The moment Nehemiah became more than lists.

I thought of this story the other day and decided to share it again.

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Q: What captivated you about the book of Nehemiah?

The more I slowed down and looked at the text to see what was going on, the more excited I got about everything I had missed by skimming. Probably the first really exciting moment, the one that showed me that other people could get excited about Nehemiah, was in teaching about chapter 3 for a Bible study.

It’s a list of names. Like many other lists of names ...