The part of understanding God’s Word is to recognize that God put it in a certain time and place because that’s where it best fit. It’s true always throughout all history, but it fits into a time and place. So, I love to go there or to do it by video to create the setting and say, “Here’s what God put there. Here’s the culture. Here’s the geography. Here’s the topography. Here’s the history. How does that help us understand the story that God is bringing out at that particular moment?”

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The Blessing

New to this updated edition are giving the blessing to others in your circle of influence, practical application tools and stories of how this is lived out, insight and help for those who didn't receive the blessing, and how to create a lifestyle of blessing others.

Leading Others by Following Jesus

Jesus had this amazing way of giving simple stories, simple things. The greatest leader of all time teaching limited human beings. He was teaching us how to lead. Knowing that He was going to have to sacrifice Himself, God gave Him over to us human beings. And He taught us an important lesson. It takes action to be a good leader. The first thing you’ve got to do is follow. That’s another one of these opposite Jesus things He tells us. You want to lead? Follow. Are we leading or we following?

First Cow PG-13

This quiet, 19th-century indie drama set in the Pacific Northwest revolves around a meditative camp cook, an opportunistic Chinese entrepreneur, their unlikely friendship and … a milk cow.