HeyJaredFirst Baptist Podcast
Weekly messages to encourage, challenge, and spur you on to live like Jesus.
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Taking the Lead (opens the original)
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What do you do when the ruins around you become normal? Nehemiah arrived in Jerusalem to find a wall that had sat broken for 140 years. Everyone had gotten used to it. In this message from Nehemiah 2:11-20, we look at how one leader quietly prepared, told the truth about the damage, and got a whole city to say, “Let us start rebuilding.” We look at it two ways: what it teaches us about leading, and what it says about the walls in our own lives that we’ve let crumble.
The Ask (opens the original)
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Nehemiah had to ask his boss, the most powerful king in the world, for something the king had already said no to 16 years earlier. After four months of praying and planning in silence, the door finally opened, and Nehemiah had to decide whether to walk through it. This week we look at Nehemiah 2:1-10 and what it means to wait on God, prepare while you wait, and courageously step through the doors He opens, even when what you’re asking for feels impossible.
The Burden (opens the original)
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We’re starting a new series through the book of Nehemiah, the story of one ordinary man with a burden to rebuild Jerusalem’s broken down walls, and the God who made it possible.In this first message, we trace how Nehemiah fits into the bigger story of Scripture: from Israel’s exile in Babylon, through the prophecies of Isaiah, to God keeping every promise along the way. We watch Nehemiah receive devastating news about Jerusalem and respond not with despair, but with prayer, fasting, and confessi
Extend The Blessing (opens the original)
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This week we wrap up our “Under Construction” series with a message about hospitality — what it looks like to actually open our lives to people, not just our calendars. We hear the story of building a spare room without knowing who’d ever fill it, and looking at Abraham’s welcome of three strangers in Genesis 18, we dig into what it really means to love people we don’t yet know. It’s a challenge to move past “entertaining” and into true hospitality: blessing instead of impressing, listening more
Perseverance (opens the original)
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Building anything worthwhile comes with setbacks, and following Jesus is no different. This week in “Under Construction,” we look at James 1 and unpack five kinds of trials that test our faith: shame over repeated sin, doubts from unanswered prayer, feeling spiritually dry, the danger of comfort, and hurt from others (inside and outside the church). James reminds us that testing produces perseverance, and perseverance leads to maturity, so we can look more like Jesus on the other side.
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