Topic:Who is Jesus? He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. John 1:2-3 John says without any doubt that Jesus is God. He declares that Jesus is the Creator of all things. This accounts for Jesus’ …
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Topic:A Willing Spirit Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Psalm 51:12 Several years ago, while I was preparing to preach a sermon on this psalm, I received an anonymous letter from someone in my congregation saying that he was …
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Topic:God Gave Them Over READ THE SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 1:24-32 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts, to sexual impurity, for the degrading of their bodies with one another. Romans 1:24 The wickedness at work among human beings follows a process which is identified in this …
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Topic:The True Sabbath Rest READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 13:15-22 In those days I saw men in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem …
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Topic:Are You Faithful? READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 13:10-14 I put Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a Levite named Pedaiah in charge of the storerooms and made Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, their assistant, because these men were considered trustworthy. Nehemiah 13:13a Notice how representative this …
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Topic:How To Celebrate READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 12:27-43 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps and lyres. Nehemiah 12:27 …
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Topic:Real Heroes And Real Life READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 12:1-26 These were the priests and Levites who returned with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua Nehemiah 12:1a This takes us back to the heroes of the past. Zerubbabel led the first return from Babylonian captivity to Jerusalem in 538 …
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Topic:Any Volunteers? READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 11 Now the leaders of the people settled in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the remaining nine were to stay in their own towns. The …
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Topic:Time After Time READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 9:16-37 But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight. Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you …
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Topic:The Power And Peril Of A Witness READ THE SCRIPTURE: NEHEMIAH 6:15-19 So the wall was completed… When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God. Nehemiah …
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