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Recently, on the news show 60 Minutes, Cecilia Vega interviewed mentalist Oz Pearlman.   Pearlman’s act is spookily entertaining: he reads people’s minds. He randomly asks people in his audience to think of a question that no one could possibly know the answer to, as he did with Vega. She asked him, “Who was my third grade teacher who had a paddle above the classroom door?”   He answered correctly, completely freaking her out.   The act is stunning—you’d be convinced that so

Decades ago, Nobel Prize winner Roger Sperry posited the “left brain/right brain” theory in neuroscience.      Since then, research has revealed that the brain is more complex and not so binary.   Still, there remains some support for Sperry’s original premise: generally, the left hemisphere of the brain is more verbal, analytical, and linear, while the right hemisphere tends to be more creative, visual, and intuitive.   In the 1990s, neuroscientists and psychologists began t

How the first-century church survived their first few years is remarkable. Today, nearly 50% of startups fail within five years.     Can you imagine these new Jewish believers in Acts 2 wondering how they fit into Temple worship and what to do about required sacrifices? What are the polity, governance, and infrastructure elements of this movement? Remember, no New Testament letter existed yet; their theology was being formed by their experience and whatever they could interpr

In our Inventory process to help churches discover—or rediscover—who they are and their mission, and then chart their future, one of the...

Imagine if God decided to enter our world to communicate with us about this idea of healing an extremely sickly world through an antibody...