The World and Everything in It: February 10, 2023

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

Today on Culture Friday: We’ll talk about the State of the Union and the political center, Disney and the racial divide, and the Grammys and Satan’s greatest hit.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Right. John Stonestreet is raring to go on Culture Friday.

Also today a preview of a special 3-part podcast series on Safe Haven laws and baby boxes.

Plus Collin Garbarino reviews the new comedy 80 for Brady.

And a few excerpts from the dedication event for WORLD’s Washington Bureau.

BROWN: It’s Friday, February 10th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

BROWN: Now the news with Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Chinese balloons » On Capitol Hill, a unanimous vote …

AUDIO: The yeas are 419. The nays are zero. The resolution is agreed to.

The resolution condemned China for violating U.S. airspace with a balloon-mounted spying device.

US officials have learned that the spycraft had multiple antennas to intercept sensitive communications. And the device reportedly had Western-made parts with English words on them, raising questions about who sold those parts to China.

The Pentagon now says Chinese balloons did cross into US territory on multiple occasions in the past. But Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Marco Rubio, said maybe so, but not like this.

RUBIO: This thing actually entered over Idaho and then just cut a diagonal path right across the middle of the country. That has never happened. Period. End of story. Not now, not in the past.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman says the brazen violation of US airspace further indicates that China …

SHERMAN: Is the only competitor with the intent and the means to reshape the international order.

President Biden on Thursday again defended his decision to let the balloon travel across the country before shooting it down. He said he was following the advice of military leaders.

House DOJ weaponization hearing » Elsewhere at the Capitol, a House panel held its first hearing on what Republicans are calling the political weaponization of the government against conservatives.

GOP Senator Chuck Grassley:

GRASSLEY: It’s clear to me that the Justice Department and the FBI are suffering from a political infection that, if it’s not defeated, will cause the American people no longer to trust these storied institutions.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan said lawmakers have heard from dozens of whistleblowers within the FBI, warning of politically motivated actions within the Department of Justice.

Democrats called the hearing political theater and said the Republican majority is abusing Congress’ oversight capacity. Democratic Sen. Jamie Raskin:

RASKIN: You could take oversight down a very dark alley, filled with conspiracy theories and disinformation. A place where facts are the enemy and partisan destruction is the overriding goal.

Southwest Airlines testimony » Meantime in the Senate, lawmakers grilled Southwest Airlines Chief Operating Officer Andrew Watterson about a winter systems meltdown that forced thousands of canceled flights and chaos at airports.

He told members of the Commerce panel:

WATTERSON: Let me be clear, we messed up. In hindsight, we did not have enough winter operations resiliency, from where and how we de-ice aircraft to the cold resistency of our ground support equipment and infrastructure.

A winter storm in December disrupted crew-reassignment software, stranding more than 2 million passengers.

The president of the airline’s pilots union said company leaders ignored warnings from pilots and flight attendants that the technology was out of date.

Watterson said Southwest is upgrading its software.

Earthquakes latest » The death toll from earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has now surpassed 20,000, as rescuers continue to pull survivors from the rubble.

AUDIO: [Shouting, applause]

A rescue crew heard there pulling a little boy to safety in Syria.

But time is running out for survivors still trapped in mangled remains of buildings.

President Biden Thursday called images from the region heartbreaking.

BIDEN: What you see — moms and dads pulling little babies out from underneath this rubble, so many people dying. And our thoughts are also with the survivors who have been torn apart by this tragedy.

The United states has deployed rescue assets and millions in relief funds to the region.

Zelenskyy in Brussels » Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with European leaders in Brussels on Thursday.

He asked European Union officials to expedite Ukraine’s membership in the EU.

The president heard here through a translator:

ZELENSKYY (translated): We are fighting for the European values. We want to be a member of the European Union. So even when we fight, we have to fight with dignity and with those values.

Brussels was his last stop on a two-day tour of European capitals where he has urged Western leaders to send fighter jets to Kyiv.

Trump Facebook page is back » Former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts are back online after a two-year suspension. WORLD’s Josh Schumacher has more.

JOSH SCHUMACHER, REPORTER: The parent company of the social media giants, Meta, has restored the Trump’s access to his accounts.

The company suspended him indefinitely from its platforms in 2021 following the Capitol riot. Meta claimed he had violated its content policies.

The former president has a combined 57 million followers between Facebook and Instagram.

Twitter recently lifted its ban on Trump’s account, but he thus far, he’s stuck to posting exclusively on his Truth Social platform.

For WORLD, I’m Josh Schumacher.

Burt Bacharach obit » MUSIC: [I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, Elivs Costello]

The man who wrote that song and many other chart-toppers has died. Burt Bacharach passed away Wednesday.

Few songwriters ever matched Bacharach’s gift for crafting top-10 hits for numerous artists from Elvis Costello to Tom Jones, to Dionne Warwick... 

Bacharach died of natural causes. He was 94 years old.

I’m Kent Covington. Straight ahead: Culture Friday with John Stonestreet.

Plus, a dedication service for our new Washington bureau.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s the 10th day of February 2023.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. It’s Culture Friday!

Joining us now is John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast.

Morning, John.

JOHN STONESTREET, GUEST: Good morning.

EICHER: Let’s quickly touch on the State of the Union. There’ve been lots of political takes, but I think there were some cultural moments, too, John. And what jumped out to me was this was likely the opening salvo of Campaign 2024 and President Biden branding himself again as a moderate. But that’s what I find significant: “moderate” means codifying Roe versus Wade and the equality act. He didn’t even mention the Respect for Marriage Act. It was straight on to the Equality Act. The center is moving. What do you think?

STONESTREET: Well, I do. But I think that’s one of the punchlines of our cultural moment: It’s really impossible to separate the political from the cultural in any meaningful sense anymore. I’m not trying to say that all of culture is political, but that more and more the power of culture in our lives has a political flavor to it. When politics sucks all of the air out of the room, that tells you a lot about the health of the moment, and it’s not healthy when so much bends to political developments and our media openly grasps for political power. The center of our culture has moved a long time ago. The center of the Democratic Party has clearly moved. There’s no such thing as the moderate left anymore. The reason is because the whole thing has been hijacked by this critical theory mood.

What I mean by that is this cultural understanding away from the standpoint that there are multiple legitimate positions to be taken on certain issues, towards the belief that there’s always a right and wrong position on issues. All these cultural issues now have been framed as good and evil; if you’re not for completely unfettered abortion access without any limitations whatsoever, you are an enemy of women. Of course, this from a party that refuses to define woman out loud, but you know what I mean.

This move on from the Respect for Marriage Act to the Equality Act… Some of us predicted that. Some of us told the religious supporters of the Respect for Marriage Act that this is just a repeat of the civil unions strategy from before Obergefell, which promoted civil unions and said “we just won’t call it marriage.” Once the right to civil unions was achieved, they were used as the grounds to argue that those couples are being discriminated against in their being denied a right to marriage. This was just a repeat of that strategy, some of us pointed that out. Others didn’t care to listen to that.

Even if there was any doubt of where this was going—and where this will go if Biden’s administration carries on for another four years—it is harrowing what is at stake, and that’s not a political statement. Some of us remember how aggressive the second term of the Obama administration got on social issues. Acting as if there wasn’t a legitimate opposing view, as if there wasn’t room to disagree. They acted as if Justice Kennedy had actually been wrong in the Obergefell decision, because of his statement that “people of good faith disagree.”

That is not something that’s allowed now, so there’s not really a center anymore, not fiscally, socially, politically, or culturally. The left is a radical left and the last night was additional proof of that.

BROWN: John, I’m old enough to remember watching Saturday morning cartoons, like Scooby Doo and Fat Albert. Today, they’re called animated television series, but the target audience is still the same: kids. One cartoon in particular has caught my attention and is also making the rounds on social media.

The Proud Family was a cartoon series that originally aired on Disney, twenty years ago regarded as a lighthearted depiction of a Black suburban family. It had a four-season run. Then, last year Disney + revived it, calling it The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.

Believe me, this reboot is living up to its new name. Listen to this excerpt from again, what’s described as a kid’s show. This a song, performed by cartoon kids, that covers the history of slavery in this country and the need for reparations.

AUDIO: [Proud Family clip]

Granted, slavery is part of history, just like the Holocaust is, just like the Killing Fields of Cambodia, just like the African slave drivers who sold other Africans to the transatlantic slave trade. It’s all evil. All sin.

But putting what looks like a cartoon, but sounds like political activism in front of children, seems like a new low, even for Disney. What do you think, John?

STONESTREET: Oh, I just think you’re a conspiracy theorist, Myrna. I mean, if you say that this is being advanced in our culture, that’s what you are. Ignore it when you see it.

It reminds me of something that Rod Dreher had written about years ago, I think it was called The Law of Merited Possibility—I don’t know where the name came from for him— it goes something like: “it’ll never happen, but when it does, it’ll be your fault.” And that is kind of a "you bigot" sort of thing. And that’s really what we’re seeing on the CRT thing.

All of this just brings to mind back the 90s, when some of us were trying to address post-modernism on an ideological level and trying to help students in particular prepare for postmodern professors that they would have at college. We were told, “Oh, that’s not really post modernism, because that’s an academic theory, and it’s complicated, and it’s scholarly, and you just don’t really understand it.” We’re being told the same thing about critical race theory.

I remember thinking back then, “Well, you’re right! I mean, most people aren’t really being forced to engage Derrida Foucault and the depths of their idea about language or literary criticism or something like that. But that’s okay because we have a postmodern mood that is taking over the culture because of Britney Spears and Kurt Cobain and Eminem and the Matrix movies.” It’s kind of like that again, isn’t it, right? We’re told over and over again that we need to teach history. There’s a difference between teaching history, including the history of slavery—which is an important subject to teach—and teaching the history of slavery only to jump into a prescription about the need for reparations. And you know what? That smells like critical theory, it looks like critical theory, talks like critical theory, it walks like critical theory; that’s because it is critical theory. When you divide people according to characteristics, then make immutable moral proclamations over who the good guys are and who the bad guys are, without there being any hope of change or redemption on the other side if you happen to belong to the wrong party? That’s a critical theory mood.

EICHER: I can’t imagine you watched the Grammys this past weekend, but I also can’t imagine that you didn’t read about or see the clips of the Satan performance. What I found interesting was the media reaction: not that this happened, but that people were complaining about it. Vice News had a headline that was typical: “The Christian Right is Having a Meltdown over ‘Satanic’ Grammys.” Did you have a meltdown about it, John?

STONESTREET: No, not really. They should be thankful if the Christian right is having a meltdown over the Grammys because that means somebody’s actually watching the Grammys, which hasn’t really been the case for quite some time. No one really cares about this.

Now, at the same time, I will say, I think this one mattered, I think this performance mattered. And I think it taught us a lot. There’s a lot of extremist artsy things in the industry. I mean, the whole history of the MTV Video Music Awards is one year after another of trying to outdo in some new extremist fashion what Madonna started when she rolled around in a white wedding dress and sang “Like a Virgin”. Man, those were the good old days. And so now here we are, and this is the Grammys, and there’s a performance that would make Ozzy Osbourne blush. You know, he bit the head off the bat back in the 80s and represented all of the Satanism in heavy metal of that era and you knew that because you could play all their records backwards and they would tell you something about the devil. This was my youth group upbringing.

This isn’t heavy metal. This isn’t the corner of the record store. This is a song that topped the Billboard charts back in October. This is a song that somehow was called historic. Why? Because a man who identifies and presents as a woman sang it. Let’s put aside the fact that making history these days is pretty easy. It used to involve actually making history and now you can just wear a dress as a man and suddenly it’s a historic performance.

Listen, before this performance happened, CBS tweeted, "We are ready to worship." If you want me to stop me in a conspiracy theorist, stop making this so believable. CBS tweeted, and I quote, "We are ready to worship." Now do I really think they think that they were worshipping Satan? No. Were they? Absolutely. There’s a direct connection—and maybe we should thank Sam Smith and the Grammys for making blatantly plain that there’s a connection between transgender ideology and Satanism. Because Satan doesn’t usually jump out and go, “Boo!” What Satan does is he creates doubt over God’s goodness, and doubt over the goodness of creation. If we don’t think God’s good, and we actually think we’re in charge, that is a satanic tactic that goes all the way back to the garden.

That’s the satanic philosophy at the heart of how you know Uncle Screwtape dealt with The Patient. And Lewis’s wonderful take where we realize that Satanism isn’t always creepy. Satanism is ideological, and transgenderism meets that definition. And the advance of this perceived autonomy from biblical morality, from reality itself, is the Satanic move. People might listen to this and say, “Man, John’s still having a meltdown over this.” I do think it matters because I don’t think it was just shock value, I think it actually revealed. When the heavy metal movement back in the 80s was accused of being satanic, it served as this illicit invitation to look further into the darkness. It was like this invitation to go further. All we saw from Sam Smith the other day was a marker. Not an invitation to go further, but a marker of where we are as a society. And so it says a lot if you ask me.

EICHER: Yeah, this reminds me of Babylon BeE headline about this. I think they had Satan saying, Hey, you blew my cover. So, yeah, we do have to thank Sam for that. 

John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast.

STONESTREET: Thank you both.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: Safe Delivery!

That’s what we’re calling a new three-part special report, launching this weekend, a project that my friend and cohost Myrna has been pouring herself into. We have a quick preview. Check it out.

[TRAILER] It’s been eight months since the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe. v. Wade. Now, for pro-lifers trying to reach mothers in crisis, the battle lines are shifting…

HEATHER BURNER : If we can address the crisis that they’re in, we have found that the baby is often not the crisis. Their life is the crisis.

And the battle plans are sometimes contentious… 

CHRIS HICKS : It’s just morally and ethically wrong that these babies, because they got put in a box, they’re becoming part of a marketing engine, they never agreed to be part of. :10

MONICA KELSEY: When we’re out educating and asking people for money, people are learning about the law. That’s the whole reason nobody knew about the safe haven law because nobody was talking about it before. 

All 50 states have some sort of Safe Haven law. It allows for the safe surrender of newborn infants while preserving the anonymity of parents. These laws have been a steady, yet uncelebrated tool in the pro-life movement. As more babies are likely to be born in a post-Roe world, will the pro-lifers be ready to step in?

MONICA KELSEY: Everybody has a job in this movement. It’s just what job is yours? What job have you been tasked to do?

EICHER: I’m excited about this, Myrna! Congratulations on getting it finished. I know how much went into this. It’s been a year in the making.

BROWN: Thanks, yes! You know, all this grew out of a WORLD Opinions piece written by Ericka Andersen on these “Safe Haven” laws. It really resonated with me. Interestingly, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett cited “Safe Haven” during the arguments in the Dobbs case. She said, as a legal matter, it struck at one of the rationales for abortion.

But I’d never heard of these laws and never heard of baby boxes and I just found the whole thing interesting and surprising. And, you know what else surprised me? The controversy behind the baby boxes.

EICHER: Ooh, I love a cliffhanger! And I love that we won’t have to hang on this particular cliff much longer. The series starts tomorrow—Saturday—and continues the next Saturday and concludes the Saturday after. A three-part series, Safe Delivery, right here in your podcast feed for The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, February 10th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: what’s playing at the theater.

So far, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water has grossed more than $2 billion worldwide, and it spent seven straight weeks at the top of the domestic box office.

BROWN: But last weekend, two newcomers dethroned the Avatar sequel, taking the No. 1 and No. 2 spots. Here’s Collin Garbarino with a run down.

COLLIN GARBARINO: It’s no surprise Avatar: The Way of Water held the top spot at the box office for almost two months. Studios tend to release their worst movies during the lull between the holiday season and Valentine’s Day. But last weekend a couple of new movies with some niche appeal found an audience. I wasn’t terribly impressed with either.

M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin asks the audience whether they’d sacrifice a loved one to save the rest of the world.

LEONARD: You have to understand that we cannot and will not choose who is to be sacrificed for you.

The movie is about a homosexual couple and their adopted daughter who are held hostage by the four horsemen of the apocalypse. They’re told they must choose to kill a family member or the world will end.

ANDREW: We’re not choosing anyone. We’re not sacrificing anyone. Not now. Not ever.

Maybe that’s an interesting thought experiment, but it doesn’t make for an interesting movie. And the only reason to use a gay couple seems to be to keep the audience guessing about which man will die in the end. If the family were a husband and wife, we’d expect the husband to die for his wife, his daughter, and the entire world. Give this one a pass.

LOU: Game’s about to start!

MAURA: Oh, there’s Tom!

LOU: Oh, what a beautiful man.

TRISH: I like Gronkowski!

The other movie getting some traction is 80 for Brady, a movie about elderly ladies who love Tom Brady.

The movie features four Hollywood icons from yesteryear, and it seems designed to lure older audiences back to theaters. Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field star in this girls-trip-meets-sports movie.

MAURA: The Super Bowl is no place for four old women.

LOU: This could be Tom’s last one. He’s almost 40. That’s like 80 in people years.

TRISH: We’re 80 in people years!

Tomlin’s character realizes they’re not getting any younger, so she hatches a plan to go to the Super Bowl.

LOU: OK, look.

MAURA: Ooh, ooh, ooh. I love presents.

LOU: Whoo!

BETTY: My gosh! What is happening?

LOU: I wanted it to be a surprise. But all they had were gender reveal boxes.

MAURA: Who’s having a baby?

LOU: No one! It’s not a gender reveal. It’s just a reveal!

BETTY: Of what?

LOU: We won the tickets! We’re going to the Super Bowl!

The foursome travel to Houston to watch Tom Brady’s Patriots play the Atlanta Falcons in the 2017 Super Bowl. But the road to victory isn’t without speed bumps.

Honestly, these aging stars deserve a much better script than this one. Instead of offering a cohesive narrative, the film consists of episodic high jinks without any real payoff.

CONTEST ORGANIZER: This is a spicy wings contest.

GUY FIERI: Bring the pain!

BETTY: I could use a little spice.

MAURA: I know her!

CONTEST ORGANIZER: If you black out, who do you want me to call?

BETTY: An ambulance?

The gang gets into trouble, gets out of trouble easily, and then gets into trouble again—repeat six or seven times. The film has some amusing bits, but the writing is pretty lazy. Character development follows tired cliches with each elderly lady on this trip of a lifetime learning what it means to live again.

GUARD: Let’s go, Golden Girls. Come with me.

MAURA: Let’s make a run.

GUARD: Hey, wha— Nope, no, come on, now.

There’s some fun here, but by the end of its 98 minutes, 80 for Brady feels like a vanity project for Tom Brady, whose production company made the film. These legends bring their A-game, but the script fumbles the ball.

ALL: Tom… Brady!

So what’s new at the box office this weekend?

JACK: I’m the king of the world!

That’s right, vintage James Cameron returns to theaters. Today Cameron’s Titanic makes its way back to theaters to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Titanic held the record for highest grossing movie for over a decade until it got bumped by Cameron’s Avatar in 2010.

Even though the movie is a technical triumph, I never cared for Titanic. It’s overly long, and I think the story is sappy. I recognize I’m in the minority on this one. But if you’re thinking about sharing the Titanic experience with your kids, don’t forget the film contains that one nude scene—something that would never fly in a PG-13 movie today.

MUSIC: [Celine Dion, My Heart Will Go On]

I’m Collin Garbarino.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Up next: a new chapter.

Yesterday WORLD hosted a dedication service at our new Washington Bureau office, across the street from the U.S. Capitol and next door to the Supreme Court building.

AUDIO: [GATHERING]

I was so honored to be among the 14 WORLD staff, two members of our Board of Directors, and more than 40 guests gathered in the Simpson Memorial Chapel to sing, pray, and seek God’s blessing on our new bureau headquarters and studio in the nation’s capital.

Before we close out the week, we wanted to share a few highlights of that event with you. WORLD CEO Kevin Martin began with a corporate scripture reading from Psalm 24—a scripture that we’ve included in the masthead of every issue of WORLD magazine since we started:

AUDIO: PSALM 24 The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers…who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully…

After a hymn, U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black spoke first.

BARRY BLACK: I am so delighted to have this opportunity to be in this beautiful space. And as I walked in, I thought about the words of Lincoln at Gettysburg…

Black says that while dedicating our space is an appropriate start to our new venture here in Washington, there’s something even more important.

BARRY BLACK: …whenever I am involved in dedicating something that is a temporal, I think of Revelation, chapter 21, verse 1. John the seer of Patmos: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.” So I think we need to keep it in perspective. But in dedicating ourselves, I believe we need to remember that we are dedicating a sacred space.

For 20 years Black has served as U.S. Senate Chaplain and he has seen the power of prayer while declaring the truth.

BARRY BLACK: I hope that you will spend time as you're doing the work of liberty and putting out the truth. I hope that you will take time to wield the power of prayer.

Peter Lillback is president of Westminster Theological Seminary and a member of WORLD’s board. He ended our service by pointing to Acts 17. He says Paul’s Athens’ sermon serves as a model for why WORLD should have this kind of presence here in Washington.

PETER LILLBACK: A Christian voice and a faithful presence is emphatically needed among Washington stoic, epicurean, Marxist, materialist, postmodern, hedonistic and atheistic philosophers, especially among partisan journalists—that strive to control the soundbite—snatched from the corridors of power and deliver them to newsrooms around the globe. To shape the minds of millions, who all too often have been educated out of their inheritance world from its beginning, has been called to present the abiding relevance of the wisdom of the ages, bequeathed to believers from America's Judeo-Christian founders and from the scriptures that those founders read applied and cherished.

This I proclaim to you, the God who made the world and everything in it. The one who is Lord of heaven and earth. Amen. Let's pray. Lord, we do dedicate now this place and ask that you would enable us to dedicate ourselves to the task that's before us a task of bringing the truth of the Lord Jesus.

In his word, under the sovereign power of Almighty God, the creator that touches every fact in the universe, we pray, Lord, we would be faithful. Would you give us a heart to serve you? We pray that you'd receive all the glory from all that's done here. And we ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen. Let’s rise together.

AUDIO: [DOXOLOGY]

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well, it’s time to say thanks to the team members who helped put the program together this week: Mary Reichard, David Bahnsen, Leah Savas, Emily Whitten, Steve West, Onize Ohikere, Janie B. Cheaney, Amy Lewis, Addie Offereins, Zoe Schimke, Cal Thomas, Anna Johansen Brown, John Stonestreet, and Collin Garbarino.

Thanks also to our breaking news team: Kent Covington, Lynde Langdon, Steve Kloosterman, Lauren Canterberry, Mary Muncy, Josh Schumacher, and Anna Mandin.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And our guys who stay up late to get the program to you early: Johnny Franklin and Carl Peetz. Our producer is Kristen Flavin with production assistance from Bekah McCallum, Lillian Hamman, Harrison Watters, and Benj Eicher.

Paul Butler is our Executive Producer.

WORLD’s mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates, and inspires.

The Psalmist writes: “I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me; hear my words. Wondrously show your steadfast love, O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand.” (Psalm 17:6-7 ESV)

Be sure to exercise your freedom to worship this weekend with your brothers and sisters in Christ! Lord willing, we’ll meet you right back here on Monday.

Go now, in grace and peace.

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