Author: Logan Hagoort
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All Hands on Deck for the Year of our Lord
Nehemiah 3 shows a community united in God’s work, each person contributing to the rebuilding of Jerusalem’s wall. “All Hands on Deck” challenges us to serve faithfully, recognising that every effort—big or small—matters. True spiritual progress comes when God’s people labour together with diligence, obedience, and mutual encouragement.
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Surveying the Kingdom of God
Nehemiah quietly inspects Jerusalem’s ruins before calling God’s people to rebuild. This sermon explores wise leadership, patient preparation, and confidence in God’s sovereign hand as His kingdom work advances amid opposition, ridicule, and apparent weakness.
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Sleepy Sardis
Jesus addresses a church with a reputation for life, yet marked by spiritual lethargy. This sermon exposes the danger of outward vitality masking inward death, and calls Christ’s people to wakefulness, repentance, and steadfast obedience before judgment comes unexpectedly.
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Success at Last!
In Nehemiah 2:1–8, God’s long preparation meets decisive opportunity. Before the king, Nehemiah prays, speaks, and acts as the Lord opens doors no human strategy could force. This sermon explores God’s timing, means, power, and glory evidenced in the life of Nehemiah. It’s not what was expected!
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A Faithless Woman and a Faithful Remnant
In Revelation 2:18–29, Christ confronts a church tolerating corruption while preserving a faithful remnant. This sermon exposes the danger of spiritual compromise, the seduction of false authority, and the steadfast call of the risen Lord to holiness, perseverance, and hope in His final judgment and promised reward.
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The Declaration of Dependence
Are you tempted to act like a practical independent Christian? God wants us to depend on him when we labour for the kingdom. The prayer of Nehemiah shows us M shaped devotion of dependence.
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The Church in Satantown
In Revelation 2:12–17, Christ speaks to a church that lives in Satantown. Lifes rough, but the worst part is, compromise has kicked in. Compromise is one of the most incidious attacks of the devil and sadly the church has folded to it all too often.
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God-Centered Kingdom Concern
Nehemiah 1:1–4 shows a man whose heart bends first toward God and then toward God’s people. News of Jerusalem’s ruin does not spark strategy but prayer—grief carried into the presence of the King. This is true kingdom concern: seeing brokenness through God’s eyes and seeking His glory before all else.
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Be Faithful Unto Death
In Revelation 2:8–11, Christ speaks to a church hemmed in by pressure, poverty, and slander, yet rich in His sight. He does not promise an easier road, but a faithful Saviour who has already passed through death and undone its final word. His call is simple and costly: be faithful unto death. This passage lifts…
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A Kingdom Building Manual
The book of Nehemiah provides us with a wonderful opportunity to reflect on what God will do through ordinary men and women as they seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. It’s a call to every Christian to do the same today. Join us as we put Nehemiah in it’s place.