These days I’m getting more and more used to ordering things off the internet and they arrive pretty quickly . . and if I’m willing to pay the extra -…
An enemy within?The walls were completed around Jerusalem. The community of God’s people now had a good defence against attack from outside enemies. But Nehemiah and Ezra knew that an…
Have you ever had a job to do and the more you looked at it, the harder it seems to be? Well, if that’s you then you’re standing in the…
Wonderful TimingThere were 24 divisions of active priests who lived in their own villages tending their small holdings and coming to Jerusalem once or twice a year.Zechariah came with his…
In verse 4, we see that Nehemiah took a risk. He was very scared when he approached King Artaxerxes to help him, but when God intervened, Nehemiah’s requests were spectacularly…
The parable of the weeds. Good and evil grow together; how do we deal with that?
We’ve been looking over the last couple of weeks at Nehemiah – how he returned to Judah and oversaw the building of Jerusalem’s walls. We’ve been told that years before,…
Nehemiah was a very practical guy living in exile in Babylon. When he heard about the ruined state of Jerusalem he was determined to go there and rebuild the city…
