Morning Rundown: Youth Director Dies in Tragic Accident Hours After Preaching the Promises of Heaven

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Youth Director Dies in Tragic Accident Hours After Preaching the Promises of Heaven

Only hours before her tragic death in a car accident, 30-year-old youth director Caylee Dugger preached on the promises of heaven to the women’s ministry at her church.

The devout follower of Jesus was a Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary student and was on the worship team at First Baptist Church North Kansas City, Missouri.

While driving from Kansas City to Texas, she was killed in a three-vehicle wreck. Oklahoma Highway Patrol says she died at the scene of the accident on Feb. 2, 2023.

Alexander Pagani: Alarming Tactics of Cult in America

It doesn’t take much online scrolling to recognize the complete dysfunction in Christian churches in the West today. Amid the economic, political and racial division, Christians are also finding spare minutes to bicker over theology and church politics.

Apostle Alexander Pagani is sounding the alarm on a cult that is taking advantage of those divisions to infiltrate and recruit congregants. “It’s an epidemic,” Pagani says, speaking of Shincheonji or known in America as New Heaven New Earth church.

The group was founded in the 1980s by Lee Man-Hee. In part one of our interview with Pagani, he breaks down the beliefs of the church and its leader, the “Promised Pastor,” who says he is the only one able to interpret the book of Revelation. The church tells its members they are the only ones counted in the 144,000 mentioned in the book of Revelation.

NFL Revival? Jesus, Prayer Sweep League

Faith and football are perhaps more intertwined today than ever before, a fact that seems undeniable in the wake of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s near-death cardiac arrest.

And as the nation prepares for the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles to face off in Sunday’s Super Bowl LVII, Jason Romano, director of media at Sports Spectrum, an outlet covering the intersection of faith and sports, has some thoughts about the intermingling of Christianity and sport.

“I don’t know if there are more people of faith [in the NFL today], but I know there are more vocal people of faith than ever before,” Romano told CBN’s Faithwire. “I think with the Damar Hamlin incident, with platforms like ours at Sports Spectrum, with players like Brock Purdy coming on the scene … a devout follower of Christ, the two quarterbacks here at the Super Bowl … both sharing that they’re Christians.” {eoa}

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