Restoration Efforts
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🗓️ 26 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Encourage one another and build each other up. First Thessalonians 511. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. Restoration efforts was written and read by Kirsten Holmberg. |
| 0:20.0 | Ezra chapter 2, verse 68, and Ezra 2, verse 68, and Ezra chapter 3, verses 1 and 3 through 7. |
| 0:29.9 | When they arrived at the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, some of the heads of families gave free will offerings toward the rebuilding of the house of God on its site. |
| 0:40.2 | When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, the people assembled together as one in Jerusalem. |
| 0:48.9 | Despite their fear of the peoples around them, they built the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings |
| 0:55.8 | on it to the Lord, both the morning and evening sacrifices. Then, in accordance with what is |
| 1:02.7 | written, they celebrated the festival of tabernacles with the required number of burnt offerings |
| 1:07.9 | prescribed for each day. After that, they presented the regular |
| 1:12.4 | burnt offerings, the New Moon sacrifices, and the sacrifices for all the appointed sacred |
| 1:18.2 | festivals of the Lord, as well as those brought as free will offerings to the Lord. On the |
| 1:24.2 | first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, |
| 1:28.6 | though the foundation of the Lord's Temple had not yet been laid. |
| 1:33.1 | Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters and gave food and drink and olive oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, |
| 1:41.3 | so that they would bring cedar logs by the sea from Lebanon to Joppa, as authorized by Cyrus, |
| 1:47.5 | King of Persia. |
| 1:51.7 | Restoration efforts |
| 1:53.1 | In April 2019, a fire broke out in Notre Dame de Paris, the city's famed medieval cathedral, |
| 2:03.4 | destroying the spire and a forest of oak beams supporting the lead roof. |
| 2:08.7 | Almost immediately plans formed to restore the cathedral. |
| 2:13.0 | Donations poured in from across the globe, |
| 2:16.3 | and craftsmen have undertaken restoration using the same |
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