Introduction A. Preliminaries Good morning. We will continue our sermon series on the Book of Ezra this morning, and I would like to direct you to chapter 6 in your Bibles. By way of reminder, let me help you recall what has happened. The Prophets Haggai and Zechariah have called the people back to the…

Introduction A. Preliminaries Good morning. We continue our sermon series this morning on the Book of Ezra. If you would please turn with me in your Bibles to Ezra, Chapter 5. Last week, we covered how things were going in Jerusalem, and they were not so good. The people in spite of God’s command to…

Introduction A. Preliminaries Good morning. We continue our sermon series this morning on the Book of Ezra. If you would please turn with me in your Bibles to Ezra 5:1-2 Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the…

Introduction A. Preliminaries Good morning. We continue our sermon series this morning on the Book of Ezra. If you would please turn with me in your Bibles to Ezra 4:1-4 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord , the God of Israel,…

Introduction Good morning. We continue our sermon series this morning on the Book of Ezra, and we arrive today at Chapter 3, which is one of the most important parts of Ezra’s narrative. The exiles have returned, and they finally get to work. Originally, I was going to preach through the entire third…

Introduction Good morning. We continue our sermon series this morning on the Book of Ezra, and we arrive today at Chapter 3, which is one of the most important parts of Ezra’s narrative. The exiles have returned, and they finally get to work. Originally, I was going to preach through the entire third…

Introduction We continue our sermon series this morning through the Book of Ezra, which is a book about hope, disappointment, promise-keeping, redemption, revival, and reformation. Last Sunday we surveyed Chapter 1, and this today we will do the same with Chapter 2. So if you will turn in your Bibles…

Introduction So this morning we begin our series in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, and as we saw last Sunday, we will be focusing throughout on the concepts of Reformation and Revival. So we will look at Chapter 1 this morning, if you will join me in verse 1. In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia,…

Introduction, Part One: Why Ezra? Good Morning. As I’m sure most of you know, last Sunday, we concluded our series through the Apostles’ Creed. My hope and prayer is that it was a blessing to you. It was a sermon series about foundations. And it seemed good to me to follow a sermon series about foundations…

Introduction A. Preliminaries Good morning. As many of you are no doubt aware, this Sunday is the concluding sermon on our series on the Apostles’ Creed. I want to once more thank Neil Barham for co-preaching this with me. It’s been a great help to me during a very busy time. Bursting with blessing,…