Ezra-Nehemiah
Building Christ's Church
The Joy of the Lord is Our Strength
June 30, 2024 • Pete Whitney • Nehemiah 8:10
We all know this famous phrase, but do we really know what it means? What exactly is “the joy of the Lord” and how is that “your strength”. Tonight we spend time exploring the possibilities that we might have like the people in the passage “understanding” that changes our “weeping” into “joy”.
What God Wants
June 9, 2024 • Pete Whitney • Nehemiah 7
Let's be honest, the reason you are looking up this sermon, isn't because you love names and numbers, but you are asking yourself, what could we possibly learn from such a long list of them? Well, let's ask another important question, do you know what God wants? Such a question often comes to our lips in the midst of some great trial or temptation. But let's ask the question before we go into that low valley, what in general does God want? And how does He tell us that? Could He even tell us this from a list of names and numbers?
Faith Makes
May 5, 2024 • Pete Whitney • Nehemiah 2
For the most part in this series we have heard about what revival is from the perspective of God. And we have done this for good reason, as it is God who the author and initiator of revival, and because it is our looking intently upon the Lord that will bring about greater faith in us. Yet, with that faith working in us, how does that faith work itself out in our lives. Better, what does the presence of a lively faith produce both in and around us? Tonight we consider what faith makes…
An Exemplary Prayer
April 28, 2024 • Philip Ryan • Nehemiah 1
Nehemiah's response to the terrible condition of the returned exiles in Jerusalem is an exemplary prayer for us to follow in our own lives. We will walk through this model of Old Testament prayer and see how it may benefit our prayer life today.