Divine visions? (Acts 16:9-15)
Dominant Western cultures tend to downplay the significance of dreams. The Bible does not.
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The phone rang in the middle of the night. My grandmother had dreamed that her second-eldest son—who had left for a trip to the mountains on the previous day—lay trapped beneath his car, unable to get out. He was calling for help.
