The threats facing Nehemiah and his building team don't ease ... this week it's intimidation. But, Nehemiah presses on and the building project gets finished. What strategy does he use to keep going? Maybe we can learn a lesson or two to help ourselves when ridicule and intimidation come our way - for if we're trying to live God's way they're a certainty!

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Last week we learnt about the threats facing Nehemiah and his building team ... and how they overcame them. But, just like in our lives, it's often not the challenges we experience from the world we live in that really get us down. No. It's the problems involving those we love (or ought to love!). How does Nehemiah cope with that type of problem? Listen to this week's podcast and you may get some help for your problems!

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Working for God often starts well. But are enthusiasm and energy enough when threats, challenges and difficulties start appearing? Nehemiah is about to find out! Will he keep going? Will he be able to keep motivating the people working for him? Listen to today's podcast and find out!

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Nehemiah faces a huge task. God wanted him to get the walls of a whole city restored and the gates reconstructed. But this seemed like an impossibility ... and it was until the people caught hold of God's plan and power. Then they worked in harmony with each other, each taking up their share of the task. What a lesson for us!

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Last week we started our studies in the Bible book called Nehemiah. Nehemiah finds himself in a do-or-die situation. What does he do? Watch our service this week to find out. Is it what you would have done? Has Nehemiah bitten off more than he can chew? By himself, definitely yes! But with God things go differently.

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Today we start our studies in the Bible book called Nehemiah. We get to meet Nehemiah in his job as an important servant of a heathen king. Nehemiah's gets some bad news, his heart is breaking and his face shows it. It's dangerous to appear before the king looking sad - be happy or else! Will Nehemiah survive (yes, of course he will, otherwise there wouldn't be any more chapters of the Bible book to look at!)? Will he be able to resolve the things that make him sad? That will prove more difficult ... just as well he's starting in the right place!

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For our first podcast of 2025, here is a verse to take you through the year - Ephesians 2 verse 22: "In Christ you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit". We hope it's true for everyone who follows this channel. And we pray that you may know God the Holy Spirit living in you throughout 2025. If you'd like a bookmark with the text on it (and a couple of key prayers on the reverse), send your address to [email protected] and we'll mail you one.

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Join in praising God for all the blessings of 2024 and all his care and love in its trials ... and join in praying for whatever 2025 holds for you and everyone in the world around you. We need him every day ... and his grace is sufficient for every day - gloomy or glorious.

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Almost there! Only a couple of days before we celebrate Jesus Christ's birthday. Incredible, awesome and humbling. Join in and marvel in worship of the holy and flawless God of the universe somehow born a tiny baby in a dirty stable and yet the one who brings everlasting light into a dark world, into dark lives.

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Here's the third look at Chapter 9 of the Bible book of Isaiah. In the midst of the gloom of Isaiah's world, and in the midst of the mess that's our world, we've already seen that the arrival of King Jesus brings peace and brings hope. But today we're going to find that he brings justice. With so many crooks around we might go "Yes! At last!", but then we find that Jesus' justice affects everyone of us because no-one is guilt free before the holy God.

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