Monthly Archive: December 2015

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Some time later……

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...

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It’s time to get good at celebrating!

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!...

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Pretty random

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...

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Our response to our amazing God

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...

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The story of my life

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...

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Lording it over the minions…….

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...

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Make Poverty History

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,...