Lessons From a City in Shambles

Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast

Skip Heitzig

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We have spent seventeen weeks covering the book of Nehemiah and have considered the many life-application lessons that these chapters provide. But today, for our eighteenth and final study, we’ll zoom out to get the bigger picture. There are five “mega-themes” from this book that we can benefit from. These great themes provide both encouragement and warning to us today.

I. Great Cities Can Fall

II. Ordinary People Can Help

III. Real Prayer Can Work

IV. Spiritual Revival Can Happen

V. Good Movements Can Falter

Talk with God: Meditate on Isaiah 6:8 this week and ask the Lord to give you His heart for your city and the people He’s placed in your life.

Talk with others: Ask a believing friend or mentor to pray for and support you as you seek revival in your walk with the Lord.

Talk with kids: How did God rescue His people through Samson?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. We're so glad you joined us today.
0:07.0	As believers, we mourn the darkness and decay around us, knowing that a city in shambles reveals more than broken walls.
0:16.0	It mirrors the moral and spiritual condition of its people.
0:20.0	In the book of Nehemiah, we find a template for taking ground
0:24.5	and responding in faith and obedience rather than fear or despair.
0:29.4	This message with Pastor Skip will help you transform your grief for a broken world
0:34.6	into a stepping stone to repentance, prayer, and action.
0:47.1	Promise you, this is the last week, you're going to hear downer music like that.
0:52.6	But I think it's been a great series. I'm glad that we could go through
0:55.5	the Book of Nehemiah together. A couple quick things. The memorial service today for our brother
1:03.9	Charlie Kirk, I can guarantee you, among other things, however you feel about who's going to be
1:09.5	there, I can guarantee that it will be one of the biggest
1:13.1	gospel preaching events in this country and perhaps around the world.
1:21.6	Number two, have you noticed the new Bibles in the chairs in front of you?
1:26.1	So, bigger print, hard back. But guess what?
1:29.3	Like about 30 of them have been stolen.
1:32.3	What? Did you know there's a commandment in that book that you stole that says thou shalt not steal. Just saying,
1:47.8	you may want to reconsider that. We almost put on the front cover stolen from Calvary Church.
1:55.2	We didn't do that because it almost gave people permission. But anyway, that's the status of that.
2:04.2	We hope you enjoy them the right way.
2:08.5	Would you open your Bibles, please, for one final time, at least this go-around, to the book of
2:13.5	Nehemiah.
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