Saturday, December 13, 2025

Rejoice!

 
Rejoice! 
Sovereign Grace

VERSE 1
All the earth rejoice 
Your Creator reigns 
As the only awesome God 
The Alpha and the Omega 
Who was, is, and is to come 
Let the oceans roar and the mountains sing 
He provides for all He has made
So be comforted as He rules with grace
Rejoice, all the earth, rejoice 

VERSE 2
All the world rejoice 
For the baby comes 
As a humble prince in the night
The Word made flesh, Emmanuel 
The Everlasting Light 
Let the warmth of heaven reach the coldest heart 
With the gospel of His grace 
For His heel will bruise the serpent's head 
Rejoice, all the world, rejoice 

VERSE 3
All the church rejoice 
For your King returns 
On a white horse wearing a crown
He will break the sky with the angel's shout 
Descending from the clouds
Then the dead will rise from the land and sea 
All His people will ascend
We will reign with Him for eternity
Rejoice, all the church, rejoice

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“Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom..."

Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.” -Jeremiah 9:23-24

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Whistleblower: Massive Welfare Fraud by Somali Migrants in Ohio “I think every state, in addition to Ohio, should be asking for audits of their Medicaid system and their programs,” she concluded. “At the end of the day, Ohio taxpayers are hurting, the American people are hurting, and we don’t have enough tax dollars.”


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Economic and social headwinds are pushing talent out of the UK.

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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness...

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 
-Romans 8:26-27

It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him. -O. Hallesby

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Criminalizing Bible Verses? Canadian Lawmakers Target Religious Expression With Proposed 'Hate Speech' Amendment "Never forget: during COVID, this same political establishment jailed pastors for the “crime” of holding worship services. If they were willing to imprison pastors for preaching, what do you think they’ll do with new Criminal Code powers aimed explicitly at “religiously motivated” speech? They’ve done it before. They’ll do it again," she wrote. "Bill C-9 is not a hate-speech bill. It is a power-seizing bill. It is a faith-targeting bill. It is a censorship bill. And it must be defeated. If you value free speech, free worship, free thought — now is the time to speak."

Canada’s Euthanasia Kills 96% White People...Free health care for Muslim migrants. Free death for Canadian taxpayers Canada does have free health care in the sense that there are government insurance systems that cover “medically necessary services” funded by paying 70% more in taxes than Americans.
   This ‘free health care’ comes with a 3 month wait time for a referral to a specialist, and another 3 months to get treated, with 2 month wait times for a CT scan, 4 months for an MRI and over a month for an ultrasound. Mostly it’s just easier not to bother. Half a million Canadians left ERs without seeing a doctor. And, in one year, over 23,000 patients died waiting for surgery.
   But the best part of free health care is that death is always free. And fast.

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Feds Uncover Houston Operation Moving Advanced AI Technology to China  According to prosecutors, Hsu and a network of partners moved tens of thousands of restricted Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs out of the country between late 2024 and early 2025. These are the same high-end chips that drive large-scale AI development, from national security research to sophisticated military systems.

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How Feminism Became The Biggest Pagan Megachurch In The World It has an object of worship, which is female autonomy, its own commandments, theological virtues, a sacrament, and even its own form of evangelization.

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Christmas markets and Islamist anti-Christian terror: Must be December in Europe Whether it's vehicular, a bomb, or knife attacks, radical Islamists targeting Christmas markets has nearly become a tradition unto itself.
   As has the specter of a group of young Middle Eastern men sexually harassing or raping European women.

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Over 40 percent of Netflix’s children’s shows contain LGBT content: report  Netflix children’s content with LGBT-identified characters or LGBT themes has included Baby-Sitters Club, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, Nimona, First Kill, CoComelon Lane, Anne with an E, and Ridley Jones, a series aimed at preschoolers that features “two dads” and a “non-binary” character.

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Stanford scientists discover how Covid shots cause deadly heart damage Data shows about one in 125,000 children and adults under 65 who were vaccinated against the virus between 2023 and 2024 developed the condition. Among men and boys under 25 years old, however, the rate rose to one in 37,000, or 3.4 per 125,000.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father...

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,  that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. -Ephesians 3:14-19 Image

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Honest, direct and damning – Trump’s home truths about the world today  Everything in this is designed to secure America’s future as the top nation on the planet. The authors know they can’t waste any more precious resources on futile or unnecessary wars. It includes a clear drawing back from the role of global policeman. But at the same time it’s not the terrorist-friendly isolationism of a Tucker Carlson or a Dave Smith. It’s very clear. Threats are going to be assessed realistically and pragmatically. If they can be beaten by non-violent means, they will be. If they need a smack in the mouth, that’s what they’ll get. No more apologies. No more being used by ‘allies’ who are ungrateful bastards. Others will be expected to pay their share. Some conflicts will see US involvement only as a mediator. It’s amazing that this balanced, sensible middle path between the waste and risk of Neocon military adventurism and the Jew-hating, fruit loop nonsense of the ‘Trump is Israel First’ crowd needs to be expressed, but it does.  New US National Security Strategy   


Cry the Beloved Europe? America warns Europe that only one of them is truly fighting to reverse the West’s decline—and the clock is running out for the other to follow suit   Americans dare to lecture Europe because the same Western pathologies—open borders, unassimilated immigrants, tribalism, declining fertility, green fanaticism, unsustainable budget deficits, and massive national debt—are likewise beginning to threaten America.
   But unlike Europe, millions of Americans at the eleventh hour are galvanizing to stop their own insidious downward spiral. -VD Hanson

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New Report Exposes Microsoft’s Disturbing Ties To China  Microsoft’s deep entanglement with China, exposed in a new report, shows how the tech giant’s pursuit of profit is undermining U.S. security and handing leverage to a hostile regime.

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Taken together, these stories reveal a disturbing pattern. The Democrat party consistently sides with criminals over citizens. Their ideology demands leniency, “compassion,” and sanctuary — even when it means sacrificing the safety of ordinary Americans.



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How Many Terrorists Came From Afghanistan to America?  “As a result,” the report concluded, “DHS may have admitted or paroled individuals into the United States who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.”

Report: Gaza 'Doctor' Murdered Hostage Noa Marciano, 19, as She Begged For Mercy  Noa’s murder by Shifa’s medical staff was recorded on camera, showing a doctor injecting air into her veins while she pleaded for mercy. Avi Marciano “learned of his daughter’s death in Hamas captivity through a video of her last moments shared with him on Telegram,” the Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The “footage of a medical professional lethally injecting air into her veins after she was taken to Shifa Hospital in Gaza,” the newspaper added.

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The Clinton Voter Fraud Machine Flooded Illegal Ballots for Decades   States like Pennsylvania were forced to bundle voter registrations with driver's license applications at the DMV.
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NY: HS Senior Escorted from School for Following Doctors' Orders and Skipping Vaccine Booster   A high school senior in a western New York school has been banned because she did not get a vaccine booster that causes her to have serious side effects.
   Depew High School senior Kayci Rae was escorted out of school on Oct. 16 because she did not get a meningitis booster shot, according to WKBW-TV.

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Canada: family members experience multi-generational trauma following euthanasia   Achtman commented on the number of grandchildren sharing their stories about losing grandparents to euthanasia, saying “Adult grandchildren are increasingly speaking to me about having lost their grandparents to medical assistance in dying (MAID). I’m telling you, this is creating intergenerational trauma – the consequences of which are just beginning to be seen”.

Study:  Abortions Cause Women Emotional Distress Even Decades Later  Among the women surveyed, 31.2% reported frequent feelings of loss, grief or sadness, while 24.6% described frequent thoughts, dreams or flashbacks. Nearly half — 47.9% — indicated high distress on at least one measure, and 11% met criteria for at least four symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress.

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Who is a God like you...

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
    and passing over transgression
    for the remnant of his inheritance?
He does not retain his anger forever,
    because he delights in steadfast love.
 He will again have compassion on us;
    he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
You will cast all our sins
    into the depths of the sea.
 You will show faithfulness to Jacob
    and steadfast love to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our fathers
    from the days of old.
 -Micah 7:18-20

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Hating Jesus In Vienna For Christmas...Blasphemy, Decadence, And 'Civilizational Erasure' In Filthy Art Exhibit -Dreher  It is particularly appalling that this appears in Vienna, the ancestral capital of the Habsburgs. It used to be such a Catholic city. On current population trends, the former imperial capital will be majority Muslim by the end of this century. This is what happens when you cease to believe that you have a culture worth defending, particularly from barbarians like the curatorial team that put this vile exhibit together.

Dominate the Christmas Donkeys: The 'Religion of Peace' Trashed a Live Nativity Scene — Then It Got Worse  Two vandals, rumored to be members of the religion of peace, trashed a live nativity scene, going so far as to torture two donkeys, Max and Lily. Then things got nasty.
   The two animals (the violent corsairs, not the donkeys) broke into the church, pulled down their pants, and dropped a couple of crab cakes on the floor. Then they destroyed the restroom they should have used, but hey, Islam gonna Islam.

Muslim Nanny Poisons Jewish Family in France  The Algerian used falsified documents to obtain her nanny job, but eventually became dissatisfied with her salary. After a series of incidents that made the Jewish family suspicious they were victims of foul play in early 2024, the nanny, Leïla Y., was exposed. While the Algerian’s lawyer claims the issue was purely financial, the woman had ranted about working for a “Jewish woman” when discussing her motives, per Remix. The nanny also pestered the children about their religion and had posted about the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

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Watertown, NY: ‘Horrified’: Lawsuit Accuses Public School District of Pushing Young Students to Explicit Porn   The complaint charges that the district forced seventh-grade students to view blatantly pornographic images during class “over multiple days” without any parental notice, consent, or opt-out opportunity.
   “What happened in the Watertown City School District was not an accident. It was a constitutional violation of the highest order,” the ACLJ report explained.
   It was the seventh-grade art teacher, Bridgette Gates, who “instructed her students to visit an external website displaying the artwork of a highly controversial artist whose work is known for sexual imagery.

Citizens are fed up with Dem-invited migrants who have disdain for US law and culture -VD Hanson =The canon of DEI — the nation is divided between a mostly white oppressor class and the non-white oppressed — has served to amplify the effects of giving up on civic education and melting-pot assimilation.


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Former CDC Director Calls for Removal of Covid-19 mRNA 'Vaccines' From the Market His warning comes as mounting clinical reports suggest these vaccines may contribute to persistent health issues resembling long COVID – raising urgent questions about their continued use. Redfield explained that mRNA technology effectively turns the body into a “spike protein production factory.” Unlike traditional vaccines that introduce inert viral components to trigger immunity, mRNA shots deliver genetic instructions that compel cells to generate the spike protein indefinitely – a process whose duration and intensity remain poorly understood.

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Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel...

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
    you who lead Joseph like a flock.
You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
     Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,
stir up your might and come to save us!
 Restore us, O God;
    let your face shine, that we may be saved!
   -Psalm 80:1-3

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New York Archdiocese to Negotiate Sex Abuse Settlement  The Archdiocese of New York said Monday it will negotiate a “global” settlement to resolve claims of people who said they were sexually abused as children by Catholic priests and staff members.
   The announcement was made in a public letter by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, posted on the archdiocese’s website, who said church leaders had met in recent weeks with lawyers to discuss terms for a settlement with more than 1,300 accusers. Details of the final settlement would be worked out in negotiations, he said. Image

They Called It ‘Compassion’ -- But it was Child Trafficking  For four catastrophic years, vulnerable minors poured across the Rio Grande and were funneled into a system riddled with incompetence, willful blindness, and flat-out negligence. A report from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) landed like a bomb and exposed the tragedy: the administration lost track of over 320,000 of these children, releasing them to unvetted sponsors without so much as a whisper of accountability. These were terrified kids, fleeing poverty or violence, only to vanish into the shadows of sex trafficking, forced labor, and unimaginable abuse.

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Large Group of Pro-Lifers Arrested Outside Memphis Planned Parenthood  A total of 17 pro-life activists, ten men and seven women, spent the night in a Memphis jail after they staged a peaceful demonstration in front of a Memphis, Tennessee Planned Parenthood facility. “Rescue Resurrection,” a pro-life organization that plans and carries out “rescue” actions across America, organized the December 5 protest.

Hundreds of churches in Germany being targeted with vandalism and theft  The claim that there has been no loss of respect for church and religious symbols has been disputed by a spokesman for the Catholic German Bishops' Conference, who recently said there had been an “escalation” in hostility against Christian symbols across Germany.

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Welfare Fraud In Blue Cities: How Pervasive Is The Kleptocracy? I suspect that it is completely pervasive that organizations that receive large amounts of government funds for welfare programs then are expected to and do provide political support back to the politicians that arranged for the funding.  The “political support” could be campaign contributions, or campaign workers, or door knockers, or phone banks, or advocacy.  The teachers’ unions are undoubtedly the ones who have perfected these techniques beyond the level of anyone else.  The handout state is inherently corrupt.

This is not immigration-It's replacement... ...the message went out that if it was permissible to cross the border unlawfully, then, by extension, it would be seen as equally fine to reside illegally as well—and perhaps further to ignore laws, on the theory that the host had sanctioned all such exemptions.

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Only Thing Democrats Hate More Than America Is You  The hyphenated-American concept is employed not to unite, but to separate. The idea of various “communities” are the same thing. Ever notice who they are used to segregate people? The Somali community, the trans community, the black female trans community, the furry community… 
   It’s a way to manipulate weak-minded people into caring more about people who share an irrelevant characteristic with them, who happen to live on the other side of the planet, more than their own neighbor, because they don’t share it. It’s evil, but that’s Democrats.

Illinois Frees 1.8K Criminal Illegals Back into Neighborhoods  Meanwhile, the crimes of the more than 4,000 illegal aliens with active ICE detainers in Illinois include 51 charged with murder, 1,134 charged with assault, 107 charged with burglary, 36 charged with robbery, 275 charged with drug crimes, 120 charged with weapons offenses, and 813 charged with sex crimes.

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Schools Can't Say Christmas, But They Can Celebrate This?    While it sounds like you can't say the C-word, here's what you can do: celebrate "Transgender Awareness Week."  I'm dead serious. 
   According to Fox News, middle schoolers at Westland Middle School in Bethesda were given lessons in honor of this holiest of all leftist weeks and made to watch slideshows and videos filled with propaganda.

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Monday, December 08, 2025

But my steadfast love shall not depart from you...

For the mountains may depart
    and the hills be removed,
 but my steadfast love shall not depart from you,
    and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,”
    says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
  -Isaiah 54:10

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Immigration Gone Wild...A border abandoned and laws ignored have turned public frustration into a sweeping backlash that now threatens even legal immigration  Instead, immigrants under these new protocols will seek to carve out their own tribal communities, based both on ethnic chauvinism and a sense of exemption from accountability. And if they insist on identifying as collectives rather than unique individuals, they will become increasingly unpopular not just as ingrates, but as hypocrites whose greater affinity with the nation they abandoned does not extend to returning to it.
   Indeed, they will appear to have arrived in America only to craft a cocoon of security, freedom, and prosperity lacking in their homeland, but otherwise not to become fully American or see their former homeland as incidental, not essential, to their new identities. -VD Hanson  Screenshot



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U.S. Weapons Abandoned by Biden Are Now the ‘Core’ of Taliban’s Military Machine: Report   Even after the Taliban takeover, the U.S. continued sending humanitarian and development assistance to Afghanistan, millions more dollars, some of which reportedly benefited the Taliban-controlled government.

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Magnitude 7.2 Quake Strikes Off Japan, Triggers Tsunami Alert  Japan’s Meteorological Agency has issued a tsunami alert, warning that water surges could reach up to 3 meters (about 10 feet) along parts of the northeastern coast.


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Gov. Gavin Newsom and his leftist legislative supermajority and their union buddies have finally run out of other people's money. The left's fix for this is to chase away all the rest of the billionaires who still call California home by pushing a ballot initiative demanding a 5% retroactive wealth tax on the net worth of billionaires.

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UK: The evil of the grooming gangs is finally being exposed We need to face what has been done to our children. We also need justice. These are uniquely evil crimes. No jail sentence is enough. So we must meet these crimes with our own Nuremberg. Those public servants who hid or excused the crimes must face forfeiture of honours, pensions and assets, along with very long prison sentences. Screenshot

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As Christians put more trust in AI, pastor warns of idolatry  Just over two years ago, when some pastors began experimenting with artificial intelligence to generate sermons, a majority of Christians didn't think the technology was good for the Church.
   Fast-forward, and the use of AI has increased by 80% across all ministries in churches, and a growing number of people have been turning to apps like Text With Jesus for spiritual guidance.

Majority of pastors now using AI to prepare sermons amid rapid embrace of technology: study  "Overall, the survey depicts a church that is increasingly open to the ministry possibilities of artificial intelligence, while still grappling with the weighty ethical and practical considerations involved," researchers state. "Most churches seem to believe that AI can be beneficial if used as a tool, but not a replacement for human connection and spiritual discernment."

This is the shift Weinstein wants people to notice: AI is no longer just a passive tool like a calculator or spreadsheet. It is becoming an active part of human thinking, influencing how we think, work, and increasingly, how we understand ourselves. 
   That alone marks a dramatic break from every previous technological revolution, from phones to smartphones to personal computers.,,,
,,,The most likely near-term scenario is the quiet normalization of cognitive enhancement.

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This pattern has repeated throughout history. Wherever Muslim populations have become politically dominant, demands for Sharia accommodations follow: separate family-law councils in Britain, blasphemy resolutions at the UN pushed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, no-go zones in European cities where police hesitate to enforce national law. These are not the actions of a faith content with private devotion; they are the predictable first steps toward establishing Allah's rule on earth.

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For those of us who have always been doubtful about the value of face masks, covid at least provided a golden opportunity to see if any beneficial effect could be demonstrated. As we suspected, there was no demonstrable benefit to wearing face masks. They were nothing short of an expensive and inconvenient con. Moreover, their prolonged use was associated with demonstrable harms such as decreased cognition and increased reaction time. Their enforced wearing by young children, in whom they affected language and emotional development, was nothing short of child abuse.
   Yet the mask maniacs persist and try every trick to convince us that face masks have some benefit.

Bad for the brain: Kids are learning less in high-tech schools  "More than half of all students now use a computer at school for one to four hours each day, and a full quarter spend more than four hours on screens during a typical seven-hour school day," he writes. Researchers estimate that students drift off task for up to 38 minutes of every hour  on classroom devices.

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Saturday, December 06, 2025

Salvation is Born

 
Salvation is Born
 Sovereign Grace

VERSE 1
Come let us worship, come let us adore
Jesus, Messiah, our Savior is born
Carol His glory and sing His sweet Name
Offer a life of thanksgiving and praise

VERSE 2
Join with the angels proclaiming to earth
Join with the shepherds in awe of His birth
Join all creation rejoicing this morn
The glory of God-become-man has been born

CHORUS
Come, let us adore Him
Jesus, the hope of the world
Come, worship before Him
Christ, the Messiah has come
Salvation is born

VERSE 3
Prophets foretold Him, the Promise of God
The hope of Salvation and light of the world
Born in a stable and born as a man
Born to fulfill God's redeeming plan

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For by grace you have been saved through faith...

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. -Ephesians 2:8-10

“For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.”  -Augustine

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Mamdani Taps Felons, Antisemites for Key Committees – Some with Ties to Nation of Islam’s Hatemongering Farrakhan  Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is populating his key committees with exactly the kind of people you would expect… felons, antisemites, anti-police activists, and Democratic Socialists of America members (i.e., communists). It would appear that most of them are Muslim, and religion evidently tops morality and criminal behavior in his selection process. He has chosen 400 “experts” for his 17 transition teams. Image


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Christian university in California denies TPUSA chapter, cites ‘MAGA connection’  Vanguard University of Southern California denied a Turning Point USA chapter as part of a new “apolitical” policy that bans religious, ideological, and political clubs. 
   The school also told the conservative group’s president that its association with “MAGA” factored into the decision.

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Parents say school-issued iPads are causing chaos with their kids  The iPad program, which ramped up during the Covid pandemic, was meant to give kids a technological leg up and help track students who are falling behind. But Byock said her son revealed that he used the iPad during school to watch YouTube and participate in Fortnite video game battles.
   “It makes no sense to me,” Byock said. “We’ve banned the cellphones, but it doesn’t matter, because the kids are using the school-issued devices in exactly the same way.”

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During congregational singing, we have the privilege of reinforcing truths to each other. When there is doubt, this great chorus can persuade us to once again trust in Christ. This must be one of the ways the Spirit works, to convince us of what is true and good and beautiful through the voices of others in whom he is also working.

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