How to Worship When You Come to Church: Part 2
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
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🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Last week we eavesdropped on the worship service of ancient Israel as they gathered to dedicate their city and their future to God. We noticed four characteristics of their worship: It was biblical, it was vocal, it was musical, and it was joyful. Today we continue with four more.
V. Their Worship Was Thankful (vv. 27, 31, 38, 46)
VI. Their Worship Was Communal (v. 43)
VII. Their Worship Was Powerful (vv. 42b, 43b)
VIII. Their Worship Was Physical (v. 43)
Talk with God: Meditate on 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 and thank the Lord for His provision and direction in your life.
Talk with others: Encourage a friend or family member who’s recently been struggling to continue faithfully in their walk through a difficult season.
Talk with kids: Who received the praise and glory for Israel’s victory over their enemies? Why?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. We're so glad you joined us today. As believers, |
| 0:07.5 | we mourn the darkness and decay around us, knowing that a city in shambles reveals more than broken walls. |
| 0:16.4 | It mirrors the moral and spiritual condition of its people. In the book of Nehemiah, we find a template for taking ground and responding in faith and |
| 0:25.9 | obedience rather than fear or despair. |
| 0:28.7 | This message with Pastor Skip will help you transform your grief for a broken world into |
| 0:34.7 | a stepping stone to repentance, prayer, and action. |
| 0:46.2 | If you would turn in your Bibles to Nehemiah chapter 12, we started looking at chapter 12 last week, |
| 0:57.5 | and we are continuing this week. I want to introduce you to a concept called Visiting Day. Visiting Day is a day typically in an institution where people |
| 1:04.4 | are allowed to come in and visit. Prisons have visiting days, schools, not that they're the same. |
| 1:10.2 | Sometimes they are, but parents are allowed |
| 1:13.1 | to come in for an open house and see what the kids are up to. Our S-O-M even has visiting day where you |
| 1:20.7 | can see what the curriculum is going to be like. Sometimes even churches can be like visiting day. |
| 1:29.0 | I want to explain that. |
| 1:30.7 | This is from an unknown author called Visiting Day. |
| 1:34.1 | He had been looking forward to this moment all day long. |
| 1:37.6 | After six days of labor, it finally arrived. |
| 1:41.3 | Visiting Day. |
| 1:43.4 | The man with the keys arrived to swing open the large, heavy doors. The cold |
| 1:50.9 | gray hall sprang to life in the warm glow of light. He could hardly control his emotions. |
| 1:59.9 | The families began to arrive. He peers from the corner of the room, |
| 2:07.1 | longing for the first glimpse of his loved ones. He lives for the weekends. He lives for these visits. |
| 2:16.6 | As the cars arrive, he watches intently. |
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