Encouragement for Courageous Women in Christ
No. 12 of Returning Home And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.” And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation…
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No. 11 of Returning Home “Worship should be done decently and in order!” quotes a Christian lady after a child runs into her legs, almost causing her to fall. And she’s right. God has a pattern of worship He wants us to follow so that…
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No. 10 in Returning Home Do you long for close communion with God? At the same time, are you allowing your heart to be breached by the influences of this age? Do you let your heavenly treasures from God be taken and used for worship…
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No. 9 in Returning Home “When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.” – Ezra 3:1ESV Tishri is the seventh month in the Hebrew calendar. The first day of Tishri was…
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No. 8 in Returning Home A sister once commented that all the people she worked with were members of the Lord’s Church except one. She laughingly added that she and her co-workers would tell the non-member, “You’ll come over to our side at some point!”…
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No. 7 in Returning Home Genesis 3 gives the first instructions about sacrificing to God with an account of what not to do. Cain, a tiller of the ground, decides to offer something that is not acceptable to God and gets angry when his Creator refuses…
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No. 6 in Returning Home Those who came on the first expedition are listed in Ezra 2. Nehemiah 7 confirms this documentation when he finds the registry after the city wall is rebuilt and the gates are closed. To summarize: Ezra numbers the returning Israelites…
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No. 5 in Returning Home Ezra records a list of the men leading the expedition to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. Now these are the people of the province who came back from the captivity, of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the…
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No. 4 in Returning Home Hebrews 9:1 states, “Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.” The book of Hebrews makes a comparison between the Old and New Covenants. It was written to a Jewish audience who had…
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No. 2 in Returning Home Ezra arrived during the second expedition and took the role of historian. He is believed to have written parts of the Chronicles and the book of Esther, as well. He was a knowledgeable scribe; and because of his position as…
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