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"Take . . . the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God" (Eph. 6:17). God’s Word is your primary offensive spiritual weapon. All the armor Paul lists in Ephesians 6 is defensive, with one exception: the sword of the Spirit. That's your offensive weapon for defeating Satan. We've seen that Roman soldiers carried two swords: the large broadsword and the small dagger. The Greek word translated "sword" in verse 17 refers to the dagger, which was anywhere from six to eighteen inches in length and was carried in a sheath or scabbard at the soldier's side. The...

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BioRxiv The Preprint Server for Biology The DNA Legacy of Thomas Jefferson Posted September 21, 2026 Richard E. Green, Samuel H. Vohr, Joshua D Kapp, Jane E. Ailes, Samuel Sacco, Remy Nguyen, James Cahill, Peter D. Heintzman, Joanne Flores, Logan Kistler, Courtney A. Hofman, Robert C. Fleischer, Beth Shapiro, Richard Kurin doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.18.752809 This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. Abstract Allegations that Thomas Jefferson fathered the children of the enslaved Sally Hemings emerged in the context of U.S. presidential politics in the late 1700s and early 1800s and entailed...

Muslims who have long opposed a proposed church building in East Java Province are using an administrative error as a pretext to halt its approved construction, sources said. Claiming to have the backing of the entire area Muslim community, Muslim residents from the 01 neighborhood of 05 community unit in the Dukuh Kukun area of Babat Jerawat Urban village, Pakal District, Surabaya, assert that the address in official permit documents does not match the proposed church site in the CitraLand housing complex. “Residents have known about the church construction plan since around 2013-2015. The plan was previously delayed due to...

A Dakota County city of nearly 80,000 residents is set to welcome its second mosque in less than a year. The Al Hadi Association, an independent nonprofit Islamic organization, was given the green light Monday night by the Lakeville City Council to build a permanent place of worship, known as Al-Hadi Masjid. The city council approved a conditional use permit to allow a religious institution to be built at 17732 Junelle Path in Lakeville, which is zoned as a single family residential district. non-controversial and passed with a single block vote. “Our community is delighted,” Muhammad Shabaz, secretary of the...

Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), PriestJesus summoned the Twelve and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick. He said to them, “Take nothing for the journey, neither walking stick, nor sack, nor food, nor money, and let no one take a second tunic.” Luke 9:1–3Imagine having the power to lay hands on the sick and heal them. Though it may seem like something from the world of fantasy or superheroes, it is, in...

Neighbors remember the sound of church bells ringing on Sundays. A brick building with two sharply sloped roofs and a steeple — a Lutheran church for more than 80 years — still stands, but the cross that once stood atop the steeple is gone. About six years ago, the property was sold and turned into the Al Ihsaan Islamic Center. "They’ll turn anything into a mosque," Justin Tye, 57, told Fox News Digital during a guided tour of his hometown, where the foreign-born Muslim population has grown significantly over the past decade. Tye remembers the church as the centerpiece of...

Gaza terrorists joked about the October 2023 invasion of Israel as the attack was taking place, according to contemporaneous phone calls released in a US federal investigation on Tuesday that gave an inside view of terrorists’ immediate reaction to the Hamas attack and their preparations to join the invasion. The call logs were released in the case against Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi, who allegedly assembled a team of armed terrorists and crossed into Israel to join the attack, and later lied on his visa application to enter the US. He was arrested in Louisiana last year. Al-Muhtadi was allegedly a...

BREAKING: Elon Musk on China in his new interview with CCTV Finance: “I generally recommend people go to China as much as they can, because China has so many things to see. I took the bullet train from Beijing to Xi’an. That was a great experience. The train stations are amazing. “The Terracotta Warriors are one of the wonders of the world. Just make sure you look out the window and aren’t on your phone, because there’s so much to see. Any words I say do not do justice to the incredible majesty that is China. It’s awesome.”

According to the Middle East Forum’s report, El-Sayed’s campaign operated an exhibitor booth inside the convention hall, where campaign workers promoted his candidacy, solicited donations and recruited volunteers. Sep 21, 2026. Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, is asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether the Islamic Society of North America violated federal rules governing tax-exempt organizations by reportedly allowing campaign activity for Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at its annual convention. Self sent a letter Wednesday to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, citing a report from the Middle East Forum about El-Sayed’s appearance at the 63rd annual ISNA Convention in Detroit...

Did you know that recently released Census Bureau statistics show the poverty rate in the United States fell to a record low in 2025? That's an extraordinary development, but it has so far not attracted a lot of media coverage and discussion. What about a big White House event featuring President Donald Trump touting a welcome decline in poverty and increase in income? There hasn't been one. "I dunno, but if I were president and the poverty rate dropped to the LOWEST RATE ON RECORD, I might make a big deal out of it — a lot bigger deal than...

The Trump administration plans to limit the number of refugees admitted to the country to 17,500 mostly white South Africans, the administration told Congress Tuesday, as it continues to transform a program that at one point served as a pathway to safety for people fleeing war and strife from countries around the world. In a notice to Congress obtained by The Associated Press, the administration said the white South Africans faced seizures of their land and other forms of persecution and would be likely to assimilate when they come to America. The South African government has repeatedly rejected the idea...

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating a Massachusetts school district over reports that officials worked to socially transition a trans-identified teenager without her Catholic parents’ consent and took steps to remove the girl from their custody after they objected. The Education Department’s Student Privacy Policy Office is investigating the Northborough-Southborough Regional School District to determine whether the district violated the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) by working to socially transition a female student without informing her parents. “According to the student’s parents, school personnel at Algonquin Regional High School...

The Trump administration is directing more than $174 million in additional funding to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced on Tuesday the one-time investment at the HBCU Summit at the White House, which brought together administration leaders, university presidents, and others. "For nearly 200 years, HBCUs have been engines of opportunity in communities, advancing critical innovations and uplifting local industries across the nation," McMahon said. "This new investment will help ensure these vital institutions have the resources they need to continue delivering world-class education and to prepare students for success in a rapidly evolving economy."...

Beege Wellborn wrote about this earlier and her post got me interested in reading the entire article published by the NY Times. All I can say is that the full story is even worse than Beege made it sound. I found myself feeling some actual anger at a parent who is so wrapped up in her own boutique politics that she can't be bothered to see things from the perspective of her own child for more than a few minutes at a time.What comes across in the full article is not just that Hannah-Jones sacrificed her own child's education for...

It's funny, how those things we keep hearing from the left never happen, keep happening. The latest comes to us in an election issue, in a state, Utah, where mail-in ballots are used. That's a system that just invites fraud and tampering, and that is precisely what has happened; Acting Deputy Atty. General Trent McCotter, on Tuesday, announced the indictment of a United States Postal Service (USPS) worker who has been indicted for the destruction of over 300 ballots. That is, conceivably, enough to tip an election, although it's not clear that was a result this time.🚨Acting Deputy Attorney General...

Dementia research has reached a profound turning point. Alzheimer's disease was once considered 'untreatable', but that is not the universal rule any longer, according to this year's World Alzheimer Report. In the past five years alone, novel drugs have been shown to modestly slow decline in early Alzheimer's, while growing evidence suggests some dementia cases could potentially be delayed or prevented through risk reduction. Today, hundreds of clinical trials worldwide are now investigating possible medicines, new diagnostic options, and lifestyle interventions to identify, treat, or delay cognitive decline. The possibility of a cure is still far away, but it "feels...

Stephen Miller@StephenMil48·14hGavin Newsom supposedly LOST $24 BILLION dollars that was supposed to go to the California homeless situation.Poof.Gone.But after some digging it's being reported that the money was funneled to an NGO.That NGO bought a mansion in LA, a home in Greece, and a $125,000 veh/p>

Every diagnosis has a spiritual answer/side that that man can't see. And that answer is called truth and that man's diagnosis is called fact. And in John 8:31,32 it reads Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Jesus said that the truth will make us free from those contrary facts, and the truth is what God has spoken (John 17:17). Understand what the man is working with is natural sense knowledge...