Religion
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Living on Purpose: Are you satisfied with the amount of God you have?
Anyone who has ever risen from the couch and declared their intentions to work for the kingdom of God has felt the resistance of our negative human nature.
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Pastor Bo: Proverbs is a treasure in 31 chapters
Somehow, in the midst of being a husband, father, full-time pastor, doing a heavy schedule of evangelism, teaching a high school Bible class, writing this weekly faith column and also being the electrician and all-around maintenance guy for our church, I have also now managed to write and publish my 32nd book, "Proverbs, Volume 2, Bright Light From Dark Sayings."
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BreakPoint: A new book, ‘Faithfully Different,’ to help Christians embrace their calling
It should go without saying that, in 21st-century America, most of the assumptions at work in contemporary culture are not Christian assumptions.
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Many faith leaders wary of religious exemptions for vaccine
By the thousands, Americans have been seeking religious exemptions in order to circumvent COVID-19 vaccine mandates, but generally they are doing so without the encouragement of major denominations and prominent religious leaders.
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Why one phrase in ‘Maus’ offends Christians and was cited for banning the book in McMinn County
The use of certain language, specifically phrases related to God and condemnation, drew consternation from the McMinn County Board of Education last month when members voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman's award-winning graphic novel "Maus" from its curriculum.
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Living on Purpose: When praying for rain, don’t forget your raincoat
We've heard the old saying that life is not a bed of roses for as long as we can remember.
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Pastor Bo: Five ways Christians can deal with life’s changes
There were eight of them with us in the Sunday evening service, homeless men from the local shelter. Some were black, some were white, some were youngish, others were much nearer to senior-citizen age, one was even on a walker. But none of them were "our homeless crew."
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‘How to torture a Jew’: Chattanooga mother raises concerns with Bible class taught in public school
The mother of a Hamilton County middle-schooler is raising concerns about the century-old Bible in the Schools program, which teaches the Bible in Chattanooga-area public schools as literature, as being antisemitic after a local teacher allegedly taught her daughter "how to torture a Jew."
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BreakPoint: Christians must keep up the fight against antisemitism
On Jan. 15, in Colleyville, Texas, a monster reappeared.
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Living on Purpose: Determined to be on the same page with God
Last year was challenging for many.