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Actor Mark Wahlberg wants to start “a new chapter” of his career. “I definitely want to focus on making more. I wouldn’t say necessarily just faith-based content but things that will help people… to make more meaningful content,” he told “Entertainment Tonight” earlier this year. Wahlberg was referring to “Father Stu,” a passion project of…

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Actress and outspoken Christian Candace Cameron Bure shared a post on Instagram to encourage fellow believers to read the Bible daily. A video included with the post shows Bure reading a Bible with the caption, “when people ask, ‘How often should you read your Bible?’” She then responds, “Every day,” and refers to details in…

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Brittni De La Mora shared a link on Facebook for a friend’s GoFundMe on Saturday, revealing that the woman, known as Melinda, was struggling to overcome debts after leaving the adult film industry to pursue Jesus. De La Mora hosts the “Let’s Talk Purity” podcast and runs the “Love Always Wins” ministry with her husband,…

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Members of a Mississippi church are in mourning after a fire destroyed their historic sanctuary. Still, a 180-year-old Bible that weathered the blaze is bringing much-needed hope to the beleaguered congregation. College Hill Presbyterian Church in Oxford, Mississippi, built in 1844, has inspired Christians for nearly two centuries. Still, the historic building was left in…

On July 12, NASA released images from the James Webb Space Telescope on its Twitter pages. The images showed a beautiful kaleidoscopic image of a vast and awe-inspiring universe. As the data begins to pour in from the telescope, apologist Ken Ham wrote a post detailing how the data reveals that the big bang, “didn’t…

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If you met Derek LaFleur in church at nineteen years old, he would have been the last person you would think of as a future pastor. Attending a church service dressed all in red due to his affiliation with the LA-based gang the Bloods, 19-year-old LaFleur heard the pastor announce during his altar call that…

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A Mafia associate who spent most of his existence in and out of prisons and living a life filled with crime eventually found himself broken, emotionally tattered, and at a dire crossroads. Robert Borelli recently told The Prodigal Stories Podcast, “I knew about God but didn’t know God. I gave God an ultimatum. I said,…

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Players from one of college basketball’s most prominent teams took part in a baptism ceremony in the Jordan River. The Auburn men’s basketball team visited multiple historical sites in Israel, including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which tradition says was the site of Christ’s empty tomb. The team’s official social media account posted pictures of the baptisms.…

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CS Lewis continues to inspire others nearly sixty years after his death. During the Kingdom Bound Music Festival in Clinton, IA, Christian gospel singer Jordan Feliz discussed the inspiration for his song, “Another Way” on his album, “Say It.” “It stems from a quote from a guy named C.S. Lewis. He says this: If we…

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A young adult pastor with an influential Texas church has critiqued the claim that the Bible is sexist against women, contending that a biblical Christian understanding of women is superior to the mainstream culture.  As part of a series tackling topics widely debated in culture today, Pastor David Marvin of Watermark Community Church in Dallas…

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