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No one is in charge of their own birth (John 3:1-17)
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What to make of Nicodemus? Is he a spiritual seeker, a bumbler, a spy from the Sanhedrin?
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Pete Hegseth’s war horse
The monk and the machine
The inclusivity trap
Faith formed in correspondence
