That's Life in the Big City!
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
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🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Jerusalem was not the most popular place to live. Most people preferred to live elsewhere—in outlying towns and villages. It was more expensive to be in the city, and safety was a big concern. In this section there are some vital but often-forgotten principles about God’s city, God’s people, and God’s work. Let’s glean some of these important lessons from the city planners.
I. All Places Are Significant; This Place Is Sacred (v. 1)
II. Projects Are Important; People Are More Important (vv. 3-36)
III. Ability Is Good; Availability Is Better (v. 2)
IV. Work Is Practical; Worship Is Vital (vv. 22-24)
Talk with God: Ask the Lord to provide opportunities for you to pour into His people this week.
Talk with others: Ask a mentor or trusted believer if they’ve noticed anything in your life that might hinder the Lord’s desire to work through you.
Talk with kids: How has Jesus defeated our enemies: sin and death?
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 |
| 0:25.9 | obedience 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. |
| 0:45.3 | All right. Good morning. Good morning. So good to see you. Now, rumor has it that this is the |
| 0:51.4 | best service to be at and that you are the best audience. Is that true? |
| 0:58.1 | Well, that's the rumor. And it's not that first service didn't tell me that. A last night service, |
| 1:05.3 | they didn't tell me that, but it's some, I think of you folks told me that you're the best |
| 1:08.8 | service. You are? |
| 1:15.5 | You're the most attentive, least distracted, most into it? |
| 1:16.8 | I don't know. |
| 1:18.4 | I'm not going to tell the other folks. |
| 1:22.2 | But would you turn in your Bibles, please, to the book of Nehemiah? |
| 1:23.6 | You knew that. |
| 1:26.4 | But chapter 11, Nehemiah Chapter 11. |
| 1:30.4 | The series title is City in Chambles. |
| 1:37.1 | And it's, of course, the story of how Nehemiah, among others, came back to the city of Jerusalem to build it. We're in chapter 11. Now, you know, cities like individuals have growing pains. |
| 1:47.0 | Sometimes cities grow to the point where the council has to figure out how do we manage the growth of this city. |
| 1:54.3 | How do we provide more transportation and infrastructure and utilities and transportation? |
| 2:00.8 | Because it's housing more people. |
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