Nehemiah is a cupbearer who becomes a contractor, then a governor, then a reformer, then — at the very end — just a tired man asking God to remember him. It's one of the most practical books in the Bible because it's not really about a wall. It's about what happens in us while we're building something that matters: how we take bad news, how we survive opposition, how we deal with people who make our lives difficult (sometimes our own people), how we celebrate when the work finally comes together, and how we let go of it when it's time.

Five weeks. Five chapters of life.