Today’s Message… For perhaps the first four months of his return to Jerusalem, rather than hang in the city, Ezra visits all of the neighbouring towns, issuing the Kings decree. So its not until he returns to Jerusalem that he discovers that there are some serious problems which are compromising the people of God. There […]
Ezra 8 – To you and Your Children
Today’s Message… As we noticed in Chapter 8 of Ezra, Those who came back under Ezra tended to be from those families that had come back in 538B.C (Ezra 2). The message here seems to be that covenant faithfulness tends to run in families. “Even over the generations, it was particular families that were to […]
Ezra 2 – Roll Call
Today’s Message… In Ezra chapter two we snoop on the church roll and find it instructive, for it shows us what is – or should be – characteristic of the people of God. One in ten returnees was Priest. Worship was the reason for the return. To rebuild the altar and the Temple and to […]
Communion & Contradiction
Communion has often been the source of much controversy, division and confusion. That alone suggests to me its importance. The devil takes little interest in things of little importance, but he will work tooth and nail to undermine that which is most precious to the church in the sight of God. As God’s people, in […]
