The Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ is a fantastic mystery, but I do not think God just stuck a full-term baby inside the waiting mother. Technically, though God is not always technical, God the Father implanted a zygote, a fertilized egg, into Mary’s womb. A zygote is a single cell filled with DNA that divides […]
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At the beginning of the year, I became responsible for caring for a baby birb. No, I did not misspell bird—I purposely wrote birb. At the dinner table, our middle son returned from time with his friends and mentioned a self-care app he had downloaded called Finch. Simply put, you care for yourself by caring
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Brandon Kelly introduced me to the Invitation vs. Challenge model while leading me through the formative book Building a Discipleship Culture. It is a classic two-axis grid, with invitation rising vertically and challenge growing horizontally. Ideally, a leader will wield both powers to help people move forward. The biblical case for this model is found
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In 1790, upon his death, Benjamin Franklin was a very rich man. He was the most famous person in the world, even more famous than George Washington, who had just finished his first year as President of the United States. In his will, Franklin made a strange bequest. He left one thousand pounds ($125,000
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