Show Notes
In the first of a two part talk, Tom questions whether something that we think is definitely dead - a relationship, a dashed hope or a dry period in our faith-walk - is actually so; or whether we should ask God to breathe on it, like Ezekiel did in the Valley of Dry Bones.
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