August 2020
August 8
Day 147: Revivals That Stick In Nehemiah's time, rebuilding the city's protective wall did not result in a rebuilding of the people's relationship with God. For that, different materials were required. In chapter 8, under Nehemiah's direction, they went and found the Book of the Law of Moses. (The first five books of the Old […]
August 7
Day 146: A Year From Now I grew up under the southern California sun. Ironically, I've spent most of my adult life living in rain country (Portland, Seattle, here.) I cannot remember a wetter summer than the one we are currently enduring. If I could change it, I would've already checked that off my to-do […]
August 6
Day 145: Beneath Their Pay Grade Nehemiah was commissioned by God to lead a rebuilding project. The walls around Jerusalem had been destroyed and had laid in burned out ruins for years. No walls meant continuing vulnerability. Nehemiah surveyed the scope of the project, assigned sections of the wall and gates to different clans and […]
August 5
Day 144: Past Performance It's been said by someone, "The best indicator of future performance is past performance." Not the only indicator, but the best indicator. In my past corporate management life, if a new hire of mine ended up failing, it was usually because I had ignored the candidate's past performance, even ignored any […]