Ingram includes many leadership insights and thoughts about discouragement and the importance of pressing ahead when discouraged. Such a situation may cause fear but radical faith like Nehemiah's requires one to act in spite of the fear, at the risk of comfort and cost. I especially liked what he had to say about faith and what it may take to 'step out in faith' once the Lord speaks to you or gives you an idea of what He wants you to do. The main six points of the first 4 chapters of Nehemiah that teach one how to have a heart that is completely the Lord's are.: The theme verse of the book is 2 Chron 16:9a: 'For the eyes of the Lord look to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His.'
I don't think he 'spiritualizes' or overreaches to make his points and I found the book very practical. Lessons taken from the book of Nehemiah are well developed and thought-out.
7) Though the book is basically theological in content, Ingram writes using personal examples and anecdotes, helping the reader to understand and internalize. This is a book about leadership and personal alignment to the character of God He dedicates this book to all who earnestly seek to know God and reflect His likeness in every moment of every day in every way ((Chip Ingram, The Real God, Baker Books, 2016, p. This book is about 'getting it together' to make a significant difference where God directs.