Nehemiah: Everyone Is Included
Text: Nehemiah 11:1-2, 12:27-43 Nehemiah and company finished rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem in fifty-two days. But when the work was complete, what they were…
Nehemiah
Nehemiah: Renewing Our Commitment
Text: Nehemiah 8:5-10; 9:1-3, 38; 10:28-29 Last week, we talked about some of the opposition that the builders and Nehemiah faced while building the wall. …
Nehemiah: Having Each Other’s Backs
Text: Nehemiah 4: 1-3, 6-9, 16-18; 5:1-7 Here at Immanuel, we have team of folks who have working together on a safety and emergency response…
Nehemiah: Side by Side
Text: Nehemiah 2:11-18, 3:1-4 (5-32) Last week, we laid out some of the context for the Book of Nehemiah… A people who found themselves in…
Nehemiah: Help Us Rebuild
Text: Nehemiah 1:1-6b The Book of Nehemiah is set during the reign of the Persian Empire and after the Babylonian exile. The people of Judah…
UMC 101: A Doctrinal History of Difference and Charity
Text: Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 The books of Ezra and Nehemiah tell the story of the first wave of exiles who return to Jerusalem to…
Ezra and Nehemiah… rewriting history
In my local emergent cohort, we have been reading Phyllis Tickle’s Prayer Is a Place: America’s Religious Landscape Observed. As this book has been in…
What does “The Book” say?
This week, my husband and I borrowed a steam cleaner from his dad and we spent the past few days cleaning our carpets. They get…