The Message of Nehemiah: God’s Servant in a Time of Change (Biblia.com)

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The book of Nehemiah is about starting over again. Nehemiah, one of Israel’s great leaders, tells firsthand the powerful story of the rebuilding of ancient Jerusalem’s walls after the exile. This rebuilding, in the face of great odds, represented the people’s renewal of faith, their overcoming of national shame, and the reforming of their conduct. Raymond Brown, in sizing up Nehemiah the man,...

participated in money-lending (5:10) along with others and did nothing to conceal his personal involvement in an issue which must be put right. Nehemiah was a leader with a vision for something great. Believers with vision have ‘a deep dissatisfaction with what is and a clear grasp of what could be’.17 God planted within this leader’s heart (2:12) a strategy which could transform Jerusalem’s destiny, relieving its people of ignominy (1:3), insecurity and poverty. Nehemiah became indignant about the

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