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Rise Up
It has been a month of Sundays since I stepped foot into the sanctuary of St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church. (That’s just a really country way to say that it has been a loonng time!) Actually, it has been more like seven months. Sunday was the kickoff rally for our life groups, so I moseyed on out of the house to participate in in-person worship as well. By now you know that every sermon is for me, and Sunday’s sermon was no exception. We started our journey into the book of Nehemiah. Nehemiah 1:1-11 records Nehemiah’s reaction to distressing news. He asks about the Jews who have survived captivity. He…