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Headline headline headline headline Live Oak Community Church, 10710 Frankford Ave., will host a live broadcast of the Willow Creek Association’s Global Leadership Summit on Aug. 9-10.The summit aims...
View ArticleEpiscopal bishops approve trial prayer for blessing gay couples at national...
Episcopal bishops approved an official prayer service for blessing same-sex couples Monday at a national convention that also cleared the way for transgender ordination.read more
View ArticleGloria Dei Lutheran Church names Jeffrey Vayda pastor
Jeffrey Vayda will be installed as the new pastor of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 1706 Slide Road, on Sept. 23.Assistant Bishop Jane Mar of the Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana Synod of the Evangelical...
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Church to teach how to double class size Redbud Baptist Church and the Lubbock Area Baptist Association Present: “You Can Double Your Class in Two Years or Less,” led by Josh Hunt, renowned author and...
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Leadership summit to be broadcast Live Oak Community Church, 10710 Frankford Ave., will host a live broadcast of the Willow Creek Association’s Global Leadership Summit on Thursday through Friday.The...
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One Way Church holding raffle today One Way Church will be holding a raffle from 1 to 4 p.m. today at Home Plate Diner, 7615 University Ave. Tickets will be $5 per ticket or five tickets for $20....
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Second Baptist marks 54th year The Second Baptist Church of Lubbock, 6109 Chicago Ave., is celebrating its 54th anniversary this weekend with the church’s version of a Ragin’ Cajun Jazz Fest with jazz...
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Second Baptist marks 54th year The Second Baptist Church of Lubbock, 6109 Chicago Ave., is celebrating its 54th anniversary this weekend.Today at 10:45 a.m. the celebration continues with a worship...
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Committee honors clean organizations Kenna Green Insurance Agency, 10309 Indiana Ave.; Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 10308 Indiana Ave.; and Calvert Home Health Care, 10207 Indiana Ave., received...
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Adopt an Angel by Dec. 19 from the Salvation Army The Salvation Army offers holiday shoppers the opportunity to adopt a child or senior through the Angel Tree Program that runs Nov. 16 through Dec. 19....
View ArticleChurch of England says no to female bishops; more years of debate likely to...
LONDON — The Church of England's governing body blocked a move Tuesday to permit women to serve as bishops in a vote so close it failed to settle the question of female leadership and likely condemned...
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Wesley United Methodist Church will hold its 32nd-annual Festival of Arts and Crafts from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 1 at the Community Center in Hereford. Booth fees are $10 and space is limited....
View ArticleLopez: Businesses are being forced into unfair choices
In essence, if you are Catholic in this country you no longer can own a company,” said Frank O’Brien.O’Brien, a St. Louis distributor, is one of more than 42 plaintiffs suing the federal Department of...
View ArticleDo gays need a church of their own anymore?
On that Sunday in 1968 when Troy Perry borrowed a minister’s robe and started a church for gays in his living room, the world was a very different place.Perry’s Metropolitan Community Churches was then...
View ArticleSome question whether gay-centered Christian churches are needed anymore
On that Sunday in 1968 when Troy Perry borrowed a minister’s robe and started a church for gays in his living room, the world was a very different place.Perry’s Metropolitan Community Churches was then...
View ArticleReport: Son of US Sen. Rand Paul arrested for underage drinking, disorderly...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's son reportedly was charged with underage drinking and disorderly conduct on a flight from Kentucky to North Carolina.read more
View ArticleWreckem247: Blue-chip OL sets visit
Blue-chip offensive lineman Joshua Outlaw of Lithonia (Ga.) Martin Luther King holds offers from several of the nations top programs and lists the Red Raiders in his topread more
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25 yearsA group from the Central Baptist W.M.S. will attend a district Women’s Missionary session convention at the First Baptist Church in Morton today.50 yearsA tentative proposal to change the...
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■ Assumed Name: Kauffman and Humphrey’s Real Estate; Owner: Kauffman and Humphreys LLC■ Assumed Name: Kauffman and Humphrey’s Real Estate; Owner: Lynne Humphrey’s■ Assumed Name: Rapid Resurrection of...
View ArticleMost of Fla. house over sinkhole demolished
SEFFNER, Fla. — Crews on Sunday razed more than half of the Tampa-area home perched over a huge sinkhole that swallowed a man three days ago, managing to salvage some keepsakes for family members who...
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