Samuel Smith

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  Apr 9, 2019

  Mark DeYmaz shares how churches can generate multiple sources of income by leveraging their assets

  Prominent multiethnic church movement leader Mark DeYmaz is warning that tithes and offerings will no longer be enough to sustain healthy churches and suggests that congregations look for alternatives like creating for-profit businesses to generate more revenue.

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  Apr 7, 2019

  Rwanda genocide 25 years later: How a Christian nation overcomes its troubling past

  Although just two-and-a-half decades removed from the brutal murder of nearly 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus by extremist Hutus and security forces, the predominantly-Christian country today looks much different than it did in the summer and spring of 1994.

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  Apr 7, 2019

  Ronnie Floyd talks about leaving church he pastored for 32 years, leading SBC Executive Committee

  Arkansas megachurch pastor and author Ronnie Floyd will step down from his pastoral role after being elected this week to serve as the next head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee.

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  Apr 6, 2019

  Genocide killer turned 'prophet' led thousands of Rwandan prisoners to Christ and repentance 

  Callixte Karemangingo was among the thousands of Rwandans incited by extremist propaganda and nefarious leaders in government to carry out one of the worst atrocities the world has ever seen.

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  Apr 3, 2019

  Churches unite Rwanda genocide victims and killers to empower communities

  Farmer Habarurema Bosco did not feel like a human anymore after losing all of his family in the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi minority that saw the loss of about 1 million lives.

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  Apr 3, 2019

  Would the discovery of alien life disprove Christianity and the Bible?

  As there is believed to be billions of planets in the universe, the theological implications that the discovery of intelligent alien life would have was overviewed at the recent BioLogos conference.

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  Apr 2, 2019

  Megachurch pastor John Ortberg: Christians often dismissive of science for 'no good reason'

  Silicon Valley megachurch pastor and author John Ortberg is calling on Christians to be less dismissive of scientific discoveries, suggesting that passing uninformed judgments on scientific theory is not a way to love God with “all your mind.”

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  Apr 1, 2019

  Wheaton scholars pen first 'Origins' college textbook bridging the Bible to ‘mainline science’

  Wheaton College professors have penned what is believed to be the first college-level textbook outlining mainstream scientific theories on origins of life and how they fit within a biblical framework, something they say has been lacking in Christian higher education for decades.

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  Mar 31, 2019

  NIH Director Francis Collins details his path to Christ after living as an atheist

  National Institutes of Health Director and world-renowned biologist Francis Collins shared the long process of how he was led to faith in Christ after an encounter with a terminally-ill patient left him pondering one of life’s great existential questions.

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  Mar 28, 2019

  Minnesota sues school district for making trans student use 'enhanced' locker room

  The Minnesota Department of Human Rights is suing a school district that built an “enhanced” locker room to accommodate the privacy needs of a biologically female trans-identified student who's competing on the boys’ swim team.