Sometimes resolution and healing cannot be reached. We believe that all things are possible with God's grace, but the human heart can close itself off from love and forgiveness and choose anger and brokenness.
It may seem strange to you that the name Ezra suddenly appears in our text dealing with the reading of the Scripture in Jerusalem. What we probably don’t know is that Ezra and Nehemiah were actually one book in the ancient Hebrew and Greek Old
Several times, when confronted with tragedy, the words of the Lord, “Have you thought about my servant Job?” (1:8, Common English Bible) have strengthened my faith.
Nearly a century and a half had lapsed since the southern kingdom of Judah had fallen to Babylon and the people of God ceased to be an independent nation. During that time, the Medes and Persians took control of Babylon and all its territory under
