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Nearly 100 students have been baptized as part of a growing worship gathering at a Colorado Christian high school, where students are coming together after athletic events to worship, share testimonies and publicly declare their faith. Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch has seen 96 students baptized during five of the “5th Quarter” gatherings…

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Hundreds of people walked into a North Carolina lake and emerged from the water having publicly declared their faith in Jesus Christ during a record-setting day for one local church. Biltmore Church baptized 458 people during its annual Outdoor Baptism event in September marking the largest single-day baptism in the congregation’s 137-year history. The multisite…

The Potter’s House of Dallas / YouTube
Celebrities, fellow pastors and his Dallas megachurch’s next-generation leaders celebrated Bishop T.D. Jakes’ 50th anniversary of ministry during a service Sunday (Sept. 13), as he thanked his congregation and family for their support during a tenure in which he “dared to be talked about.” “We can imagine, but we don’t know how much it cost…

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A 2,000-year-old ring bearing the name of Pontius Pilate is getting a fresh interpretation — and researchers say it could help explain a detail in the biblical account of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. The ancient copper-alloy ring was discovered at Herodium, a fortress in the Judean desert, during excavations in the 1960s. It remained in storage…

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After a decade of excavations along the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists say they have identified the long-lost biblical city of Bethsaida, the setting of several events recorded in the Gospels and the hometown of three of Jesus’ apostles. Steven Notley, a biblical scholar and academic director of the El-Araj Excavation Project, says he is now…
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