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Passage Read: Nehemiah 8-11 Meditation Verses: 9:30-31 God was committed to His people, but that doesn't mean He saved every last Israelite. The soul who sinned, died. And that surely means that he was lost to eternity. In the story of Lazarus the beggar, it…

Passage Read: Nehemiah 4-7 Meditation Verses: 4:4-5 This, of course, flies in the face of "pray for those who persecute you," but Nehemiah didn't know about Jesus. Yet there is one God, one Lord; Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. So how does…

Passage Read: Ezra 10 - Nehemiah 3 Meditation Verses: Ezra 10:2-4 The law commanded the people not to intermarry with foreigners, whether giving their daughters in marriage to foreigners or bringing in their daughters in marriage to their sons. Yet the Jews who returned from exile…

Passage Read: Ezra 6-9 Meditation Verses: 9:13-14 This is a right understanding of grace: After all we have suffered for our evil deeds and great guilt, because Jesus has taken the punishment we deserve on Himself for our sins, so God has repaid us less…

Passage Read: Ezra 2-5 Meditation Verses: 4:23-24 They rejoiced at the laying of the foundation, but when the governors of the land came by force to shut them down, they stopped. They didn't appeal the decision, they didn't remind the governors of Cyrus's decree, they…