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August 1, 2018
A Leader Is Available to Meet the Need Himself
A Leader Is Available to Meet the Need Himself. “Make me successful. Grant me compassion in his eyes.” Nehemiah recognized the need clearly. He got involved in it. He took it to God. Now he was available to meet the need, if that was what God desired. A genuine leader is marked by diligent faithfulness […]
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July 30, 2018
A Serious Leader Goes First to God with the Problem
A Serious Leader Goes First to God with the Problem. In verse 5 we hear Nehemiah say, “I beseech Thee, O Lord God of heaven.” He prayed. What is your first response when a need comes to your attention? I can tell you what it is because it’s usually my first response in my own […]
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July 28, 2018
Baby Christians
Nothing will keep a Christian more immature than trying to keep a list. In a church a woman was knitting, waiting for the service to start. She had been there forty-five minutes. Some other dear woman said, “Oh, honey, we don’t do that in the house of God.” Well, what in the world do you […]
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July 25, 2018
A Leader Is Personally Concerned with the Need
A Leader Is Personally Concerned with the Need. Nehemiah went a step beyond recognition of the problem. He not only heard these matters, but he also sat down and identified with them. Alan Redpath once wrote: Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure […]
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July 24, 2018
Imagine this kind of teaching!
IMAGINE is a great word in teaching, as Andy Stanley says… It is a moment of inspiration. It is the point in the message when you paint a verbal picture of what could be and should be. In this closing moment you call upon your audience to imagine what the church, the community, families, maybe […]
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July 23, 2018
July 20, 2018
Leader Has a Clear Recognition of the Needs
Leader Has a Clear Recognition of the Needs. The beginning of verse 4 reads, “It came about when I heard these words.” Nehemiah was not preoccupied; he did not live in a dreamworld, opposed to reality. He asked, “What’s the condition?” They replied, “It’s a miserable situation.” He heard what they said. You may think […]
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July 18, 2018
This is legalism! (You won’t believe it!)
I heard about a fellow who attended a legalistic college where students were to live according to very strict rules. They weren’t supposed to do any work on Sundays. None! Guess what? He spied on his wife and caught her hanging out a few articles of clothing she washed on Sunday afternoon. Are you ready? […]
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July 15, 2018
Learning leadership from Nehemiah
As far as leadership traits are concerned, Nehemiah was not that different from outstanding people whose names are far more familiar to us. Our nations twenty-sixth president, for example, was a hard-charging leader. Throughout his days in office Theodore Roosevelt was either hated or admired. An ardent admirer once exclaimed to him, “Mr. Roosevelt, you […]
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July 10, 2018
Nehemiah: everything you need to know about leadership
However, there is one book, written about 425 B.C., that looms as a classic work on effective leadership; yet it is strangely obscure and virtually unknown to people of today. It was written by a man who was prominent in business and politics in the ancient Middle East. He not only possessed an exceptional personal […]
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