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Salvation on sand Mountain

It’s a hard job to be a reporter and not get drawn into the subject in which you are reporting. Most people who go out for this job know this ahead of time and aren’t the type to be drawn in that easy. Certain topics become too personal to a reporter though and become near impossible for them no to become too attached or too involved in. For Dennis Covington God was the thing that became way too personal for him as he got way to involved in the church he was studying.
He never knew how much he would learn of himself through his involvement in the church. Dennis was unsure and really wanting to find out about these people of the mountainous church. Dennis found that these people of the Church of Christ with Signs

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