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.

We are in Nehemiah chapter 8.

If you turn into Bibles there, we'll get started.

This is a chapter that is near and dear to my heart for a couple of reasons.

Reason number one is I remember when I first read it and I thought, that's what I want to do.

I want to model my life and ministry

after what is described in this chapter as expository preaching or teaching. And so I love this

chapter. It's become a model for me and I have the privilege of traveling around the world doing

pastors conferences and one of our starting texts is Nehemiah chapter 8 for that first reason. So

I love to see this become a model for others. Over in Scotland in Glasgow, they, and I've told you this before over

the years, but they have a motto. When I first went there, I was surprised because it seemed like a

rough city. And somebody was there who's a native telling me the history of that town, that the city

motto of Glasgow, Scotland was once,

um, uh, let Glasgow flourish by the praising of his name and by the preaching of his word.

That was the city motto. It's a great motto for any city. Let Glasgow flourish by the praising of his name and the preaching of

his word. Over time, as society would have it, the town became more and more secular and less and

less Christ-oriented, and they thought it was too religious to have

praising of his name and preaching of his words. So they dropped the whole last part,

and it just said, let Glasgow flourish. But there was no explanation given as to the route to that flourishing, which was the praising of his name and the preaching of his word.

It was just sort of a nice, warm sentiment, let Glasgow flourish.

Since then, they have abandoned the entire motto and the modern city council's come up with something

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