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Support, love follow recent heartbreak

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Whenever we need God most, we cry out to Him the loudest. Through pain, anxiety, fear, stress, sorrow and death we ask God for help, deliverance, healing and strength. The prayers are always answered. But not always in the way we want. Sunday night, a sweet young man, whose story touched the hearts and lives of many, went to his heavenly home. ... [Read More…]

Christmas films: my favorite five

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For those of us in college, especially from out of state, the holiday season is the time of the year when we finally return home to spend some quality time with friends and family. And what better way to spend that time than by sitting on the couch and watching Christmas movies. So without further ado, here are my top five favorite Christmas ... [Read More…]

In real world, you must take the ones with the zeros

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They say there are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary code and those who don't. For the latter half, it's basically the bare-bones of any code that goes through a computer processor, where billions of zeroes and ones come together to create text, images, video and basically anything electronically seen or heard. When I ... [Read More…]

‘Black Friday’ casts shadow over thanks

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Thanksgiving is a time that many look forward to. It is a time to give thanks and be happy for everything that we have been blessed with and to spend time with our loved ones. We have one special day to reflect on our blessing but Black Friday now takes away from that meaning. Retailers have shifted our focus from a day to be thankful, to a day ... [Read More…]

Time to rethink what defines me

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In high school I used to listen to a song called "Identity." One of the lyrics say, "He still finds his identity in looks and cars, but if only he knew he didn't have to look so hard. But if he looked in God." I think this is true for many of us today. We tend to define ourselves by the material things that we accumulate, our social status, and ... [Read More…]

The apologetics of CORE poetry

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I was a second-semester freshman, sitting in CORE 120, worried about our in-class assignment. Dr. Steven Moore had just told me and the other 70 students in the class we had 10 minutes to write a poem. The only other guideline: we had use the phrase "blue sweater". The 10 minutes expired all too quickly. I'd barely written poetry before, and had ... [Read More…]

Downtown Abilene’s much needed facelift

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At 1:17 a.m., the line is a twenty minute wait. Almost every table is filled with college students from ACU, Hardin Simmons and McMurry. Several cops sit together to make sure nothing gets out of control. Business is booming as usual at Whataburger. But what else are college students supposed to do after midnight? Or even after 10 p.m.? The sad ... [Read More…]

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