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"You are . . . a royal priesthood" (1 Pet. 2:9). Christians serve the King and will someday reign with Him in His Kingdom. In Exodus 19:5-6 God says to Israel, "If you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples . . . and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." They were to be both priests and royalty, but they violated the covenant and forfeited those privileges. Now, according to Peter, Christians are the royal priesthood of God. The Greek...

China is unmatched as the world's hydro hegemon, with more large dams in service than every other country combined. Now it is building the world's first super dam, close to its heavily militarized frontier with India. This megaproject, with a planned capacity of 60 gigawatts, would generate three times as much electricity as the Three Gorges Dam, now the world's largest hydropower plant. China, though, has given few updates about the project's status since the National People's Congress approved it in March 2021. Opacity about the development of past projects has often served as cover for quiet action. Beijing has...

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During his tumultuous stint as Chicago’s top cop, former police Supt. David Brown often touted the importance of taking guns off the streets. “Each gun recovered, regardless of how, is a potential life saved,” Brown said at a news conference at police headquarters in June 2022. Under his watch, the number of gun recoveries jumped as police leaders sought to tamp down spiking violent crime, with cops from the Calumet District helping to lead the charge. How exactly a group of those officers recovered at least five guns is now being investigated by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the...

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@RepThomasMassie FBI director Wray makes a troubling admission: the FBI often mines and collects personal financial data like gun purchases from private banks without a warrant.

PLAQUEMINE - A series of explosions at the Dow chemical plant along the Mississippi River triggered panic in parts of the capital area late Friday night. Iberville Parish Sheriff Brett Stassi told WBRZ that six explosions were detected at the facility around 9:30 p.m.. Witnesses living nearby caught video of massive flames and said the shockwave was felt from miles away, including in parts of Baton Rouge. All plant personnel has since been accounted for, and the firefighters appeared to have the flames under control as of around 11 p.m.

Florida health officials fined two abortion facilities a total of $40,000 on Wednesday for allegedly violating a state law that requires women to be informed about abortion risks and alternatives. Like many states, Florida requires abortion facilities to provide informed consent to patients, including information about abortion risks, the development of an unborn baby, the baby’s ultrasound image and pregnancy/parenting resources at least 24 hours prior to the abortion procedure. But, according to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, A Woman’s Choice in Hialeah and A Woman’s Care in Miami failed to follow the law with dozens of their...

Pro-life advocates have been helping parents deal with post-abortion trauma for decades through professional therapy and counseling, retreats, Bible studies, research, story-telling and more. The grief, trauma and regret affects moms and dads, siblings and grandparents, and it is much more common than abortion activists claim. But there are some therapists who blame pro-life advocates, not the unborn baby’s death, for negative emotions and mental health problems associated with abortion. Kelsey Reep, an Asheville, North Carolina therapist who specializes in “abortion support,” believes that “the absence of positive social support” and “stigma” are to blame for negative emotions about abortion,...

In the wake of Side B theology running rampant in the church, The Gospel Coalition is promoting a young adult novel that focuses on a “gay Christian teen” with messaging that bypasses the Christian sexual ethic. TGC Australia promoted the book Colors by Patty Guthrie in a review titled Fictional Representation of a Gay Christian Teen: Colours by Patty Guthrie. According to the publisher description: “He forced himself to look up at the board and realised there were only a few minutes left of the lesson. His page was blank, an apt representation of his mind. He just hadn’t been...

A state judge has declined to block the new Iowa heartbeat law that Governor Kim Reynolds just signed to protect babies from abortions. A ruling is expected Monday or Tuesday, meaning unborn children are currently protected from abortions in Iowa. A Polk County Judge has refused to rule from the bench after Planned Parenthood and other abortion activists requested a temporary injunction. Judge Joseph W. Seidlin said he expected to have a decision by the end of the day Monday. “This issue, this case, this request, requires my strong and lengthy attention, and so you’re not going to get a...

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds made it official today, signing the heartbeat law to protect babies from abortions. The legislation will save thousands of lives annually by protecting babies at a point when they have a heartbeat. “All life is precious and worthy of the protection of our laws,” Reynolds said when signng the bill. “The Heartbeat Bill is now the law of the land! Despite the abortion industry’s best attempts, Iowa is protecting the most innocent and defenseless lives!” she added. Video Player 00:00 02:38 The Iowa General Assembly passed the bill late Tuesday night in a special legislative session....

Though names have changed over time and new members added, it remains the case that behind the murderous satanic Soviet Union, Hitler’s occult National Socialist Reich, the ongoing destruction of the West, redistribution of its wealth, replacement of Westerners and Americans with Muslims and South Americans, and the still unfolding mRNA injection catastrophe, is a powerful financial coterie of ‘elite’ Luciferian Global and national progressives and like- minded travelers committed to a mystical pantheist New World Order, apotheosis, self-empowerment, revolution and genocide. From the turn of the century till now, the coterie has been financing catastrophic worldwide wars, revolutions and...

What is happening with “mass casualty events” at concerts?This has now happened several times since COVID-19 vaccines have rolled out.Simultaneous cardiac arrests. Dozens hospitalized or dead.

grieving family is outraged after an alleged drunk driver, who killed their 11-year-old son after his car t-boned the car the youngster was traveling in, has been freed by a woke judge, without bail Ryan Ambrose lost his life in the crash last Saturday night which happened in Portland, Oregon. The suspect, Duprie Smith, 29, is alleged to have been driving at speeds of more than 85mph at the time of the accident when he slammed directly into Ryan's vehicle. Ryan was sitting in the back seat of the car and bore the brunt of the impact.

Boston's Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu is drawing comparisons to disgraced former President Richard Nixon for compiling a list of her most vocal critics and sending it to the police. Wu, the first woman and first person of color elected mayor of Beantown, admitted the list had been put together, but cited safety reasons and a request from Boston police, through a spokesperson. 'The list was made in response to a request from the Boston Police Department after the Mayor had been harassed and physically intimidated by individuals for several months outside her home, at city functions such as the annual...

A Hurricane of Missiles...I sure am glad nobody's shooting a hurricane of missiles at ME... Wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that.

Though ordinary people might consider telling the world we are out of ammunition or severely depleting our strategic petroleum reserves to be unforced errors, However, MSNBC's Chris Matthews contends that "Biden is a brilliant strategist. I'd put him on a par with FDR's leadership during World War II. He has united NATO as never before and cleverly maneuvered Russia into a debilitating war with Ukraine." Former President Trump called Matthews proclamation of Biden's genius "idiotic. Funding Ukraine's war with Russia has been a colossal blunder. It has multiplied the casualties for both sides, depleted our armaments, and dragged us nearer...

On the 15th of July, 1606, Golden Age artist Rembrandt was born. He looked back for wisdom to the ancient Greeks. The Greek ideas of society are a crucial part of the foundations of The West. In 1951, also on the 15th of July, Jesse Ventura was born in Minneapolis. He is a modern part of the Western Tradition of freedom. A man whose words show that he is appalled by the horrors big government can create” “I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.” “I believe in the American people’s ability to govern themselves. If government...

Just weeks before a grand jury in Georgia may consider charges against Donald Trump, the former president asked a pair of courts to step in and bar a report that may form the underpinnings of a potential case against him. Attorneys for Trump appealed to the Superior Court of Fulton County and Georgia's Supreme Court in filings on Thursday and Friday, demanding that the report, made by a special purpose grand jury, be quashed. The report concluded an investigation into alleged efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn Georgia's 2020 presidential election results, and included recommendations for potential charges.