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Nehemiah 5-6: 4 Types of Opposition that Will Kill Your Credibility

Season 16 · Episode 5

Monday, November 17, 2025 • Duration 26:26

How do you handle toxic drama and personal attacks?

In Nehemiah 5-6, we dive into the sneaky tactics the enemy uses to derail us, from greed to fake invitations, outright lies, and manipulative traps disguised as holy advice.

Instead of reacting out of anger or getting dragged into endless debates, Nehemiah shows us how to pause, take time to ponder, lead by example, and use biblical discernment to spot a setup from a mile away. Through it all, he avoids distracting drama and stays laser-focused on his God-given mission.

In our Nehemiah 5-6 Bible study, we cover:

[2:13] Internal Conflict: How greed and fatigue divide us from within, and why pausing to ponder stops messy emotional reactions.
[9:54] Leading by Example: Why Nehemiah forfeits his governor privileges and personally funds meals to lighten the people's burden.
[13:28] Sneaky Distractions: Why Nehemiah repeatedly refuses to go down to the "plain of Ono" to meet his enemies, and how to spot deceptive invitations designed to pull you away from your calling.
[16:31] Slander and Rumors: Why ignoring today’s “unsealed letters” protects your peace and keeps your focus on God.
[20:53] Personal Attacks: How knowing God's Word helps you spot toxic spiritual advice, even when it comes from well-meaning friends.
[25:01] The 5-P Strategy: How praying, perceiving, pondering, planning, and preparing equips you to overcome modern opposition.

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Group Discussion Questions for Nehemiah 5-6

[16:31] Sanballat sent an unsealed letter to spread false news about Nehemiah. Back then, they had letters. Today, where do you get your information, and how much time do you spend there? Is it a healthy amount of information and time, or is it causing you to lose trust in humanity? How might you take your eyes off the news and look up in trust to God, the author of truth?
[20:53] Nehemiah knows God’s Word and His Laws, so Shemaiah can't fool him. When people give you advice, what’s one way you can run it through the filter of the Bible to make sure it’s true?
[24:59] Nehemiah's pattern is to pray, perceive, ponder, plan, and prepare rather than to react. Which of those five steps do you most often skip, and what would change if you didn't?

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Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

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Nehemiah 4: There Was, Is, and Always Will Be Opposition

Season 16 · Episode 4

Monday, November 10, 2025 • Duration 21:55

How do you build a wall of faith when opposition is coming at you from every side?

Have you ever noticed that the second you try to make positive progress in your faith life, a wave of negativity comes out of nowhere to knock you down? You’re not crazy, and you’re definitely not alone. Since ancient times, this has been the opposition’s playbook.

In Nehemiah 4, as the Israelites rebuild the broken walls of Jerusalem, their enemies don't just bring physical threats; they launch a brutal mental and emotional attack. Join us as we unpack Nehemiah’s brilliant reaction and learn how you can use his simple "pray and prepare" strategy to protect your peace, your heart, and your family today.

In our Nehemiah 4 Bible study, we cover:

[5:25] The Weapon of Ridicule: How insults are used as a power move to make you feel small, and why reacting in your flesh only derails your work.
[8:50] Faith Over Flesh: How Nehemiah resisted the urge to defend himself or fight back, choosing to hand the battle over to God through prayer instead.
[10:32] The Purpose of Opposition: Why facing sudden pushback or mockery is actually proof that you are doing something spiritually significant.
[12:47] Archaeological Proof: What modern discoveries in Jerusalem reveal about the unbelievable scale and rapid construction of Nehemiah's actual wall.
[15:59] Prayer and Preparation: The game-changing balance of trusting God for protection while actively taking smart, practical steps to guard what you are building.
[18:50] Radical Agility: How to keep doing God's work with one hand while holding a spiritual weapon in the other to shield your home and family.

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2 Chronicles 35-36: From Exile to Hope

Season 14 · Episode 12

Monday, September 8, 2025 • Duration 35:58

From spiritual forgetfulness to dangerous blind spots, the ancient stories about King Josiah and the fall of Judah in 2 Chronicles 35-36 transcend time and reveal timeless patterns of human nature and God's persistent love. They inspired and taught the returning exiles, and they speak directly to challenges we face today.

Themes of this podcast:

The power of remembering our redemption. During difficult seasons of life, it’s easy to forget our past victories and God's faithfulness. But just as Josiah organized the greatest Passover in 400 years to help people remember their freedom from Egypt, we need regular practices that remind us of what God has done in our lives.

Wake up to where you're headed. God was trying to visibly wake the people up as they watched their kings carried off to captivity. We all experience lapses in faith when we are blind to our own sin. And God calls to us...wake up, wake up! What are you doing? Look at where you are headed! This challenges us to honestly assess the trajectory of our choices and listen when God is warning us through circumstances, wise counsel, or His Word.

Responding to God's invitation to "go up." Just as Cyrus invites the exiles to "go up" out of slavery to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple, Christ's invitation to us is to "go up" out of spiritual darkness and slavery to sin. Both required a choice to say "yes" to God's call. God is constantly inviting us into a deeper relationship with Him, into freedom from whatever enslaves us, and into becoming who He created us to be. The question remains: Will we respond with our "yes"?

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Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

Ruth 4: Advent Bonus - Joy

Season 8 · Episode 4

Friday, December 22, 2023 • Duration 14:43

Welcome to the Ruth Advent series! We hope this amazing story will make Advent come alive for you in a new way. We recommend you play Ruth Episode 4 first to listen to the chapter and discussion before listening to this Advent Bonus episode.

This is the fourth of four bonus episodes from the Book of Ruth that correspond to the birth of Christ a thousand years before his arrival. The Advent focus in this story is joy. The story of Ruth, more than any other in the Old Testament, has a happy ending filled with joy.

In the final chapter of Ruth joy will arrive in the birth of a baby, but at this Bethlehem birth, there will be no star, no shepherds, and no gifts from the Magi. However, the angels in heaven knew how significant this birth was to that other couple, not Ruth and Boaz, but their distant descendants, Mary and Joseph.

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Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

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Ruth 4: The Seed is Planted

Season 8 · Episode 4

Monday, December 18, 2023 • Duration 27:00

In the Book of Ruth chapter 4, we will come to the climactic end of our story. We began the Book of Ruth with a story of famine and death. We will end the book of Ruth with a story of provision and birth. The book of Ruth is, above all else, a story of redemption. God is in the business of redeeming what was lost.

Ruth Advent Bonus Episodes:

The Book of Ruth is creatively a Christmas Story because the solution to the Israelite's problem, the need for a king, is announced at the end of the Book of Ruth. So, for season 8, the 4 episodes of Ruth will each have a bonus Advent episode that drops on Fridays. There is much meaning to the song O Little Town of Bethlehem and it starts here in the Book of Ruth!

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Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

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This episode is part of our ongoing Bible Book Club series, starting with Genesis and journeying all the way through the Bible. Thanks for listening!

Ruth 3: Advent Bonus - Faith

Season 8 · Episode 3

Friday, December 15, 2023 • Duration 13:14

Welcome to the Ruth Advent series! We hope that this amazing story will make Advent come alive for you in a new way. We recommend you play Ruth 3 Episode 3 first to listen to the chapter and discussion before listening to this Advent Bonus episode.

This is the third of four bonus episodes from the Book of Ruth that correspond to the birth of Christ a thousand years before his arrival. The Advent focus in this story is faith, and all the main characters of our story (Naomi, Ruth, and Boaz) show their faith in God's plan in their own ways.

Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. The only way out of the spiral of fear is faith and our leading ladies had just that.

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Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

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Ruth 3: What Happens on the Floor, Stays on the Floor

Season 8 · Episode 3

Monday, December 11, 2023 • Duration 35:54

In chapter 3 of the Book of Ruth, Naomi plays matchmaker with a crazy plan to get Boaz’s attention.

Naomi is beginning to see some hope in Ruth’s growing relationship with Boaz. But after months of Ruth gleaning in Boaz’s field nothing has happened. So Naomi comes up with a plan of her own. She instructs Ruth to get dressed up and lay at Boaz’s feet while he is sleeping on the threshing floor. It was a dangerous move for Ruth, but she agreed willingly. And so begins an unique love story.

Ruth Advent Bonus Episodes:

The Book of Ruth is creatively a Christmas Story because the solution to the Israelite's problem, the need for a king, is announced at the end of the Book of Ruth. So, for season 8, the 4 episodes of Ruth will each have a bonus Advent episode that drops on Fridays. There is much meaning to the song O Little Town of Bethlehem and it starts here in the Book of Ruth!

Thank you for being a part of the club.

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Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

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Ruth 2: Advent Bonus - Love

Season 8 · Episode 2

Friday, December 8, 2023 • Duration 12:08

Welcome to the Ruth Advent series! We hope that this amazing story will make Advent come alive for you in a new way. We recommend you play Ruth 2 Episode 2 first to listen to the chapter and discussion before listening to this Advent Bonus episode.

This is the second of four bonus episodes from the Book of Ruth that correspond to the birth of Christ a thousand years before his arrival. The Advent focus in this story is love,
and yes, there is romantic love in the Book of Ruth, but this love goes beyond romance, it is a kind of love called hesed.Both Ruth and Boaz will demonstrate hesed, but it is God's hesed that steals the show.

Join us on a journey back in time to the little town of Bethlehem where the hesed of God is a seed planted 1000 years before the birth of Christ.

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Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

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This episode is part of our ongoing Bible Book Club series, starting with Genesis and journeying all the way through the Bible.

Ruth 2: Ruth Steps Out & Boaz Steps Up

Season 8 · Episode 2

Monday, December 4, 2023 • Duration 29:21

In chapter 2 of the Book of Ruth, Ruth meets Boaz. The chapter is loaded with five scenes–all conversations between the three main characters, Naomi, Ruth, and Boaz.

Naomi and Ruth are settled in Bethlehem, but their situation is not good. They need to provide for themselves, but Naomi seems unable to help. Ruth must take matters into her own hands despite the fact that she is the unwelcome Moabite in the little Israelite town of Bethlehem. Ruth steps out in faith and providentially lands in Boaz's field, where Ruth meets Boaz for the first time.

Boaz steps up and provides for Ruth and Naomi. Conversations happen, and Boaz is intrigued. Ruth is very different from him. He is rich, she is poor. He is a native, she is a foreigner. He is older, she is younger. Yet despite their differences, Boaz sees something more important in Ruth. He sees a genuine faith in God. It attracts his attention, and suddenly, we are in a tale as old as time, with a few twists!

Ruth Advent Bonus Episodes:

The Book of Ruth is creatively a Christmas Story because the solution to the Israelite's problem, the need for a king, is announced at the end of the Book of Ruth. So, for season 8, the 4 episodes of Ruth will each have a bonus Advent episode that drops on Fridays. There is much meaning to the song O Little Town of Bethlehem and it starts here in the Book of Ruth!

Thank you for being a part of the club.

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Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

Ruth 1: Advent Bonus - Hope

Season 8 · Episode 1

Friday, December 1, 2023 • Duration 11:00

Welcome to the Ruth Advent series! We hope that this amazing story will make Advent come alive for you in a new way. We recommend you play Ruth 1 Episode 1 first to listen to the chapter and discussion before listening to this Advent Bonus episode.

This is the first of four bonus episodes from the Book of Ruth that correspond to the birth of Christ a thousand years before his arrival. The Advent focus in this story is hope, something Naomi desperately needs. The story takes place in that same O Little Town of Bethlehem, where unbeknownst to anyone, the dark streets shined with the everlasting light, and the hopes and fears of all the years were going to be met through a faithful couple, not Joseph and Mary, but another couple Boaz and Ruth.

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Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com

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