When I was young, I suffered from extremely low self-esteem. I had some trauma I didn’t know how to process, and it made me hate myself. I remember thinking I was too skinny and too ugly, that no boy would ever love me. I just wanted to be beautiful like...

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This is Part 2 of a two-part series on fighting worry. Part 1 can be found here. In Part 1, we looked at Jesus’ confrontation over the treasures of our hearts. Are we storing up treasures on earth or in heaven? God’s purpose and intent for our lives is to...

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It's a story that environmental groups would ordinarily be all over: a greedy energy-producer has an accident, and a beach is strewn with debris. The habitat is spoiled. The company's local operations are shut down. But they're not -- and it's because it's not an oil spill. It's debris from...

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Elon Musk, owner and Chief Technology Officer of the social media platform X, still has work to do. According to a remarkable and unnerving study by the Media Research Center, Musk's oft-stated and apparently sincere desire to transform X into a bastion of free speech has produced no meaningful improvement...

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In "The Christian Worldview, Part 2," Dr. Jeff Myers shared the question J. R. R. Tolkien, author of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, proposed to his then unbelieving friend C.S. Lewis that changed Lewis' life: "Is [it] possible that Christianity is the one story that came true in real...

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Frequent flyers critical of Southwest Airlines's seating policies may be in for a bit of a pleasant surprise this week. Many who opt to fly with Southwest do so despite the company's open seating policy but, according to the airline, open seating may soon be a thing of the past....

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America won in the pool. And it won again on the medal stand. Torri Huske, who missed a medal at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics by .01 seconds, won the 100m women’s butterfly Sunday, then showed the world what world-class really means, according to Sports Illustrated. Huske brought teammate and silver...

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How can you make a bad situation worse via an apology? When the apology is so obviously the coward's way out. In an apology after the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games were marred by an anti-Christian mockery of "The Last Supper," Paris 2024 representative Anne Descamps said...

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As America grapples with the results of hate-filled rhetoric emanating from the now-defunct Biden campaign toward former President Donald Trump, a new report reveals a key figure in the Harris campaign has a years-old record of calling for violence. In a report in the New York Post, conservative journalist Any...

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Google’s erasure of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on its autocomplete feature did not go over well, with both Elon Musk and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas calling foul. As noted by Fox Business on Sunday, Google’s autocomplete feature omitted the July 13 attempt to gun down...

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We have officially entered the "1984" phase of the deep state's totalitarian takeover of America. Early Monday morning, The Washington Post published an opinion piece in which a writer purporting to be President Joe Biden issued an Orwellian political statement masquerading as a call to reform the Supreme Court in...

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Just in case you were shocked that the Paris Olympics mocked Christians with its tableau of drag queens representing the Last Supper, please note that its organizers were mocking Christian values long before it began. In fact, they were making a mockery of values pretty much every human being with...

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Just days after listlessly endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, former first lady Michelle Obama recruited a motley crew of leftist celebrities to push Americans to register to vote. The cringeworthy ad, which was released Sunday, shows Obama pretending to call several friends, including: Retired soccer player Megan Rapinoe. Actress Kerry...

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China's disinformation and control efforts have a long, troubling history. During my research, I came across a fascinating 1957 paper by Albert D. Biderman detailing the eight steps of brainwashing used by Chinese and Korean interrogators to extract false confessions from U.S. Air Force prisoners of war. These tactics were...

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Call the opening ceremonies for the 2024 Paris Olympics whatever you will -- bizarre, degenerate, even blasphemous -- it's safe to say if the organizers were looking for a reaction, they wholly succeeded. In particular, the ire of Christians was sparked as one scene appeared to mock Leonardo da Vinci's...

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Having been exposed by the Trump-era Justice Department for their attacks on former President Donald Trump, two key figures in the Russiagate smear of Trump are receiving massive payouts from the Biden-era Justice Department. Former FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page, whose communications about Trump on...

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Already a superstar in her home country, 16-year-old Rayssa Leal of Brazil suddenly has more than two billion new fans. During Sunday's street skateboarding final in Paris, France, the teenage phenom defied official guidelines and helped alter the tone of the blasphemous Olympic Games by delivering a courageous message in...

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Text messages from the agents sent to guard former President Donald Trump at a July 13 rally reveal that they were a step behind Thomas Matthew Crooks throughout the afternoon as Crooks played cat-and-mouse with the agents. A text sent by one local police sniper at 4:26 p.m. alerted colleagues...

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At this point, one must wonder why anyone would stake their livelihood on a job that requires speaking in public. In an example of cancel culture run amok, the European television network Eurosport fired Olympic swimming commentator Bob Ballard for an allegedly sexist joke so tame that even his female...

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Vice President Kamala Harris' record on the southern border and illegal immigration is only going to be magnified further if she secures the Democratic Party's nomination for November's general election. It's not that this is the only place Harris has failed miserably. This is the only place she has really...

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It is hard to think about buying furniture when consumers are having a hard time putting food on the table. Conn's Inc. is now bearing the brunt of that reality. They filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 23, 2024. 553 stores will be closed according to the court filings....

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