When You Can’t Figure Out What God Is Up To

You think a pandemic is bad? What about seeing your city destroyed, your kids murdered, and your family carried off into exile FOR SEVENTY YEARS?
When you can’t figure out what God is up to, do this.
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This is week 1 of a sermon series about rebuilding. We’re looking at the biblical books of Ezra and Nehemiah and what it takes to rebuild and put things back together when everything has fallen apart.

In 586 BC, the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple, and carried off the best and the brightest into exile.

Let’s talk about what happened next.