| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 54 secs | 0 Comments
Festivals are very popular, especially music festivals. Within the church family there is a delight in gathering together to worship and enjoy good Bible teaching. Keswick Convention started in 1875 and is still going. Filey Week started in 1955, and continued until 1987, changing its name to New Horizons in 1985 when it moved to […]
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Nehemiah is the story of solving a hundred year problem in 52 days. The walls of Jerusalem had been trashed when the Babylonians had conquered what was left of Israel. Now in 52 days they are rebuilt. Over the preceeding times there might have been people who wished for therebuilding, dreamed of it even. It […]
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Generosity The Problem The region had recently been through a famine and food supplies were scarce. Cruel and greedy moneylenders and landlords had inflated the prices of food supplies and some people had been compelled to mortgage their fields, vineyards, and homes in order to live. Some were in such poverty that they had to […]
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Nehemiah is faced with a monumental task of rebuilding the walls but as a good leader he inspires people to the task and trusts in God. His words at the end of chapter 2 – “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build,”- are both obedient to […]
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Right at the end of Nehemiah 1, he quietly states that he was cupbearer to the King, a position of high favour and trust in the royal household. Being cupbearer entailed him tasting the wine for the King to ensure it had not been poisoned. In chapter 2, still grieving about the state of the […]
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Thirteen years after the temple was rebuilt, we are introduced to Nehemiah catching up with his brother Hanani, asking how things are in Jerusalem. His friend responds that things are bad. The wall of Jerusalem is in shambles and the gates have been burned down. For Nehemiah, a fellow Israelite, the walls represented not only […]
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There are times when things change completely. On the 23rd March 2020 the UK went into lockdown. That’s changed life as we know it for many of us completely, at least for a season. In 587BC the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem, detroying the city and the temple and taking many inhabitants into captivity. That changed life […]
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Ezra chapter 5 In Ezra chapter 5 we are at the place where the temple in Jerusalem had been started, but had then been stopped. The summary of events is as follows: Chapter 1 King Cyrus instructs the Leaders of the Israelites to build the temple Chapter 3 The building of the temple commenced Chapter […]
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Whenever we try to do something for the Lord in His power, we know the enemy hates that and will do all he can to thwart the growth of the Kingdom of God. We see four of his tactics today in Ezra 4. False help v1-2 Adverseries come to offer help, claiming to worship “your […]