Devotion

Celebratory Worship: On the way there? https://www.esv.org/Ezra8:31–36 Week 22: 26/05/2023. Fri Worship has content, not merely moods and feelings. Worship needs detailed preparation in patience. However, worship needs to proceed even when not everything is totally known or certain. Then we departed

Trust God precludes Accepting Help? https://www.esv.org/Ezra8:31–34 Week 22: 25/05/2023. Thu Once in a while, we ask for armed escort to escort us on the road when we are delivering something valuable or sensitive. Not to ask for armed escorts might seem reckless,

"Conform". Good or bad word? https://www.esv.org/Ezra8:24–30 Week 22: 24/05/2023. Wed Ezra organised the return and returnees from Babylon to conform to God's way of doing things in the past—the Exodus. "Conformity" might have become a negative word. Conformity is neutral, neither

Father or father? https://www.esv.org/Ezra8:21–23 Week 22: 23/05/2023. Tue Once a church member prayed before a meal, "...give us this day our daily bread..." Her father heard her and retorted, "If your earthly father doesn't catch fish, you can't even eat at all!

Read, Review, Reform! https://www.esv.org/Ezra8:15–20 Week 21: 19/05/2023. Fri Ezra and company have already set off. But Ezra realised that something was amiss. Ezra 8:15 I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As

"Better life" and being in the minority https://www.esv.org/Ezra8:1–14 Week 21: 18/05/2023. Thu Compare! Must compare! Don't say "Don't compare!" It was 42,360 returnees earlier in Ezra 2:64–65, plus others. But subsequently Ezra 8:1–8 only disclosed very small