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The Hope Connection Podcast is a Christ-centered conversation space dedicated to bringing hope, healing, and transformation to people facing life’s hardest struggles. Through honest stories, practical wisdom, biblical truth, and powerful testimonies, the podcast connects listeners with encouragement that speaks to addiction recovery, faith, family restoration, leadership, and personal growth.

Starships come in many shapes and sizes. Their crews and passengers are an eclectic lot. They venture into the deep voids of space on their assigned missions. Sometimes they succeed and sometimes they do not. This collection tells the stories of the crews and passengers aboard six of these starships.

Church planting is more like custom craftsmanship than we give it credit for. It's been industrialized and monetized but rarely maximized. And while most planters start with noble intentions, the grind wears on leaders and the urge to copy someone else takes hold. But in church planting, there's not a one size strategy that fits all. And even when you think you get it dialed in, things change and surprises come. This is One Size Fits None: a collection of conversations with church planters telling their stories.

Does any other single word in any language invoke so much passion, and angst, enthusiasm, and sadness, as do those 10 letters? But what is Gettysburg, exactly? I am almost embarrassed to say I discovered the answer to that question - or at least approached an answer - only late in life. Of course, Gettysburg is a small charming city nestled in south-central Pennsylvania, but in so many ways it beggars description. For about half the year its streets are mainly empty, its businesses quiet, the weather cold and blustery.