Saturday, July 18, 2026

Good and upright is the Lord...

Good and upright is the Lord;
    therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
He leads the humble in what is right,
    and teaches the humble his way.
All the paths of the Lord 
are steadfast love and faithfulness,
    for those who keep his covenant 
and his testimonies.
 -Psalm 25:8-10

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Jim Jordan: Canada‘s Censorship Push Could Come for Americans Next  The Judiciary chairman also pointed to Canada’s Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, which removed a religious exemption from the country’s hate-speech law. Jordan noted that a Canadian minister had described passages of Romans as hateful.
   “Quoting scripture is now somehow a crime,” Jordan said. “This is always where it leads.”

Trump: Canada Will Be Tariffed for Costs of Smoke Pollution Blanketing U.S.  “We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous, and totally unacceptable!” Trump said.


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Mainstream Media Ignores An Explosive Charge In Trump’s Speech  Might the reader be wondering whether the across-the-board Trump Deranged Syndrome-tinged legacy media response to The Donald’s Thursday night primetime address on election integrity reflected a predetermined and even pre-researched-and-written narrative?
   Wonder no more: the Reuters headline replayed above gave away the game, as it was posted more than an hour before the speech.

Democratic strategist James Carville blasts major news networks for not carrying Trump speech  Mainstream media networks, ABC, CNN and NBC, all declined to show the speech on its news programs and opted to stream it online and show clips of it with commentary during their regular live programming.

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Sacrificing Our Daughters on the Altar of Islamic Immigration: ‘Servant of Allah’ Indicted for Rape in Portland, OR  The Quran instructs on how to have sex with female slaves and infidels. Moreso than it does concerning praying five times a day – which evidently is not mentioned at all.

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The Summer of Love: How millions of World Cup visitors proved the media wrong  When these visitors return home, they will once again encounter familiar headlines and familiar narratives about the United States. The difference is that they now possess something they didn’t have before. Their own experience.

Tolerating Homeless Encampments Violates the Rights of Everyone Else  NYC:Owners of the stores and restaurants along that stretch can expect tourists and other customers to stop coming because they have to step over human waste, navigate around drug-addled, half-conscious bodies, avoid sex workers and hold their breath against the stench.

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When an institution dies, someone must render a verdict. Was it murder? Misadventure? Natural causes? I have watched the Church of England die by inches for more than forty years, and I can render only one verdict: suicide. No secular assassin crept into Lambeth Palace by night. No parliament outlawed the gospel. No persecutor burned the churches. The Church of England took the knife to her own throat, slowly, deliberately, and with the full approval of her own leadership.

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Nearly 25% of corpses have white rubbery clots, embalmers say  Over four years, from 2022 to 2025, US Air Force Ret. Major Thomas Haviland surveyed embalmers about the rubbery blood clots or white fibrous clots that embalmers, pathologists and others had been raising concerns about from shortly after the rollout of the covid “vaccines.”

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Friday, July 17, 2026

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly...

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.  
-Colossians 3:12-17

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Marco Rubio's Speech on Political Terrorism

Secretary of State Marco Rubio convened the Ministerial to Combat the Resurgence of Political Violence with an epic speech. About 66 countries sent a delegate to this meeting, which shows its necessity. Most of the countries have seen a spike in the political violence.

Trump reveals China stole voter registration data from 220M Americans in primetime speech  “Over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China’s illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files,” Trump said in remarks from the East Room of the White House.

Declassified documents show ‘shadow government’ in action to suppress China threat to elections  Newly released records detail how intelligence officials allegedly worked to conceal the extent of Chinese interference in the 2020 election.

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The United Nations Finally Admits Hamas Has Been Stealing Aid  The United Nations (U.N.) has run interference for Hamas for years, trying to protect the terrorists from Israel obliterating them while also attacking Israel in an attempt to undermine the nation and its right to self-defense.

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Kathy Hochul Campaign Surrogates Oppose Nuns Providing Care To Terminally Ill  The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne are currently suing to be exempted from a bipartisan New York law that would require them to house gender-confused men with women and mandate they use the preferred pronouns of all patients.
   The law also requires them to allow patients to commit adultery.
   The state has sent them several threatening letters for reportedly being out of compliance, as Legal Insurrection previously reported. While all these practices are clearly in contradiction to Catholic Church teaching on sexuality and gender, the religious sisters have not received an exemption. The state law explicitly exempts only the Christian Scientists from the requirement. Image

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Canadian Wildfire Smoke Spreads Across U.S., Triggering Air Quality Alerts  Recurring wildfire smoke raises questions about Canadian forest management.

Heat wave leaves 12,000 excess deaths across nine European countries  The preliminary data on excess mortality was collected from Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland between 22 and 28 June, and from England and Wales between 18 and 28 June.

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CONQUERED: Catholic Seminary Falls to Turkish Islamic Network Building Sharia Parallel Societies in America   In Bay Shore, Long Island, a historic Catholic seminary has been handed over to a Turkish Islamic network aggressively building parallel societies across the United States. The United American Muslim Association (UAMA) has purchased the former Monfort Missionaries seminary complex – a sprawling 70,000+ square foot facility on roughly 14 acres – for $5.2 million.
   Founded in 1926 as a Catholic seminary and boarding school, the property later served as a retreat center for priests.

The Woke Church's Latest Blasphemy: Rainbow Communion Bread   Christ Episcopal Church in Dayton recently used rainbow-colored communion bread during a Pride celebration, explaining that the colorful bread was intended to celebrate and include its LGBTQ members.
   The reaction was swift. For many Christians, the issue wasn't whether churches should welcome everyone—they should. The deeper question was whether the Lord's Table should ever become a platform for promoting any cultural or political movement, regardless of the cause.

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Thursday, July 16, 2026

And every one of us is a temple of God...

The Temple of Solomon was absolutely surrendered to God when it was dedicated to Him. And every one of us is a temple of God, in which God will dwell and work mightily on one condition—absolute surrender to Him. God claims it, God is worthy of it, and without it God cannot work His blessed work in us. God not only claims it, but God will work it Himself...
...Come and cast this self-life and flesh-life at the feet of Jesus. Then trust Him. Do not worry yourselves with trying to understand all about it, but come in the living faith that Christ will come into you with the power of His death and the power of His life; and then the Holy Spirit will bring the whole Christ - Christ crucified and risen and living in glory - into your heart.    -Andrew Murray  Image

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The Philadelphia Navy Yard Becomes Even More Revitalized, As Billionaires Invest in Our Nation's Ships  The last new ship built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard was the Blue Ridge in 1970. In 1996, the USS John F. Kennedy, received a two-year overhaul before operations at the Navy Yard were shuttered that September. Thanks to Hanwha Defense, and investments by JP Morgan Chase and other billion-dollar corporations, ships will once again be produced from the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Image

China's plan to test weaponry on replicas of U.S. assets has been brought to the attention of the Pentagon once again.

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US Gov't Set To Expose Far-Left Radicalization Pipeline Leading Back To Communist Cuba  "The State Department will be issuing a report detailing the Cuban regime's longstanding campaign to foment left-wing extremism in the United States and internationally," the official said, adding, "The report finds that for nearly seven decades, the Cuban regime has played an indispensable role in nearly every notable far-left insurgency, revolution, and militant movement across the Western Hemisphere and beyond."

Three Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidates Pledge to Shield Sharia From Scrutiny   Candidates who would block efforts to affirm the supremacy of the Constitution over foreign legal codes are not defending religious liberty—they are opening doors to parallel systems that erode it.

Big Blue Cities Threaten Red-State Liberty. Do GOP Voters Care?  In ruby-red Louisiana, a disturbing power play exposed how far a rusting Democratic machine will reach to undermine lawful state government.
   From the isolated blue stronghold of Orleans Parish, which is New Orleans itself, local officials defied the state legislature. They basically claimed home rule trumped all, then indicted Attorney General Liz Murrill, a Republican, for the “crime” of enforcing Louisiana law.

A map tells a story about what matters, what deserves recognition, and what belongs in a city's collective memory. When one of New York's most historic immigrant neighborhoods disappears from that story, people are right to ask why. Whether intentional or accidental, erasing Little Italy from the city's official narrative risks erasing part of New York's own history. And if history is any guide, today's symbolic omissions often foreshadow tomorrow's political priorities.

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Why Are So Many Muslim Migrants Involved in Massive Fraud Schemes?  The Islamic holy book says: “Fight against those do not believe in Allah or the last day, and do not forbid what Allah and his messenger have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth, even if they are among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29)
   Paying the jizya, a poll tax, is thus a sign of the humiliation of the unbelievers, and of Allah’s punishment of them in this world and in the next for the crime of rejecting Muhammad and Islam. Seizing money or goods from unbelievers is thus simply a move to restore the natural order of things, in which non-Muslims work and Muslims enjoy the fruits of their labors. Image

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Fearing Deportations, LA County Health Department Lets Food Vendors Run Wild  Government officials have no problem subjecting American citizens to burdensome regulations. But when it might affect illegal immigrants, then they get concerned.

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Europe as we have known it for centuries — a civilization founded on a native majority population, a common culture, industrial prosperity, and a certain idea of liberty and property — appears destined to disappear.
   This will happen not in some spectacular cataclysm, but through a slow, inexorable erosion, made inevitable by structural trends now too powerful to be reversed in the time it would take to stop it. Image

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These self-righteous crones are a pestilence, a plague upon Western society, a group of doggedly ignorant feminist/chauvinists playing out their personal psychodramas on the world stage whose antics, if unchecked, will inevitably lead to the fall of civilization.
   Too extreme? Look around you at what’s going on.

Leftist Podcasters Trash Christianity and Homeschooling: 'It’s Child Abuse'   "This is trickle-down stupidity," she said, calling homeschooling parents "the dumbest people she knew," who want to "project a script" onto their kids. After calling homeschooling "trad wife" and "MAGA on steroids," she concluded that America has a "fundamental crazy Christian problem." Welch thinks that teaching your kids to love God and adhere to the basic principles of Biblical morality is radical. Gender surgeries for minors, however? She supports that, and she thinks that many Democrats are not woke enough.

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In an attempt to represent mini-conjurers as cute characters filled with mischief, Minions & Monsters is advertised as “family-friendly fun.” That fun includes a spellbook, drawing a pentagram, magic, dark rituals, and a former warlock boss to summon monsters.


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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace...

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. -Hebrews 4:15-16 Image

Above all, beware of letting go the spirit of peace because of your faults. Humble yourself before God because of them, repent, make such reparation for them as you are able, and then do not dwell upon them any more. It is often mere pride which frets at finding itself beset by the same often renewed faults, and at its lack of spiritual progress. Do not deceive yourself into the belief that such disquiet is humility. A really humble soul accepts its faults with patience, and goes afresh on in confidence and hope. -Jean Nicolas Grou

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In post-religious Britain, people assume that the church is irrelevant. It is not. Even among those who are resolutely secular, the assumption remains that priests of the church are a moral lodestar representing integrity, truth and conscience. So when they speak about Israel, people believe them. This has had a devastating effect, because for decades the church has been promulgating incendiary calumnies against Israel with a theological underpinning that casts the Jews as the party of the devil. Its importance in helping create today’s insane levels of Jew-hatred should not be underestimated.
   Shockingly, the church has allied itself with evil.

Welsh Victims, Including Girl Assaulted 1,000 Times, Decry Muslim Gang Coverup The British government’s cover-up of the massive Muslim sexual assault gang scandal continues to blow up, as victims in Wales try to call attention to the crisis in their area.

British police say murder of former minister Ann Widdecombe was a targeted attack  A 28-year-old man is suspected of murder and terrorist offences.

Catholic teacher says she was fired for answering students' questions about abortion, religion  A Catholic, American-born teacher in Scotland says she was fired after answering students’ questions about life in the United States, including questions about abortion, President Donald Trump and the transgender issue.
   Sarah Morse, 66, is taking Arbroath High School, run by Angus Council, to an employment tribunal, alleging discrimination. The tribunal is expected to begin Aug. 24.

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Report says Arkansas and Tennessee do the most to protect the religious rights of their citizens while New York and Vermont do the least

James Talarico: Christians are ‘Christofascists’, Islam is a “Path to Truth”  Christianity is far more violent than Islam, according to him, and has caused far more damage to Islam than the other way around.

Another Church Conquered: Allahu Akbar Rings Over Virginia — One-Way 'Interfaith' Replaces American Heritage  A landmark building from the 1800s, the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, with deep African-American roots and founded by a former slave, stood in the tiny riverfront town of Occoquan, Virginia.
   In 2021, it was sold to a small Muslim congregation. Two years later, it became Masjid Al-Hussain, the only mosque in Occoquan.

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Study: Apple and Google News Suppressed Negative Stories About Graham Platner for Months  And look at the lengths it took for the polls to finally turn—a rape allegation by a fellow Democrat published in Politico.

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Can You Guess Why Newsom’s Nanny State Is Starting to Go Through People’s Garbage?  Starting this month, Sacramento is sending city workers out to peer into residents' garbage, recycling, and organic waste bins, all in the name of complying with a mandate from Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.). The California legislature passed the law behind this intrusion, SB 1383, in 2016, and it took effect in 2022. The stated goal was to cut organic waste disposal by 75% by 2025 to reduce methane emissions and slow climate change.


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China funds American judges’ training on how to use climate change to shut down USA oil companies   The Environmental Law Institute, or ELI, has trained more than 2,000 American judges on environmental law through its Climate Judiciary Project.
   ELI takes Chinese money, advises Chinese regulators tied directly to the CCP intelligence. They then turn to weaponise the American court system against the USA’s own energy companies, Leslie Eastman writes.

‘Political agendas’ and workforce prep concerns drive decline in higher ed confidence: poll  Concerns about academic rigor and political indoctrination have led to a continued decline in Americans’ confidence in higher education, according to a new Gallup poll.

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American Red Cross announces emergency blood shortage as supply falls 25% The summer season often skyrockets the need for blood in trauma care centers due to increased travel, car crashes, outdoor recreation and other summertime emergencies. Meanwhile, busy schedules and the loss of school blood drives during summer break cause donations to plummet, leading to the drastic shortage, the Red Cross noted.
   The non-profit also emphasized blood has a very limited shelf life, which leaves the Red Cross to completely depend on a steady stream of donations 

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Hochul’s Halt of Data Center Construction in New York Is Met With Dismay The decision of the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, to halt data-center development statewide for a year is prompting a backlash from those who say it will further damage upstate New York’s already sagging economy. Image


Millionaires are Fleeing New York — Taking $11 Billion in Tax Revenue With Them  “Had New York maintained its share of the nation’s millionaires over the past decade, personal income tax collections would have been substantially higher.”

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Trust in the Lord, and do good...

Trust in the Lord, and do good;
    dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Delight yourself in the Lord,
    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to the Lord;
    trust in him, and he will act.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
    and your justice as the noonday.
-Psalm 37:3-6

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Trump is not a perfect vessel, but without him and for what he stands the West is lost. We had better realise that before it’s too late.

White House Report Exposes Smithsonian’s War on American History  The material in exhibits and supposedly educational materials created or endorsed by NMAH leadership focuses on demonizing white people, valorizing illegal aliens, and promoting transgenderism and abortion. In the name of transgenderism, the museum had sexually explicit drag queen material available to young children. In fact, almost all of the exhibits and programming were geared toward extreme left-wing activism, which NMAH both promoted and occasionally participated in. For instance, the museum collaborated with illegal alien activists to remove a North Carolina sheriff from office.

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By now, you’ve heard of a concept called “luxury beliefs.” It’s a recurring thing these days, unfortunately, and it’s not difficult to identify. Luxury beliefs are, in essence, beliefs that are used to accumulate status among those who are financially well off.
   Basically, they need a way to signal they’re good people, so they spout certain ideas that cost them absolutely nothing, even if they are taken seriously and actually happen.

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WARNING: THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT ABORTION  If your argument requires a flowchart explaining why a member of Homo sapiens isn’t really a member of Homo sapiens, maybe it’s time to ask whether you’re solving a moral dilemma, or just rebranding it.

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I am 63 now, and after three decades as an orthopedic surgeon, I have examined thousands of people in their eighties. Some arrive frail and afraid, others walk in straighter and more confident than patients half their age. They’re still skiing, still gardening, still picking up grandchildren without a second thought. The gap between those two groups is not luck, and it is rarely genetics alone. The same patterns keep showing up in those who are thriving. Here is what they have in common. The most important reasons are lower down in the list… and the ones you might least expect...

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Monday, July 13, 2026

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him...

Behold, the eye of the Lord 
is on those who fear him,
    on those who hope in his steadfast love,
that he may deliver their soul from death
    and keep them alive in famine.

Our soul waits for the Lord;
he is our help and our shield.
For our heart is glad in him,
    because we trust in his holy name.
Let your steadfast love, 
O Lord, be upon us,
even as we hope in you.
-Psalm 33:18-22

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This is only one of many things downstream of mainline and progressive denominations becoming untethered from, and drifting away from, the authority of Holy Scripture and secondary confessional and historic liturgical norms for ecclesial life. As such, these trial liturgies in Canada are not so much a bellwether portending future problems to come, as a symptom downstream of the prior commitments that J. Gresham Machen so powerfully contrasted with orthodoxy in his powerful and prescient Christianity and Liberalism. The publication of these ghastly trial liturgies forces us to ask: is Christianity in general — and the Anglican pastoral and liturgical expression in particular — an authoritative account of truth and goodness to which we must assimilate ourselves, or a technique that people can use to establish their own sense of meaning derived from other sources?

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Let’s get the easy part out of the way, which is not being old. The Democrat Party is a gerontocracy. As we’ve seen, the boomer generation has clutched onto power, sucking the lifeblood of the young to keep themselves in office forever. U.S. Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA-11), former president Joe Biden, U.S. Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-43), and many others—what do they have in common besides a relentless commitment to Moloch? They think Methuselah is a whippersnapper. Only now are they beginning to loosen their grip, and that’s simply because they’re literally too old to maintain it.

Manufactured Moral Outrage...The Democrats rely on this technique to move the political needle, but there are simple ways to counter it    Activists on the left use psychological and rhetorical tactics to reshape public perception. Taken together, these tactics form a predictable pattern that transforms ordinary disagreements into moral condemnation. This pattern facilitates ridicule, leads to social exclusion, and, in extreme cases, provides justification for harm.


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ERASING AMERICA: How Leftist-Islamic Allies Use Street Names to Dismantle Western Identity   In Bridgeview, Illinois, another American neighborhood has fallen. At the intersection of 87th Street and Harlem Avenue, local leaders unveiled “Little Palestine Way” alongside “Wadea Al-Fayoume Way.” This was an act of cultural conquest.
   Renaming asserts dominance by controlling memory and belonging. Conquerors don’t just occupy land – they rewrite the signs so the conquered internalize the shift. Bridgeview’s move fits the Muslim Brotherhood’s documented “Project” for gradual Islamization: build enclaves, influence institutions, normalize parallel societies, and leverage causes like “Palestine” to unite radicals and useful allies on the left.

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Dangerous bacteria contamination levels trigger urgent health warnings at popular beaches from coast to coast  From the Atlantic to the Pacific, beaches across the U.S. are grappling with the same stinking problem. 
   Most beach closures are triggered by elevated levels of enterococcus or E. coli—bacteria that can wash into the water after heavy rain, when stormwater runoff carries sewage, pet waste and other contaminants into rivers, lakes and the ocean.

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Christians are disappearing for worshipping a God other than Xi   Under Mr Xi's iron-tight grip, China has expanded its nationwide suppression of Christians during the last decade, arresting more than 10,000 people, according to Bob Fu, the founder of ChinaAid, a charity for victims of persecution in the country. Image
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Increasing Number Of Ivy League Students Can’t Even Read, So Let’s Stop Calling Them ‘Elite’  The literacy crisis has certainly made its way to universities, but it did not begin there. A survey by The New York Times found that high schoolers are reading very few full books every year — often only one or two. Rather than assigning full books, the survey found, teachers instead assign short excerpts from texts in the hopes that students will read them. In the digital era, educators are catering to students’ shortened attention spans.

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Saturday, July 11, 2026

God Is Faithful

 
God Is Faithful (Psalm 114)
Sovereign Grace Music

VERSE 1
God brought out His people with a strong and mighty hand
Took them out of slavery to behold the Promised Land
Mountains fled before them and the seas turned back and ran
And they saw that He was good
 
CHORUS 1
God is faithful to His promise
He is with us, He is with us
God is faithful, God is faithful to His own
 
VERSE 2
God has come to free us from the bondage of our sin
Tasting of His kindness we cannot go back again
Leads us through the desert to the rivers of His grace
Working all things for our good

VERSE 3
We have known Your mercy and Your love as in the past
If days be few or many You will guide us to the last
You have said it, we believe it, every promise holding fast
For we know that You are good
 
CHORUS 2
God is faithful to His promise
He is with us, He is with us
God is faithful, God is faithful to His own
You are faithful to Your promise, 
You are with us, You are with us
You are faithful, You are faithful to Your own

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