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Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Breitbart: National Average Gas Price Breaks All-Time Record High

The former all-time record high national average gas price was broken Monday with a new price of $4.104...
Critics Warn New Iranian Nuclear Deal Will Pave Way To Atomic Bomb

While the world remains focused on Ukraine, a major geopolitical event is unfolding in Vienna. The new or renegotiated Iranian nuclear deal is reportedly close to signing and critics are concerned this version is worse than the original. After 11 months of negotiations, Israel’s chief takeaway is alarm.
The Stream: Christian Fugitives Face Martyrdom In Communist China

“Jail awaits me,” the pastor of a fugitive Chinese church wrote over an encrypted messaging service. “They’ve accused me of subversion of state power.”
CBN News: WA School Officials Send 2nd Grader To Principal 10 Times For Sharing Faith, Search Her Backpack for Bibles
DNA Found In COVID Was Patented By Moderna 3 Years Before Pandemic

Giving additional credence to the “lab leak” theory, a chunk of DNA found in the coronavirus shares an identical genetic sequence to a sequence patented by Moderna three years prior to the “pandemic.”
Frontpage Mag: Is the Pope Marxist?

He says he isn’t, but his teachings say otherwise.
Poll---Nearly 1 In 3 Americans Driving Less Because of High Gas Prices

Nearly one in three (30 percent) of Americans drove less in February, with the majority of those citing President Joe Biden’s high gas prices as the cause for less time on the road...
Gentle Reformation: Fearing Fear Itself

...A fruit of fear is spiritual amnesia. It can cause us to forget the most foundational truth of all, that God is on His throne and in firm control.
Crossway: The Holy Spirit Is At Work In Our Ordinariness

Even in the book of Acts, miracles were hardly commonplace.
Franklin Graham Sends His Charity To Ukraine, Sends Message of Christ

...Graham emphasized that his organization’s mission was conducted in Jesus’ name.
Breitbart: Ukraine War Will Have ‘Catastrophic’ Effect On Global Food Supply
Ukraine Conflict Could Further Breakdown Food and Energy Supply Chain
Ukrainians Leaning On Psalm 31 To Get Them Through the Horror of War

Both Christians and Jews in Ukraine have been praying Psalm 31 since the Russian invasion.
WI Professor Suspended From Christian University For 'Woke' Criticism

A Wisconsin professor was abruptly suspended after he criticized his Christian university’s “woke” criteria for selecting its new president, The Federalist reports.
WCW2K: How to Disagree Without Being Disagreeable

Many times, Christians divide over doctrines and non-essential teachings instead of being united, so how can we disagree without being disagreeable?
Ministry Watch: Baseball—and Organized Religion Have Things In Common

...“It is hard to take something away and then say, we really care about you and come back,” he said. “And by the way, we are going to charge you more when you get back.”
Trans Activists Push Biased Research Promoting Medical Transitions For Kids

Researchers are churning out biased studies promoting medical gender transitions for children, often supported by big pharma, and the media frequently promotes the conclusions uncritically.

Monday, March 7, 2022

The Blissful and Trivial Life--- How Entertainment Deprives a Soul

...The television slowly taught us that nothing was worth our time unless it was entertaining. And anything entertaining, almost by definition, requires less of us — less thinking, less study, less work.
Newsmax: Gas Tops $4 Per Gallon Average—First Time Since 2008

The price of regular gasoline broke $4 per gallon (3.8 liters) on average across the U.S. on Sunday for the first time since 2008.
Newsmax: 'People's Convoy' Truck Protest Drives Laps Around Washington

Hundreds of trucks, recreational vehicles and cars circled the outskirts of Washington on Sunday, aiming to slow traffic around the capital as part of a protest against pandemic restrictions.
CBN News: Evacuation of Ukrainians Halted as Russian Forces Siege Coastal City, Attack Airport With Cruise Missiles
The Blaze: Across America, Mask Mandates Will End This Week

In response to updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mask mandates in some of the last holdouts will finally be discarded as America seeks to emerge from Covid...
Gentle Reformation: The Virtuous Cycle of Church and Culture

...A virtuous cycle is, as they teach it in business schools, a chain of events that causes the chain of events to occur again with more power and speed.
For the Church: A Godly Life In Christ---Suffering With Jesus

...In the light of his confrontation with the risen Lord Jesus, Paul could no longer view the suffering of his followers as a sign of folly or weakness.
Crossway: How Suffering Conforms Us To Christ

...Suffering sanctifies. God tests us in order to refine us.
Mere Orthodoxy: Why People Don’t Leave Social Media

...There is mounting evidence that engaging social media with strict limits—or leaving entirely—is a path to health. Facebook’s own research suggests that Instagram is toxic...
Prophecy News Watch: What Israel Must Learn From Ukraine's War

The first lesson to be learned (or relearned) from Russia's invasion of Ukraine is that the absence of deterrence can be fatal for any nation.
Crossway: Disguising Ungodliness as Righteous Anger

There are a few examples in the Scriptures of human anger that would appear to be justified, but only a few. What follows is not a selection of examples; it is, so far as we can see, the entire list!
American Thinker: COVID Vaccines---What Happened To 'Safe and Effective'?

...Several reports are worthy of analysis regarding the “safe and effective” assertions made by regulatory authorities and leaders. Start with safety.
Lifeway: How the Gospel Is Good News For Every Worldview

Missiologists often describe three worldviews different cultures exhibit: innocence-guilt, power-fear, and honor-shame. The innocence-guilt worldview believes being and doing right is what matters most.
TGC: Pornography Use Is Becoming an ‘Acceptable’ Sin

A recent poll shows pornography is affecting relationships between men and women—and reveals how indulging in porn is becoming an acceptable sin.
Faithwire: Bishop on Trial Says Finland Has Made Secularism Its New Religion
Trevin Wax: Putin, the West, and the Myth of Progress

...Once you relegate the past to darkness and position yourself as leading humanity into the light, you tend to distort aspects of history that don’t fit your vision of where the world is headed.
PNW: The West Is On the Verge of Signing a Surrender Pact With Iran

...Despite all the warnings, it appears the American delegation has swayed global powers to consent to an exceedingly problematic deal that will pave a certain path for Iran to acquire nuclear bombs...
Daily Signal: The Legacy of Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’

...In acting outside the bounds of law, however, the Trudeau government may have created a new moment in Canadian politics...The Freedom Convoy seems to have sparked an end to many pandemic policies.

Sunday, March 6, 2022

Gas and Food Prices Are Rising At Record Pace In History

U.S. gas prices are rising at a record pace as Western sanctions on Russia’s financial and shipping industries cut off oil supplies from global markets and refineries struggle to keep up with surging demand.
Ch Post: Voddie Baucham Asked To Accept Nomination For SBC President

“I have indeed been asked to accept a nomination for SBC President. While I am honored to have been asked, I am not sure I am eligible,” Baucham said in a statement.
What Does the Russian Invasion Mean For Religious Minorities In Ukraine?

... The past can be a good indicator of how Russia handles religious minorities.
WND: CDC Director Admits Misleading Public About Pandamic

...The CDC exercised “too little caution and too much optimism” about the effectiveness of the vaccines in preventing infection, transmission and deaths.
Millions of Doses of Covid Vaccine Dumped as Demand Plummets

“Nearly 1.5 million doses in Michigan, 1.45 million in North Carolina, 1 million in Illinois and almost 725,000 doses in Washington couldn’t be used.”
Cripplegate: How To Pray For the Church In Wartime

Today—or anytime really—take an opportunity to pray for the church in Ukraine.
Iowa Becomes 11th State To Ban Biological Males From Female Sports

...While the “transgender” train has plugged along...more and more states seem to be realizing that there is a fundamental difference between males and females.
Crossway: Eight Ways To Spot False Teachers

Not every spiritual work is from God. The spirit of the messenger and the message must be tested.
A Ukraine Pastor's Plea For Help and Prayer From Christians Worldwide

One thing that is not mis-or-disinformation coming from the battlefields of Ukraine is that real people are dying...Those remaining behind depend on Christian leaders for material and spiritual help.
Proclaim & Defend: Grieving For Ukraine

...How should believers respond to the current crisis? What can we do? What should we do?
Hot Air: Say, Has Anyone Heard From Anthony Fauci Lately?

...Why, it’s as if Joe Biden and his administration suddenly found Fauci’s narratives inconvenient...Whatever could have changed their minds about using Fauci as the top COVID-19 surrogate?
Protestia: Ohio Lawmakers Urge US To Put Canada On Religious Freedom ‘Watch List’ For Jailing Pastors---One Pastor Still In Prison
For the Church: Pain From the Church Heals In the Church

...Some of the greatest heartaches of my life have been caused by those in the Church. What happens when your fellow church members are the ones who inflict the deepest wounds?
Another UMC Conference Delay Prompts Conservative Churches To Leave

New breakaway denomination moves up its launch as the United Methodist Church announces it’ll be two more years before voting on a split over LGBT stances.
Michael Kelley: Three Glorious Ways God Exceeds Our Expectations

...If God tells us what He’s going to do, and then does what He says, how can He exceed our expectations? The reason is because we can’t grasp the immensity of these promises.