Sermon Archives

Back to Nehemiah! After our run through all ten gates of Nehemiah — with a brief break for Easter — we are back, for the final three sermons in the Nehemiah Series. We begin this last leg of our journey by looking at how Nehemiah, and the workers on the walls, handled the people who […]

We reach the end of our ten part study of the gates of Nehemiah. This is the final gate for all of us: Judgement Day. But what can we learn from the, and from what Jesus taught about our final days that can prepare us for His return? Join us as we go through Jesus […]

The next to the last gate in our “Gates of Nehemiah” study, we come now to the East Gate. In some ways, this is a gate of Waiting. Have you ever gone through a period of waiting and thought: “I don’t know if I can make it?” This is your gate… BIBLE REFERENCES: Nehemiah 3:29; […]

We are moving to the final three gates now. Each of the gates of Nehemiah are gates we must go through on our walk with the Lord. Each teaches us a valuable lesson before we move on. The Horse Gate is no exception. Get ready for battle…BIBLE REFERENCES: Nehemiah 3:27-28; Job 39:19-25; Isaiah 55:8-9; Job […]

It might seem like heading to the water gate after having been to the fountain gate is simply more of the same… but actually the Water Gate is very different. The Water Gate is critical to our development as Christians. Here is where we discover the most important thing about being a Christian: Who Jesus […]

After a long and hard journey through the other 7 gates, we finally arrive at one that is kind of beautiful. This is the one most Christians hope to get to. It is one of beauty and power, and one that is shared between God and us — friend to friend. It is the “Fountain […]

We come to the halfway point, with one of the most baffling gates: The Refuse Gate. (And, in this case, it is not pronounced (rəˈfyo͞oz/) but instead: (ref yo͞os) — as in garbage.) Or, as the Hebrew sign on the gate puts it: The Dung Gate. How in the world can that apply to the […]

Continuing the walk through the Gates of Nehemiah (That parallel the Christian walk with God) we approach the Valley Gate. But the Valley is not a scenic one, like Shenandoah Valley… it’s like the Valley David mentions in Psalm 23: The Valley of Shadow and Death. It is a journey through the wilderness. But, as […]

We continue “walking through the gates of Nehemiah” this week. And we come to one that is often avoided by people who don’t understand it. It is the Old Gate. Or, as the prophet Jeremiah puts it in Chapter 6: “Stand at the crossroads and look, ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good […]