Religion
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BreakPoint: Flight fights, depression and the rise of a culture that’s not OK
When public morality is unhinged, Christians ought not lose hope.
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Living on Purpose: Christ is the vine; we are the branches
I was having a discussion with a friend the other day about how it seems that so many people are living in fear and discouragement when he mentioned something that really made me think.
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Woman buoyed by support after viral pastor confrontation
Bobi Gephart hadn't planned to go to church that Sunday - not to the worship service where the pastor intended to make a confession about the oppressive secret she had carried for so long.
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Pastor Bo: Bragging on God’s people from my church after 25 years
The first Sunday of June 1997 at once seems like yesterday and like a thousand years ago. That was the date my wife and I and a couple in their 70s started the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, North Carolina. We had canvassed the area a few weeks ahead of time and, on our first service, had 27 people in attendance. We are now celebrating our 25-year anniversary, which normally leads me to quip, "I started the church when I was 9."
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Pastor Bo: Determining the true worth of ‘the widow’s mite’
Mark 12:41-44 reads: "And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.'"
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Living on Purpose: May we never forget freedom is not free
Every year on the last Monday in May, we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice with their lives in the line of active military service while protecting and defending the country they loved.
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BreakPoint: ‘SI’s’ swimsuit edition isn’t empowering
On the YouTube channel "Lutheran Satire," there's a video titled, "A Christian and a Feminist Almost Agree on Stuff."
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Indiana church says it confronted pastor about sex with teen
An Indiana pastor who confessed to "adultery" years ago with a teenager publicly informed his congregation last weekend after church leaders confronted him, the church said Tuesday.
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Chattanooga church-led affordable housing development for seniors moves forward
A church-led development project to provide subsidized housing for area seniors moved forward Tuesday night with an initial vote to rezone land off North Moore Road.
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Report: Top Southern Baptists stonewalled sex abuse victims
The Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee - and thousands of its rank-and-file members - now have opportunities to address a scathing investigative report that says top SBC leaders stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over two decades while seeking to protect their own reputations.