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This morning, while running errands before Shabbat, the threat became real on another level. The cell phone store in the neighborhood shopping center is now selling gas powered generators. We’ve been talking for weeks about the likelihood that an attack by Hezbollah or Iran could take out the power grid for some time. People are stocking up.

Whenever I hear of a friend leaving the Church because of spiritual abuse, disillusionment or hypocrisy I get it. But here is a list that I hope will encourage anyone on their journey to leave old, harmful lies behind to adopt new, faithful and exciting ones.

Specifically, there has been a trend across genres toward the "simplification of lyrics and an overuse of choruses." Further, the "vocabulary range has also shrunk and the structure of the songs made more predictable."

A conference is coming to my state to discuss whether the gifts of the Spirit have ceased. WHen our view of the Holy Spirit's role is diminished, it can cause His influence to withdraw. That’s my concern.

All things COVID might be over, but how it changed the world – and us – did not. Refusing to acknowledge those changes is neither helpful nor wise.

This is for all the church planters and their volunteers on post-Easter Monday, struggling to make it from week-to-week, and for the leaders and members of established churches that are anything but “mega”—well below the 200 threshold in terms of average attendance. I don’t know how Easter Sunday went for you, but I have a hunch.

Unlike Esther of the Bible, an orphan who was born in Jerusalem and exiled in Babylon, Queen Rania of Jordan could not be more polar opposite.

This past weekend has been known as Palm Sunday weekend. So what? It’s a fair question. In our culture, the significance of sacred days and times has long been forgotten.

Who has really lost its way? Israel, fighting a seemingly never-ending war against genocidal Arabs and Islamists for a century, or Senator Schumer and his Democratic party?

Savannah Guthrie is the co-anchor of NBC News’ Today, NBC News’ chief legal correspondent, and a primary anchor for the network’s election coverage. A graduate of Georgetown Law, she is a New York Times bestselling author and executive producer of a Netflix show.

A recent article in the New York Times (NYT) detailed a deeply disturbing phenomenon. Titled “A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men,” it ran the following sub-heading: “Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more.”

First things first. Mental illness is real and needs compassion, concern and, when called for, treatment. For example, I have written about the importance of understanding the very real nature of depression and the importance of its treatment. Second things second. Not everything we are calling “mental health issues” are, well, mental health issues.

This is an election year. No, this isn’t a blog about who you should vote for. It is a blog about why we often vote the way we do... and shouldn’t.

It isn’t hard to see that we are living in a time where confusion and brutal attacks on our identity are running rampant. The gap between a Biblical view and a secular view of sexuality seems to be growing wider by the day.

Upon first hearing the results, it might make you want to roll your eyes: according to a survey conducted by the market research company OnePoll, 81% of Gen Z believe they can write self-help books. It takes a certain audacity to feel you can write a self-help book