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"I show you a still more excellent way" (1 Cor. 12:31). Without love, spiritual gifts are meaningless. First Corinthians 13 has been called the hymn of love, a lyrical interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount, and the Beatitudes set to music. It's a beautiful portion of Scripture that comes as a breath of fresh air in a book dealing with one problem after another. This chapter has often been isolated from its context, but its real power lies in the balance and correction it gives to the rest of the book. The Corinthians, like all Christians, had been gifted...

Related to a recent article about how Judge Roger T. Benitez is working hard on defending the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution against numerous infringements created by the California government, a poster wrote: Working hard.?? What is it, like twenty-seven words.?A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Many Second Amendment supporters feel similar frustrations. Sometimes the complaint is shortened to four words: …” shall not be infringed“!Perhaps the most famous case where a judge simply quoted the Second Amendment...

Inflation under Biden has been very painful for the US middle class and low wage workers. That inflation has resulted to surging mortgage rates thanks to The Fed’s counterattack. The result? Mortgage rates are up 134% under Bidenomics, while mortgage purchase demand is down -45% since Biden was selected. And mortgage refinancing demand is down a staggering -90%! Mortgage applications decreased 3.0 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending July 28, 2023. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 3.0...

Shocking video captured the moment a brazen band of bandits sprinted out of a Gucci store in Los Angeles after swiping thousands of dollars’ worth of luxury items – as a security guard walked helplessly behind them. Nine men wearing hoodies are seen dashing out of the swanky store at the Westfield Century City mall at about 3 p.m. Monday carrying pricey bags and suitcases as onlookers record them on their phones. One apparent store employee wearing a suit calls 911 and makes a feeble attempt to grab one of the thieves during the chaotic incident. And a seemingly nonchalant...

2 August 2023 Wednesday of week 17 in Ordinary Time St Peter Julian’s Church, SydneyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 34:29-35 ©Moses passes on to the people the orders given by the LordWhen Moses came down from the mountain of Sinai – as he came down from the mountain, Moses had the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands – he did not know that the skin on his face was radiant after speaking with the Lord. And when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, the skin on his face shone so much...

Ukraine has summoned the Polish ambassador over “unacceptable” comments made about Kyiv’s gratitude — or rather, a perceived lack thereof — for the considerable military and fiscal support given to the nation to help it fight Russia. The Polish President’s international policy chief Marcin Przydacz said Monday that: “Ukraine has really received a lot of support from Poland. I think it would be worth them starting to appreciate the role that Poland has played for Ukraine in recent months and years.” According to a report in Wprost magazine, when pressed he doubled down on the point, saying in Warsaw: “…we...

The Mathematical Association of America, founded in 1915 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., is one of the most prominent math societies in the country. The MAA focuses on math education and research at the undergraduate level and higher, and its math journals are among the most highly circulated in the world. Unfortunately, the MAA has gone woke. Its publications and blogs have been flooded with writings supporting BLM, CRT, DEI, and LGBTQ+. As an example of the latter, in an article on pages 34-35 of the December 2020- January 2021 issue of its newsletter, MAA FOCUS, the author, who describes...

Earlier this year, California was pummeled by what local surfers described as the best swell in decades: massive waves that damaged piers, crumbled sea cliffs and flooded coastlines. A new study finds that wave heights are getting bigger along the California coast as global temperatures have warmed. The study, published Tuesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, looked at nearly a century's worth of data and found that the average height of winter waves has grown by about a foot since 1969. The number of storm events that produced waves greater than 13 feet in height has also increased,...

Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal blew up epically. That now leaves everything on the table in terms of charges, as well as looking into Joe Biden’s connections to the scandal. We saw that on Monday as the House Oversight Committee interviewed Hunter Biden’s former partner Devon Archer. Archer confirmed Joe Biden was talking on the speakerphone into meetings, and that was the “big guy.” He also revealed information about another Chinese connection and the bizarre comment Hunter made about the Biden name and “handsome Aryan godlike men.” We will likely find out more about what he said, particularly when the...

Canadians’ access to news on Facebook and Instagram will be cut off in the coming weeks after Meta said Tuesday that a “fundamentally flawed” law is forcing the company to make the tough decision. Canada’s Online News Act, passed by its leftist legislature earlier this summer, requires Big Tech companies to negotiate agreements with Canadian news outlets and pay them for news content shared on social media platforms, Reuters reported. Meta spokesman Andy Stone slammed the law in a tweet on Tuesday and said ending access to news on its platforms was the only option. “Today we’ve begun the process...

Four out of every five humans alive experienced at least one day of abnormally hot temperatures in July — a global onslaught of extreme heat that would not have been possible without climate change, according to new research. The sweltering month appears to have been the hottest month ever recorded on the planet, although official verification from federal meteorological agencies is still pending. But an analysis of daily temperatures in 4,700 cities found that climate change-attributed heat touched 6.5 billion people — or 81% of the world's population — in July. The report, released Wednesday by nonprofit news organization Climate...

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NEW TRIPOLI, Pa. – The North End Rod and Gun Club is a place where members can come and enjoy each other's company and a dollar draft. Every year, the club donates nearly $15,000 in earnings to charities. But this year, there was a nice surprise when it came time to do the finances. "The surplus came about because we had savings bonds that came due, and we cashed them in to see how much money we had," said Tim Sherman, president and manager of the club. When all was said and done, the club found out it was sitting...

Russian authorities early on Tuesday accused Kyiv of yet another attack on Moscow and its surroundings with drones, one of which hit a building in the capital that was damaged by a drone just days ago in a similar attack early on Sunday. ..The repeated drone strikes underscore Moscow's vulnerability as Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its 18th month. the Russian defence ministry said in the early hours of Tuesday that it shot down two Ukrainian drones outside Moscow and jammed another, sending it crashing into a skyscraper in the Moscow City business district and damaging the building's facade....

Poland said on Tuesday it was rushing troops to its eastern border after accusing Belarus, Russia's closest ally, of violating its airspace with military helicopters. The Belarusian military denied any such violation and accused NATO member Poland, one of Ukraine's most fervent backers in its conflict with Russia, of making up the accusation to justify a buildup of its troops. Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko had earlier taunted Poland over the presence of Russian Wagner mercenaries near their joint border. Poland's Defence Ministry said it was sending "additional forces and resources, including combat helicopters". It said it had informed NATO of...

An Israeli merchant ship that embarked from the Port of Ashdod Monday became the first vessel to openly defy Russia’s blockade of the Black Sea since they pulled out of a deal with Ukraine allowing the country to export grain from its ports in mid-July, Ukrainian news outlet Militarnyi reported on Monday. Israeli vessel Ams1 seemingly ignored Russian threats and entered the Ukrainian branch of the Danube Monday afternoon, according to Ukrainian reports. It crossed the Black Sea on a direct route from Ashdod Port while the American aircraft P8 Poseidon provided aerial security, the reports added. Ams1 was followed...

It’s not only the Land Cruiser ‘250 Series’—basically the all-new Prado—that was launched by Toyota today. The Japanese carmaker also unveiled the refreshed 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser 70 Series, which will one again be sold in Japan alongside the 250 and the 300. Yes, the 70 Series is still going strong almost 40 years after it began production, and the exterior design tweak fully embraces the model’s retro status. Those three horizontal slats on the bodywork just below the grille are a direct throwback to the earlier models.

The oil cartel has never lacked tensions and internal conflicts. But OPEC – or actually OPEC+ – has never faced such challenges as it does today: the rapid development of RES and forecasts of an equally dynamic decline in oil demand. – In a growing market, time is your friend. Just wait a bit for things to settle down and get better. In a shrinking market, time becomes your enemy. You have to cut, cut and cut - argued at the end of last week on CNBC station Per Lekander, managing partner in the Clean Energy Transition investment group. –...

A central California city is reeling after a nondescript warehouse turned out to be an illegal lab with deadly pathogens, including coronavirus, HIV, and malaria.If it were not for an errant hose sticking out of the back of the warehouse last spring, city officials would not have known that a shady biotech company with links to China had set up shop there, filling it with industrial freezers, hundreds of vials of viruses, and about 1,000 dead and dying lab mice.Government investigators also found Covid diagnostic and pregnancy tests at the underground testing facility that they believed were being developed there,...

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