Date: 21 Feb 2016 Text: Nehemiah 2:11-20 Introduction When we left our story last week in 2:10, Nehemiah had already arrived in Jerusalem and met his first opposition. His prayer from 1:5-11 had been answered and he had spoken to the King who had agreed to help him. The King had agreed that he could visit the place where Nehemiah’s ancestor’s were buried, had given him letters of safe passage, had sent an accompanying group of cavalry officers and had given him a letter to al

Date: 14 Feb 2016 Text: Nehemiah 2:1-10 Introduction Last week we spent some time looking at Nehemiah 1 where we met Nehemiah the author of the book. Nehemiah had been visited by a brother and some friends and they had informed him of the state of Jerusalem, the Holy City. They told him of the walls being broken and the gates being burned leaving piles of rubbles and smouldering timber. Nehemiah’s first reaction was to weep and mourn before turning to God in prayer. He sought

Date: 07 Feb 2016 Text: Nehemiah 1 Introduction I’ve felt for quite a while now that I’ve been ignoring the Old Testament on a Sunday morning by not taking an extended look at some of the marvellous books that exist there. So, starting today and then for the next three Sundays I intend to try and take a detailed look at the book of Nehemiah, a fabulous book that is part history, part journal and part autobiography. It is also the story of one man’s deep faith in a living God,