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The books of Ezra and Nehemiah tell a vital story of a community revived and restored by God’s grace through gifted individuals—preparing the way for the coming Messiah. In his practical and devotional expository commentary, pastor-theologian Derek W.H. Thomas shows what this gripping narrative can teach us about kingdom life in our own time. In their different ways, Ezra and Nehemiah both...

Now none but Christ can satisfy, None other name for me; There’s love, and life, and lasting joy, Lord Jesus, found in thee.6 Whence this joy? From several sources all at once. First, joy stems from knowing that we are loved.7 What else could this meeting at the Water Gate Square signify to the Jews but that God had surely loved them despite their sinfulness and waywardness? The judgment of exile was fully deserved, but God remembered his covenant. In one of the darkest passages in Jeremiah, God
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