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.
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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
Nehemiah is part of a bigger story in which three different people lead those in exile back to Jerusalem. Three different leaders, for three different reasons that all run parallel and remind us the hope that God gave them through his prophecy. All three of these leaders were called to mobilize people. All three of these… Read more
More than 80 years after the first wave of exiles left Babylon to return to Jerusalem, another group of Israelites, led by Ezra, journeyed from captivity in Babylon back to the Promised Land. The prophet Isaiah envisioned this return as a second Exodus and just like in the first Exodus, God protected his people along… Read more
