Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it as one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one is about Ezra.

Hey, my friends, it's Matt, thanks for hanging out with me and talking about the Book

of Ezra today, which is a sneaky, relatable book.

It shouldn't be relatable.

On paper, this book should be so foreign.

It's a political thriller that looks like it's just a bunch of bureaucratic tension where

the main narrative thrust of the story is, will the heroes find the proper requisition

forms and fill them out before end of work day on Friday and get it in front of the right

bureaucrat middle management type who will be sympathetic when he finds that form and

approve it or will they not?

Sounds boring, right?

Sounds not relatable unless you're in that world and that line of work.

But it is relatable because it's actually the story of a bunch of people realizing they

had something beautiful and they wrecked it and then they get sad about the fact that

they wrecked it and then they're faced with a choice that we're all faced with when

we wreck something beautiful and realize it.

And that is, do I one keep my pride, blame other people and just wallow and self pity and

dream about what might have been forever or do I two do the difficult thing admit that

I screwed this thing up and that I had a hand in destroying something beautiful and then

go about the difficult work of rebuilding something where I did damage well in Ezra and

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