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Amish Grace: Community Beatitudes - Anabaptist (Matthew 5:3-12)

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In the small, tight-knit community of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, a tragedy unfolded that turned the world’s gaze toward the Amish way of life. On a fateful day in 2006, a gunman entered an Amish schoolhouse, taking the lives of five...

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