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2 weeks ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
Baylor University in Waco, Texas, is the latest American college to witness what appears to be a wave of Christian renewal and awakening among young people and particularly college students. During what has become an annual prayer and worship effort called FM72, thousands of students gathered over 72 hours from Sunday, March 31, to Wednesday, April 2.
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3 weeks ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
As Bob Zook sat in his recliner early that morning of Feb. 22, 2024, crushing fatigue pressed hard on his frail body. He had struggled to the coffee maker and then to his favorite chair. Every morning, steaming java in hand, he would sit down, fully on his terms. That day, though, simple physics prevailed over human will. By God’s grace Bob had landed safely in the chair, but he had essentially fallen into it. Ever the problem solver, Bob’s mind switched to planning mode.
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1 month ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
A quarter century after Billy Graham convened the Amsterdam 2000 gathering, which helped prepare more than 10,000 Christian leaders for the task of global evangelism, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is convening another milestone gathering of evangelicals for the purpose of spurring Gospel advancement.
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2 months ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
The Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm has launched a campaign asking Congress to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. “For too long, taxpayer dollars, $700 million last year alone, have been given to this organization that profits from ending life. It is outrageous that promises that have been made for years now have never been turned into real results,” the petition on the website of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) states.
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2 months ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
When Jonathan Pokluda was preparing to speak at a college worship gathering at Auburn University in the fall of 2023, the Waco, Texas, pastor was expecting a respectable crowd: maybe 500 students. After all, it was smack in the middle of football season in Alabama, and the event had only been in the works six weeks. In fact, Pokluda had initially declined on such short notice.
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2 months ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
The day after the January wildfires in Los Angeles County began to rage, Scott Lasch, a BGEA-trained chaplain and a former police officer from Long Beach, California, knew the call would come. The historically destructive blazes, fueled by high winds, roared across thousands of acres and miles of homes and businesses along the arid ridges, hillsides and even beachfronts in Pacific Palisades and Malibu, and in the Pasadena and Altadena suburbs 30 miles to the east.
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2 months ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
President Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order that bans federal funding and promotion of surgeries and treatments aimed at “transitioning” patients under the age of 19 to a gender other than their birth sex. “Across the country today,” the order states, “medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
A Christian evangelist who had led 18 Muslims in eastern Uganda to faith in Jesus Christ was beaten to death after being confronted by a group of young Islamists, Morning Star News reported. According to Morning Star’s East Africa correspondent, 29-year-old evangelist Emmanuel Dikusooka, a husband and father of three young children, and a fellow church member, Jack Mbulante, were confronted on a bridge by a gang of Islamic extremists three days into an evangelistic campaign in Kaliro town.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
Buffer zone laws around abortion clinics in England and Wales went into effect Oct. 31, prohibiting pro-lifers from engaging with patients, staff or others within 150 meters—or about 492 feet—of the abortion facilities.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
As night fell on the spacious outdoor Piazza del Plebiscito, purple stage lights synced with music that echoed across the square’s grandiose buildings in bustling Naples, Italy, creating a curiosity for those nearby. The crowd of a few thousand who had shown up while the sun still shone had swollen by sundown to an estimated 21,000 people, many of them standing.
