

Nehemiah 12:30Matthew 23:23-28Psalm 51:1-121 John 1:7-10

2 Corinthians 5:21Revelation 7:9-10Hebrews 4:16

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“In Western culture, we call our displacement ‘mobility.’”

Jeremiah 29:4-7Jeremiah 29:10-14Nehemiah 11:1-2Romans 12:1-2Nehemiah 11:1-2Nehemiah 11:3Nehemiah 11:25Nehemiah 12:1

Nehemiah 11:9Nehemiah 11:12Nehemiah 11:16Nehemiah 11:17Nehemiah 11:19

“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

Esther 4:14

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2 Corinthians 3:18

“For all those discouraged by your progress in Christ: “By perseverance, the snail reached the Ark.”

Nehemiah 9:38Nehemiah 10:28-29Deuteronomy 28:15Deuteronomy 21:22-23Galatians 3:13Nehemiah 10:302 Corinthians 6:14Ephesians 5:32-33Nehemiah 10:31Hebrews 10:24-25Nehemiah 10:32-382 Corinthians 8:5Nehemiah 10:39

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When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.

2 Chronicles 7:14Nehemiah 9:1-8

Adoption is…costly, exhausting, expensive and outrageous. Buying back lives costs so much. When God set out to redeem us it killed him.

Nehemiah 9:9-29Judges 21:25Nehemiah 9:30-37

Nehemiah 9:38

Be half a Christian and you shall have enough religion to make you miserable.

I am no longer my own, but yours.Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will.Put me to doing, put me to suffering.Let me be employed for you or laid aside for you,exalted for you or brought low for you.Let me be full, let me be empty.Let me have all things, let me have nothing.I freely and heartily yield all things to your pleasure and disposal.And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, you are mine, and I am yours.So be it.And the covenant which I have made on earth,let it be ratified in heaven.Amen.

1 Corinthians 11:27-28

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2 Timothy 2:8-13

Nehemiah 8:1Ezra 7:6Nehemiah 8:2-3

Nehemiah 8:4-8

Nehemiah 8:9-11Romans 3:23

The Word of God contains both Law and Gospel. While the reading of Moses’ Teaching contained Law, which always accuses the hearers of their sins and brings them sorrow and contrition, the Pentateuch also contains magnificent Gospel promises of forgiveness and the Messiah, which bring joy to the penitent sinner. It is joy in the Gospel that is the believer’s ultimate strength. Nehemiah’s encouragement, reinforced by the Levites, pointed the people to the comforting Gospel, so that the joy of Yahweh overcame their sorrow, and they celebrated the day.

Nehemiah 8:12-13

“When my sons complain that a good book is hard to read, I say, ‘Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.’”

Nehemiah 8:14-17Philippians 4:11-13John 7:37-39Jeremiah 2:13Matthew 5:6

“There is: God is speaking and must be listened to. But what good is a speaking God without listening human ears? So God gets a pick and shovel and digs through the cranial granite, opening a passage that will give access to the interior depths, into the mind and heart. Or—maybe we are not to imagine a smooth expanse of skull but something like wells that have been stopped up with refuse: culture noise, throw-away gossip, garbage chatter. Our ears are so clogged that we cannot hear God speak.”

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2 Timothy 3:16-17

Nehemiah 7:5aEphesians 5:18Ephesians 5:19-20

Nehemiah 7:5b-6

“They prioritize church over athletics, because there is no guarantee that they will go pro, but there is a guarantee where they will spend their eternal state.”

Acts 17:24-25Colossians 4:171 Peter 2:4-5

“No job is too big, no pup is too small.”

Nehemiah 7:61-65

“But all things that God would have us do are hard for us to do – remember that – and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consist.”

Nehemiah 7:70-72

“No one is merely a consumer of services, but everyone is a distributor.”

Nehemiah 7:7Matthew 1:12-16

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