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“‘Your faith has made you well’” (Matthew 9:22). In many instances in the gospels, the words translated “healed,” “made well,” or similar variations, are from the Greek word meaning salvation or saved from sin. For instance, when blind Bartimaeus came to Jesus to regain his sight, the Lord told him, “Go; your faith has made you well” (Mark 10:52). That Bartimaeus repeatedly called Jesus “Son of David,” a common messianic title, suggests that his physical healing included spiritual salvation. In the account of the ten lepers, Luke reports that all of them “were cleansed” (Luke 17:14), but this was from...

“Last night, I was swatted just after 1 am. I can’t express enough gratitude to my local law enforcement here in Rome, Floyd County. More details to come,” Taylor Greene wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning. “Swatting” is commonly defined as “the action of making a false report of a serious emergency so that a SWAT team (= a group of officers trained to deal with dangerous situations) will go to a person’s home, by someone who wants to frighten, upset, or cause problems for that person”. The act usually involves heavily armed police. The act of “swatting” has been...

Hitler youth WW2 documentary Video is over 2 hours long. May want to book mark for later.

VIDEOOoops! It wasn't supposed to be like this or so Magistrate Bruce Reinhart probably thought when he signed off on the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. So instead of it being a low-key affair as the FBI and DOJ most likely assured him, the FBI raid on President Donald Trump's home has turned into a Backfire Hurricane of a political firestorm with poor Reinhart at the very center of it. And now Reinhart is showing some signs of backing off especially since the public spotlight has focused on certain unsavory activities of his in the past. In fact, if Reinhart had access...

Ukraine is braced for fresh bloodshed TODAY amid fears Russian troops will launch wave of attacks on country's Independence Day -US State Dept report says Russia is planning civilians attacks in Ukraine today -The move on Independence Day may coincide with PoW caged for their trials -Today is the 31st anniversary of Ukrainian vote of independence from the USSR -President Volodymyr Zelensky promised a 'powerful response' to any attacks Ukraine is today celebrating the 31st anniversary of leaving the Soviet Union - but marks its Independence Day amid fears of a surge in attacks by Putin's forces. Independence Day falls...

Detailed image of the Moon tinged red and gunmetal blue, with craters and on the black backdrop of space. The "ridiculously detailed" image. (Andrew McCarthy/Connor Matherne) Time to upgrade your wallpapers, people. Two astrophotographers have just dropped what they call "the most ridiculously detailed picture" of the Moon – the result of a painstaking, neck-craning effort roughly two years and over 200,000 frames in the making. For millennia, humans have looked up and seen the same silver orb traversing the night sky – but never quite like this. As space photography enthusiast Andrew McCarthy says of his collaboration with planetary...

The Democrats are riding a wave of successes the past few weeks. Gas prices edging downward, passage of the improbably named Inflation Reduction Act, successful meddling in Republican primaries and improving poll numbers have combined to make Biden and his compatriots believe they can win control of the Senate, and optimism is rising about the House. But when you dig through the numbers, Democrats are getting ahead of themselves.

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

If you're despairing at recent reports that Earth's water sources have been thoroughly infested with hazardous human-made chemicals called PFAS that can last for thousands of years, making even rainwater unsafe to drink, there's a spot of good news. Chemists have developed a simple way to break down almost a dozen types of these nearly indestructible 'forever chemicals' at relatively low temperatures with no harmful byproducts. ...

The U.S. military conducted precision airstrikes in Syria against Iran-backed groups at President Biden’s direction on Tuesday, U.S. Central Command announced. Col. Joe Buccino, U.S. Central Command’s communications director, said in a statement that the strikes targeted “infrastructure facilities” in the city of Deir ez-Zor, located in eastern Syria, used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The FBI slow-walked its investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop, including telling some bureau employees not to look at the hard drive belonging to President Joe Biden’s son, according to reported whistleblower disclosures made public by a top Senate Republican. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent a letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Tuesday about the new whistleblower claims, following disclosures made public last month about the bureau allegedly wrongly labeling Hunter Biden evidence as “disinformation” in 2020. “Whistleblowers have recently contacted my office to share serious concerns about the FBI’s handling of Hunter Biden’s laptop,” Johnson told Horowitz, telling...

Several states where reproduction rights are at risk are seeing a surge in women registering to vote following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case, abolishing the constitutional right to abortion. An analysis by Targetsmart Insights, a Democratic political data and data services firm, found that women are out-registering men by significant margins in states where reproductive rights are in danger of being repealed, such as Kansas, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Has the American education system completely collapsed? Considering college students seem more likely to be able to recite the first names of the Kardashians than the first President of the United States, it seems clear we’re well beyond collapse. Our education system is already a dust heap and the video below demonstrates that clearly. It’s anecdotal evidence, but any of us who have engaged with college-aged Americans on a regular basis know that these dimwits are not the exception. They are the norm. Watch: NEW VIDEO: Gen Z Fails To Answer The EASIEST Questions. VIDEO AT LINK.................... It’s a generational...

A St. Petersburg man was arrested after exposing himself at a Taco Bell late Saturday night, according to police. The St. Petersburg Police Department said Christopher Ver-Straten, 33, crawled through the drive-thru window of a Taco Bell located on 4th Street North, all while completely nude. Police said the suspect then began lying on the kitchen floor, refusing to leave. Ver-Straten was arrested shortly after on a charge of exposure of sexual organs.

At least 20 million households — or about 1 in 6 American homes — are behind on their power bills as soaring electricity prices spark what is said to be the worst-ever crisis in late utility payments.

Steve Wells has conceded the 22nd Congressional District’s Republican Primary to Brandon Williams, who’s declared victory. Williams’ win is considered an upset because Wells was backed by the GOP committees in the counties of NY-22, had name recognition and more money. Williams also has the Conservative Party endorsement.

A Ukrainian national who acted as a pro-Putin official in occupied Zaporizhzhia region has been killed in a car bombing today, days after the daughter of a prominent Russian ultranationalist died in similar fashion at the weekend. Ivan Sushko, a 40-year-old father-of-one, died this morning when a car bomb detonated under his seat, harrowing CCTV footage showed. Images of the car taken after the blast showed the driver's side door crumpled with all the windows blown out and debris strewn across the road. It was reported that Sushko was taking his daughter to nursery at the time of the explosion....

The biggest news in domestic American politics in the past week was the absolutely shattering upset of Liz Cheney by Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman in Wyoming’s Republican primary for its at-large House seat. I mean, she got smashed worse than a wine aunt who just lost a national championship cat show. In a race that should have been hers for the taking, she was instead defeated by 37 points in one of the worst primary losses suffered by a sitting politician in recent history. If I sound like I’m vicariously gloating, it’s because I am. Yet, if you were to...

The WEF boasted it had recruited around 110,000 “volunteers” who would ensure that the opinions of dissenters around the world are discovered, tracked, and censored. In November 2020. The World Economic Forum (WEF) announced it had recruited hundreds of thousands of “information warriors” to control the internet. WEF Leader Klaus Schwab and his fellow globalists have unleashed their digital soldiers to police social media platforms and forums for “misinformation” and “conspiracy” content. As a result, efforts are being made to ensure systematic censorship, such as banning and suppressing social media accounts. In the first year of the pandemic, the controversial...

Elon Musk is back again, tweeting out a meme calling CERN's Large Hadron Collider "demonic technology" and that should totally, totally not surprise us at this point. For those unaware of what the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is, it's the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator located underground in Geneva, Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research with over 10,000 scientists, hundreds of universities and laboratories, with the collaboration of over 100 countries. CERN recently turned the Large Hadron Collider back in 6 weeks ago, with Elon tweeting out the meme 6...