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The Seventh-Day Adventist church is celebrating the success of its “PNG for Christ” series, after announcing the baptisms of over 300,000 people in Papua New Guinea. The campaign was a combined effort between the Seventh-Day Adventist’s South Pacific Division, the Papua New Guinea Union Mission (PNGUM), the General Conference, and Adventist World Radio. Ted Wilson,…

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Reverend Larry Oneal Walker spends every Sunday preaching the gospel at a busy intersection in North Little Rock, Arkansas. He has been preaching for 50 years and street preaching for 15 years. On June 2nd while he was preaching, a gunman approached him and opened fire. In a new interview with Fox News, Walker recounted…

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As Christians continue to grapple with their association with artificial intelligence (AI), Facebook has been inundated with AI-generated images of Jesus Christ, stirring criticism and amusement. One image, labeled “Hot AI Jesus,” shows an extremely ripped Jesus in the boxing ring, punching Satan in the face. Another image, referred to as “Shrimp Jesus,” shows the…

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Even to non-Christians, the term “armor of God” may be a familiar term. It comes from Ephesians 6:14-17, which states, “Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith,…

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According to new data from the American Bible Society’s “State of the Bible USA 2024 Report,” the willingness to forgive is a powerful indicator of human flourishing. The most recent data, released last week, was predicated, in part, on a proclamation with which respondents were asked to agree or disagree. It read, “I am able to…

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Torreya State Park is nestled in Florida’s northern panhandle, created in the 1930s as a nature preserve, but some say it houses a historical site of biblical proportions. One Baptist minister and former lawyer maintained for decades that this wilderness retreat was the literal site of the Garden of Eden from the Bible’s Book of…

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A statue in the Mexican city of Morelia, in the state of Michoacan will be investigated by Catholic officials after it allegedly began crying out red tears of blood. The statue is of the Virgin Mary in her traditional Mexican guise as Our Lady of Guadelupe. Images of the statue reveal dark streaks running down…

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Pastor Tony Evans, who is well-known for his sermon broadcasts and books, rocked the Christian world last week when he announced during a Sunday service that he would be stepping away from his pastoral duties and submitting to discipline for “restoration.” Evans has pastored the 11,000-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church in Dallas, Texas for…

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It all began with a sore calf. Randy Kay assumed it was a strained muscle and ignored it, until it swelled during a bike ride and he went to see his doctor. What had seemed like a strained muscle turned out to be a blood clot, which then led to contracting Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)…

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While the news is filled with stories of a declining Christian church, one Maryland pastor is seeing extensive growth in his AME church. Reverend Matthew L. Watley is the senior pastor of the Kingdom Fellowship AME Church, which is part of the Black African Methodist Episcopal denomination, and is seeing massive growth in his church,…

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