Hurray! Nehemiah has done his job and the wallsof Jerusalem are standing again.This Sunday we glance at Zephaniah. His namemeans 'Yahweh has hidden', and he lived beforeNehemiah, which means that…
As you stand at the bottom of Montpelier ready to walk up to Christ Church, you may wish that someone would make the hill flat. Or if you drive down…
During the season of Advent we prepare for Christmas but we should also be preparing for Christ's second coming. There will ultimately be a final judgement; that can be scary.…
In our passage Nehemiah draws together the people of Jerusalem. They had celebrated a long forgotten feast, the Feast of Booths, and listened to the prophet Ezra who had led…
With the wall and temple built, Nehemiah and the people are about to get on with living everyday life but first they make an agreement, a promise - made by…
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…
