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"Walk . . . with all . . . gentleness" (Ephesians 4:1-2). Jesus is the greatest example of gentleness: He became angry when God the Father was dishonored, but not when He, the Son, was. Jesus Christ is our supreme example of gentleness. Paul refers specifically to this in 2 Corinthians 10:1. Jesus Himself said, "I am gentle and humble in heart" (Matt. 11:29). Jesus showed righteous indignation when it was proper. When He found the Temple filled with people selling exorbitantly priced sacrificial animals, He drove them out, pouring out their money and overturning tables (Matt. 21:12). He told...

"In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed" (Eph. 1:13). The gospel is true because Jesus is true, not simply because Christians believe in Him. After stating salvation from God's perspective in verse 12, Paul here states it from man's perspective. Faith in Christ is your response to God's elective purpose in your life. Those two truths-God's initiative and man's response-co-exist throughout Scripture. Paul rightly called the gospel "the message of truth" because truth is its predominant characteristic. Salvation was conceived by the God of truth (Ps. 31:5); purchased by...

Univision said Tuesday that it had made a minority investment in Onion Inc., the company behind popular satire sites including its namesake The Onion, as the Spanish language broadcaster continues to try to reach millennials. Terms of the investment weren't disclosed. Univision said the investment helps broaden its multicultural footprint and reach with the millennial demographic. Onion is the parent of its namesake site, The Onion, ClickHole and A.V. Club. Univision said it would have oversight of Onion in order to "leverage Univision Digital's distribution, resources and media expertise to expand the exposure of the brand."

Modern Archaeology and Genesis by Brian Thomas, M.S. * Evidence for Creation With so many loud voices in our culture asserting that Genesis is a myth, one would think archaeologists have uncovered clear evidence that refutes it. On the contrary, some incredible archaeological finds confirm key events in Genesis. In the 1970s, archaeologists discovered tablets made before 2000 B.C. at Ebla in northern Syria. Among them were found creation tablets1 that say, “Lord of heaven and earth: / The earth was not, you created it; / The light of day was not, you created it.”2 Cylinder seals are tiny stone...

In his opening remarks during Sunday's fourth Democratic presidential debate in Charleston, S.C, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley called climate change "the greatest business opportunity to come to the United States in a hundred years."

What happened to hundreds of women on New Years Eve in Cologne and many other cities throughout Europe is a phenomenom which is new to Europe but old to the muslim world--it is *street terrorism* or *rape terrorism*. This type of terrorism does not require a mastermind or millions of dollars or a nation state behind it or any advanced technology. It is everywhere there are muslims and there are no number of police that can protect us from it because it is a cultural war against nonmuslim women and the nonmuslim communities as a whole. You would think that...

Alternate Title - RUSH: About Trump supporters - "I don't think they care whether the person's a conservative, liberal, or a Martian" RUSH: Ah, I'm trying to remember where I saw it. You know, it must have been something I read over the weekend and I didn't print it out because I figured by the time I did, it'd be old. If I read something on Saturday, I've learned not to bother to present it because by the time Monday comes along, it's not gonna be relevant anymore. But it was about this whole dust-up. It was all about this...

Full title: Minnesota Teachers’ Opinions Required To Be Prefaced With “As A White Person…” Because, Racism. > > Does ANYONE else see something wrong with this? Teachers being punished while their students are allowed to create utter chaos in the classroom? Or is it just me? > > The story has gotten even worse (did think that was possible). According to this, a former middle school teacher filed a lawsuit against a school district in St. Paul saying that she was the victim of harassment and physical assaults from students, and that she was barred by district policy from doing...

Rattle Can was a real person. His family wants you to know that. He was a "big ol' bear" of a man, tall and strong and slightly rotund, with a long, ginger beard hiding a strong-jawed, handsome face. His given name was Jacob Lee Rhyne, though most people called him Jake. He could come off gruff, and he didn’t watch his language. Rhyne loved his kids and sports and Miller Lite. He worked at the same place for 19 years, pouring iron at a foundry. You couldn't drag him away from his hometown, Ranger, Texas, a decrepit place nearly a...

Maybe Ted Cruz isn't the smartest guy on the planet after all. For months, as the crafty Texas Senator surged in the polls, voters were told that Cruz is the most intellectual candidate in the race, the best debater - someone the renowned law professor Alan Dershowitz called "off the charts brilliant." His every move has been judged a Machiavellian masterstroke, as he drafted behind Donald Trump, sucking up his energy and lurking behind to suck up his fans, stoking Iowans' fears about immigration and ISIS, presenting himself as a "consistent conservative" in a pond of flip-floppers. Most importantly, calculating...

The glory days of gentlemen's magazines are fading fast. Penthouse Magazine, the long-running and raunchier rival of Playboy, said Friday that it is ending its print edition after 50 years on the newsstand and will now only be offered in digital format. "Reimagined for the preferred consumption of content today by consumers, the digital version of Penthouse Magazine will combine and convert everything readers know and love about the print magazine experience to the power of a digital experience," publisher FriendFinder Network said in a statement. The move comes just months after Playboy announced that it would no longer publish...

It's been a little more than a month since 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested at MacArthur High School in Texas after authorities thought his homemade clock was a bomb. Now, we're getting an inside look at some of the emails sent by the Irving Police Department about Mohamed following the September 14 incident. There are 230 pages of emails that have been released so far to Motherboard under the Texas Public Information Act. We sifted through the documents and collected some of the most interesting emails. [The emails are in image form, so I can't copy and paste from them....

ATLANTA Donald Trump's 10-point lead over Ted Cruz among Georgia voters is as strong as anywhere in the country, according to a survey for Morris News Service released Monday. Trump claims one out of every three people questioned who said they plan to vote in the March 1 primary or 33 percent. Cruz has the allegiance of nearly one in four or 23 percent, up from 16 percent on Dec. 18. The other candidates were in single digits in the survey of 803 likely voters conducted by automated callers to phones and mobile devices. It was conducted Sunday by OpinionSavvy...

Glenn Frey, the voice and mind behind some of the biggest hits by the Eagles, has died after a battle with multiple health problems. The songs he wrote and performed with the Eagles became some of the most enduring music of the '70s.

British MPs have spent three hours in the House of Commons debating whether to ban US presidential hopeful Donald Trump from the UK. The debate was sparked by a petition, signed by more than 570,000 people, calling for Mr Trump to be banned from entering the UK after his comments about Muslims and Mexicans. MPs from all sides criticised Mr Trump during the heated discussion, branding him an "attention seeker", a "fool", a "buffoon", a "demagogue" and a "wazzock" — British slang for a stupid or annoying person.

'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' Aunt Viv Rips Jada Pinkett Smith ... 'Shut Up and Let Will Speak for Himself' ill Smith's old 'Fresh Prince' co-star is on the attack ... saying he and Jada Pinkett Smith are NOT the Obamas, and black Hollywood isn't gonna sing "we shall overcome" with them. Janet Hubert, the original Aunt Viv, blasted Jada's anti-Oscars stance with a rambling video post that started ... "First of all, Miss Thang, does your man not have a mouth of his own with which to speak?" Hubert goes on to accuse the Smiths of being sore losers, and...

Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe’s view of the Constitution and the “natural born” citizen issue seems to blow with the political winds.  Why has his view completely switched from 2008?  Is it because, as Sen. Ted Cruz said at the Republican debate on Jan. 14, Tribe is a “left-wing judicial activist” and “a major Hillary Clinton supporter?”  Whatever the reason, Tribe’s current assertions about the issue are wrong and Donald Trump may want to think twice before he again cites Tribe as an “expert”.In a prior article, I explained the legal interpretation of the requirement in Article II, Sec. 1...

In the Lone Star State, where open carry is now legal in public places, the Modern Language Association thought it was timely to protest guns on public college campuses, called "campus carry" by advocates and opponents alike. The language professors were in Austin, Texas for their annual convention and set aside time in their busy convention schedule to march up Congress Avenue to the limestone-colored State Capitol Building (which happens to be taller than the white-painted U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.). About 100 professors were in attendance, with a handful of couples with their children, marching eight city blocks from...

Talk-show host Glenn Beck has had some interesting predictions as of late — however, his newest one takes the cake. On his show, Beck proclaimed that if Donald Trump becomes president he would be a 'monster much, much worse than anything that Barack Obama could have dreamt.' '(Trump) is the same narcissistic character; he is the same 'hope and change,' make America great nonsense; he is the same 'I'll run it better,' ' that President Barack Obama was eight years ago, he said.

Warren Buffett has been consistently wrong on oil, but many experts are calling a bottom on oil prices now that the investor extraordinaire has upped his ante in Phillips 66, betting that he can’t be wrong three times in a row. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. paid some $390 million for another 5.1 million shares of oil refiner Phillips 66 this month, boosting its investment to 65.68 million shares that today are worth around $5.21 billion. Phillips 66 shares closed up at $4.03 (5.4 percent) at $79.28 on the New York Stock Exchange on the deal. Experts have been calling the...