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Thoughts on Today’s Verse Few other Scriptures have produced more difficulty for God’s servants — ministers, pastors, elders — as they have sought to serve others. While not applying only to marriage, it almost certainly applies as a warning to a believer thinking about marrying an unbeliever. It is a Spirit-inspired reminder that when we make lifelong partnerships with those who do not share our deepest values in Christ, we are endangering our spiritual health and placing future misunderstandings and burdens on our partnership. Just as God’s Law would not allow the Israelites to yoke a donkey and an ox together because it would ultimately break them both down, Paul also reminds Christians this same principle is true for their most significant relationships as well.
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Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the majority whip, has proposed that illegal aliens be allowed to join U.S. military service with citizenship granted as a reward.
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A friend taught me to play “Heart and Soul” on the piano before Sunday School class because we were always the Early Birds.
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The news continues to be filled with shocking accounts of Jew-hatred (or as it is more blandly called, “antisemitism”). Ed Morrissey at HotAir described attacks on Jews and Jewish- owned businesses in Philadelphia and New York City last weekend as an “American Kristallnacht.” Yet another article – this one by Darlene McCormick Sanchez at the Epoch Times – connects the support for Hamas and opposition to Israel with the many Marxist movements that have proliferated in the U.S.
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School-choice opponents have tried, and failed, to convince parents to oppose policies that grant greater educational opportunity to their children.
Read moreFor the better part of two decades, Oklahomans have voted by large margins to elect Republican candidates at both the state and federal level.
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