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A Marriage Redeemed – One Woman’s Story of Redemption

Marisa Zeppieri Caruana
2 Feb 2011
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Deborah Ross has a story to share – a journey that weaves together almost losing everything and joining it to an ending that is filled with redemption and faith. Coming from a divorced family, Deborah promised herself that she would never go through a divorce. When her marriage began to crumble, she admits that the thought did cross her mind: “Satan threw his biggest ball at me, and I did consider getting divorced. Then I took some time and really thought about God’s Word and my children. I did not want them to grow up having the same insecurities that […]

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South Florida Men’s Conference

Bryon Mondok
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“Men attending Christian churches every Sunday are facing overwhelming opposition,” says Pastor Martin Vargas of Sheridan Hills Ministries. In 2004, on a memorably cold day in January, Vargas gathered together a handful of men to travel to a men’s event held in Woodstock, Georgia. The theme of the gathering was Grace for the Race. For the next few years, the group of men Vargas took to Woodstock grew. In 2007, they decided to have a men’s conference in South Florida with Pastor Johnny Hunt of First Baptist Church of Woodstock as the keynote speaker. The first South Florida Men’s Conference […]

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For The Love of Men

Marisa Zeppieri Caruana
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Greg Arnold is on a mission – a mission to help men “live boldly” by connecting Christ with every aspect of their daily lives. Shortly after the beginning of this new year, Greg, the founder of Core12 Ministries, launched an innovative and one of a kind e-zine for men – or “men-zine”, as he likes to call it.  The Live Bold e-zine, available at www.livebold.org, is breaking through the barriers and issues that have caused many faith-based men’s print magazines to become casualties. Greg’s plan of action included tearing down the walls of old school publishing, such as aging and […]

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The Corruptible

Anitra Parmele
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Ray Quinn is cynical, bitter and somewhat aimless. You can’t really blame him. Crippled by a gunman’s bullet, Ray was forced into retiring from his life as an Orlando homicide detective. His new life is bookended by his two “friends” Jim and Joe. Ray relies on Jim Beam to get him to sleep and a “cup of joe” to wake him up. That bullet that crippled Ray? There were more where that came from- one of which struck and killed his partner, Tricia, with whom he had just begun to express his tender, and tentative, love to. Lost in the […]

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Happily Ever After?

Marisa Zeppieri Caruana
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February, the month of love, has finally arrived! For many, it is a time filled with excitement, admiration and a chance for them to show love to the “object of their affection”. For others, this month can be a reminder of difficulties that they make be experiencing in their marital life. Couples that are currently going through a difficult time in their marriage may feel a twinge of resentment and frustration as the “lover’s holiday”, approaches – asking themselves, ‘Where has the love gone in my relationship?” For anyone who is in the midst of turmoil in their relationship and […]

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See it

The Good News
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Each year, three thousand kids in South Florida are taken from their homes and placed in the foster care system. What is it like for a young child to leave the only life they’ve known–albeit a life of neglect and abuse–and start the unknown journey toward hope and healing? Walking through a crisis 4KIDS of South Florida, an organization providing hope for kids in crisis, invites the general public to an unforgettable 4-D interactive evening on Feb. 25 and 26 at the Banyan Air Service hangar in Fort Lauderdale. Participants will see, feel, and experience the true-life story of a […]

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Having a good laugh with Taylor Mason

Anitra Parmele
1 Feb 2011
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A man walks into a church holding a life size pig puppet. The pig says… Have you heard this one before? Then you might have seen comedian, musician and ventriloquist Taylor Mason on one of the Thou Shalt Laugh DVD’s, Gaither Homecoming Concert Tour DVD’s, or at one of his numerous concerts around the country. Taylor grew up the son of a radio farm broadcaster and a stay-at-home mom in suburban Chicago. After discovering that his ability to make people laugh wasn’t restrained to his college classmates, Taylor began working in the piano bars that dotted Chicago. The next several […]

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A podcast a day helps keep your troubles away

Marisa Zeppieri Caruana
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What better way to prepare yourself for the trials and tribulations of life than to arm yourself with the Word of God. One man is on a mission – to bring God’s Word to the world, every single day, via podcast. Early one December morning, 2005, Brian Hardin woke up to a thought he had never had before – to podcast the entire Bible. His first reaction to this odd idea was, “I would never do that.” But the compelling desire to act out this thought never left him; instead, it continued to grow as the days went by. After […]

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Do You Have Crazy Love For God?

Bryon Mondok
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“Am I showing God the kind of crazy love that I ought to be showing him?” asks Pastor and New York Time bestselling author, Francis Chan. “…God has become so familiar to us that He becomes common.” He wrote Crazy Love to give some perspective to a church whose members are in the comfortable habit of avoiding the things that make God mad. An online video accompanies each chapter of Crazy Love. In each video, Chan gives a brief talk expanding on the concepts in the book. It’s a nice personal touch that challenges a reader to take steps to […]

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Interview with Dr. John Sowers of The Mentoring Project

Bryon Mondok
14 Jan 2011
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Dr. John Sowers is the president of The Mentoring Project which was founded by New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller. Sowers mission at The Mentoring Project is to rewrite the stories of fatherless young men. The Mentoring Project received the faith-based Partner of the Year Award in 2010 from Big Brothers and Big Sisters, the oldest and most established mentoring organization in America. Dr. Sowers released a book in September 2010 called Fatherless Generation. I caught up with Dr. Sowers to discuss his book and the issue of fatherlessness. As both the product of a broken home and former […]

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