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Is God dead?| Teleology’s true tale
Over the last few weeks, we concluded that based on scientific observation and evidence from the cosmos, and evidence that there was a First Cause that caused the universe to begin to exist. From there we were able to make some general conclusions about the nature of this First Cause.…
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PASTOR’S CORNER: Keep your joy in 2025
There is a kind of joy that is more than a good feeling based on good things happening to us. Happiness can slip away with the next unpleasant circumstance. The joy that comes from following Jesus can thrive despite those circumstances. Keep your joy!
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Is God dead?| But who made God?
For the last few weeks, we have been standing on the back porch with the Bible skeptic Michael, gazing at the stars. We have been working our way through the simple argument:
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PASTOR’S CORNER: Sell out and thrive in 2025
Community, you feel good when you just let some things go. Holding on to things, stuff and people can weigh you down and take the very life out of you.
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Local author Felicia Pressley-Melvin releases 4th faith-based book
LAURINBURG — Local author and motivational speaker Felicia Pressley-Melvin recently published her fourth book, “Press and Let God Do the Rest Workbook,” a companion piece to the first book she wrote of the same name.
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MOVIE IN REVIEW | Wolf of them days
Since two new releases made about $11 million each at the domestic box office this past weekend, and since I don’t have much to say about either movie, I’ve decided to throw them both a quick review.
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Local rehabilitated clears 3rd round in online competition
LAUREL HILL — Jessica Brown and Brodie Dunham will never forget the day their little family expanded from two dogs to three.
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Is God dead?| The stars and cold coffee
Last week, standing with the Bible skeptic Michael on the common ground that science affords, we continued to look to the stars to see what we might learn. What we have been looking for is evidence that the universe had a beginning, because if the universe had a beginning, then…
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MOVIE IN REVIEW | ‘Den of Thieves’ sequel is only mildly disposable
It’s an odd choice to do a sequel to the 2018 heist movie “Den of Thieves” in 2025. The first film made less than $50 million at the domestic box office and to my knowledge doesn’t have much of a cult following. I didn’t see that film at the time,…
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J.A. Bolton | Farming season is winding down
“Farming season is winding down” was a term my granddaddy used a lot in September and the first of October every year. You see he was a small tobacco farmer from the Sandhills of Richmond County.
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Is God dead?| What the star say
Last week we stepped out onto the back porch with the Bible skeptic Michael, and we looked up at the moon and the stars and the planets. From this common ground we asked ourselves this question; “Did the universe have a beginning, or has it always been here?” The answer…
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PASTOR’S CORNER: Leaving it all behind in 2024
We should not take anything with us into 2025 that is no good.
