NEHEMIAH 5: Seeing the Bigger Picture

NEHEMIAH 5: Seeing the Bigger Picture

This is part 6 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah. The startup phase is not just busy—it’s downright tumultuous. A good entrepreneur knows that sometimes she needs to lift her head up and work “on” the business and not just “in” the business. As such, if we aren’t...
NEHEMIAH 4: Building Under Opposition

NEHEMIAH 4: Building Under Opposition

This is part 5 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah. Nehemiah gains momentum, and then in 4:1-3 the opposition arrives. It comes via some traditional enemies of the Jews, but as is often the case—like the Jewish tax collectors in Rome 450 years later—there are Jewish...
NEHEMIAH 3: Working as a Whole Village

NEHEMIAH 3: Working as a Whole Village

This is part 4 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah. Nehemiah chapter 3 could easily be glossed over as one of those long-winded chapters in the Bible with a lot of names that are hard for us to pronounce. That would be a mistake. There is a simple but compelling reason...
NEHEMIAH 2: Resolving to Do Good

NEHEMIAH 2: Resolving to Do Good

This is part 3 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah. The King After four months of study, meditation, fasting, and praying Nehemiah stands before the King with a sad face for the first time (2:1). Arguably, Nehemiah is risking his life to appear sad before the King. For a...
NEHEMIAH 1: Calling by Calling

NEHEMIAH 1: Calling by Calling

This is part 2 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah. We have become unhealthily obsessed with the word “calling” today. So much so that many people won’t get into the B4T game without being “called” by dream or vision or by seeing the name of a country written on a...
NEHEMIAH: Changing Careers

NEHEMIAH: Changing Careers

This is part 1 of 7 in a series about Nehemiah. I recently read about a guy in his mid-life who developed such a passion to fill a particular community need that, without further formal education, left his prestigious career as a sommelier to become a community...