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Carry on regardless….
Now Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the prophet, a descendant of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them. Then Zerubbabel...
When your critics shout loud……….
I’m an ideas person. I can’t help it. It’s how I’m made. I have a million and one ideas flowing through me all at the same time. Projects and parties and challenges and improvements...
The sound of joy and weeping
So in the last blog, we learnt this – On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, though the foundation of the Lord’s temple had...
Be yourself
Something a bit different today – a passage straight from Ezra 3, followed by some thoughts arising from it. When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, the people...
According to their ability they gave……
Remember where we left off yesterday? The people have returned to Jerusalem to rebuild their city and restore their temple after seventy years in exile in Babylon. Most of them will never have experienced...
What’s the point?
‘What’s the point?’ This is a question Andy asks me on a regular basis as he wanders around our house. Our house has taken a hammering over the years. Five boisterous kids who evolved...
No way back
Seventy years is a long time. A very long time. It’s been seventy years since God’s people were exiled from Jerusalem and the temple ransacked and the city destroyed. Seventy years since family and...
Well, hello Ezra!
Well, hello Ezra! It’s been a while. A few weeks in fact since we finished looking at 2 Chronicles. I don’t know about you, but there’s been plenty going on in my life. I’ve...
