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One of the most frequently cited texts by cessationists — those who believe the gifts of the Spirit, such as prophecy, tongues, and healing, ceased after the apostolic era — is found in 1 Corinthians 13:8-12: “Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When...

We live in a moment when Jewish life in America feels more vulnerable than it has in decades. The threats are real, and we cannot outsource all responsibility for our safety. With that in mind, I want to offer a modest proposal: First, we should drop the sneering rhetoric about guns. Too often, Jewish discourse is laced with derision for those who own guns or advocate for them. A little empathy, even if we disagree, is a Jewish value too. Second, Jews should learn to shoot. Every Jew should go to the gun range at least once. You may never...

Rumours have flooded social media Donald Trump is dead. The US president has only just been seen in public for the time in two days, giving the internet plenty of momentum to speculate on where he is. It comes after the 79-year-old was spotted with poorly blended and colour-matched concealer on his hand, sparking rumours of bruising and cannula usage. Vice President JD Vance, in trying to quash the rumours, only made it worse, insisting he is ready to take the top job in case of a ‘terrible tragedy’. He told USA Today: ‘Yes, terrible tragedies happen. But I feel...

This is one of the most heartbreaking photos I have ever seen.Hero in Scotland defends herself from getting assaulted by a migrant and gets arrested. Young girls in the UK either have to get r*ped or face arrest for protecting themselves. Utterly insane pic.twitter.com/Ord31GB5jf — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 26, 2025This beautiful little girl in Dundee, Scotland, now known as Sophie Braveheart, or Sophie of Dundee, aged 14, is the same age as our adopted granddaughters. She has been forced into the necessity of defending herself and her 12-year-old sister against a migrant who was assaulting her sister by...

The sports giant who refused the shotI am writing this just a few hours before Novak Djokovic steps out on Arthur Ashe Stadium, the largest tennis arena in the world, to compete in the first round at the US. Open.Djokovic at 38 is aiming for his record-breaking 25th Grand Slam victory, taking his first step against Learner Tien, a young Vietnamese American literally half his age at 19.It’s Arthur Ashe at night, the most dramatic and raucous event in tennis.This promises to be an unusually competitive first rounder because Tien is a comer who has already beaten several top ten...

On the chutzpah front, it's hard to top Mexico's rulers.Here's the latest from la presidenta, Claudia Sheinbaum, who has advice for President Trump, the leader is getting rid of her country's cartel problem for her.According to CBS News:Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday said she would ask the United States to share the $15 billion it expects to extract from convicted Mexican drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada with her country's poor.Sinaloa drug cartel co-founder Zambada pleaded guilty in a New York court on Monday to murder and drug trafficking, particularly of fentanyl — a powerful narcotic responsible for tens...

Defense Secretary Hegseth slammed Microsoft for using Chinese engineers on Pentagon data, ending the program and warning that Big Tech’s ties to Beijing put U.S. security at risk.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced last week that the military would cease using a Microsoft program that relied on Chinese engineers. This obviously presented a major security issue, which Hegseth noted.“If you’re thinking ‘America first’ and common sense, this doesn’t pass either of those tests,” Hegseth said of the program. “The use of Chinese nationals to service Department of Defense cloud environments? It’s over.”He also declared that the DOD had delivered a formal...

A Tuscumbia father wants to know what happened to his 15-year-old son and said he’s quickly losing trust in his community’s school system and police department as he waits for answers. Jason Borden said he’s heard conflicting reports about what led to his son August Borden’s brain injuries that required him to be air lifted from Deshler High School to UAB Hospital on Aug. 19. The freshman football player was walking to football practice after school when he suffered major head trauma. Once at the hospital ICU, the teen was treated for a fractured skull, two broken orbital sockets and...

DISAPPOINTMENTS Disappointments come to all of us; and the more I see of life, the more convinced I am that one of the most important lessons anyone can learn is how to handle these disappointments. One of the great disappointments in my youth happened during my sophomore year in high school when I was running for class president. The class elected a cute brunette cheerleader. Another popular girl, another of the cheerleaders, came in second. And I trailed the field with only four votes. That was quite a blow to a cocky young boy to be defeated by not...

A veteran truck driver says the deadly turnpike crash that killed three people never should have happened — and it’s just the latest example of unsafe shortcuts he sees every day on America’s highways. Bernie Mahoney, a longtime CDL driver and owner-operator, told WPBF 25 News Investigative Reporter Terri Parker that from his first day in truck school, one rule was drilled in: never make a U-turn in a semi. "Never do a U-turn. Never. If I miss a turn, I find a big parking lot — a Lowe’s or Home Depot — away from the public to turn a...

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec Imagine screwing up at work so bad the President of the United States puts you on blast to the whole world From Rapid Response 47 3:24 PM · Aug 30, 2025

AVENTURA, Fla. — A Miami woman is facing two charges ― including a felony ― after police said she slapped a senior in a spat over a chair at the Aventura Mall, sending him to the hospital. According to Aventura police, the incident happened just after 5 p.m. Sunday at the mall’s newly-opened Eataly food hall. An arrest report states that Lelia Trinchero, 44, of Coconut Grove, told officers that she “sat at a table to eat food and wait for her husband and son,” which she said was empty, when a woman “approached her and told her that her...

Kari Lake’s effort to fire Voice of America Director Michael Abramowitz has been blocked by a federal judge. Lake has been trying to oust Abramowitz as she reduces the staff of the agency, but Abramowitz has fought back, saying the only way to fire him is to go through an advisory board that requires Senate confirmation, according to The Washington Post. He has been on paid leave since March. President Donald Trump removed everyone on the board in January. Replacements are not yet in place. Trump chose Lake to oversee the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which includes VOA, but...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) - The U.S Attorney’s Office in Middle Tennessee announced the arrest of a woman who allegedly threatened to kill Senator Marsha Blackburn. The release states that 22-year-old Penelope Convertino left a voice message at Sen. Blackburn’s office in Nashville on May 30, 2025. In the message, Convertino stated: “My name is mother**ker and I’m gonna kill Marsha Blackburn. I’m gonna shoot her with a gun. I’m gonna blow up her head on national TV. She will literally have brains splattered behind her because she will not be a person. She will be a dead f**king body.”...

CBS Chicago CONFIRMS Trump isn’t just targeting criminals in Chicago, he’s planning a massive immigration raid ‼️ “Sources confirm to CBS News that that could include armored trucks, federal troops and ICE agents flooding the city.“ “Breaking news, there is word from Washington that the Trump administration is planning to conduct a major immigration enforcement operation right here in Chicago” Say goodbye to Democrat’s illegal voters in Chicago!

First lady Melania Trump "laughed" at a request from Vanity Fair last month to appear on the cover of the magazine, according to the New York Post. Vanity Fair editors reportedly fumed over the possibility of Trump on the cover, with one editor telling the Daily Mail there would be a "mass exodus" of staffers if it happened. The outlet added that several anonymous employees warned of a "meltdown" if global editorial director Mark Guiducci followed through with his idea, but the first lady appears to have bigger priorities. "She doesn’t have time to be sitting in a photo shoot,"...

[Catholic Caucus] The Tenebrae of Maximilian KolbeSeize the opportunity to bring a brilliant new look into the life of St. Maximilian Kolbe to your city.During hours of darkness in Holy Week, the Church observes the peculiar liturgy of Tenebrae. As the Office progresses, the candles on the lampstand are extinguished one by one, until darkness is total. It’s a mournful liturgy, to express the desolation of the Church as the Light of the World is about to be eclipsed. So goes the Passion of St. Maximilian Kolbe in the new movie Triumph of the Heart. It begins in the darkest...

"Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend, and JB Pritzker, the weak and pathetic Governor of Illinois, just said that he doesn’t need help in preventing CRIME," Trump wrote on Truth Social. President Trump on Saturday attacked Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker and again threatened to send National Guard troops and federal agents to Chicago to combat crime.Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Democrat, said on Saturday that local police there wouldn't cooperate with the federal security presence that Trump might send."Six people were killed, and 24 people were shot, in Chicago last weekend, and...

After months of negotiation and concessions, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico has found herself in a cycle of pressure from the White House. As much as any other world leader, Claudia Sheinbaum has gained the reputation of a Trump whisperer. Over and over, the Mexican president has entered tense negotiations with President Trump and — to the surprise of many — exited with praise. “I like her very much,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office in February. “I did this as an accommodation, and out of respect for, President Sheinbaum,” he said after pausing tariffs against Mexico in March....

John Malone helped create the modern media industry over the last half century. In a new memoir, “Born to Be Wired,” he looks back on what he has wrought. Pop quiz: Which media mogul backed Rupert Murdoch’s launch of Fox News, supported Ted Turner’s plans for CNN and helped lay the groundwork for the internet revolution that powers Instagram, TikTok and Google? Need a hint? He’s also the second-largest private landowner in the United States, with 2.2 million acres. Of all the captains of industry who have transformed what we read, watch and talk about over the last half century,...