You May Need to Adjust Your Expectations About Christianity

About this episode

Pastor Josh challenges Christians to stand firm against spiritual opposition and remain faithful to Jesus.

Pastor Josh preaches from Book of Nehemiah chapter 4 on the reality of spiritual opposition and the call to “work hard and make war.” This sermon is a powerful challenge to Christians to stand firm under criticism, fight for their families, rebuild what’s broken, and remain faithful to Jesus even when facing resistance. There needs to be a recovery of the spiritual 'spine' in the Church today... Jesus did not guarantee that you will be liked. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! ...

People in this episode

Host: Pastor Josh

Topics covered

• spiritual opposition
• Christian resilience
• faithfulness
• family protection
• church recovery

Keywords

• Christianity
• spiritual warfare
• Nehemiah
• faith
• criticism

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Book of Nehemiah

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