Nehemiah 6Do you know what scares the devil and enemies of the gospel the most? Men and women of God who are fearlessly focused on the kingdom of God. Nehemiah chapter six gives us a brief example of ...  Read More

Nehemiah 5Enjoy this jumpstart from Tim Parsons today (Founding Pastor of CPC).Let me recap for you… so far in the book of Nehemiah:Nehemiah – God’s man for the hour – was a captive in Babylon, when h...  Read More

Nehemiah  4Nehemiah 4 opens with opposition to the rebuilding of the walls. We had met Sanballat and Tobiah in chapter two, but now that progress is being made, they were “angry and greatly enraged.” ...  Read More

Nehemiah 3Chapter 3 is an account of the people getting to work! The ESV Study Bible says, “The building work is described, and the workers are named, section by section. The point of this account is ...  Read More

Nehemiah 2The beginning of Nehemiah 2 shows that four months have passed since he learned of the state of his people and of Jerusalem. It is implied that he is continually praying and planning during ...  Read More

Nehemiah 1Nehemiah is distraught when he hears about the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. So much so, that he wept and fasted for days (v. 4). But even in his great distress, he drew closer to...  Read More

Ezra 10 Yesterday, in chapter nine we read about Ezra's call for holiness. The central theme for chapter ten that stands out is repentance. Ezra has called out the sin of intermarriage and explained a...  Read More

Ezra 9As I read Ezra 9, there is one word that kept cycling through my head… HOLINESS. This passage is not really about intermarriage. It is about holiness. Ezra’s heart is aching because God had give...  Read More

Ezra 8Yesterday, we saw the repeated theme of the gracious hand of God upon Ezra. Today, the theme carries on as the second wave of exiles return to Jerusalem.The chapter opens identifying the family ...  Read More

Ezra 7Ezra 7 is the first time that we are actually introduced to the person of Ezra in this account (Ezra 1-6 recounted events that happen before Ezra comes on the scene).This passage “describes how ...  Read More

Ezra 6 So far we have seen some back and forth between the adversaries against the rebuilding of the temple and different kings. There was ongoing animosity between the Isaraelites and the Samaritans....  Read More

Ezra 5The rebuilding of the Temple had stopped in chapter 4 due to some false accusations made against the Jews (4:13). But we see in chapter 5, Zerubbabel and Jeshua get back to rebuilding the Temple...  Read More