Brian Crawford

Don’t wait for convenience to show hospitality

By Brian Crawford We live in a culture married to convenience. Through modern technology, we are increasingly offered more with less effort, and perpetually promised faster via the easier. Libraries...
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Couple with new house

How to invest in your home wisely

We all want our home to be a place of welcome, rest, and refuge. But if we go bankrupt just to buy a house, or if we don’t steward it well, we’re unlikely to feel very much at home. Here are some...
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Sametra Gardner

How God miraculously provided after my mother’s death

By Sametra Gardner, M.Ed. “It should be within the hour. I’m sorry. There was nothing else I could do,” my mother’s doctor explained as we gathered to say our final goodbyes. Mom had said her last...
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Chris Bates' grandson

The story is never finished

By Chris Bates My dad would take me out on dove hunts each Labor Day weekend in a big sunflower field outside of Canton. With my BB gun in hand, I was able to out-shoot Dad and everyone there (or so...
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How you can help Mississippi foster kids

In honor of National Foster Care Month, we wanted to highlight some of the organizations that are providing help for kids and families throughout our state. Whether you’re interested in pouring into...
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Victoria and Landon Murphy

Experiencing God’s presence in medical uncertainty

By Victoria Murphy There was a time when our life felt predictable - even though it was anything but. In 2020, Landon Murphy was diagnosed with a Stage 2 Astrocytoma. Not long after his diagnosis,...
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Ikie and Walter Beamon

How God has sustained our marriage for over 60 years

By Walter & Ikie Beamon In the six decades of our marriage, God has always shown up for us, especially during our most challenging times. From the beginning of our marriage, we have fervently...
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Something from Nothing

By Chris Bates The outdoors can be a canvas for us to shape and use well. From our backyards to farm fields, the earth can at times look empty or bare on the surface. Then, as we apply growth and...
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Geno and Angie Lee

Geno & Angie Lee: From business to ministry and ‘dating’ again

By Courtney Ingle Most people know Geno and Angie Lee as the owners of Jackson’s Big Apple Inn restaurant and as children’s ministers at Word of Life Church. Over the years, their ministries, the...
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Hatch family

Why I wrote a book for fellow first responders

By Clint Hatch My new book, “Keeping the Peace Within: Following Jesus as a First Responder,” has been a three-year process of God working in my heart what He wanted to say to first responders and...
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Cindy Townsend: On life, ‘lemons’ and the Lord

by | May 4, 2023 | Columns, Lifestyle, Recent Cover Stories, Special Feature | 0 Comments

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

by | March 4, 2021 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature | 0 Comments

  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 | June 28, 2020 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature | 0 Comments

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 | June 1, 2020 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature | 0 Comments

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 | January 1, 2020 | Columns, Feature Story, Lifestyle, Special Feature | 0 Comments

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 | August 4, 2019 | Columns, Inspiration, Special Feature | 0 Comments

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

by | December 1, 2018 | Columns, Special Feature | 0 Comments

    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 | October 1, 2018 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature | 0 Comments

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

by | June 4, 2018 | Columns, Inspiration, Special Feature | 0 Comments

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

by | May 1, 2018 | Columns, Special Feature | 0 Comments

  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....