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When Rudolph's red nose hit the screens in homes across the nation in 1964 via Rankin & Bass' holiday movie special entitled Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, viewers fell in love with this glowy-snouted oddball. When the outcast saved Christmas by guiding Santa's sleigh through a stormy Christmas Eve, the world cheered as his eccentricity became the source of his triumph.

While American church culture (and American culture at large) seems largely designed for the extroverted, it's estimated that half of the American population is introverted, and they're often left wondering how, even if, they fit in the kingdom of God. As one of them, popular radio host Brant Hansen brings news. It's wonderful, refreshing, and never-been-said-this-way-before good news.

Too often, the world speaks words of harm, and too often, we believe them - living stories God never intended for us. Join House of Belonging founder Tiffini Kilgore at the misfit table to discover how an ongoing, open dialogue with God changed her life, and how it can change yours.

Being a misfit does not disqualify you from a dynamic life - it prepares you for it.Matthew Barnett knows a thing or two about misfits. As founder of the Dream Center in Los Angeles, a 24-hour church that ministers to 35,000 hurting people a week, Barnett has seen a little of everything. Gangsters, addicts, orphans, taggers, cutters, the sick, the suffering, the hopeless . . . all the misfits of the world come through the church's doors in search of hope.

In the face of tragedy and hate in the world, Christians have the answer. What if we were born again for more? What if we were reborn to enter the brokenness of others with peace and hope? Through inspirational stories, practical experience in the US and overseas, using the resurrection of Lazarus as a narrative framework, Britt Mooney explores why and how we can follow Jesus’ model for discipleship, entering the broken and desperate lives of others with scandalous compassion, supernatural power, and radical transformation.