Beauty From Ashes…

Beauty From Ashes… When we cry out to the Lord with an earnest heart the Lord hears and the Lord responds immediately. Immediately may be a different time frame than we humans know, but His response will rain down like a spring shower – drops everywhere, covering every inch of our being. Whom shall we fear? Where are the ashes of our tragedy? They were transformed through confession, repentance and redemption. Though an army may encamp against me, My heart shall not fear; Though war may rise against me, In…

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Maine Leads US In Becoming First State To Ban “Forever Chemicals” In Products

Maine Leads US In Becoming First State To Ban “Forever Chemicals” In Products By Jenna McGuire for Natural Blaze Maine enacted a groundbreaking law on Thursday, banning the use of so-called “forever chemicals” in all products by 2030, except in instances deemed “currently unavoidable.” Maine is the first state in the U.S. and first government in the world to implement a ban on the toxic chemicals per- and polyfluoroalkyl, known as PFAS, which are notorious for not breaking down easily in the environment and can remain in a person’s body for decades after…

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Facebook Censorship Board Member: Free Speech Is Not A Human Right

Facebook Censorship Board Member: Free Speech Is Not A Human Right By Jordan Davidson for The Federalist Free speech is not a human right, according to prominent Facebook censorship board member Helle Thorning-Schmidt. “What we’re trying to find, of course, I think many of us engaging in this conversation, is that middle road. How do you moderate content and how do you find that balance between human rights and free speech, which is a human right, but also other human rights because free speech is not an absolute human right,” the…

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Losing your life to follow Jesus

Losing your life to follow Jesus By Choco De’ Jesus, Op-ed Contributor for Christian Post Every person is born self-absorbed, but that’s because it’s our nature to be selfish. This inbred bent is inflamed by our consumer culture. The ads we see and hear promise that the next purchase will give us ultimate fulfillment—and that’s what we think is the good life: having everything we want and avoiding everything that’s annoying or painful. But Jesus came not to be served but to serve. No one took His life; He freely gave…

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The Brazen Hypocrisy and Intolerance of the So-Called Tolerant

The Brazen Hypocrisy and Intolerance of the So-Called Tolerant by Michael L. Brown It wasn’t until I received an email from a Stream colleague that I was struck by the brazen hypocrisy of the Los Angeles Times editorial to which I took strong exception in my most recent article. Frankly, I overlooked that aspect of their editorial because I was so utterly floored by the Times defending a man who exposed himself to girls and women in a California spa while at the same time criticizing these very women. Put another way, their defense of perversion and their…

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I did not eat the fruit in the garden of Eden so why do I suffer the consequences of Adam and Eve’s sin?

I did not eat the fruit in the garden of Eden so why do I suffer the consequences of Adam and Eve’s sin? from Compelling Truth The answer to the question of why we, who were not present in the garden of Eden and did not commit the first sin of eating the forbidden fruit, still suffer the consequences of Adam and Eve’s sin, is multifaceted. First of all we need to understand that Adam, as the first man, was God’s designated representative of all who would descend from him.…

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The American Descent into Madness

The American Descent into Madness By Victor Davis Hanson for American Greatness America went from the freest country in the world in December 2019 to a repressive and frightening place by July 2021. How did that happen? Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months. The French abandoned their supposedly idealistic revolutionary project and turned it into a monstrous hell for a year between July 1793 and 1794. After the election of November 1860, in a matter of weeks, Americans went from thinking secession was taboo to visions…

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