The Inflexible Heart: Serving Kings Yet Loving Zion
Nehemiah presents a paradox of the faithful Jewish servant in exile. Here stood a cup-bearer in the Persian court of Artaxerxes at Shushan, a man...
This is historical examples on covenant faithfulness and zeal tempered by distance, drawing on Nehemiah 1:1-11.
Nehemiah presents a paradox of the faithful Jewish servant in exile. Here stood a cup-bearer in the Persian court of Artaxerxes at Shushan, a man whose position required such intimate access to power that he could omit the king's name from his record—assuming every reader knew his magnitude. Yet beneath the courtier's robe beat a true Jewish heart, undying in its love for Israel.…
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