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Controversy surrounded megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll after his Mother’s Day post on X, which some felt was inappropriate. On May 10th, which also marks the second Sunday in May, when the U.S. celebrates Mother’s Day, Driscoll tweeted, “Mary was a teen mom, and Jesus had no earthly father. It’s a good thing there was no…

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A dried up river in the Middle East could be the key to the end times. The Euphrates River, which spans 1,800 miles through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq has been shrinking at an alarming rate according to researchers. Satellite data dating from 2003 shows that river has lost some 34 cubic miles of freshwater. A…

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A megachurch pastor has gone on record claiming that President Trump’s understanding of the Biblical role of government surpasses that of Pope Leo XIV. Pastor Robert Jefress of First Baptist Dallas went on “Fox News Live” just a few days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio attended a meeting with the Pope. “The Pope is…

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John Piper is weighing in on one of Christianity’s most debated questions: what happens immediately after a believer dies? During an episode of “Ask Pastor John,” the longtime pastor and founder of Desiring God firmly rejected the doctrine known as “soul sleep,” the belief that a person becomes unconscious after death until the final resurrection.…

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Archaeologists have uncovered a statue of the Pharoah some believe may have been the Pharoah who faced off against Moses in the book of Exodus. Researchers discovered a fragment of a statue that they believe depicts Ramesses II in the Tel Faraon archaeological site near El Husseiniya along the Nile Delta. The statue is described…

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