Loving Your City
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
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🗓️ 27 April 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Author Margaret Atwood’s book The Handmaid’s Tale includes a character who says, “The fact is that I hate this city. I’ve hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.” For some people, this is a daily reality. But Nehemiah loved his city—Jerusalem—though it was a city in shambles. How can we, by God’s grace, learn to love our city for God’s glory?
I. Loving Your City Begins by Asking the Right Questions
II. Loving Your City Includes Feeling the Right Emotion
III. Loving Your City Means Having the Right Reaction
IV. Loving Your City Involves Doing the Right Actions
Talk with God: Meditate on verses 10-11 and ask the Lord to give you His heart for the people of our city.
Talk with others: Ask your Connect Group or believing friends how you can lock shields with them in their daily walk with the Lord and as they serve Him in their community.
Talk with kids: How did God save Moses when he was a baby?
Transcript
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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 obedience |
| 0:26.5 | 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. |
| 0:40.3 | Welcome to our series, City and Chambles. |
| 0:53.3 | Doesn't sound like a very exciting series when you hear the title, but I think you're |
| 0:58.4 | going to find it an exciting series through the book of Nehemiah as he faces exactly that, |
| 1:04.8 | the city of Jerusalem in Chambles, and he's about to do something to fix it. |
| 1:09.3 | So I always, I love going through a series, |
| 1:12.2 | but my happy zone is going through a book of the Bible |
| 1:15.7 | and camping out in it for a while, |
| 1:18.2 | and we'll be doing that in the Old Testament book of Nehemiah. |
| 1:21.5 | So make your way over to the book of Nehemiah. |
| 1:24.4 | I trust you have a Bible with you. |
| 1:26.5 | If not, borrow your neighbors. Yes, you have my permission to do that. I just look over their shoulder and I bet they'll scoot in and let you read it. But we're in Nehemiah chapter 1. If you don't know where that is, it's right after the book of Ezra. So just find that little book, which is right after Second Chronicles. So if you're in the |
| 1:46.0 | Old Testament and you fish around and you find Second Chronicles, two blocks to the right, and you'll be |
| 1:52.2 | there in Nehemiah chapter one. Let's have a word of prayer as we begin together. Father, we want to |
| 1:59.0 | thank you as we look back on last week and so many lives that were |
| 2:04.6 | changed, that made decisions to come to Jesus. Lord, we live for that. We love that. And then today, |
| 2:12.4 | 44 people being baptized, Father, bless each one as they come. Strengthen us, Lord, today and in the next |
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