Who we are is more important than what we achieve! We've seen this recently with a famous movie producer who we learned was a sexual predator, popular athletes who we discover have hidden domestic abuse, corporations that falsify pollution emissions, people in our lives who experience wreckage when sins emerge, etc. While achieving God's vision of building the wall to protect themselves from genocide and restore Messiah's lineage, a crisis arises when some powerful people take advantage of poor workers by raising food prices, charging exorbitant interest, foreclosing on their farms, and selling children into slavery. Sound familiar? We'll be challenges to reflect on our own character and learn from Nehemiah as he skillfully confronts social injustice in his generation.

Do you feel called to accomplish what seems impossible? School? Raising children? Overcoming an addiction? Advancing social justice? Seeing our neighbors come to Jesus? This fall we'll study how God guided Nehemiah to do what felt impossible:  rescue people from genocide and restore hope in Messiah. Come explore how we can participate in God’s redemptive story in our own generation.

What will this fall semester bring in our lives? Spiritual growth or apathy? Honoring God or yielding to temptations? Wise choices or painful decisions? We'll study 1 Thessalonians 1:4-10 to explore how the Holy Spirit evokes genuine transformation to grow more like Christ.