Charlotte Man Who Proclaims ‘Jesus Saves’ Attacked by Protesters During RNC

Charlotte Man Who Proclaims ‘Jesus Saves’ Attacked by Protesters During RNC By Tré Goins-Phillips for Faith Wire Sam Bethea is no stranger to what can happen on the streets in Charlotte. Before turning his life around, Bethea was in and out of jail 29 times. Now, though, he spends his time differently: he uses it to share the Gospel. “Most people think of me as a street preacher, but I’m really not preaching on the streets, so to say,” Bethea said during an interview last year with podcaster Tiffani Lewis. “I’m…

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A Brief History Of Chocolate – And Some Of Its Surprising Health Benefits

A Brief History Of Chocolate – And Some Of Its Surprising Health Benefits By Liam Corr, University of Huddersfield for Natural Blaze Chocolate in all its forms is something that I, along with many others like to indulge in on an almost daily basis. But chocolate as it’s enjoyed today is quite different from when it first arrived in Europe from South America around the 16th century. To the indigenous Aztec people, cocoa was consumed as a drink and held great cultural and medicinal significance. It was almost viewed as a panacea that could cure various…

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Pay With Your Face In California — Welcome To Dystopia Coming Soon to You

Pay With Your Face In California — Welcome To Dystopia Coming Soon to You by Aaron Kesel for Activist Post In the future you won’t need a microchip implanted into your hand or forehead for payments, no, instead you’ll just need your smiling face. Welcome to facial recognition dystopia! A tech company called PopID says that it has helped dozens of retailers and restaurants in Pasadena, Calif., establish “the nation’s first dense ‘face-pay’ network.” So what in the hell is a “face pay network?” PopPay is a facial recognition payment solution that can allow contactless,…

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Does It Ever Feel As If God’s Plan Doesn’t Make Sense? (Podcast)

Does It Ever Feel As If God’s Plan Doesn’t Make Sense? Podcast by Pastor Ravi Zacharias for RZIM Part 1 Podcast HERE >>> Does it ever feel like God’s plan doesn’t make any sense? On today’s episode of Just Thinking, RZIM Speaker, Vince Vitale, and RZIM’s Founder, the late Ravi Zacharias, share the importance of timing during a Q&A session at the University of Florida. Part 2 Podcast HERE >>> Is gender something that is given to us or something we need to create ourselves? This is a tough topic,…

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Army doctor at RNC who became nun: ‘I’m not just pro-life. I’m pro–eternal life’

Army doctor at RNC who became nun: ‘I’m not just pro-life. I’m pro–eternal life’ By Dorothy Cummings McLean for Life Site News Sister Deirdre Byrne, a nun who was formerly a colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, gave a knock-out speech at the Republican National Convention last night. A religious sister who was formerly a colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps gave a knock-out speech at the Republican National Convention last night, moving from a description of her recent work with refugees to her concern for the unborn.…

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WHY WE CAN’T LAMENT WITHOUT LISTENING

WHY WE CAN’T LAMENT WITHOUT LISTENING by Mark Vroegop for Core Christianity Listening I want to help you take some first steps toward reconciliation through listening. We’ll examine the connection between lament, spirituals, and racial harmony. The spirituals provide rich history and important truths. In the fivefold vision for conversations about racial reconciliation (love, listen, lament, learn, and leverage), if we don’t begin with the right posture, no amount of information or discussion will help. Before we look at the spirituals, let’s consider three ways laments help us listen, especially…

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Evangelizing Your World (Podcast)

Evangelizing Your World Podcast by Pastor John MacArthur for Grace to You Podcast HERE >>>   I am really privileged to share this week in the marketplace, even though I’m probably the last guy qualified to talk about what it’s like to live in a secular environment. I live in a Christian hot house. I go from the church, to the college, to the seminary, to Grace to You, and never meet an unbeliever anywhere. My neighbors avoid me like the plague. If they see me coming, they run in…

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America’s Metastasizing Class Wars

America’s Metastasizing Class Wars by Charles Hugh Smith for Of Two Minds Class wars are the inevitable result of an economic system in which ‘anything goes if you’re rich enough and winners take most’. The traditional class war has been waged between wage-earners (who sell their labor) and their employers (owners of capital and the means of production).These classes have been assigned various names (proletariat, bourgeoisie, capitalists, etc.) but these broad class definitions don’t describe all the class conflicts emerging in the modern U.S. economy. Before we dig deeper, let’s…

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