by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 12, 2025)

As we saw yesterday, the Jews in Nehemiah’s day committed themselves to serve God. Some of them moved into the City of Jerusalem, and others populated the surrounding area. This kind of service to the Kingdom is pleasing to the Lord, as we learn from other scriptures such as Malachi 3:16: “Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name.” Join us today as we continue to see that it takes all sorts of people with all sorts of backgrounds and skills – with the Lord’s help – to maintain the earthly Kingdom of God.

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 12, 2025)

As we move on into the Book of Nehemiah, we have arrived at the point where the Jews under Nehemiah make some commitments to follow through in their obedience to God. In today’s sermon, we learn about how they committed themselves to God. Some of them moved into the city of Jerusalem proper, and others populated the surrounding villages. But in each case, they committed their lives to the work of the Kingdom. We ought to follow their example and commit ourselves to God as well!

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 28, 2025)

As we began to see last time, the Jews of Nehemiah’s day not only submitted themselves to the Law and separated themselves from the world, they also committed themselves to support the work of the Temple. We learned that God doesn’t NEED our earthly support, but He desires it and requires it! When we support the work of the house of the Lord, we demonstrate our commitment to the Kingdom. In today’s sermon, we learn about ways in which they supported the work of the House of the Lord in Nehemiah’s day. The ways in which they supported the work of the Kingdom in that day help us to understand how we should support that work in our day. Join us today as we conclude this sermon about the support of the Kingdom of God.

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 28, 2025)

As we continue in Chapter Ten of Nehemiah, we find the phrase “house of our God” appearing nine times in these verses, referring to the Temple that had been restored in Zerubbabel’s day. In the prophecy of Haggai, we learn about the rebuilding of that Temple, and how God promised that it would be more glorious even than Solomon’s Temple because the Lord Jesus Christ would walk in this new Temple! In this chapter, we have already seen that the Jews under Nehemiah committed to submit themselves to the Law and to separate themselves from the world. As we continue in this chapter, we see that they also swore to support the work of the Kingdom with their lives and their material things. Join us as we learn about their dedication to the work of the Kingdom of God.

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 14, 2025)

As we saw yesterday, the Jews who returned from the Captivity had recommitted themselves to the Law of God, and promised to separate themselves from the world. God has always required separation from the world, and He still requires it today! There were two areas in particular where these Jews needed to be separate from the world: in their marriages, and in their observance of the Sabbath. Join us today as we continue to look at this principle of “separation,” and how it applied to them in that day and to us in our day.

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 14, 2025)

Today we return to our exposition of the Book of Nehemiah, which teaches us about God’s rebuilding program. After a short review of where we are at this point, we go back today to the tenth chapter, where Nehemiah and the Jews who returned from the Captivity are putting into place the things they promised when they “sealed” their faithfulness to the Law in Chapter Nine. We have already seen that they reaffirmed their submission to God and to His Law, and today we see that they vowed to separate themselves from the world. Join us today as we continue our study in the Book of Nehemiah.

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by Elder John Morgan Owens (preached on September 21, 2025)

As we began to learn yesterday, this world is not our home. In our text, we learn that even Jesus had no place to lay His head. As we move through the second half of this sermon, we find that we ourselves are not at home in this world, but that we are pilgrims on our way to our REAL home! Join us today as we continue to see how this world is NOT our home, but that we are simply passing through it on our way to our heavenly home.

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by Elder John Morgan Owens (preached on September 21, 2025)

In the wake of all the troubles we see in this world, we are reminded that this world is not our home! With the Charlie Kirk shooting, and other tragedies and persecutions in this world, we find ourselves asking, “How can this be fixed?” If we are looking for answers “under the sun,” then the answer is, “We can’t!” But when we look to Jesus for answers, we realize that the Resurrection is the answer to it all. It fixes EVERYTHING! Join us today for the first half of this sermon about where our true home is.

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on November 2, 2025)

The preaching of the gospel is the greatest privilege we have as regenerated children of God. It is primarily through preaching the gospel that those of God’s little lost sheep, who have already been born again, finally hear and embrace the good news of Christ’s finished work. But there is a problem we must consider: what about all those who hear the gospel but don’t obey it? While the answer given in the world is that they all die and go to hell, thankfully the Bible answer is that God will save His children regardless of their faithfulness! But there are still consequences for continuing to reject the gospel message. Join us today as we begin to see how important it is for us to believe the gospel, and some of the problems that arise for us when we reject it.

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on November 2, 2025)

Having examined in some detail the two types of zeal described in the first half of Romans 10, the one being a sincere but misplaced zeal and the other being an informed and proper zeal, we turn now to the normal way by which a regenerated child of God comes to embrace the gospel message: by hearing the preaching of the gospel. In today’s portion of the sermon, we deal with the purpose of preaching the gospel message. We are reminded that “whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved,” but that this salvation is not an eternal salvation. Rather, it is a salvation – or deliverance – that occurs in time. The purpose of preaching is not to bring life and immortality to the child of God, but rather to bring that life and immortality – that has already been imparted through the new birth – to light. Join us today as we look at the purpose of the preaching of the gospel, and how true evangelism should be paramount in the work of the church.

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