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10/10/2012Greg Laurie: 'Main Event' at Every Church Should Be Preaching God's Word
Speaking on the subject of preaching about Jesus at a leadership conference in Southern California, evangelist and pastor Greg Laurie said he is concerned that churches that are moving away from making sermons the focal point of a worship service are not presenting the full Gospel.
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10/09/2012What's the Message in Tim Tebow's '666' Tweet?
Like it has been for much of Tim Tebow's career, it was all about the numbers heading into the N.Y. Jets game against the Houston Texans on the 666th edition of Monday Night Football.
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10/09/2012R12 Conference: Mark Driscoll on Why He Chose Rick Warren, Other Speakers
In promoting a two-day conference featuring an all-star lineup of some of the most influential Christian leaders in the U.S., Resurgence ministry founder Mark Driscoll explains why he chose renowned author and pastor Rick Warren as one of the eight speakers scheduled.
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10/05/2012TD Jakes to Women: Belief in God and Oneself Are Critical
Before a crowd of 25,000 women at Phillips Arena in Atlanta, Bishop T.D. Jakes opened up the first day of his annual "Woman, Thou Art Loosed!" conference by saying that it is important that a faith in God be coupled with a belief in oneself.
18 comments | Tags Megachurch Broadcast Evangelism Family issues Leadership Pastors Worship Books T.D. Jakes - 10/05/2012
Giving Out Drinking Water in Phoenix Now OK After Christian's Act of Kindness
Phoenix city council members struck down an ordinance on Wednesday that prohibited people from handing out free drinking water in public. The issue arose in the wake of a religious freedom law group's defense of Dana Crow-Smith, a Phoenix resident who was told she could not hand out the bottles of cold water on a city sidewalk during a "First Friday" festival.
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10/04/2012Atheists Ask Military to Drop 'Religious Expressions' in Suicide Prevention Briefings
The leader of a chaplains alliance group says he hopes the U.S. military will dismiss an atheist group's request to eliminate "personal religious expressions" during a long-standing suicide prevention program that includes chaplains counseling service members.
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10/04/2012What Christians Tweeted During Presidential Debate
While an estimated 60 million people turned to the TV to watch the presidential debate Wednesday night, millions more joined the live water cooler conversation on Twitter. In the Christian community, the best known Christian leaders appeared to mostly stay away from tweeting their thoughts on the debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney.
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10/03/2012Tyndale House Publishers Joins Ranks Filing Lawsuits Against Abortion Pill Mandate
One of the largest privately held Christian publishers of books, Bibles, and digital media filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Obama administration's abortion pill or "preventative services" mandate. Tyndale House Publishers is subject to the mandate because it classifies for-profit corporations as categorically non-religious, even though the company publishes strictly Bibles and other Christian materials and is owned by the nonprofit Tyndale House Foundation.
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10/03/2012Greg Laurie Answers 'Why All This Chaos in Middle East?'
Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship church took the opportunity during his Sunday sermon series on the book of Revelation to talk about the current events in the Middle East as it relates to Bible prophecy. He also pointed to the controversy during the Democratic National Convention over the party's vote on including Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in its platform as highly ironic.
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10/02/2012'Mugged' Interview: Ann Coulter on Faith, Liberals, and Civil Rights
Never known to mince words, conservative political commentator Ann Coulter is doing a lot of talking about her recently released book, "Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama." Her media book tour comes just in time to mix it up with political pundits during peak election season.
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10/02/2012Church of Nazarene Steers Clear of Protesting Reverend, Petition Against Hobby Lobby
The Church of the Nazarene, an evangelical Christian denomination, has made it clear that it does not endorse a petition presented by one of its reverends on behalf of a social activist group demanding Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. drop its lawsuit opposing the Health and Human Services "preventive services" mandate.
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09/30/2012Assemblies of God Launches '7:14 Prayer Initiative' Ahead of Presidential Election
Leaders at Assemblies of God USA, one of the largest Pentecostal denominations in the nation, say the country is facing a time of crisis like no other and are asking Christians to join them in a "7:14 Prayer Initiative" (based on 2 Chronicles 7:14) beginning today (Sept. 30) and continuing through the presidential election.
92 comments | Tags Barack Obama Economic Crisis Church Bodies Denomination Politics 2012 Race Romney - 09/28/2012
Hobby Lobby Stands Ground Against Group Asking to Drop HHS Lawsuit
A petition with 80,000 signatures brought forward by a social activist group demanding that Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. drop its lawsuit opposing the Health and Human Services "preventive services" mandate is misleading and wrong, says a lawyer for the Christian family-owned nationwide business.
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09/27/2012Leading Christian Apologist Says '2016' Producer 'Cracked the Code' on Obama
Politics will take center stage on the first day of one of the largest Christian apologetics conferences in the U.S. when The King's College President Dinesh D'Souza, who co-produced "2016: Obama's America," will take part in a Q & A with leading apologist Alex McFarland after a showing of the movie.
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09/26/2012'2016: Obama's America' Producers Say 'Dirty Tricks' Used to Stop Moviegoers
Producers of the movie "2016: Obama's America" say there was an organized effort to drive viewers away from the theatrical showing of the successful documentary this past weekend by posting illegally uploaded copies on YouTube. The effort included a disinformation campaign that spread the rumor that Fox News Channel planned to show the movie in its entirety last Sunday, filmmakers said.
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