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On Culture Friday, California’s feud with red states over LGBT ideology; the new streaming series from the Marvel universe; and musical selections to help get you ready for Independence Day. Plus: the Friday morning news.


PAUL BUTLER, HOST: Good morning!

California expanded its travel ban to states it considers not sufficiently woke to the LGBT agenda.

As we approach America’s independence day, we wonder, just how fractured are We the People?

NICK EICHER, HOST: We’ll talk about that on Culture Friday.

Also the latest installment in the Marvel universe.

And we will help get you ready to celebrate the Fourth.

BUTLER: It’s Friday, July 2nd. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Paul Butler.

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

BUTLER: Up next, Kent Covington has today’s news.


KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Biden meets with families, first responders in Surfside » President Biden was in South Florida on Thursday where he met with first responders and the families of those impacted by the collapse of a highrise condo building.

BIDEN: There’s going to be a lot of pain and anxiety and suffering, and even the need for psychological help in the days and months that follow. So we’re not going anywhere.

The president spent several hours meeting privately with families.

To first responders and local officials, he pledged to provide whatever support they need.

Rescue crews had to halt operations on Thursday out of concern about the stability of the remaining structure. Miami-Dade County Fire Chief Alan Cominsky explained that they had to pause operations due to widening cracks and part of the building that shifted.

COMINSKY: Six to 12 inches of movement in a large column hanging from the structure that could fall and cause damage to the support columns in the south terrain garage area.

Hopes of finding more survivors are growing increasingly dim as it has now been more than a week since the 12-story building in Surfside, Florida crumbled to the ground.

Officials have announced the discovery of several more bodies. The death toll now stands at 18, with more than 140 people still missing.

Supreme Court upholds Arizona election rules » The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld election laws in Arizona in a decision that could have big implications for new voting rules in other states. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin reports.

KRISTEN FLAVIN, REPORTER: In a 6 to 3 ruling, the high court upheld Arizona’s limits on who can return early ballots for another person, as well as the state’s rules barring ballots cast in the wrong precinct.

Thursday’s ruling reversed the decision of a lower court. The federal appeals court in San Francisco had held that the measures disproportionately affected minority voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority that the state's interest in the integrity of elections justified the measures.

The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices strongly dissented. Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the court was weakening the federal voting rights law for the second time in eight years.

The ruling could make it tougher for critics of new voting rules in several Republican-led states to challenge that legislation. The Justice Department recently sued Georgia over its new election laws.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin

Trump Organization, top exec charged with tax crimes » A top executive for the Trump Organization, Allen Weisselberg, turned himself in to authorities Thursday, hours before being charged with tax crimes.

New York prosecutors later charged the Trump Organization and Weisselberg with 15 felony counts in connection to an alleged tax scheme.

Prosecutors say the executive collected more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation, including apartment rent, car payments and school tuition.

Weisselberg pleaded not guilty, turned in his passport, and was released until a court hearing can be held.

The indictment follows a two-year investigation into former President Trump’s business dealings by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and New York Attorney General Letitia James, both Democrats.

The Trump Organization criticized what it called a “scorched-earth attempt to harm the former president.”

Jobless claims fall to new pandemic low » The job market is continuing its strong bounce-back from COVID-19. WORLD’s Anna Johansen Brown has that story.

ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN, REPORTER: The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid fell again last week to the lowest level since the start of the pandemic.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims dropped by 51,000 to 364,000.

The rollout of vaccines has sharply reduced new COVID-19 cases, fueling a strong economic rebound.

Last week's drop in jobless claims was steeper than economists expected. Applications for unemployment benefits have now fallen in 10 of the past 12 weeks.

Employers are still having trouble filling open jobs. In response, dozens of states have begun dropping so-called enhanced unemployment, ending extra $300 weekly payments.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Anna Johansen Brown.

Hong Kong authorities crack down on ‘handover’ protests » Police flooded the streets of Hong Kong on Thursday in an effort to block protests on the anniversary of the city’s 1997 handover to China.

AUDIO: [Sound of protests]

Police patrolled the streets on foot and in armored trucks, some equipped with water cannons. A government spokesman said one protester died. He claimed it happened after the protester stabbed a police officer. No word on how he died.

A top official on Thursday defended China’s so-called national security law, which the government has used to crack down on protests and other liberties in what used to be a semi-independent territory.

Beijing says it will use the law further in the coming year to ensure stability.

I’m Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: the state feud over LGBT policy.

Plus, a fan-favorite superhero villain returns.

This is The World and Everything in It.


PAUL BUTLER, HOST: It’s Friday, July 2nd, 2021.

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

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

By not acting, the Supreme Court sent quite a message this week  in declining to hear a case out of Virginia  dealing with gender identity and the use of restrooms. And specifically how public high schools are supposed to work it all out.

It’s an old case—starting in 2014—and a case, by the way, the Supreme Court back in 2017 agreed to hear, then agreed not to.

Lots of background detail here. We start in a high school in Gloucester County, Virginia. Student’s name is Gavin Grimm.

Reporting for WORLD, Carolina Lumetta writes:

“The principal initially allowed Grimm to use the boys’ restroom, but school policy required students to use facilities according to their biological sex. The school gave Grimm the option of a single-stall restroom, and Grimm sued for sex discrimination in 2015.”

BUTLER: By 2016, the Obama administration weighed in by issuing legal guidance through the Department of Education that it was the position of the government that federal law on sex discrimination applies to gender identity.

By the time that Grimm’s lawsuit got into the appellate court, it relied on that Obama guidance. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the school must allow female students who claim a male gender identity to use boys’ restrooms and by implication vice-versa.

EICHER: As we said, the Supreme Court in 2017 had agreed to review the case. But then the Trump administration scrapped the Education Department guidance. So the high court sent the case back down to reconsider.

Meantime, the Supreme Court took a totally different transgender case—an employment case—and in the end wound up effectively adopting the Obama position that federal sex discrimination law should apply to gender-identity cases in the workplace.

So the Fourth Circuit appeals court applied that standard to the Grimm case and again ruled in favor of the transgender student.

BUTLER: So now, to present day. The appeals court case was appealed again to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court declined to accept the case and that means (for now) the transgender bathroom decision is binding precedent in five states: Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

EICHER: And unless another federal appeals court rules differently, the Supreme Court currently has no case it can use to clarify whether its transgender employment case—known as the Bostock case—applies in the school-bathroom context.

It’s Culture Friday. John Stonestreet is here. He’s president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast.

John, good morning!

JOHN STONESTREET, GUEST: Good morning, gentlemen. And congratulations on pronouncing Gloucester correctly.

EICHER: You know, it's just practice, practice, practice until you get it right.

STONESTREET: Of course, I say that as a Virginia native.

EICHER: Well, I did my time in Virginia, but only two years. But yeah, so another milestone of sorts here and again, from Virginia. But we have the Trump Supreme Court basically handing a victory to the LGBT movement.

STONESTREET: Well, I think that’s accurate. I think that as this whole conversation about LGBTQ rights progresses along the legal lines, what we have is just a little victory: One step forward, two steps back; two steps forward, one step back. Because what we have is a Supreme Court that is just wary and super reticent from making any sort of sweeping declarations that pretends this settles the culture war. Maybe it’s because we’ve heard for many decades now that the Supreme Court settled the issue of abortion in Roe v. Wade, and it clearly did not. If there’s one issue not settled in our culture, it’s the issue of abortion. And of course, that reflects something I think that people should understand, which is that the courts are more a reflection of the culture than a leader of the culture. Not that they don’t matter, and not that they’re not part of culture, but that stuff tends to be downstream, not upstream.

And so we’ve got a lot of confusion, and the court wants that confusion to sit out there for as long as possible. They don’t have to make that decision. I mean, you might say the Obergefell decision was the exception to that since Roe v. Wade. But if you go back to the opinion that Kennedy wrote, he tried to pretend as if the decision itself would not create all of these millions of little skirmishes across various issues of culture. And so we’re going to be jerked back and forth here, we’re going to be going back and forth based on who’s in the White House. So we’re going to get the Dear Colleague letter from President Obama, and we’re going to get a completely different take from President Trump and his administration. And then President Biden is going to jump in and attempt to apply the Bostock decision in ways that the court itself specifically said it shouldn’t be applied. He’s going to try to do that, and then some courts are going to allow it, and then the Supreme Court—the highest court in the land—is going to try to set it out.

So I guess there’s a lot of different ways to talk about this. We’re gonna see little fires everywhere on this issue. And we’re gonna have to actually deal with this. But it also should help us learn the lesson we needed to learn from the pro-life response to Roe v. Wade, which is we don’t wait for the court to do the work that needs to be done in the larger culture. Parents shouldn’t wait for the court to decide what schools should teach their kids; they should teach their kids. Churches should not wait for a court or a legal decision or the next election whiplash to say whether we should speak out on this or be at threat for religious liberty. It’s just so clear that Christians need to come down to what is true and what is good. Figure it out. Now. Otherwise, we’re just going to be going back and forth in a form of Christian worldview whiplash that we seem to be suffering from these days.

EICHER: And you're seeing a lot of activity at the school board level, too. I mean, some of that is driven by these very questions of transgender and how we're going to accommodate what we're going to do with regard to bathrooms, and so on and so forth. “Pronouns” was the subject of one of those meetings.

STONESTREET: Well, look. Let me give a shout out to Virginia because I have been critical of it over the last couple of years given it’s where I grew up, and good heavens, what’s happening there? I think that there’s a few states kind of in a race towards the abyss and Virginia has jumped out in the lead in many ways. And yet what we saw with the case of Tanner Cross is a church and a larger community of parents and a larger community of fellow teachers stepping up to say, “I might not even agree with him, but this is not the kind of Department of Education we want lording over us. We want a place of religious freedom.” I was highly encouraged by that. And now it stands in direct contrast to pastors that I have heard address other congregants who are fighting religious liberty battles by saying things like, “this is your battle, not mine.”

I was so encouraged by the community support for Tanner Cross, because in many ways, it stood in such direct contrast to the lack of community support for Jack Phillips. Now that’s a hit or miss, there’s a bunch of us that stood with Jack Phillips. There’s a bunch of folks, our friends from Focus on the Family and Colorado Christian University and people nationwide that have stood with Jack Phillips, but I’ll tell you why going to a school board meeting and taking the mic maybe got a little out of hand. And a pastor just kind of coming out and saying “we’re rallying around this guy, because he’s one of us.” Good heavens. When’s the last time we saw that for a Christian who found themselves in the cultural crosshairs? So high five to that community. It kind of restored my hope in where this might go.

BUTLER: John, interesting pride-month decision in California to extend its government travel ban to five more states: Florida, Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia.

That brings the total to 17 states where the state of California will not allow state resources for official travel. Texas was already on the list and then adding Florida, that means the second- and third-most populated states are off-limits. And of course, the reason is that the California government disagrees with those states on LGBT rights.

I heard one commentator call this a cold war among the states. It’s a little frightening stated that way, but is that an accurate read? Or do you just think of it as meaningless posturing?

STONESTREET: Is it okay to say yes? I mean, I guess. I guess it’s a Cold War, in a sense. But my daughters sometimes have a Cold War where they don’t talk to each other. It’s a real cold war, but it’s not a great consequence to the larger world. And I wonder if that’s the case here.

The little bureaucrats in states like to champion and pat themselves on the back. What we have seen—particularly in these progressive states—is these governors’ moral posturing and lack of follow through on their own promises for their own policies, so I can’t imagine that they’re going to be able to be consistent with their policy for everyone else. They want to go to the Super Bowl, or go to the beach, but California has the beach. I guess at some level, the vacation that at least had happened, the mayor of Denver’s vacation, it just got in the way of principle, and I think we’re gonna see probably some of that here.

What do you do? I wish we could say we can ban progressives from moving out of California to other states and ruining the vote there. They could send all the conservative lives here. Maybe we should strike that last comment from the record.

EICHER: ’Course, I wonder whether, you know, at what point does this cross a line, we, you know, can kind of laugh about it. “Yeah, he's not gonna go to Florida.” But at what point does this become a serious issue? Or does it?

STONESTREET: If you go back to Samuel Huntington’s book “The Clash of Civilizations”, and this may be an extreme application, but Huntington predicted that after the Cold War conflicts globally would not advance along nation states, but between civilizational rifts. And those civilizational rifts weren’t about national identity, they were about worldview. So think about Islam and non-Islam think about different kind of cultural groups within a particular region. And he said that those fault lines as he called them would not just be between regions of the country, sometimes they would run right in the middle of countries. We have certainly seen that with some of the genocidal conflicts. If you think about Rwanda, if you think about other places: This is what Huntington was writing about years ago.

Look, at some point a country cannot advance without shared definitions of right and wrong. It’s one thing to disagree on a common goal; it’s one thing to disagree on the best way to get to a common goal. It’s another thing to disagree diametrically on what the goal should be. And that becomes the sort of things that creates rifts. There are rules to countries, there are rules to civilizations, there are rules to groups of people being able to survive together going forward. And you can’t break those rules forever without consequence. Or as Dallas Willard put it, you can’t step off the roof and then choose not the hit the ground.

This is actually baked into the way the world works. And so I think, Nick, your question is the right one. Eventually this sentiment that I can’t talk to you because I disagree with you and making that sort of line on such an odd issue when there are so many other issues at stake. It’s unsustainable going forward; there comes a point where you can’t reason, you can’t be rational. There has to be another party to the conversation. And at that point, things begin to break down.

EICHER: John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. John, thanks!

STONESTREET: Thank you both.


NICK EICHER, HOST: Gerda Scheuers is the owner of a one-of-a-kind collection, which has earned her two Guinness World Records.

She told TMJ4 News that her collection includes:

SCHEUERS: Everything from binders to clocks, stamps, and pencils.

Also, small blue figurines and mushroom houses.

Have you guessed what it is?

Scheuers owns the world’s largest Smurfs collection.

Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Gargemel, they’re all here, filling up multiple rooms of her home in central Wisconsin.

She’s been at this for four decades and she’s 47-years-old, so most of her life.

In 2014 Guiness recognized it as the world’s biggest with more than 6,000 pieces.

But she’s now broken even that record, expanding it to more than 11,000 pieces.

Scheuers says the most common question she gets is “Why?” And the answer is very simple.

SCHEUERS: I have fun doing it. There’s no reason other than I have fun doing it.

It’s The World and Everything in It.


NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, July 2nd. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: And I’m Paul Butler. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: the show Marvel fans have been waiting for.

In the new Disney+ streaming series, Tom Hiddleston reprises his role as the fan-favorite villain, Loki. Reviewer Collin Garbarino says the Asgardian god of mischief is as entertaining as ever, that is until he’s forced to bow to woke ideology.

LOKI: I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose.

COLLIN GARBARINO, REVIEWER: That glorious purpose is always just out of reach in the Avengers movies, but this Loki doesn’t know it yet. He’s not the same charming rogue who completed his redemption arc in the films. This series features an alternate version of Loki who escapes from his timeline thanks to the time-hopping events of Avengers: End Game. Loki’s escape causes him to run afoul of the TVA, that is the Time Variance Authority.

HUNTER B-15: Appears to be a standard sequence violation. Branch is growing at a stable rate and slope. Variant identified.

LOKI: I beg your pardon.

HUNTER B-15: On behalf of the Time Variance Authority, I hereby arrest you for crimes against the Sacred Timeline. Hands up. You’re coming with us.

In the Marvel universe, when someone goes back in time and changes the past, it doesn’t change the present and the future. Instead, it creates another version of the universe. The original past, present, and future still exist, but a second present and future created by the change branch off from the original storyline.

The TVA’s job is to prune those branches, ensuring that variants don’t create a multiversal chaos.

Renslayer: Laufeyson. Variant L1130, AKA Loki Laufeyson, is charged with sequence violation 7-20-89. How do you plead?

Loki: Madam. A god doesn’t plead. This has been a very enjoyable pantomime, but I’d like to go home now.

Renslayer: Are you guilty or not guilty, sir?

Loki: Guilty of being the god of mischief? Yes. Guilty of finding all this incredibly tedious? Yes. Guilty of a crime against the Sacred Timeline? Absolutely not, you have the wrong person.

But rather than pruning Loki for stepping off the Sacred Timeline, Agent Mobius, played by Owen Wilson, decides to recruit him.

Mobius: I specialize in the pursuit of dangerous variants.

He needs Loki’s help to track down an even more dangerous variant who wants to dismantle the TVA and unravel the universe.

Mobius: I’m Agent Mobius, by the way.

Loki: Are you taking me somewhere to kill me?

Mobius: No. That’s where you just were. I’m taking you some place to talk.

Loki: I don’t like to talk.

Mobius: But you do like to lie, which you just did. Because we both know you love to talk.

And there’s lots of talk in the first two episodes of this series. It turns out that time travel and multiverses demand lots of exposition. But honestly, the talk might be the best part of the series.

Loki: I’d never stab anyone in the back. That’s such a boring form of betrayal.

Mobius: Loki, I’ve studied almost every moment of your entire life. You’ve literally stabbed people in the back, like, 50 times.

Loki: Well, I’d never do it again, because it got old.

Mobius: [chuckling] Okay.

Loki and Mobius play the odd couple to perfection. And even though the plot takes a while to get going, I hardly noticed because I was too busy enjoying Owen Wilson play the straight man. The two men don’t trust each other, but in the clever banter we see them learning to be friends.

Their chats sometimes take a philosophical turn, not uncommon for time travel stories. Where do we all come from? Does life have any meaning? Are we all just playing a part, or do we have some measure of freedom? But the show raises these questions with a playful style less common in the genre.

Perhaps most interestingly, we see characters struggle to live in light of philosophies they espouse but don’t necessarily understand. Mobius says he believes in the absolute plan of the Sacred Timeline. But he also wants to believe Loki can reform.

Renslayer: Look, I know you have a soft spot for broken things.

Mobius: I don’t think so.

Renslayer: Yes, you do. But Loki is an evil, lying scourge. That is the part he plays on the sacred timeline.

Mobius: Maybe he wants to mix it up. Sometimes you get tired of playing the same part. Is that possible? He can change?

Renslayer: Not unless the Time Keepers decree it. And then it shall be so.

While it’s interesting to have a superhero show raise these philosophical questions, we probably shouldn’t expect it to answer them satisfactorily. We also shouldn’t expect Loki and Mobius to save the Sacred Timeline. After all, this series is just a setup for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness which comes out next year.

Mobius: Existence is chaos. Nothing makes any sense, so we try to make some sense of it. And I’m just lucky that the chaos I emerged into gave me all this… My own glorious purpose. Because the TVA is my life. And it’s real because I believe it’s real.

Loki is rated TV-14 for superhero violence and occasional coarse language. But after the first two episodes, I admit I was hooked. Witty, stylish, unique—it was my favorite television series of this year.

But then the third episode came out, and I wished I could call in the TVA to prune it from the Sacred Timeline.

Miss Minutes: The TVA has stepped in to fix your mistake and set time back on its predetermined path.

Hiddleston is supposed to be the show’s star. But if Wilson’s Agent Mobius disappears from the screen for too long, the story loses its shine. Mobius is completely absent from the third episode, and everything that made the show excellent and unique vanished.

Even worse, Disney decided to pander to progressive gender ideology. In the first episode, we glimpse Loki’s TVA dossier which lists his sex as “fluid.” That could be reasonable considering he’s a shapeshifter. But the third episode includes a brief, forced line about his having romances with both men and women. It’s a shame for such a smart show to be so clumsy in seeking the Twitter mob’s approval. It’s almost ironic for Marvel’s time-travel series to succumb to chronological snobbery by confirming the trendy ideologies of our own cultural moment.

Thankfully, Wilson returns for episode four. But with only two more episodes to go, I’m not sure whether this series can fulfill the sense of glorious purpose it began with.

I’m Collin Garbarino.


PAUL BUTLER, HOST: Today is Friday, July 2nd. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Paul Butler.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

On Sunday, America will celebrate her 245th anniversary. For many of us, the fireworks and backyard barbeques will be especially sweet (or spicy, however you like it), but especially so because maybe Covid wiped out your plans last year.

BUTLER: So to mark this special occasion, we have two musical selections to share. The first is “Ragged Old Flag,” by Johnny Cash. Cash wrote the piece in 1974, at the height of the Watergate scandal. He later said he wanted to “reaffirm faith in the country and the goodness of the American people” despite the painful political turmoil.

The second song is a rendition of “God Bless America,” by the Dallas-based acapella group Kings Return.

Happy Independence Day!

JOHNNY CASH, RAGGED OLD FLAG: I walked through a county courthouse square
On a park bench an old man was sitting there
I said, your old courthouse is kinda run down
He said, naw, it'll do for our little town
I said, your old flagpole has leaned a little bit
And that's a ragged old flag you got hanging on it

He said, have a seat, and I sat down
Is this the first time you've been to our little town?
I said, I think it is
He said, I don't like to brag
But we're kinda proud of that ragged old flag

You see, we got a little hole in that flag there when
Washington took it across the Delaware
And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key
Sat watching it writing say can you see
And it got a bad rip in New Orleans
With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seams

And it almost fell at the Alamo
Beside the texas flag, but she waved on though
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill
There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg
And the south wind blew hard on that ragged old flag

On Flanders field in World War one
She got a big hole from a Bertha gun
She turned blood red in World War Two
She hung limp and low a time or two
She was in Korea and Vietnam
She went where she was sent by Uncle Sam

She waved from our ships upon the Briny foam
And now they've about quit waving her back here at home
In her own good land here she's been abused
She's been burned, dishonored, denied, and refused

And the government for which she stands
Is scandalized throughout the land
And she's getting threadbare and wearing thin
But she's in good shape for the shape she's in
'Cause she's been through the fire before
And I believe she can take a whole lot more

So we raise her up every morning
We take her down every night
We don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right
On second thought, I do like to brag
'Cause I'm mighty proud of that ragged old flag

KINGS RETURN, GOD BLESS AMERICA:  God bless America, land that I love
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above
From the mountains to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America, my home sweet home

God bless America, land that I love
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with the light from above
From the mountains to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America, my home sweet home

From the mountains to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America, my home sweet home
God bless America, my home sweet home


NICK EICHER, HOST: Well, it is time once again to thank and recognize our outstanding team.

Thanks in alphabetical order to…

Joel Belz, Anna Johansen Brown, Kent Covington, Kristen Flavin, Collin Garbarino, Katie Gaultney, Onize Ohikere, Mary Reichard, Josh Schumacher, Sarah Schweinsberg, and Cal Thomas.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: Johnny Franklin and Carl Peetz are our audio engineers. Leigh Jones is managing editor. Pa-

EICHER: That’s awkward. I’ll recognize that guy!

Paul Butler is executive producer.

BUTLER: And Marvin Olasky is editor in chief.

And you! Thank you so much for your part in exceeding our June Giving Drive goal. That’s such an encouragement to the team … and it’s our job not to let you down! Thanks again so much.

The Psalmist says in Psalm 145: ​​Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable. ​​One generation shall praise His works to another, ​​And shall declare His mighty acts.

Have a wonderful weekend, and enjoy the freedom to worship with your brothers and sisters in Christ.


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