Religion
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Living on Purpose: It’s encouraging to see a hunger and thirst for God
There is a move of the Holy Spirit happening in Wilmore, Kentucky, where the small evangelical Asbury University is located.
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Chattanooga summit to examine stigma around mental health in Black community
Marissa Player-Montgomery was sexually assaulted at age 14, she said by phone Thursday. Her Seventh-day Adventist community frowned on abortion, and she had the resulting child, she said, but the violation left her traumatized, scared of everybody around her -- and she lacked the tools to process what had happened.

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Lee University students sense a ‘revival’ during spontaneous outpouring of worship
‘The spirit was 100% moving', student says

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Q&A: Christian marriage ‘edu-tainer’ on vulnerability and intimacy
Through their Christianity-inflected comedic marriage ministry, Jay and Laura Laffoon seek to help couples work through everyday conflict zones like money, intimacy and family life.

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BreakPoint: Effective compassion vs. effective altruism
In early January, cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to fraud after the shocking collapse of his multibillion-dollar crypto exchange company FTX.

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Pastor Bo: Valentine’s guidance from an amateur expert
For those jaded souls who believe that Valentine's Day is a modern event most likely invented by Hallmark in a display of crass commercialism, please allow me to set your minds at ease.
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Living on Purpose: Do we only follow God when we feel like it?
Have you ever wondered what is the purpose of television, games, movies and social media? Many will say it was created to entertain and inform us, but what we may not have noticed is that when we are constantly focused on these things, we are usually not listening to what God is saying.
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BreakPoint: God’s thoughts should be our thoughts; truth is revealed and knowable
Isaiah 55:8-9 are among those verses that have taken on a life of their own in Christian circles: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."
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Living on Purpose: Appreciating every day and every hour
I have a good friend who is seriously ill with late-stage cancer.
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Pastor Bo: ‘Ready or Not’ examines the end times as told in Revelation
I am often asked when I started writing. I generally get some raised eyebrows when I reply, "As soon as I could spell."