Why self-discipline is crucial for your health

By Chris Fields Discipline seems to be a glossed-over aspect of Christianity, which seems odd and contradictory since the word “Christian” denotes the practice of a particular discipline, the...
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Type 2 diabetes? Maybe, maybe not

By Chris Fields Recently at the grocery store, I ran into a close friend I hadn’t spoken to in a while, who told me he’d been diagnosed with prediabetes. At our healthcare center, diabetes and other...
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Make sure your heart is in the right place

Submitted by St. Dominic’s When it comes to matters of heart health, your heart is in the right place at St. Dominic’s Mississippi Heart & Vascular Institute. Our cardiovascular experts are...
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4 tips to see a new you in the new year

By Chris Fields New year, new me! Right? This seems to be the theme we all take on at the beginning of the year. However, we really aren’t looking to significantly alter our day-to-day. What we’re...
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Jump into the new year with both feet

By Dr. Daniel Ross The foot is a complex part of the human body composed of 33 joints, 26 bones, and more than a hundred muscles, tendons and ligaments, all working together to provide support,...
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Health & Wellness: A combat strategy for diabetes

By Tameka Johnson, RDN Did you know diabetes is one of the fastest-growing chronic illnesses in the world? Did you know more than 35 million Americans have been diagnosed with it? This means 1 in...
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Health & Wellness: Do you value ‘things’ more than you value yourself?

By Tameka Johnson, RDN  Have you ever purchased an item that required assembly? Normally those items come with instructions on how to assemble the parts in order to fulfill the product’s purpose....
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HEALTH & WELLNESS – Don’t just ‘receive’ – repent!

By Chris Fields As Christians, when we come to Christ, we say we have “received salvation,” as if there aren’t any more actions or steps we need to take. But repentance isn’t just a confession: It’s...
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HEALTH & WELLNESS — How to prevent pickleball injuries By Capital Ortho

Submitted By Capital Ortho Did you know that pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America? If you have any doubt about that, I’d encourage you to show up to any local court in the evening. You...
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HEALTH & WELLNESS — Serve the sinner, forgive the sin

By CHRIS FIELDS          Last month I had the luxury of moderating a discussion called “The Man Cave” at a statewide conference for public health professionals and stakeholders.      ...
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Cindy Townsend: On life, ‘lemons’ and the Lord

By KATIE EUBANKS          Cindy Townsend picks up a plastic lemon and turns it over in her hands. At first glance, it’s just a lemon — one of many she’s used to adorn her kitchen table, where we now sit with her husband, as well as other surfaces in their...
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Jackson Leadership Foundation Supporting leaders, transforming lives

  Katie Eubanks: What is Jackson Leadership Foundation?      Samuel Bolen: We are a ministry to ministries. Our desire is to work with ministry leaders in Jackson to help (them) grow as leaders, and grow their ministries to the scale of the vision that God has...
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Michael and Julie Estes Finding a ministry home at Ridgecrest

By KATIE EUBANKS   Michael and Julie Estes Finding a ministry home at Ridgecrest        In 1998, Michael Estes finally worked up the nerve to ask out Julie Stone.  They’d both grown up in Clinton, and probably met on a Clinton High School...
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Shower Power — Jackson organization empowers people experiencing homelessness

By KATIE EUBANKS   Shower Power Jackson organization empowers people experiencing homelessness        Lying in the shade, a young man named DJ spreads his Bible on top of his face and reaches his arms up to the sky. He doesn’t take medication...
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Anne Graham Lotz talks cancer, loss, and seeing God’s blessings

By KATIE EUBANKS     Anne Graham Lotz talks cancer, loss, and seeing God’s blessings        In early 2019, Anne Graham Lotz — daughter of the Rev. Billy Graham — was scheduled to speak to the women at First Baptist Jackson. A brutal round...
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Sean Milner: He grew up at a children’s home — and now he runs it

By KATIE EUBANKS   Sean Milner He grew up at a children’s home — and now he runs it        Sean Milner remembers the gunshot from when Oma wounded herself in the shoulder.      “(My siblings and I) ran out on the back porch and...
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FEATURE — But God Ministries finds a home in the Delta

    JONESTOWN — Linda McGrew thought she had grown up poor — and she had. But then she visited some homes in Quitman County.   “I (was) inspecting the units that we were to rehab (at a nonprofit). You could look through the ceiling and see outdoors. You...
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SPECIAL FEATURE — Doing diversity in the local church

By Katie Eubanks   Doing diversity in the local church     Sunday morning is still the most segregated hour of the week, but not if these churches have anything to do with it. In the greater Jackson area, leaders at several churches — from a megachurch...
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DYNAMIC DADS—Stories of Fatherhood

Introduction and Questions by Marilyn Tinnin Dynamic Dads   We have looked for a few wise men here in Mississippi Christian Living’s Annual Man Issue. We have loved gathering these stories and getting these guys to put words to the heart issues of priorities,...
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MILLENNIAL MOMS—Stories of Motherhood

  Fenley Akers Davis Age 28 Married to Price Davis (5 years) Mother to daughter Paschal (Newborn)   Work Background: Administrative Assistant to Governor Phil Bryant; Account Executive WLBT News Channel 3; Co-Founder + Director of Development Club Sally;...
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AUTHOR Q&A — 1 pilgrim, many interruptions

by | May 4, 2022

By KATIE EUBANKS          Author and Jackson native Susan Cushman will release her eighth book, “Pilgrim Interrupted” — a memoir in the form of an essay collection encompassing faith, mental health and more — on June 7. She will be at Lemuria Books in Jackson for a signing on June 11....