238| NYT Best-selling Author Mark Batterson talks Miracles, Leadership and Pastoring in DC + Top Weekly Leadership Links
Our guest is MARK BATTERSON, lead pastor of National Community Church in DC, NYT best-selling author of 25 books, including his most recent A Million Little Miracles, and popular speaker. Mark is also the lead visionary of the Dream Collective, and of course helped start Ebenezer's Coffeehouse, one of the top coffee shops on Capital Hill. We discuss miracles, physics, leadership, pastoring in DC, the power of generational vision, and much more.
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Interview
A Million Little Miracles: Rediscover the God Who is Bigger than Big, Closer than Close, and Gooder than Good – Mark’s new book
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