The Glory of Plodding
It’s sexy among young people — my generation — to talk about ditching institutional religion and starting a revolution of real Christ-followers living in real community without the confines of church....
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Gen 50: 5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my...
View ArticleEarnest Repairs
Nehemiah 3:20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest. The work of Baruch is described...
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Nehemiah 3:23 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house. I have often wondered why so much...
View ArticleThe Mind to Work
Nehemiah 4:6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. The people have a mind to work. What kind of minds do you have around...
View ArticleThe work shall not cease
Nehemiah 4:11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease. The adversary can kill …but he does not kill...
View ArticleA Great and Large Work
Nehemiah 4:19 And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another. How do you see the...
View ArticleLabour well
Nehemiah 4:21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared. How do you work? Nehemiah uses the word “we” …meaning he was part of...
View ArticleThe Work of our God
Nehemiah 6:16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that...
View ArticlePashur
Nehemiah 7:41 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven. Pashur, from the Hebrew name means “freedom” or “released”. God’s word and truth sets free, but this is not liberty to do...
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