David Millsaps

My mission is to accelerate disciple making and church planting by training and empowering catalytic leaders in Eurasia Northwest

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@Trevorlawrencee Praying in Minnesota!

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@nacholeber He is still sore about the Minnesota Miracle. He gained nothing by this supposed head fake.

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Psalms 28:7: The LORD is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusts in him, and he helps me.
My heart leaps for joy,
and with my song I praise him. https://t.co/ZURaH0ppJW

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This is an incredible video about the church.

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What an incredibly powerful video

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Repost to #ProBowlVote

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Ukrainian Children’s Christmas Outreach in Zaporizhzhia 🎁🇺🇦
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Let's go, Vikings! SKOL!

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RT for Ty Chandler RB1. #skol

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🚨 GIVEAWAY ALERT 🚨

In honor of our fallen QB, we're giving away a Kirk Cousins Nike Purple Throwback T-Shirt! 🏈

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Winner announced before TNF game. Let's honor Kirk!

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Sad but true!

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Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. This is so true. Thanks @alanhirsch

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Anyone have connections the US immigration office for my wife? She’s in the Philippines and not able to come to the US until her I-130 spousal visa is granted. We’re going on 2 football season of no games for her. We’ve been denied a tourist visa twice so far

RT til she’s home💜

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Let's GO!

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Who wants to join us at @usbankstadium tomorrow?

Repost for a chance to win a pair of tickets to #KCvsMIN.

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@kandramillsaps would love to go to the game with me!

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It's a #PurpleFriday on the FAN, and we want to send YOU to the game!

We've got a pair of tickets to this Sunday's #Vikings game vs. Kansas City, and YOU could win them | #KFANVikes

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It's a #PurpleFriday on the FAN, and we want to send YOU to the game!

We've got a pair of tickets to this Sunday's #Vikings game vs. Kansas City, and YOU could win them | #KFANVikes

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Retweet if you think @harrismith22 is a Hall of Famer. #HarrytheHitman

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@_jason_777 @eli_corbett I would love to see Mattison have a 1500-yard year! It would set up so many air yards!

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

In 4 minutes, Kurt Vonnegut explained stories better than anyone I’ve ever heard.

“The shape of the curve is what matters. Not their origins.”

He plots stories on 2 axes:

X: Time
Y: Good fortune / ill fortune

He goes on to say,

“Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.”

Point 1:

Stories have defined patterns.

In Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces, he makes the case for the Hero’s Journey.

Since then, it’s become the most famous storytelling structure in the world.

Vonnegut argued stories could be divided into 8 shapes.

Each story, he said, fit one of the 8.

Point 2:

Vonnegut says,

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — so the reader may see what they're made of.”

To see who your characters really are, you have to make them suffer.

Only then does your audience have someone worth cheering for.

Point 3:

End on a high note.

Vonnegut says, “It’s not accidental that the line ends up higher than where it began. This is encouraging to readers.”

The way a story makes people feel when they finish is how they remember it.

It’s called recency bias.

Lift people up and they will love you.

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“There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.”

I wrote this with @RobbieCrab. Follow him for lessons on storytelling + fundraising.

And I talk about creative storytelling. Follow @nathanbaugh27 for more like that.

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