Category: Sermons
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Restoring Glory: United Brotherhood
Nehemiah 5:1-13 In Nehemiah 5 the most astonishing thing occurs: the walls vanish from sight. As the rebuilding continued, division erupted among the people of Judah which threatened the project moving forward. A moment such as this can either make or break a leader depending upon their response. Nehemiah rose up on principle and repaired…
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Restoring Glory: The Church Militant
Nehemiah 4 Of the many ways the church can be characterized, the church militant is one. The church militant is described in the Second Helvetic Confession article 17 as the church which wages war on earth, and fights against the flesh, the world, and the prince of this world, the devil; against sin and death.…
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Restoring Glory: Unified in Purpose
Nehemiah 3 Nehemiah 3 presents an idealized yet authentic account of the rebuilding of Zion’s walls. Instead of mentioning anything about external opposition or internal struggles, Nehemiah recounts the vigor of the people rebuilding the walls, gates, and houses of Jerusalem. The point of the account as a whole seems to be to present the…
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First Things
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Religious scholars explain away the bodily resurrection of Jesus by claiming that ancient believers had some sort of subjective experience which enabled them to “believe” they had seen Jesus after He died. Paul however places the bodily resurrection of Christ squarely within the frame of history and insists that it is an…
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Arise and Build
Nehemiah 2:9-20 After inspecting Jerusalem’s ruined walls, Nehemiah was struck by the evil of the situation. So, when he gathered the men of Judah, he made a persuasive appeal to them: let us rebuild so we will no longer be a reproach. For Nehemiah, the broken down walls represented sin’s ruin and disgrace. Responding to…