Read devotions written by Hope pastors and staff every weekday that align with our daily Bible readings! We hope you use these devotions as a way to dig deeper into Scripture during the weekdays and join us for worship on the weekends to continue growing in your faith. You may download and print our daily Bible readings checklist to track your progress as you read through the Bible.
In his book, The Purpose Driven Church, Rick Warren proposes the “Nehemiah Principle” for church leaders, which is a perfect way for congregations to become “churches after God’s own heart.” The Israelites had just spent 70 years in exile, and their nation and the city of Jerusalem were utterly destroyed. Now some… Read more
“Then when they were alone, he turned to the disciples and said, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you have seen. I tell you, many prophets and kings longed to see what you see, but they didn’t see it. And they longed to hear what you hear, but they didn’t hear it.”… Read more
God’s concern for the poor is revealed in almost every book of the Bible. Here Nehemiah insisted that fairness to the poor and oppressed was central to following God. He led by example rather than by the ways his predecessors did, because of his healthy fear of God. Nehemiah told the rich Jews to stop charging… Read more
Nehemiah 3 doesn’t read like a devotional-worthy chapter of the Bible. The dozens of difficult-to-pronounce names and lengthy details about rebuilding a wall around Jerusalem might even tempt modern Bible readers to skip to the next chapter, but it’s important. Look closely and notice that between those dozens of names, the author is trying to… Read more
