Hey podcast family, Miles Fidel here, and I want to welcome you to the All Christ Church podcast.

If you have been following along with our church, you probably know that we recently adjusted our

name from Auburn Community Church to All Christ Church, still hanging on to our identity as ACC,

but we recognize that normalizing radical discipleship to Jesus in the American Church

required a name change at the beginning of a new year.

And so if you're new to this podcast, welcome.

We are all about Jesus, the truth of God's word, and living for his glory alone.

And we hope and pray these resources bless your life right where you are in your individual

season.

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to the life of this church. And you can go to allchrist.church and look up all of those ways.

Thanks so much for tuning in with us. Now let's prepare our hearts for this sermon from God's Word.

Well, if you missed last week, I cannot encourage you more going into a new year to make sure

you hear that sermon. We launched into a weirdly titled sermon because it's a number, 52.

And it's not 52 because there's 52 weeks in the year and every week we're going to set a new

goal and be intentional. That's not it.

Part of it is it's 52 because the titles of the sermons are going to be five different sets of twos. And I'm a little bit of a mad scientist in the way I'm talking about this series. And we'll get to that in a second. But the real reason is we looked at the story of Nehemiah. Nehemiah is a leader of God's people in the Old Testament,

in a time of decline where the people of Jerusalem have had their city taken from them.

They've been exiled for over a century. And now they're returning back home because God has

blessed them and give them favor with some of the leaders of the Persian Empire. The problem is

they haven't rebuilt the

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