By Shewanda Riley I just knew it was going to be a wonderful day. Praise music woke me up, I hada wonderful early morning devotion, and my morning classes were […]
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Preserved By Purpose: God’s Pruning
By Shewanda Riley A number of years ago, I attended the University of North Texas Equity andDiversity Conference in Denton, Texas where television journalist Soledad O’Brien was akeynote speaker. As […]
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Preserved by Purpose: Free Your Mind and Your Faith Will Follow
You either live your dreams or you live your fears. This statement from theintroduction of bestselling author Dr. Dennis Kimbro’s 2014 book The Wealth Choice that mademe stop and think. […]
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Preserved by Purpose: Show and Tell Christians
I remember show and tell assignments in school being those sometimes boringpresentations about what we did during our summer vacation. One thing was clear, the lessyou had to show, the […]
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Weaving a New American Narrative, With Threads of Spirituality
by Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware With the country so politically divided these days, it’s hard to find consensus on anything. So it seems counterintuitive to decide that a book of […]
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Preserved by Purpose: Cutting Back to Grow Forward
“I’m going to cut my cable like I cut my hair” is what I declared boldly to one of mysisters a few years ago. I was visiting my parents in […]
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Preserved by Purpose: Loving in the Red Zone – Exposure….and What’s Next
First Dr. Tony Evans then Pastor Robert Morris. This past week has been one that gavewhiplash to Christians as we heard unbelievably shocking confessions of moral failures of thesetwo well-respected […]
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Preserved by Purpose: Daddy’s Girls: DNA Goes a Long Way
By Shewanda Riley “Frank Jr” was what I was called as a child because between me and my 3 sisters,I was the one most like my father. From how I […]
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Preserved by Purpose: Becoming a Fruit Inspector
By Shewanda Riley Considering our current chaotic political environment, the question that has been on my mind lately is how should Christians respond to things like the conviction of Donald […]
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Preserved by Purpose –Â Spiritual Selfie
10 years ago, I travelled to Paris, France and Vienna, Austria by myself for a brief vacation in mid-summer. As much as I enjoyed visiting some of the most […]