Ezra
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The Funnel
What’s the difference between a funnel and a sponge? I know it sounds like the setup to a horrible dad joke, but actually think about it for a second… The Funnel
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Ashamed
Ezra 8: 22-23, 31 “I was ashamed to ask for the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we have told the king, “The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.” So we fasted and petitioned our God
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Take Courage and Gather
Ezra 7:28 “…Because the hand of the Lord my God was on me, I took courage and gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me.” When I was kid, my brother and I had dreams of making a go-cart. We tore apart an old law mower and looked at the engine. We sat down
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Unwanted Help
Ezra 4:1-3 “When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the Lord, the God of Israel, the came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of the families and said, “Let us help you build because like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him
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Preserved
Ezra 2:70 “The priest, the Levites, the musicians, the gatekeepers and the temple servants settled in their own towns, along with some of the other people, and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.” We are planning a huge trip overseas in the coming months in which we will be gone 10 days.
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Ezra – Returning and Rebuilding
Ezra chapter 1 We left the Israelites in 2 Chronicles being hauled off by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. As the text reads, the Israelites needed a little rebuking because the sins they were involved in had piled too high. It would be like one of your friends doing something stupid one or two times and
Let It Go 