Calvary Church is dedicated to doctrine, and we want you to experience the life change that comes from knowing God's word and applying it to your life.

So we explain the Bible first by verse, every chapter, every book, this is expound.

Nehemiah chapter 12.

You guys are a refreshingly unique exception.

Because it is estimated that at least one source that I found, some of these sources you got to wonder about, but

one source that I found, said 98% of American Christians have never read through the Bible.

I know that's not true here. So you are a wonderfully refreshing exception because not only do you like to come on weekends,

but you can't get enough of it. You're here midweek, and I love that you are. Our style is to go

through the scriptures. By the way, in that same statistical pool that I was mentioning, a majority of Americans say they're

fond of the Bible. They're just not fond enough, I guess, to actually read it. But they're fond of

the idea of it, the principles of it. I of it i guess you got to read it though to find

out what those principles are but anyway uh that aside you are the exception and i love that you are

our style is to go through the bible verse by verse book by book chapter by chapter we're in the book

of nehemi we're going to by god's're in the book of Nehemiah. We're going to, by

God's grace, finish the book of Nehemiah tonight.

Refrain. And we'll just see how we go, how it goes, but we're in chapter 12. And what's that?

You're welcome. You're welcome. So let's have a word of prayer.

Father, thank you for an opportunity to gather these names. And some of this history is foggy and

unfamiliar to us, sometimes even awkward. But Lord, like the psalmist said,

oh, how I love thy law, it is my meditation all the day.

And, Father, we pray that these stories,

though some of us, I believe, are familiar with them,

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