Monthly Archive: December 2015

You know those makeover programmes where the work is completed and then they go back six months later to see how it all looks ‘some time later’? Well, this chapter of Nehemiah is like...

Nehemiah 12:27-47 is all about the celebration. The wall is finished! Nehemiah and the people have achieved the impossible, overcome major obstacles, worked as a team. What relief! What joy! What gratitude to God!...

Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem. The rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten of them to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the...

So in Nehemiah 10, the people make a binding agreement. In writing. And there’s a list of everyone who signs it. Why do they do this? In view of all this,…….   Nehemiah 9:38...

Nehemiah 9 is amazing! The whole story of God’s interaction with his people from the very beginning up to this point. The whole span of history in one chapter! It really is worth a...

Come together When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, all the people came together as one in the square before the Water Gate.  Nehemiah 7:73 – 8:1 Gather together...

To Sanballat and all your miserable crew, I can’t sit by and watch you treat people like this any more. I can’t keep quiet. I have to say something.  You just can’t give it...

Power changes people. We see it all the time. Give someone an extra responsibility for a shift and they will work diligently and with confidence. Put someone in charge of a project and they...

Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews. Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive,...