Restoration is our calling. We proclaim Christ's grace, provide healing spaces, and take pride in our growth. Like broken instruments creating beautiful music, the church turns brokenness into beauty. We are healed healers, restored restorers, living out God's transformative love.

Many cultures have legends of beasts we call dragons. The Australian aborigines have legends of a lake monster that sounds surprisingly like a plesiosaur. The Babylonians carved creatures that look like reptiles on four legs. Herodotus, an ancient Greek writer, described flying serpents he saw in Egypt that had bat-like wings.

What are these people describing? Well, they sound an awful lot like dinosaurs, marine reptiles, and pterosaurs! This makes sense in a biblical worldview. All these creatures were created during creation week, along with man. Man lived with dinosaurs, and dragon legends could be the memories of this time.

Evelyn Marcy shares with us her true story.

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Today's Bible Verse: "But Jael, Heber's wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died." — Judges 4:21

Judges 4:21 records one of the most unexpected moments in the Bible. Israel's victory did not come through a mighty warrior or a powerful army, but through Jael—an ordinary woman who courageously acted at a pivotal moment. God used someone few would have expected to accomplish His purposes and bring deliverance to His people.

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Whether you’re a woodworker, a steel worker or in another form of construction, you know that the tougher the job, the more the need for power tools. Hard to build a skyscraper with just a tape measure and a good idea. Well, spiritually speaking, with some of our assignments, the Lord gives US power tools. And today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie points out the importance of putting them to work. It’s part of his series in the book of Acts called The Upside-Down Life.

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