The World and Everything in It: June 13, 2025

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

Today, new data on Biblical worldview, or the lack of it. We’ll also talk about the protests and riots over illegal immigration, the Simone Biles–Riley Gaines clash, and how to think about public repentance.

NICK EICHER, HOST: John Stonestreet is standing by for Culture Friday.

Also today, another live-action remake of an animated film.

STOIC: When you carry this ax, you carry us all with you.

A review of Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon.

And later, we remember the musical genius of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, who died this week.

BROWN: It’s Friday, June 13th. 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: Israel strikes Iran » Explosions rang out in Iran last night as Israeli Defense Forces launched air strikes aimed at crippling Iran’s nuclear program.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that the IDF was carrying out what he called “Operation Rising Lion.”

NETANYAHU:  We struck at the heart of Iran's nuclear enrichment program. We struck at the heart of Iran's nuclear weaponization program. We targeted Iran's main enrichment facility in Natanz. We targeted Iran's leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb. We also struck at the heart of Iran's ballistic missile program.

The prime minister said the operation will continue “for as many days as it takes” to eliminate the threat of Iran becoming a nuclear power.

Israeli Ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon:

DANON: We saw a few months ago, they sent hundreds of ballistic missiles into Israel. So we cannot wait for them to have nuclear capability.

The United States says Israel acted unilaterally and the U.S. military was not involved in the operation.

President Trump had previously asked Netanyahu not to strike Iran during US nuclear negotiations with Tehran. But with progress in those talks reportedly stalled, it’s unclear if the president withdrew his objection.

Trump had been warning for days that an airstrike could come soon if Tehran did become more cooperative. He told reporters just yesterday:

TRUMP:  I don't wanna say eminent, but it looks like it's something that could very well happen. Look, it's very simple, not complicated. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.

The airstrikes came just hours after Iran defiantly announced that it has built and will activate a third nuclear enrichment facility after a rare censure from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency for a lack of cooperation.

India plane crash » Families are morning in India and beyond after a commercial jetliner crashed Thursday killing more than 240 people.

Air India CEO Campbell Wilson:

WILSON:  I would like to express our deep sorrow about this event. This is a difficult day for all of us at Air India, and our efforts now are focused entirely on the needs of our passengers, crew members, their families, and loved ones.

The Air India flight had just taken off from Ahmedabad en route to London when the Boeing 787 Dreamliner began losing altitude and slammed into a residential building.

Authorities say at least 5 people were killed on the ground, with dozens more injured.

At least one person aboard the plane miraculously survived. Police say he managed to escape by jumping out of an emergency exit.

Investigators are working to determine the cause of the crash.

Aviation consultant John M. Cox with Safety Operating Systems reacted to video footage of the crash.

COX: The image shows the airplane with the nose rising and it continuing to sink. That says that the airplane is not making enough lift. And the slats and flaps are positioned so that the wing makes more lift at lower speeds.

The pilots sent out a mayday call shortly before impact.

This is the first fatal crash involving a Boeing Dreamliner jet.

Trump on California electric vehicle mandate » President Trump held a signing ceremony at the White House Thursday, where he signed a resolution blocking California’s first-in-the-nation rule, banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

TRUMP:   I wanna thank everybody for being here. We officially rescue the US auto industry from destruction by terminating California electric vehicle mandate once and for all.

Trump called the regulations “crazy.”

But the state quickly challenged the move in court.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta:

BONTA:  Were filing a lawsuit against the federal government for its unlawful use of the Congressional Review Act or CRA to attack California's clean vehicles program.

Congress approved the resolution last month. 

Trump also signed measures to overturn state policies curbing tailpipe emissions in certain vehicles and other environmental regulations on trucks.

Texas governor deploys guard ahead of protest » After nearly a week of violent protests in LA against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the unrest has spread to major cities from coast to coast.

And ahead of an organized national protest tomorrow, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the deployment of 5,000 National Guard troops, along with 2,000 state police to back up local law enforcement.

ABBOTT:  It does not do any good to have the National Guard not deployed, uh, and have a city catch on fire, have crime and chaos break out and take a day or two to get them there.

The Republican Texas governor's move stands in sharp contrast to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat.

Newsom sued President Trump over the deployment of the National Guard to LA last week.

Senator forcibly removed from DHS press conference » Democrats are demanding a full investigation after U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California was forcibly removed from a news conference with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Padilla said he was merely trying to ask a question:

PADILLA:  I was almost immediately forcibly removed from the room. I was forced to the ground and I was handcuffed.

But Secretary Noem says the Democratic senator’s remarks are misleading.

NOEM:  This man burst into the room, started lunging towards the podium, interrupting me and elevating his voice, and, uh, was stopped, did not identify himself, and was removed from the room.

In Washington, some Senate Democrats skipped their traditional Thursday flights home and stayed on the floor to speak out against the incident.

I'm Kent Covington. 

Straight ahead: Culture Friday with John Stonestreet. Plus, the musical legacy of Brian Wilson.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Friday the 13th of June.

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.

Update time on our June Giving Drive! You remember that $130-thousand-dollar challenge gift that kicked off the drive, we’d hoped to match it with your gifts by the end of the week, but you’ve already cleared that first hurdle, cleared it yesterday afternoon, in fact!

BROWN: There you go, Nick, mixing every sports metaphor in the book: kickoffs, hurdles, goal lines… pick your arena! Whatever the sport, clearly our listeners look like they’re running some fast breaks!

EICHER: Yep, skated right through center ice over the blue line, and hit the O-Zone with speed. Seriously, though, our challenge givers are competitive folks, but this is precisely what they were hoping for, to be out-given! They put up the first points on the board and so many have responded in a big way

BROWN: June 30th is the finish line, so keep those legs churning. Next week, we’ll have a new challenge to keep the momentum rolling for sound journalism grounded in facts and Biblical truth every single day. So if you’ve not given yet and you’re planning to, please do it today!

EICHER: You can jump in at WNG.org/JuneGivingDrive … again …WNG.org/JuneGivingDrive. Thanks for playing on the WORLD team and keeping our brand of journalism in the game.

It’s Culture Friday and joining us now is John Stonestreet. He is president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. Good morning to you.

JOHN STONESTREET: Good morning.

EICHER: John, I want to bring your attention to two recent reports. These come from the Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center. One is a state-by-state analysis of the incidence of Biblical worldview, the prevalence, I should say. It was just released this week. The other details the university’s new assessment tool that aims to measure worldview across multiple life categories.

Now, neither report is encouraging—and the well-known researcher George Barna was involved in this. He found the national percentage of adults with a Biblical worldview is just 4 percent. Even among self-identified Christians, only 6 percent actually live and think in ways that align with a Biblical worldview.

And state-by-state? The top state—Alabama—comes in at just 12.6 percent. Rhode Island, less than a quarter of 1 percent. Your own state, Colorado, John, is slightly above average at 6.1 percent, which may come as a surprise to you.

You’ve warned that many churches avoid so-called “political” issues that are really moral ones with political implications. You’ve also said the deeper problem is not that churches are talking about worldview too much—but that they don’t even think that way anymore.

So, when you look at these numbers—they would seem to confirm what you’ve been saying. What should we take away from, and how does the church recover a Biblical vision of culture?

STONESTREET: Yeah. I mean, that’s been the question for decades, and I’m not even sure that I would say that we don’t think about it anymore, because then one would have to ask, well, when were we thinking about it better?

To answer your question, two weeks ago at our Colson Center conference, the one and only Carl Trueman was talking a little bit about fostering conviction and where this comes from within the context of the church. He talked about when truth claims become instinctual—not just that they’re proclaimed and they’re taught, but they’re cultivated. They’re catechized. They become habitual.

It would be impossible for any parent, much less any pastor, to prepare a congregation for every single challenge that someone might face in 30 to 50 years. But you can train the biblical instinct—that sense that something just doesn’t sit right.

Most people have a “whirled view”—W-H-I-R-L-E-D, not “worldview.” In other words, they have this conglomeration of beliefs and practices and habits that are far more reliant on cultural conditions. As I think Francis Schaeffer said, people tend to get their worldviews like they get a cold—they catch them.

Without that kind of intentional, habitual framing of the truth claims of Christianity—of the true story of the world that Christianity offers—and without continually coming back to the idea that this is not something that is personally helpful, first and foremost … it’s something that is true with a capital T.

By and large, in discipleship programs and church sermons and Sunday school classes, we’ve traded the idea of Christianity as true for Christianity as therapeutic—or Christianity as helpful. And I think we end up seeing the consequences. We might still embrace some of the helpful things about Christianity, but our worldview is actually coming from a culture that is getting further and further from any sort of roots in biblical truth.

EICHER: We’re seeing large-scale protests across the country over immigration enforcement. In some cases, things have turned violent—no disputing that. In California, hundreds have been arrested. National Guard troops and even U.S. Marines are on the ground in LA—not conducting raids, but rather guarding ICE agents who are … and protecting federal property. So … it’s a pretty tense moment. There are questions of free speech, public order, the rule of law, even the use of military forces. What’s the right way to think about this explosion of passion over immigration?

STONESTREET: Yeah. Well, let’s talk about the riots themselves and separate them from the protests. I mean, even if it’s a cause that I don’t agree with, I look at this and say: the rights of Americans to publicly express their conscience is a good thing. And I don’t want that to go away—even if I don’t agree with what the other side is saying.

But the limits of speech here are not in some kind of personal sense of, “I don’t want to be offended.” It’s when actual harm is being done. And of course, we’ve seen that in California—actual harm being done. So I think we have to be able to thread that needle. And there’s no question that it’s a needle. It’s a tough thing.

But I am way grateful that I live in a place that’s protected by the First Amendment, rather than something that kind of gives lip service to freedom of speech, but then actually becomes a tyrannical expression of whatever the popular cultural mood is. I mean, that’s not real freedom at all.

And listen, that’s all possible because we have national sovereignty. If you lose national sovereignty—the ability of a nation to define its own borders, its own way of life, and that sort of thing—then that also is going to render these conscience rights fruitless. It’s going to undermine them in and of themselves.

You know, that’s really what is at stake here when you have a kind of consistent practice of lawlessness, in one way or another. And California is certainly guilty of this when it comes to the immigration issue. Every third-grade student knows it’s not a real classroom rule if the teacher never enforces it.

How it’s enforced—that needs to be talked about. America can enforce its borders without doing it in ways that are dehumanizing. But the enforcing of laws, in and of itself, is not dehumanizing. The enforcement of laws is actually necessary. It’s not wrong.

And you know, that’s really the conflict: whether or not we have these laws and whether or not they should be enforced. And then we have to go to: how should they be enforced?

BROWN: This past week saw a striking clash between two high-profile athletes. The swimmer Riley Gaines criticized a Minnesota girls’ softball league for allowing a male pitcher to dominate the state championship. The Olympic gymnast Simone Biles fired back. She accused Gaines of bullying the girls … and even added some personal insults that seemed uncharacteristic of her … and to be fair, she walked some of that stuff back. What did you make of that, John, and what do you think it says about where we are on gender and sports?

STONESTREET: I mean, that was a fascinating interchange this week. And I just want to say to Riley Gaines: thank you. Thank you for being courageous and being bold, but also for handling it the right way.

Riley right now has become such an important voice on this issue, because she stands her ground. She does it clearly. She doesn’t get really riled up—which tells me there’s an awful lot of confidence with her. She’s confident in what she believes. She’s confident in what’s true. She’s confident in her personal relationships. You’ve got to be confident in your personal relationships to take the attacks that she does.

But you know what was fascinating too—and further proof that it’s a new day—Simone Biles was untouchable yesterday. And I don’t mean yesterday like “yesterday”—I mean yesterday, culturally speaking. You remember when she had the moment where she dropped out of the Olympics and then came back and really had a strong performance. Untouchable in terms of her status, in terms of her voice, and that sort of stuff.

And I’ve got to be honest, I saw that thing unfold, and I thought, man, Riley’s going to take it this time—at a degree that maybe she’s not prepared for. And you know what? There were as many voices—or more—supporting Riley Gaines as supporting Simone Biles. Including Stephen A. Smith, the ESPN announcer who right now is making a career of saying it like he sees it, in a Bill Maher sort of straightforward, not partisan, way.

So I think it tells you that not everyone is on board with this. And those who proclaim that, you know, the science was settled on gender, and that there’s no advantage of a man over a woman in sports, and all these things that everyone just intuitively knows is not true—people aren’t buying it. People aren’t being intimidated into silence anymore. And that was welcome news.

But you know what? It takes courage. It takes courage to take that kind of stand. Of course, she didn’t solicit it. In this case, Simone Biles went after her—which was really bizarre. But I’ll tell you what—it was an interesting “you are here” moment, in my view, on this particular issue.

BROWN: Christian artist Michael Tait recently issued a detailed confession … admitting to years of drug use and inappropriate sexual behavior. He said he’d left the Newsboys in January because he was tired of living a double life … that he wanted to seek healing. The music broadcaster K-LOVE responded by pulling both DC Talk and Newsboys music from its on-air playlists. What stood out to you, John, about his confession and what does real repentance look like in public failures like this?

STONESTREET; Well, look, I don’t want to comment on anyone’s business decisions on this, but I will tell you that the apology from Michael Tate should be a source of great hope. Because, you know, listen—what he’s admitted to is horrible. But he admitted to it in a way that was a true confession.

Now, I don’t have any insight into what’s happening behind the scenes or anything like that. But I do know: repentance is a uniquely Christian contribution to both the world and, specifically, to virtue formation.

In other words, virtue is a muscle. If you want to be a virtuous person, you have to do virtuous things. Christianity offers one of those virtuous things as repentance. In other words, if you’re on the edge of the moral cliff, the best way forward is backwards. It’s to turn around.

And I hope that what I read this week from Michael Tate reflects that. It sure sounded like it. And I think we have a responsibility as followers of Christ to be hopeful for our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.

EICHER: John Stonestreet, president of the Colson center and host of the Breakpoint podcast, thanks again, John.

STONESTREET: Thank you both.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, June 13th. 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 up on The World and Everything in It, a remake of the film How to Train Your Dragon.

Even though remakes like this rarely live up to the original, this one reminds us why live-action adaptations of animated classics remain popular with families.

Here’s reviewer Joseph Holmes.

STOIC: When you carry this axe, you carry us all with you.

HICCUP: Dad, I can’t kill dragons.

STOIC: But you will.

HICCUP: I’m a Viking. I’m a Viking!

JOSEPH HOLMES: Some folks complain every time another live-action remake of an animated classic gets released. I admit I include myself in that group but these remakes can serve a real need. They give families a chance to experience the magic of the movies in the theater together in a low-risk way. Parents have seen the original, so in a sense, they’ve “pre-screened” the movie for their kids. They go in with a good idea of whether the message fits their family’s values.

Disney has a long track record of success in this area, most recently with their live-action Lilo and Stitch. So it’s unsurprising DreamWorks decided to follow their lead in mining its own impressive animated library for live-action potential. The studio landed on its 2010 classic, How To Train Your Dragon, hoping parents who loved the animated version will find everything they want here.

HICCUP: Maybe they’re not as bad as we think they are.

ASTRID: In case you’ve forgotten, our parents’ war is about to become ours. Figure out whose side you’re on.

STOIC: They’ve killed hundreds of us!

HICCUP: And we’ve killed thousands of them!

The new How To Train Your Dragon sticks closely to the original. It follows the inventive Viking Hiccup, on the island of Berk. Hiccup defies his people’s rules to befriend the Night Fury dragon “Toothless” and save humans and dragons from their never-ending war against each other.

Dean DeBlois co-created the original film and wrote and directed this version, too. It largely delivers by being almost beat-for-beat and line-for-line faithful to the original film. This is both a blessing and a curse. The remake benefits from everything that made the original great, but it also invites comparison, which isn’t always favorable.

The remake’s biggest strengths are its cinematography, production design and cast. The scenes of aerial acrobatics filmed with IMAX in mind are truly stunning. Impressive costumes and sets take the very particular child-friendly, fanciful Viking aesthetic from animation and make it work with real people.

The remake gives a nod to diversity by reimagining the dragon-hunting Vikings of Berk as a multicultural people. But the film does take the time to explain why Asians and Africans live in this Scandinavian tribe. Nearly all the main cast is likable and believable. Mason Thames convincingly balances the bumbling and inspiring qualities of Hiccup. Nico Parker captures both the warm and cranky sides of Hiccup’s rival and love interest Astrid. And Gerard Butler’s Chief Stoick feels lifted from the animated version– not a stretch because Butler voiced him in the original.

HICCUP: Everything we know about dragons is wrong.

STOIC: The reign of the dragons ends right here, right now!

HICCUP: I’m the first Viking who wouldn’t kill a dragon.

ASTRID: First to ride one, though.

But staying so close to the animated film sometimes creates technical problems. Animation can move faster and be more expressive than live-action, and in comparison, some of the new scenes feel dull. Conversely, the cast is good. Still the actors sometimes appear to forget this film is not a cartoon and seem to be imitating the iconic voice actors from the first film.

HICCUP: No, Toothless! She’s a friend! You all need to see this. I’m not one of them.

STOIC: Stop!

ASTRID: Wow. You lost everything. Your father, your tribe, your best friend. What are you going to do about it?

HICCUP: Probably something stupid.

ASTRID: Well, you’ve already done that.

HICCUP: Then something crazy.

If the live-action actors had just a bit more room to create their own versions of these characters, we might fall in love with them almost as much as the originals.

While these problems might annoy critics like me, I doubt the film’s target audience will be bothered. Families will be pleased that this version preserves the positive messages of compassion and courage from the original. And despite the dragons being a little scarier in live action than in animation, the movie maintains its PG rating—so parents fine with the original will probably be fine with this one too.

HICCUP: It’s up to us.

FISHLEGS: Us?

HICCUP: Stick with me.

HICCUP: Alright, bud, you ready?

ASTRID: (Screams)

HICCUP: Come on!

HICCUP: Here it comes!

I’m always rooting for live-action remakes to be the best version of themselves—becoming distinct high-quality works in their own right. This remake doesn’t achieve that, exactly. But because it sticks so closely to the powerful and satisfying animated version, the new How to Train Your Dragon proves to be a moving experience.

I’m Joseph Holmes.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday June 13th. 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. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: Remembering Brian Wilson, the founding genius of the Beach Boys who died this week at age 82.

Wilson defined the California sound—sunlit harmonies layered over deep, emotional currents. He reshaped pop, fell into a personal darkness, and against the odds made a remarkable return.

WORLD music reviewer Arsenio Orteza now on Wilson’s brokenness, beauty, and enduring brilliance.

ARSENIO ORTEZA: Brian Douglas Wilson was the oldest of three musically talented sons born to Murry and Audree Wilson in Hawthorne, California. Wilson distinguished himself at an early age with the ability to memorize and recreate the sophisticated jazzy harmonies of his favorite vocal groups. It was Brian who insisted that his younger brothers Carl and Dennis and his cousin Mike Love learn to sing the rudiments of what would become Wilson’s trademark vocal arrangements. The family members would later join Brian in the Beach Boys, along with their friend David Marks and later Al Jardine.

MUSIC: [Excerpt from “Their Hearts Were Full of Spring” by the Beach Boys]

Wilson’s outwardly gregarious nature masked inner turmoil, particularly a tumultuous relationship with his abusive father. Wilson would later describe his prolific Beach Boys activity as a struggle both to assert his independence and to earn his father’s approval.

From 1963 to 1965, the Beach Boys placed nine songs and eight albums in the top 10. Wilson was a millionaire by 22. But with that wealth came the pressure of maintaining and constantly improving the nation’s top hit machine. He began to show symptoms of what would eventually be diagnosed as organic personality disorder. Still, he managed to oversee the elaborate recording of the group’s seminal Pet Sounds album as well as the song that would go on to become what many consider the greatest pop single of all time.

MUSIC: [Excerpt from “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys]

At about this time, Wilson quit touring with the group and began seeking solace in marijuana and LSD. He found himself unable to complete the ambitious Pet Sounds follow-up Smile and withdrew from public life. Wilson became as famous for his drug and paranoia-fueled eccentricities as he had been for his prodigious and inventive music. He was still nominally a Beach Boy, but his contributions to the group’s music dwindled.

He spent 1975 to 1985 as an often incoherent caricature of his former self. He experienced a partial recovery at the hands of the controversial therapist Eugene Landy. But that was scuttled in 1989 when a medical board ordered Landy to surrender his license, largely because of the questionable nature of his treatment of Wilson.

But in the mid-1990s, Wilson experienced a renaissance. He married his second wife, Melinda Ledbetter. And he found musicians with whom he could resume touring and recording in the band the Wondermints and the musical director-guitarist Jeffrey Foskett. This ensemble plus the lyricist Van Dyke Parks helped Wilson finally release a complete version of Smile in 2004.

MUSIC: [Excerpt from “Heroes and Villains” by Brian Wilson]

Brian Wilson Presents Smile was released to strong sales and rapturous critical acclaim.

In the years that followed, Wilson released several more solo albums. He also reunited with the Beach Boys in 2012 for the group’s 50th-anniversary tour and for what turned out to be the last Beach Boys album of new material, That’s Why God Made the Radio. A 2014 Bill Pohlad biopic about Wilson’s life, Love and Mercy, was also well received. Wilson toured for the last time in 2022 and was diagnosed with dementia in 2024.

The Beach Boys’ success was the result of many factors: Wilson’s brother Dennis gave him the idea to write about surfing. The other Beach Boys helped bring his compositions to life. But it was Wilson’s inventiveness in the Beach Boys’ first five years that made his songs an indelible fixture in American pop culture. The California of Wilson’s imagination was less a tourist attraction than a state of mind. It represented the transient innocence of youth and the tragedy awaiting those who cling to it. Ironically, Wilson found himself adrift for much of his adult life by clinging to youth himself. His inability to match his early output left him depressed. And his self-destructive attempts at coping with this failure depleted him. His continued composing nevertheless testifies to the durability of his talent. And his survival to enjoy a second act after nearly everyone had given up on him testifies to the durability of his will and the inspirational power of his music.

MUSIC: [Unused vocal tag from “God Only Knows” by the Beach Boys]

I’m Arsenio Orteza.

NICK EICHER, HOST: All right, it’s time to name the team who helped make it happen this week:

David Bahnsen, Leo Briceno, Adam Carrington, Janie B. Cheaney, Emma Eicher, Juliana Chan Erickson, Kim Henderson, Carolina Lumetta, Mary Muncy, Onize Oduah, Arsenio Orteza, Mary Reichard, Josh Schumacher, John Stonestreet, and Cal Thomas.

Thanks also to our breaking news team: Kent Covington, Christina Grube, Steve Kloosterman, and Lynde Langdon.

And thanks to the Moonlight Maestros. Benj Eicher and Carl Peetz.

Harrison Watters is Washington producer, Lindsay Mast and Leigh Jones are standing in as feature editors, Paul Butler is executive producer, and Les Sillars our editor-in-chief. I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

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The Bible says: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.” —Hebrews 11:1-3

Now, here’s your weekly reminder: Go to church this weekend. We’re not meant to walk the Christian life alone! Be encouraged, and be an encourager.

And Lord willing, we’ll be right back here with you on Monday. Go now in grace and peace.

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