Believe it or not, Dr. Seuss’s famous book, The Cat in the Hat, is an excellent commentary on the last chapter of Nehemiah.

Have you ever asked this question: Why should I confess the sins of my ancestors? That’s exactly what happens in Nehemiah chapters 9 & 10. Makes you wonder – what does confession have to do with unbreaking what’s broken?

We don’t normally associate party hats and balloons with words like “holy,” and “sacred.” Maybe we should. Because that’s what happens in Nehemiah 8.

In his classic book, Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, “The first service that one owes others in the fellowship consists in listening to them.” How good are you at listening?

If you try to unbreak anything that’s broken, here’s one thing you can count on – pushback. Someone somewhere is going to trash talk your effort. Here’s a way to handle it.

Hands down, Nehemiah chapter 3 is one of the most boring chapters in the entire Bible. It also contains one of the most powerful lessons you’ll ever learn.

We die without dreams. But once a dream has been conceived in the mind of a visionary and given birth by the words of the dreamer, someone has to raise that dream to reality.

Author William Alexander asks a penetrating question: If you had to live the same life over and over again for eternity, would you choose the life you are living now? If your answer is no – then why are you living the life you are living now?