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Sometimes we just need a miracle.  If ever there was a man who knew his purpose in life, it had to be John the Baptizer. John lived with singular purpose. Before he was even born, while he was still in the womb, John knew who he was. He knew he would spend his life waiting for Christ and pointing us to Christ.  When his father Zechariah learned from the angel that he and his wife were going to be parents, Zechariah fell into disbelief. In response, as a sign to Zechariah, God deprived him of the ability to speak. He ultimately was able to speak again only after his son was born and Zechariah insisted on naming him John. Because John had a purpose. Fertility experts can manipulate the body of a sixty-year-old woman to carry another woman’s child, but she can’t conceive her own child. John’s parents may not have been as old as Abraham or Sarah, when Isaac was born  ... Abraham was 100, and Sarah was 90 ... but conception in their seventies was just as miraculous.  The ...