Nehemiah | Rising From the Rubble - Season 5 Episode 19
What happens when brokenness becomes normal and survival replaces vision? Many live with spiritual rubble, fractured relationships, or quiet defeat for so long that dysfunction feels permanent. In Nehemiah 2:9–20, Pastor Dorrell examines how Nehemiah surveyed the ruins, confronted the people’s distress, and called them to rise and build. The sermon shows that real rebuilding begins with prayer, honest evaluation, courageous encouragement, and confidence in the good hand of God. Change requires moving from passive acceptance to active agency, trusting that faith joined with God’s help can overcome inertia and opposition. Listeners are challenged to identify their own rubble, strengthen their hands for the work, and take the first faithful step toward restoration.
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Nehemiah | The Good Hand of God - Season 5, Episode 17
Have you ever gazed at the rubble of your life—broken dreams, strained relationships, or spiritual weariness—and wondered if restoration awaits? In Nehemiah 2:1-8, Pastor Dorrell highlights Nehemiah’s courageous petition to King Artaxerxes for rebuilding Jerusalem’s walls after four months of prayer, reversing an irrevocable decree. The message asserts God’s hand of favor rests on those who repent, pray persistently, and invest personally in restoration, as Nehemiah did. Be challenged to identify rubble in your life, seek God’s hand through prayer and action, and become an agent of rebuilding for others.
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Building Change Starts Within the Heart - Season 5, Episode 14
For nearly a century, Jerusalem's remnant accepted brokenness as their permanent condition—surviving rather than thriving. How do we break free from normalized dysfunction and complacency in our own lives? Pastor Dorrell examines Nehemiah's response to his people's despair, arguing that external transformation begins with internal reformation of the heart. Through Nehemiah's four-month season of prayer and fasting, the sermon illuminates how positioning our hearts toward God's power and covenant faithfulness enables us to interrupt cycles of defeat and accomplish what seems impossible. You are challenged to identify the brokenness you've accepted as normal and, like Nehemiah, to pray, repent, and rise to rebuild what has been destroyed.
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The Initiative Is God's, Not Yours - Season 4, Episode 108
Have you ever felt a heavy burden to act, yet God seems silent? We hate waiting; it makes us feel powerless and anxious, tempting us to force a solution on our own timetable. Examining Nehemiah's four-month wait before King Artaxerxes, Pastor Daniel argues that the initiative for opening doors belongs to God, not us. The sermon illuminates how true faith is demonstrated not by rushing ahead, but by patiently praying and actively preparing for the opportunity God will provide. While we wait, God is not inactive; He is working on our hearts and on the hearts of those in authority to bring about His perfect will. This message challenges listeners to trust God's sovereignty in the waiting, allowing Him to build the strength and courage needed for the work He has prepared.
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Happiness Is a Help - Episode 74
Doctrinal, biblical teaching is of vital importance for our children. It plays a vital role in developing a love for God in the hearts of our children. However, happiness helps. Happiness can create a special affection in their hearts for the things of God if connected with the things of God.
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