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Optimum Bank Partners with Habitat for Humanity to Provide Loans

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3 Jul 2025
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Optimum Bank, Habitat for Humanity, Good News Media Group, July 2025

Optimum Bank (NYSE American: OPHC) proudly announces a new partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Broward to provide zero interest mortgage loans to six families facing housing affordability challenges. This collaboration reflects a shared commitment to expanding access to affordable housing, promoting financial security, and strengthening communities in Broward County. Optimum Bank Helps Out With Housing Costs With housing costs on the rise, many hardworking families striving for homeownership are left with few options. By eliminating interest payments, Optimum Bank’s zero interest mortgage loans help bridge that gap, making homeownership more attainable and sustainable. The program also includes post-closing education […]

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Joseph D. Kenner: Caring for Those Experiencing Homelessness – Who Do You See?

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In the noise of daily life, we often overlook the quiet suffering around us. People experiencing homelessness — men, women and children living on the margins — are easy to pass by, even easier to ignore. When you hear the word “homelessness,” what comes to mind? Who do you see?   Chronic homelessness Do you picture a man sleeping on a bench or a woman holding a sign at a stoplight? Most likely, these individuals are those experiencing what is called chronic homelessness, often involving long-term housing instability, mental illness or addiction. But what if I told you that homelessness […]

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Joseph D. Kenner, HOPE South Florida, Good News Media Group, July 2025

Dr. Bob Barnes and Torrey Roberts: Taming the Artful Arguers in Your Home

Dr. Bob Barnes and Torrey Roberts
2 Jul 2025
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Dr. Bob Barnes and Torrey Roberts, Sheridan House Family Ministries, Good News Media Group, July 2025

One of the things that can wear on a parent’s nerves, especially during summertime is arguing. It is good for your lawyer to enjoy arguing because that is what they are trained to do, but perhaps that is why some children do a lot of arguing. As parents, we may have inadvertently trained our child to argue. If you have a child who constantly argues about everything, ask yourself “Why?”  When he does not get what he wants, does he argue?  Does he whine?  Does his arguing or temper tantrum get him what he wants? After a while, does he […]

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Dr. O.S. Hawkins: Discrimination

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Dr. O.S. Hawkins, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Good News Media Group, July 2025

“My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality. For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, ‘You sit here in a good place,’ and say to the poor man, ‘You stand there,’ or, ‘Sit here at my footstool,’ have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brethren: […]

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Stephan Tchividjian: Shiny Rocks

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A 1986 movie entitled, “The Mission” tells a story of violence, tragedy, sin, penance, forgiveness, conversion and restoration. In one iconic scene the character, mercenary and slaver Rodrigo Mendoza, played by Robert De Niro must carry a large bag filled with weighted items wherever he went, to signify his sin and his punishment. The burden was excruciating, especially as they journeyed through the harsh rainforest and up the side of a slippery and ferocious waterfall. The climactic scene of the story is when Mendoza is released of his burdens and forgiven for his murderous behavior in view of his enemies by […]

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Stephan Tchividjian, National Christian Foundation South Florida, Good News Media Group, July 2025

Holy Cross Health Family Health Center Opens in Oakland Park

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Holy Cross, Good News Media Group, July 2025

A ribbon cutting ceremony marked the opening of The Holy Cross Health Family Health Center in June. The Center addresses the diverse needs of the local community and serves as a centralized hub for a wide array of healthcare services for patients of all ages, as well as job-readiness and support service programs for adults. Through a comprehensive community health needs assessment conducted in 2021, it became clear that accessible outpatient health care services were urgently needed in east Broward County for adults and children. Services at the Holy Cross Health Family Health Center will include primary care, annual wellness […]

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Dr. David Lema: My Friend Pride

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Hey, Pride! How are you? Doing well? Yeah. Good. In the show NCIS: New Orleans the name of the main character is Dwayne Pride played by Scott Bacula. I always wondered how having your name be the primary sin in the list of seven would make me react. Pride and I have always had a very interesting relationship. Sometimes I call and he comes. Sometimes he calls and I show up. Sometimes I do not call, and he shows up anyway. Pride shows up as a friend, but he is one of my worst enemies.    The problem with pride […]

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Dr. David Lema, Relate Well Live Well, Good News Media Group, July 2025

Les Feldman: New York, New York :'(

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Leslie J. Feldman, Good News Media Group, July 2025

I am deeply concerned about the recent developments in the New York City mayoral primary. The leading Democratic candidate, who appears to have secured victory in the heavily populated Democratic city, is poised to become the next mayor of New York, with incumbent 31-year-old New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, an avowed socialist, campaigning on a platform to defund the police and espousing strident rhetoric, including “no aid or support for Israel” and a threat to arrest Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, if he visits New York. I have sought wisdom, guided by biblical principles, recognizing that a new leader in America’s largest […]

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Can you share a moment when your faith helped you through a leadership challenge?

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Leading an organization can sometimes be a daunting task. This month, Good News Wants to Know… Can you share a moment when your faith helped you through a leadership challenge? There are so many times that the Good Lord got me through leadership challenges, that it is hard to just pick one. However, the most recent and long standing one was certainly dealing with a Church related controversy, when acting as a Trustee and the Church attorney. In times of turmoil, you stay on your knees if you are smart. So, without going into detail, I will leave it at […]

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Good News Meda Group, July 2021