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One is an ordained pastor in Brooklyn, the other a single mother and children’s book author in New Jersey. Both drive for Lyft. Both share the word of God as roving preachers. Pastor Kenneth Drayton and Tomika Reid try to inspire passengers through spiritual guidance on the road as part of what they see as…

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Outspoken Christian and Hollywood actress Candace Cameron Bure has recently been the target of criticism by others in the entertainment industry on social media but has responded by assuring fans that the Lord is her defender. Artist Jojo Siwa caused a media storm last month, calling Bure the “rudest celebrity” she had met. Bure responded…

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A waitress at a café in Pennsylvania says a man ordered a stromboli for about $13 but left a tip for $3,000 as part of the “Tips for Jesus” movement, which started about nine years ago. Mariana Lambert, a waitress at Alfredo’s Pizza Café in Scranton, spoke to the media last week, narrating how she…

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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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In 2009, Christian recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman’s world turned upside down. Chapman and his wife, Mary Beth, adopted their daughter Maria Sue from China in 2004. A few years later, when their daughter was five years old, one of the Chapmans’ sons accidentally struck Maria Sue with an SUV in the driveway, tragically ending…

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