The World and Everything in It: February 24, 2023

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

The Church of England has voted to let priests give blessings to same-sex marriages, causing a massive rift.

NICK EICHER, HOST: We’ll talk about it with John Stonestreet on Culture Friday.

Also today, Collin Garbarino reviews a new movie about the start of the 1970’s Jesus Movement.

Plus, a special commentary from a Ukrainian pastor and your listener feedback.

BROWN: It’s Friday, February 24th. 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: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: One-year mark of Russian invasion » Today marks one year exactly from the date that Russian tanks rolled across the border into mainland Ukraine. And the message from virtually the entire free world is the same: It’s time for Moscow’s forces to go home.

AUDIO: The result of the vote is as follows: In favor, 141. Against, 7.

A vote of the UN General Assembly heard there on Thursday, calling on Russia to end the war.

Thirty-five countries abstained. They included China, India, Pakistan, and South Africa.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday:

GUTERRES: Over the past year, not only have we seen suffering and devastating [SIC]. It is also becoming more evident just how much worse it could all still become.

The resounding vote sends a strong message, but it is non-binding. Any measure with teeth would have to come from the UN Security Council, where Russia and China both have veto power.

European Commission TikTok » The European Union’s executive branch says it will no longer allow its employees to have TikTok on their phones.

European Commission Spokeswoman Sonya Gospodinova.

GOSPODINOVA: The measure is in line with our strict internal cybersecurity policies for use of mobile devices for work related communications.

The rule will apply to EU-issued devices and personal devices used for work.

Many in the West have expressed security and privacy concerns about the Chinese-owned TikTok.

In the United States, Congress and more than half of states have banned government employees from having TikTok on work devices.

NTSB briefing » AUDIO: [Train whistling and Buttigeig talking]

The White House is asking Congress to increase the fines for rail companies that fail to meet safety standards. The Norfolk Southern line’s derailment in Ohio earlier this month has Republicans and Democrats debating safety legislation.

On Thursday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited the site, where he criticized former President Donald Trump’s policies.

BUTTIGEIG: Norfolk Southern and the other freight rail companies need to stop fighting us every time we try to do a regulation in order to hold them accountable and their other railroad companies accountable for their safety record. And what we’ve seen is industry goes to Washington, and they get their way.

Buttigeig says the highest fine for violating hazardous material transportation—that’s about $230,000—is not high enough to effect changes at a multi-billion dollar company.

Investigators say train engineers were not warned about an overheating axle and that the crash was entirely preventable.

Winter storms » A winter storm has knocked out power to nearly a million homes and businesses from Washington to Michigan.

One Illinois resident said the weather can’t seem to make up its mind.

RESIDENT: One day it’s nice, um, the next day it’s super cold. The roads are super slippery right now, and I just want to get home and in bed.

As of Thursday, airlines were forced to cancel more than 2,000 flights.

Trump lawyers blast election probe » Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are blasting a special grand jury in Georgia. WORLD’s Josh Schumacher has more.

JOSH SCHUMACHER, REPORTER: The grand jury was charged with investigating whether Trump and his allies illegally tried to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.

In media interviews this week, the grand jury forewoman discussed some details of how witnesses and prosecutors behaved behind closed doors.

Now Trump’s lawyers are calling into question the credibility of the panel, calling it a circus posing as a grand jury.

Grand jury proceedings are closed to the public. In Georgia, jurors must keep silent about their deliberations only—not the entirety of the proceedings.

For WORLD, I’m Josh Schumacher.

Chinese mine » Rescue crews in China are searching for dozens of missing people after a coal mine collapsed.

At least five people were killed yesterday when the open-pit mine collapsed in China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia.

JIANPING: I saw rocks and dust started to fall down from the hills above and the situation got more and more serious. We tried to pull out together but it was too late.

This injured miner says he and his colleagues tried to get out of the mine when they saw rocks and dust falling from the hills above them.

Hundreds of rescue workers are at the scene. Officials say it is unclear what caused the collapse.

Officials have ordered coal mines throughout the region to conduct inspections and safety checks following the accident.

Weinstein sentencing » Harvey Weinstein will serve an additional 16 years in prison on charges of rape and sexual assault.

A Los Angeles judge sentenced Weinstein on Thursday. Back in December, jurors in found him guilty of abusing one of four women who brought accusations against him in the trial. Dozens of women have publicly claimed he sexually assaulted them.

Legal expert Rachel Fiset, commenting on Weinstein’s legal situation.

FISET: I think this means that Harvey Weinstein has a life sentence in prison. He has to serve out his time in New York.

A New York court sentenced Weinstein to 23 years in prison on similar charges in 2020. He has filed to appeal the conviction.

The 70-year-old former film producer has claimed he is innocent of the charges.

I’m Kent Covington. Straight ahead on Culture Friday: a rift in the Church of England over blessing same-sex unions.

Plus, a film about the 1970s Jesus Movement.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s the 24th 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: John, I want to draw on your knowledge of the Anglican Church. This week, I saw that 12 leading archbishops in the Anglican Communion issued a statement that they no longer consider the Archbishop of Canterbury their leader: Justin Welby.

That objectors’ group is primarily from the more conservative global south but also included the archbishop here in North America. And the issue that caused this break is the Church of England’s move this month to bless same-sex unions. Not to perform actual weddings, but to allow priests to bless civil marriages between same-sex couples.

Let’s listen to some audio from a conservative minister in the Church of England, Calvin Robinson, who appeared before the Oxford Union to debate this move of the Church of England. Have a listen:

ROBINSON: "The Church is imploding. The faithful masses have stopped turning up on Sundays. We are seeing the most rapid decline of Christianity in this country that we may have ever seen. Do not accelerate this with heresy.

“You do not have the authority to bless sin! When I hear the bishop of London on record saying these new prayers will mean priests can bless same-sex relationships, some of which will be sexual in nature, I hear the devil at work. Bishops are promoting the idea of sacramental sodomy. Let them be anathema! Repent!

“And to the rest of you. I have no doubt some of you will consider me a bigot, a homophobe. But I am neither of those things. I am simply a follower of Christ. A Christian. We are naturally counter-cultural, and if the so-called liberals were truly diverse and tolerant, they would embrace us just as they embrace everyone else. …

“But in the words of St. Athanasius of Alexandria:

‘If the world is against the truth, then I am against the world.’”

I’ll mention that Calvin Robinson is a WORLD Opinions columnist and I’ll link to his most recent piece in today’s transcript.

But John, this seems really significant. The Wall Street Journal has a respected religion writer who called this a historic rift, a watershed moment, that could—he wrote—“threaten the very sur­vival of the An­gli­can Com­mu­nion.”

Is he right?

STONESTREET: Well, yes, in terms of the Anglican Communion as it's always been, but that's the thing is the Anglican Communion is no longer centered on the Church of England in any sort of global sense. But even what you mentioned earlier that the Archbishop in North America sign this statement rejecting the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury. He's the archbishop of one aspect of the Anglican Communion here in America. The other is the Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Church had already kind of violated church policy, which has been really clear for a really long time. And the leadership out of Canterbury has done nothing to rein in bishops around the world, particularly in Western nations like the United States and Canada and New Zealand and other places who have been violating church policy for a really long time. Justin Welby had already lost his authority with the vast majority of Anglican bishops around the world, particularly those in the global south for that, for not being willing to do anything. That's why we have two so-called leaders of the Anglican Church in America. If somebody calls themself in America an Episcopalian, then it's very questionable whether they hold to any sort of Orthodox beliefs about Gospel, about Bible, or about sex, marriage and gender. If somebody calls themselves an Anglican in America, they are distinguishing themselves from the Episcopalians. There's already been bridges too far, long before this one. But this was another step because this was an official rejection of historic church policy and clearly a step in the wrong direction, as Father Robinson actually said, in his brilliant and courageous statements. The Anglican Communion, again, the gravity of it, the center of it is outside of the Church of England. There are more Anglicans meeting in Nigeria than in all of England and the United States and Canada combined. In other words, the communion just isn't what many people think it's going to be. So it'll survive in a form and it'll still be strong because these churches are strong. Their numbers are strong. The leadership by and large not flawless, but strong. And part of that has to do with being outside of the West. You're not postmodern if you've never really gone through modernism in the same way. And most of these global bishops are in parts of the world where what's at stake is who's going to win a conflict with radical Islam? What's at stake here, in these places, doesn't offer kind of the levity and the gravity to kind of rethink, oh, well, maybe men can be women and women can be men. So look, yes, this is going to create an even bigger rift—it already has—within the Anglican Communion. It's already been pronounced, it's already been significant. And that's because of two things. Number one, the global leadership of the Anglican Communion as represented by these bishops who wrote this letter, they're not going to move. They're not moving period. And this move by the Church of England is part of the trajectory they have away from orthodoxy, and away from Christianity in any sort of recognizable form. Essentially, much of the Episcopal Church in America had already become kind of a pseudo spiritual, NPR-ish sort of Buddhism where God is a force and maybe a woman and has no rules and just is in it for us, and we should all be good, tolerant progressives. Well, the Church of England has been on that same trajectory, just a step behind. And this just demonstrates where they're headed. So they're continuing to move further and further away from where most of the community actually is.

BROWN: John, the Supreme Court this week heard two cases related to big tech and its responsibility for content.

We don’t have time in this setting to get into the legal particulars. It seems as though the Court is edging toward deferring to Congress to set policy rather than the court’s making policy.

I’d like to hear where you come down on this issue. Do you think that big tech ought to be held liable—at least more so than it is now? But do you worry that increased liability could become a heavier weapon to shut down conservative or Christian speech?

STONESTREET: Well, look, you have to have, I think, some sort of accountability for this. And Big Tech kind of has been the wild wild west for so long and kind of playing by its own rules. So yes, I do think it ought to be held liable, and definitely more so than it is right now. I think that's particularly true when we talk about not just what's happening at the Supreme Court. But this proposal from Josh Hawley this week, which has a much more personal flavor than these court cases. But the idea is Hawley proposed social media platforms are bad for teenagers. We know that. Everything says this. No one's held them accountable. Suddenly the rules don't apply. And so it has proven to be so bad, especially for young women, that we need to set an age limit just like we do for tobacco or drinking or voting or driving or any other thing that kind of carries with it a level of responsibility. And there needs to be some sort of governance. And so Hawley proposed that. I struggle with that because the last thing I think we need is the government making more rules. What I think it actually tells us when the government has to make these kinds of rules is that we are a group of people that don't know how to govern ourselves. And it goes to what Chuck Colson talked about when he used this phrase: it's either the conscience or the constable. Either we are self-governing people or we have to be governed from the outside. The more government has to step in, the more that it reflects that we are not actually taking care of ourselves. That's absolutely true here. The fact of the matter is social media as a plague. Social media is bad. And that's what we've seen in that aspect of Big Tech, when it comes to social media companies. Instagram and Tiktok are just really, really bad for kids. It's really, really bad for teenage girls. And if parents don't govern, we need to have some sort of regulation come into the picture. But look, we have a government that every few years flips back and forth. And part of that flipping involves restricting in one way or another either Christian speech, Christian presence, Christian conviction, the rights of individuals to live according to their faith, because it's deemed to be not only wrong, it's deemed to be dangerous. And the limits of speech stop when there is danger. Well, if you can take a whole group of speech and put it under the label of dangerous whether that's true or not, then you can accomplish an awful lot. And that's what's happening with the progressive left. Without arguments on their side, there is a tendency to categorize entire groups of people and entire groups of speech as being dangerous, hateful, bigoted or something like that. So I guess you could say, in a sense, we're kind of in between a rock and a hard place. And we're not the kind of people who want to be governed and we have a schizophrenic government presence when it comes to Big Tech. And it's just going to get I think more and more confusing and difficult to navigate.

BROWN: John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. Thanks, John!

STONESTREET: Thank you both.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, February 24th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: Christianity at the movies.

This weekend, a new movie set during the Jesus Movement of the 1970s hits theaters, and here’s Collin Garbarino to tell us all about it.

MUSIC: [“Righteous Rocker #1” by Larry Norman]

COLLIN GARBARINO: Faith-based movies have a reputation for, well, not being very good. But Jesus Revolution is the real deal.

Kelsey Grammer plays Pastor Chuck Smith. He leads a dwindling congregation in Southern California, and like many in his generation he doesn’t understand the hippie youth culture that’s sweeping the nation.

But things start to change for Pastor Chuck when he meets charismatic hippie preacher Lonnie Frisbee played by Jonathan Roumie—who’s best known for his portrayal of Jesus on The Chosen.

CHUCK: So, uh, tell me about yourself, Lonnie, and your, uh, people.

LONNIE: My people. I like the sound of that. You know it reminds me of the words of Jesus: “To what then can I compare the people of this generation?” What are they like?

Lonnie explains that the hippies are looking for something solid. They’re looking for the truth.

LONNIE: But that was the point. You see, the drugs—it’s a quest.

CHUCK: For what?

LONNIE: For God. How can you not see that? There is an entire generation right now searching for God.

The drugs are a lie. LSD offered no more truth than the materialism the hippies rebelled against. Pastor Chuck realizes these young people are a bunch of lost sheep, and when he opens his home and his church, his world gets turned upside down.

CHUCK: Excuse me, who are you?

LONNIE: Hi, Chuck. That’s Ron. This is Micky. That’s Lynette at the table. New brothers and sisters—hope it’s OK they stay here too.

DAUGHTER: Isn’t it great, Dad?

CHUCK: No, it’s not. Are they camping in my yard?

LONNIE: Oh, yeah, don’t worry about them. They’re used to it. They don’t mind. Wait till you see who’s in here.

But not everyone at Calvary Chapel was ready to embrace the new members, forcing Pastor Chuck to make some hard choices.

CHUCK: Now that door is open all the time. Any time of day. And if there are some who don’t like that, well, then that door is open for you too. Works both ways.

But this movie isn’t merely about Chuck Smith, Lonnie Frisbee, and Calvary Chapel. It’s also the love story of Greg and Cathe Laurie.

CASSIE: Hey, square.

GREG: I am not a square.

CASSIE: Sorry, sorry. You dress like one.

Greg would eventually grow up to pastor the megachurch Harvest Christian Fellowship, but in those early days Greg and Cassie were just a couple of high schoolers looking for truth in the midst of family difficulties.

CASSIE: See, I would rather expand my mind.

GREG: Give me a break. You’re in high school. All they teach is propaganda and lies.

CASSIE: OK. What if… What if there is no truth? What if it’s all just different points of view?

Jesus Revolution is rated PG-13 because it contains scenes involving teenage drug use, but honestly, I thought Jesus Revolution was a fantastic movie. And I hope we see more Christian movies like it.

The movie might be set in the 1970s, but it’s speaking directly to us. America was divided back then, and we might be even more divided today. Young people pursued lies in a drug-fueled sexual revolution because of life’s emptiness. Many contemporary youth think they’ve found truth in a new revolution of sex and gender.

But this film reminds us Truth with a capital T can only be found in Jesus. And when we’ve found Jesus. We’re home.

CHUCK: This place… It is yours. I don’t care if anybody else thinks so… If you feel like you’re an outcast, then join us here. If you feel like you’re misunderstood and judged, this is where you belong. If you feel ashamed or trapped in something you’ve done or are doing, you will find forgiveness and freedom right here. No guilt trips. This is your home.

What I appreciate the most about Jesus Revolution is its honesty.

Yes, there’s a “come as you are” message, but the movie doesn’t shy away from repentance of sin and the need for a changed life. It also doesn’t shy away from the messiness that surrounded the Jesus Movement. We don’t see all Frisbee’s personal problems. But we do see the movement struggling with big egos and fighting over its theological direction.

You don’t have to come from a particular Christian tradition to enjoy this story about sinners and God’s grace.

Jesus Revolution says we shouldn’t be so arrogant as to think God can’t work through our failures, and it asks us to remember that even though 50 years have passed, God’s Spirit is still blowing.

MUSIC: [“Righteous Rocker #1” by Larry Norman] Without love, you ain’t nothing without love.

I’m Collin Garbarino.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, February 24th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. One year ago today, Russian troops began their invasion of Ukraine. We reported on it in the early days: 

KENT COVINGTON: [Explosion] Russian troops and tanks continue to pour into the country this morning. Ukraine’s Health Ministry said at least 57 Ukrainians were killed on day-one of the invasion. And the bloodshed is likely to multiply many times over in the weeks ahead.

If only we knew.

Since that time, as many as 20,000 civilians and more than 300,000 Russian and Ukrainian military forces have been killed or wounded. As many as 8 million Ukrainians have been displaced.

BROWN: When you hear numbers like that, it’s easy to wonder, what is God doing? To help answer that question, today we welcome Slavik Pyzh, president of Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary in Lviv, Ukraine.

He says that even though he’s personally witnessed a lot of misery, pain, and devastation over the last year, God has been doing quite a lot in his country.

SLAVIK PYZH, COMMENTATOR: In the midst of that suffering, we have observed much Good, Courage, Compassion, Generosity and Acts of Beauty. That is also our reality. It has been truly beautiful to see God’s people in dynamic missional work. Many churches across Ukraine have opened their doors and become refugee centers to thousands of people affected by war. They provide housing, meals and clothes to people as well as the Gospel, Bible studies, Christian counseling. Some churches transport humanitarian aid to the front lines and liberated areas.

Many people forced to leave their homes have now become volunteers, serving others in need. They were blessed and now they have become a blessing to others. That gives our nation a sort of internal ‘fuel’ to continue to pray and fight for freedom and victory.

I have the privilege to serve at UBTS. Since the war started, we have served more than 10,000 refugees with resources like housing, meals, and spiritual care. Across Ukraine, we helped create 14 WeCare Centers to share our faith, build morality and patriotism, and support the local government and economy. We’ve also helped thousands of people relocate to other countries with our European Initiative. Our big desire has been to help refugees overcome a “victim” mentality and learn to rebuild, thrive, and share their faith. We hope to lay the groundwork for revival in Europe among Ukrainian refugees and the Europeans who serve them.

Back in the summer, our seminary transitioned to being a school again. Yes, air raids occur several times a day and classes often meet in our bomb shelter. But we believe it’s worth it to continue to equip leaders for the church.

Today, we live in a country with a devastated economy and high unemployment. We face overwhelming social issues like destroyed families, increased addictions, PTSD, and unresolved anger and grief. At the same time, we as the Church have an incredible opportunity to respond to suffering with a Matthew 25 approach: “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.”

We are working to grow churches with this mentality–not isolated from society nor existing “for” society, but serving alongside or “with” our society. That, I believe, will make a huge difference in the days to come.

I’m Slavik Pyzh.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Up next, Listener Feedback. We begin with a correction from our Monday, February 6th program.

During Legal Docket we tried to clarify the difference between the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Longtime reader and podcast listener Amy Huffman pointed out that we mis-attributed the act that guarantees a free public education to children with disabilities, [which is] specific to each child’s individual needs.

AMY HUFFMAN: It's actually the I.D.E.A. The Individuals with disabilities Education Act that makes this provision. The ADA, The Americans with disabilities Act prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities, including in schools. Thanks for all that you do to keep us soundly informed.

Well, thank you for the correction. We’ve made note of it on our program transcript.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Next, a note of appreciation from Randy Calvelli:

He’s asking that we send his “thanks to Amy Lewis.” He wrote: “She put out a great piece on Hody Childress on the February 1st edition of The World and Everything in It.” He says, “What a great legacy this brother left behind! I’m looking forward to meeting and thanking him for his good example when we’re all together with Jesus.”

EICHER: Well, thanks, Randy. Your good words are passed along!

Just a quick comment: By now I hope you’re familiar with our mission statement—“Biblically objective journalism that informs, educates, and inspires.” Amy’s story on Hody is a great illustration of that last category: inspiration.

In our business, we often have to cover difficult stories and tragic situations…but we also look for stories that help us fulfill Hebrews 10:24: “And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works.”

Stories like these inspire us all to love more like Jesus and do good works of faith.

BROWN: Next a couple questions. First we head to Fayetteville, Arkansas. Listener Rosa Floyd had this inquiry after this month’s Word Play on February 17th.

ROSA FLOYD: I enjoyed the episode, but I was just curious if he was actually able to find a statistic for the number of men and women's words. I did a presentation on that, several years back and I never could find an original source. I just found people saying it and quoting other people saying it. And so I was hoping that he was actually able to find an original source. Thank you. And keep up the great work.

Rosa, we sent your question on to George and he told us that the stat came out of a London Spectator column he clipped, but it didn’t include a citation. He’s seen the same or very similar figures from multiple other sources, but again, all without attribution. George is intrigued by recent studies that suggest this piece of folk wisdom may not be as true as it once was. Hope that helps.

EICHER: One last comment and question today. Myrna, this one is about your Safe Delivery series. Janell Young writes that even though she wasn’t looking for more podcasts to add to her feed, Safe Delivery piqued her attention because of her involvement with the pro-life movement. But she’s writing for a clarification. She heard you report, Myrna, that

“Since 2016, infant-abandonment rates in Indiana have dropped … to zero.”

Her question is around the definition of “infant-abandonment rates.” Specifically, does that mean “that no babies have been found in the boxes since then, or does that mean that babies found in the boxes are not considered … abandoned”?

And she closes with “Keep up the good work!” 

So, Myrna, what do you tell Janell?

BROWN: Well, thanks, first of all. I’m glad the series is useful.

But to answer the question: that statistic comes from the nonprofit, Save Abandoned Babies Foundation. The foundation reports that since 2016, zero babies have been illegally abandoned. Babies surrendered in baby boxes are not considered abandoned in Indiana, making those surrenders legal. Hope that helps.

EICHER: Myrna’s three part series on Safe Haven laws and baby boxes concludes this weekend right here on this podcast feed. If you’ve missed either of the first two episodes, we’ll include a link to them in today’s transcript.

BROWN: Well that’s it for this month’s Listener Feedback. Thanks to everyone who wrote and called in. If you have comments to share with us you can send them to editor@wng.org. And if you’re writing, why not take a moment and record your comments on your phone and send that along as well. We’ve included instructions on how to do that on our website: wng.org/podcasts. Or you can phone in your feedback. Our listener line is ‪(202) 709-9595.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well, it’s time to say thanks to the team members who helped put the program together this week: Jenny Rough, Mary Reichard, David Bahnsen, Mary Muncy, Leah Savas, Grace Snell, Whitney Williams, Onize Ohikere, Zoe Schmike, A.S. Ibrahim, Emma Freire, Addie Offereins, Caleb Bailey, John Stonestreet, and Slavik Pyzh.

Thanks also to our breaking news team: Lynde Langdon, Steve Kloosterman, Lauren Canterberry, Josh Schumacher, Elias Ferenczy, and Anna Mandin.

And our guys who stay up late to get the program to you early: Johnny Franklin and Carl Peetz.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Our producer is Kristen Flavin with production assistance from Lillian Hamman, Harrison Watters, and Benj Eicher.

Paul Butler is our Executive Producer.

The World and Everything in It comes to you from WORLD Radio.

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

The Bible says…

… “what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.” (Luke 15:8, 9, and 10 ESV)

Be sure and worship with your brothers and sisters in Christ on the Lord’s Day.

Go now in grace and peace.

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