"Perseverance" Tagged Messages
More Pressure
We’re back in Nehemiah 6, where the wall is nearly finished and the opposition is louder than ever. If you’ve been with us through this series, you’ve seen the pattern: the closer God’s work gets to completion, the harder the pushback becomes. That shouldn’t surprise us. We live in a world caught in a cosmic battle, and when you set out to do something great for God, you should expect resistance. Most of us don’t have an enemy like Sanballat,…
Facing Opposition
Nehemiah’s wall is going up, and so is the opposition. In this message from our series through the book of Nehemiah, we look at Nehemiah 4 and how mockery, threats, and discouragement threaten to derail the work God called His people to do. We see how Nehemiah responded to critics by going to God first and then back to work. We also learn what it looks like to pray and act together, to encourage weary people, and to stand beside…
All Hands Build
Nobody builds a sandbag wall alone. In this message from our Nehemiah series, we look at Nehemiah 3, a chapter that names the real people who rebuilt Jerusalem’s wall, gate by gate, side by side. Some built near their own homes. Some refused to put their shoulders to the work. Others did double duty. People from outside the city joined in even though the wall didn’t protect them. Priests, goldsmiths, merchants, and daughters all worked together. Along the way, we…
Taking the Lead
What do you do when the ruins around you become normal? Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem to find a wall that had sat broken for 140 years. Everyone had gotten used to it. In this message from Nehemiah 2:11-20, we look at how one leader quietly prepared, told the truth about the damage, and got a whole city to say, “Let us start rebuilding.” We look at it two ways: what it teaches us about leading, and what it says about…
The Ask
Nehemiah had to ask his boss, the most powerful king in the world, for something the king had already said no to 16 years earlier. After four months of praying and planning in silence, the door finally opened, and Nehemiah had to decide whether to walk through it. This week we look at Nehemiah 2:1-10 and what it means to wait on God, prepare while you wait, and courageously step through the doors He opens, even when what you’re asking…
Flawed Peter
Peter, one of Jesus’ closest disciples, is an important leader in the early church, yet his story is filled with moments where he disappoints Jesus. And this is good news because we all disappoint Jesus.