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The Chamber hosted its 100th annual awards banquet Thursday at The Legacy, honoring businesses and volunteers. Elizabeth Cockerham, East Texas Deputy Regional Director for Senator Cornyn, read a ...

Explore the inspiring journey of Reverend Dr Simon Dingane Gumbi, a dedicated evangelist whose unwavering commitment to ...

Servant of God Rhoda Wise (1888-1948), a Catholic laywoman, was a wife, mother, and convert from Canton, Ohio. Born to ...

Author Gwen La Count Meyer leans on her experience ministering to thousands in the arena of spiritual warfare and prayer to remind believers that they deserve freedom from the unspoken life ...

Fermín A. Whittaker, the longest-tenured executive director of California Southern Baptist Convention (CSBC), died Friday, Feb. 7, at his Nashville home after a lengthy illness. He was ...

Love can make people do crazy things. Here's our list of 10 of the creepiest love songs, including tunes by The Police, The Beatles, Tyler, the Creator, Neil Diamond and more.

We can all too flippantly use the term "God willing", while not really appreciating what God's will might be. He has made some of his will plain, but there is much about the future we can not know.

This is the 50th anniversary of Billy Connolly’s first appearance on the chat show Parkinson, the moment that the comedian became a huge star.

Explore the impactful roles women played in spreading the Gospel in the New Testament, from the Samaritan woman to Mary ...

you will find Jesus. And you will learn a bit more about what is in the heart of God, who humbles himself, discarding all manifestations of his power and majesty to take the form of a servant.

16:19, Jesus is making reference to the rite of succession found in the Book of Isaiah: In that day I (God) will call my servant Eliakim ... but for setting a bad example. (As an aside, St ...