The sequel to Ezra, and a cracking bit of hands-on leadership. Nehemiah, a Jewish official in the Persian court, hears Jerusalem's walls are still rubble, and can't rest till he's fixed it. He talks his way into leave, rallies the people, builds the whole wall in 52 days despite mockery and death threats — trowel in one hand, sword in the other — then digs in on the harder job of getting people to actually live right. Home of "the joy of the Lord is your strength."