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"You . . . are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. 2:5). Christians share common spiritual characteristics with Old Testament priests. Peter identified believers as holy priests, but many Christians don't really know what that means because priests aren't part of our culture as a whole. The primary purpose of an Old Testament priest was to offer acceptable sacrifices to God on behalf of the people. Priests were chosen by God Himself, specially cleansed through prescribed ceremonies, clothed in a prescribed manner,...

A dangerous and highly contagious disease with no vaccine is spreading across Australia in record numbers this winter. Experts have warned cases of RSV...recorded at 10 times the number than the same time last year. ..... It is a similar story for other states and territories, with the exception of Queensland, which reported 16,332 confirmed cases of RSV from the start of the year to June 26. Here, Daily Mail Australia reveals everything you need to know about RSV. RSV stands for respiratory syncytial virus that targets the lungs and respiratory tract. It is one of the major causes of...

... In a model using nonhuman primates, researchers administered THC in a daily edible and compared its effects to a group receiving a placebo. Specifically, researchers evaluated the epigenetic changes in several key areas that indicate healthy prenatal development: the placenta -- the disc of tissue that connects the umbilical cord and uterus -- and fetal lung, brain and heart. When looking at these areas, analyses showed that THC exposure altered the epigenome, meaning a process in which the information encoded in a gene is turned into a function or observable trait. Genes -- the segments which make up DNA...

Refugees bring very little across borders, but they cling to their stories. These days they mostly want to talk about the weather. The refugees I work with often say the same thing: It got hot. Then hotter. Then the jobs dried up and eventually the food did too. Add in political, racial or religious tensions, or a natural disaster that was the final straw. It all led to the same conclusion: There is no future here. And these are from the “lucky ones” who made it out. Today there are millions of climate refugees — people who have fled their...

Just over a year ago, on July 5, 2022, I had a post titled “How To Think Like A Liberal Supreme Court Justice.” The post was occasioned by the then-brand-new issuance (June 30, 2022) of the biggest decision of the Court’s last term, West Virginia v. EPA. Justice Kagan had authored a dissent on behalf of herself and the other two liberal justices (Breyer and Sotomayor). My post also discussed two other significant decisions of the 2021-22 term where the three liberals had again dissented as a bloc: Alabama Association of Realtors v. HHS and NFIB v. Department of Labor....

A Northern Virginia man finishing up a late-night shift of driving for the rideshare company Lyft, was shot in Washington, D.C., just after midnight Monday, and police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect seen on video fleeing the scene. The Metropolitan Police Department said in a press release that just after midnight Monday, officers responded to the 400 block of 11th Street, Northeast, for reports of an unconscious person. When officers arrived, they found an adult man, later identified as 31-year-old Nasrat Ahmad Yar, of Alexandria, Virginia, who was the victim of a shooting inside a...

TAIPEI -- Huawei Technologies on Friday released a new version of its artificial intelligence model for cloud computing services, its latest move to keep up with the generative AI boom kicked off by ChatGPT even as the Chinese company struggles with a U.S. clampdown that limits its access to important computing hardware. Huawei Cloud, the company's cloud computing solutions unit, said its AI model takes a different approach than Open AI's ChatGPT, a chatbot that answers questions and compiles humanlike responses to text prompts. Dubbed Pangu Model 3.0, the new offering is aimed at meeting the needs of specific industries...

Ohio joined the growing number of states passing pro-school choice legislation by expanding its voucher program to more families. "Ohio is the eighth state to go all-in on school choice in just two years," Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, told Fox News. "The dam is breaking for the government school monopoly." The $86 billion budget that Gov. Mike DeWine signed Tuesday included pro-school choice policies, joining Arizona, West Virginia, Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Florida and Oklahoma, which passed similar legislation in the past two years. Ohio's voucher expansion allows families earning up to 450% of...

2024 GOP presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson is in danger of not reaching enough donors to attend the GOP's debate stage in August. As of Thursday, Hutchinson only has about 5,000 of the 40,000 donors needed, admitting his campaign has work to do. "I'll be very straightforward with you — I'm not there yet," Hutchinson told Hugh Hewitt's radio show. However, Hutchinson is confident he can gain enough donors to qualify for the August 23 debate in Milwaukee. Of those, the Republican National Committee requires at least 200 unique donors from 20-plus states and/or territories. Hutchinson criticized the RNC for its...

They plan to take on Russia with this?? Article notes""Jones, a mentally deranged male who thinks he is a "transgender female," spoke briefly about his "journey from battling depression & suicidal thoughts to embracing authenticity," which the Department of Defense (DOD), in a separate tweet, claims "inspires us all." "What pride means to me is celebrating that diversity as our strength as a nation and as an Army," Jones said in the clip – watch below."

A concealed carry holder in Chicago turned the tables on an armed robbery suspect on the city’s Far North side this week. Chicago Police said three men, ages 26, 33 and 31, were standing near a vehicle on West Devon Avenue at about 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday when they were approached by the suspect, CBS reported. The suspect, who the three men said they did not know, flashed his handgun and demanded they fork over personal items. The victims complied with the suspect’s demands until one of the victims pulled out his licensed concealed carry and fired shots at the...

Top military officials in France have warned that French President Emmanuel Macron faces arrest unless order is restored to the country imminently. According to several senior officers, the French army are prepared to temporarily seize control of the government and detain the Young Global Leader over his deliberate failure to maintain law and order in France.

US President Joe Biden will spend three days in Europe at the NATO Summit in Vilnius scheduled for July 11 and 12. The main topic will be Ukraine and where to go from here. Ukraine is pushing for either immediate NATO membership or actionable security guarantees from NATO. But Ukraine’s position is undermined by the failure of the counteroffensive against Russia, and the failure of its attempts – via sabotage, assassination and lethal drones aimed at the Kremlin – to destabilize the government of President Vladimir Putin. Now Ukraine is saying it needs NATO air power to be able to...

German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is pushing for a ban to prevent smoking in cars where minors and pregnant women are passengers. Smoking in cars is not currently illegal in Germany. The plan, which is part of Lauterbach's draft proposal to legalize cannabis, aims to expand the existing Non-Smokers Protection Act. The expansion of the smoking ban, which already applies in public transport, is intended to "ensure the necessary protection from passive smoking for this particularly vulnerable group of people," according to the draft cited by RND. Smoking in cars has been proven to pose higher risks due to the...

Without truckers, America would grind to a halt. There’s no doubt about it. Truckers work a demanding job delivering our food, clothes and other necessities. But rather than support our hard-working men and women behind the wheel, President Joe Biden continues to empty their wallets and force them to drive electric trucks for his radical climate-change agenda. Well, we are pushing back. The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California have no right or legal justification to force truckers to follow their radical climate-change policies. That’s why I, along with 18 other state attorneys general, are taking Biden to...

'Family is life’s greatest blessing and responsibility,' the president said in Father's Day proclamation.. What happened: The New York Times published a heart-wrenching profile of the four-year-old granddaughter President Joe Biden has persistently refused to acknowledge. • "In strategy meetings in recent years, aides have been told that the Bidens have six, not seven, grandchildren," the Times revealed. • The child was determined to be Hunter Biden's following a lengthy court battle in Arkansas. The little girl is reportedly aware and "proud" of the fact that her paternal grandfather is president of the United States. • The story was posted...

Two staffers for Florida Rep. Fabian Basabe filed a lawsuit Thursday detailing allegations of sexual harassment and unwanted touching by the freshman Republican lawmaker. The lawsuit says Basabe made repeated lewd sexual comments and advances toward a legislative aide and an intern, slapped the aide’s butt without his consent while they attended an elementary school career day, and groped and tried to kiss a Florida State University graduate student in a car before hiring him as an intern.

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Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they...

The criminal practice of trafficking and abusing hundreds of thousands of migrant children who cross the southern border is now, thanks to the open-border policy of the Biden Administration, apparently “normal” inside the US:“According to Customs and Border Protection, since January 2021 when Biden took the oath of office, there have been 5,118,661 encounters with illegal immigrants along the southern border.”