March 8, 2016
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Aaron Reinicke was one of 10 children raised in a Christian home. He knew right from wrong, yet by the time he reached legal age, his life had become quite careless. The mess began when he stumbled upon some pornography. ...
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March 8, 2016
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Jeff Bramstedt was working out at a local gym as part of an intense regimen to keep himself fit for service as a Navy SEAL when a stranger tentatively approached him. “He said, ‘I know that God has something very ...
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February 12, 2016
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Josh Collier was watching a promotional video, his first created as the new executive director of San Diego Youth for Christ. It featured one of the young teens transformed by the ministry’s local outreach. “The girl in the video says, ...
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February 4, 2016
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How do you say goodbye to a child you gave up through abortion? Cara and Marcus, grief-stricken over the choice they made, decided to hold a private memorial service for a child they believed to have been a girl. Just ...
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January 30, 2016
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Daybreak Church in Carlsbad has launched an online crowdfunding account for the widow of one of their missionaries, who was killed in car crash in early December while ministering in South Africa. Reg Cowie, who was serving in South Africa ...
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January 29, 2016
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Six months after his parents moved from California to Uruguay with as missionaries in 1990, Steven Kunkel stopped speaking. His parents first thought their 1-year-old had culture shock, but they knew something else was wrong when he did not speak ...
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January 26, 2016
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Thirteen months ago, as families across San Diego County were preoccupied with the trappings of Christmas, law enforcement officials interrupted the season of light with the reality of the region’s dark underbelly after announcing the infiltration of a national human ...
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December 29, 2015
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Rejecting fearmongering about the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the U.S., about 100 evangelical leaders are calling on Christians and their churches “to support ministries showing the love of Jesus to the most vulnerable, those in desperate need, and the hurting.” ...
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December 22, 2015
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Rachel Hudson was trying hard to concentrate on her breathing and ever-increasing contractions as she and her husband André were about to welcome their third daughter, Avery. But there were persistent distractions that often kept her mind away from the ...
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December 22, 2015
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Trading the comfort of their home for the sterile environment of Rady Children’s Hospital, André and Rachel Hudson were overwhelmed by the learning curve associated with pineoblastoma, the pediatric brain cancer that was attacking their toddler, Olivia. Besides learning a ...
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