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Over 200 students at an Alabama college were baptized in one night after a campus worship program reportedly attended by hundreds. The baptisms took place in a lake at Auburn’s Red Barn venue, about a half mile from Auburn University’s Neville Arena, the site of a “Unite Auburn” worship event that drew a massive crowd.…

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Over 150 U.S. Army soldiers were baptized during basic training at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri this summer. Southern Baptist Convention chaplain Cpt. Logan Lair told Baptist Press that trainees have been “hungry to learn about spirituality and their spiritual strength,” with 84 getting baptized in July and 73 in August. Lair said he was…

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Israel Lemus is a walking miracle, a medical mystery his doctors can’t quite understand. In 2016, he was diagnosed with stage four glioblastoma, the same aggressive form of brain cancer that took the late Sen. John McCain’s life in the summer of 2018. At the time, Lemus was given a mere two months to live.…

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A church in Texas was burned to the ground, but when the rubble cleared, a cross stood tall. Pastor Sonny Smith of the Balsora Baptist Church says the standing cross was a “sign from God.” “To me, that was a sign from God, saying, ‘Don’t worry, I’m still here, and I’m going to lead you…

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Christian author Lee Strobel has been on a mission to uncover evidence for the afterlife following a health crisis 10 years ago that left him on the edge of death. So far, his investigative mission has exposed some shocking cases that convinced him of the validity of near-death experiences and proof of heaven and hell.…

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