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How God loosened my grip on ‘success’

By Rudy Bazin I wasted no time buying into the American Dream, the belief that if you work hard, you will reap the rewards, that this land is full of opportunity, that with enough grit you can pull...
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Piggy bank on top of Jenga game

How’s your financial foundation? Tips & resources for 2026

Whether you’re saving for your emergency fund, approaching retirement, or just hoping your new air-conditioning unit was worth the hit to your wallet (thanks, Mississippi!), we all want to stay on...
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Sunrise

Reflecting on love

By Chris Bates There is a certain kind of quiet in the painted dawn in the Mississippi Delta. The Delta is vast, open, and level, and revealing in its beauty. At first glance, it may seem sparse,...
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Robert Leard at Twin Lakes Camp

How Twin Lakes director went from banking to summer camp

By Courtney Ingle After retiring from a career in the financial realm, Robert Leard recently became executive director of Twin Lakes Camp in Florence, Mississippi, where he oversees eternal...
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Lori Burt before and after weight loss

How God met me in my struggle with food and weight

By Lori Burt In May 2021, I retired after 28 years in education. I loved my students, my colleagues, and the joy of shaping young lives. At home, I was blessed with a faithful husband, a wonderful...
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RezFit members and owners

RezFit nurtures body, mind, and spirit

By Courtney Ingle For Lee and Pamela Pickett, stepping into a gym changed far more than their fitness routine — it changed the trajectory of their lives. What began as an ordinary gym membership...
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Health & fitness tips and resources for 2026

Need some ideas for how to jumpstart your health journey this year? Look no further! On the following pages are plenty of health and fitness tips, encouragement, and resources you can use in 2026. ...
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How a camp counselor taught me to pursue Jesus

By Chesley Quinn “Jesus said, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment.’” - Matthew 22:37-38....
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Darby the puppy

Profound newness

By Chris and Stacy Bates Outside Darby came home to us just a few months ago. There is nothing like the experience and joy that go along with a new 10-week-old puppy. Besides the playfulness and...
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Lily Lape and Hayden Elliott at The Lily Pad

The Lily Pad provides a leap up

By Laura Lee Leathers Have you ever driven around the Barnett Reservoir and noticed the floating leaves of the water lilies around the edges? The lily’s root is in the mud at the bottom of the...
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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....