The World and Everything in It: March 13, 2026

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

Today on Culture Friday: media narratives after a failed terror plot. And Britain's fiver—with no Churchhill!

NICK EICHER, HOST: Right, John Stonestreet is standing by with that and more. 

Also today, a literary classic adapted for TV.

DANTES: I was robbed of 15 years of my life. And now I want revenge.

And WORLD music critic Arsenio Orteza on Three Dog Night frontman, Chuck Negron.

BROWN: It’s Friday, March 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: Synagogue attack » The FBI says an attack on a Michigan synagogue Thursday was a—quote—“targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.”

A man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into a major synagogue in a Detroit suburb and was reportedly fatally shot by security. That according to the Associated Press.

Oakland County, Michigan Sheriff Michael Bouchard told reporters:

BOUCHARD:  A car came to the facility, breached the facility by driving into it, was engaged by security. We believe there is one individual deceased in the vehicle. Uh, it's been complicated because there was some, uh, fire to say the least with that vehicle.

In the minutes after the attack, smoke billowed from the synagogue. The sheriff said one security officer was hit by the vehicle and knocked unconscious but did not suffer life-threatening injuries. And 30 law enforcement officers were treated for smoke inhalation.

He added that none of the synagogue’s staff, teachers or the 140 children at its early childhood center were injured. And the attacker was the only person killed.

President Trump addressed the attack from the White House.

TRUMP:  Before we begin, I wanna send our love to the Michigan Jewish community and all of the people in Detroit, the Detroit area, following the attack on the Jewish synagogue.

He called it a “terrible thing.”

Iran: New supreme leader remarks » Iran’s new supreme leader issued a defiant public statement on Thursday. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher reports:

BENJAMIN EICHER: 56-year-old Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has taken the place of his late father Ali Khamenei.

Israel suspects he was wounded in the opening salvo of the conflict. And notably, he did not appear on camera. Instead, his statement was read by a state TV news anchor.

AUDIO: [Speaking Farsi]

EICHER: He said Iran would keep up its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors … and continue to effectively shut down the Strait of Hormuz … as leverage against the United States and Israel.

And he vowed revenge for the airstrikes within Iran thus far.

Whether the regime will have the ability to back up those threats going forward remains to be seen.

The Trump administration says it has already severely degraded Iran’s ability to wage war, destroying many of its ballistic missiles, and largely decimating its navy and nuclear program.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

Iran: general update / California threat »Officials assured California residents on Thursday that there is no imminent threat to the state from Iran.

ABC News reported that the FBI warned California that Iran had aspired to send drones to the West Coast in retaliation for war.

Gov. Gavin Newsom remarked:

NEWSOM:  We are aware of that information and we transfer that information, uh, in real time to our local partners. Uh, drone issues have been always top of mind.

But he said there was no specific threat at the time.

The FBI later released text of the alert, which noted that the information was based on “unverified information.” And the White House now says, “No such threat from Iran to our homeland exists.”

Iran: Oil reserves » The Energy Department says the U.S. will begin releasing 172 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

That comes as the ongoing conflict with Iran is causing fuel prices to spike. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says they are looking to "reverse 47 years of uncertainty" within the region and ultimately, the payoff will be more than worth temporary price hikes.

WRIGHT:  The benefit at the other side of, of a much better Middle East, ultimately in the long term, a much more secure supply of energy for the world. It's worth the short-term disruption for this simply enormous long-term gain we will get.

The Energy Department’s announcement followers word this week that 32 nations announced a coordinated record release of 400 million barrels.

DHS funding » Senators headed home for the weekend without agreeing on a path forward for funding the Department of Homeland Security.

WORLD’s Harrison Watters has more from the Capital.

HARRISON WATTERS: Senate Democrats on Thursday floated a proposal to pay airport security agents, while debate over changes to immigration enforcement policy continues. Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen.

ROSEN: Let's not have TSA offers officers in the middle of this fight. They don't deserve it. We all agree their salary should be funded. So let's fund it.

WATTERS: But Republicans objected to bailing TSA out while other departments continue operating without funds. Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno:

MORENO: Let’s fund the whole department, let’s get this over with. In fact, I would offer, let’s fund it until Monday.

WATTERS: Several proposals to pass short-term funding bills failed to pass, while the full DHS appropriations bill again failed to clear the 60 vote threshold needed to end debate and move to a final vote.

Many Homeland Security employees are set to miss their first full paycheck this weekend as a partial government shutdown heads into week five.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Harrison Watters…in Washington.

Ukraine drone deal » The UN has released findings of an investigation into Russia's deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children. The lead investigator says the findings are clear:

MOSE: The scale and the scope of these crimes have led the Commission to conclude that Russian authorities have deported and forcibly transferred children as a crime against humanity.

Ukraine says close to 20,000 children have been illegally sent to Russia and Belarus. Many face military training, and are sent back to fight against their countrymen.

Meanwhile in Bucharest:

SOUND: [Pomp and Circumstance]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Romanian President Nicusor Dan shook hands after signing a new defense cooperation agreement. That agreement calls for joint drone production in Romania.

This agreement comes even as Ukraine is still waiting to hear back from the White House on a major U.S. drone agreement Kyiv proposed last year.

I'm Kent Covington. 

Straight ahead: John Stonestreet is here for Culture Friday. Plus, Arsenio Orteza with a remembrance of a 70s hitmaker.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Friday, March 13th. 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 and John Stonestreet joins us now. John is president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. Good morning John!

JOHN STONESTREET: Good morning.

EICHER: Let’s start in New York. Police say two young men drove from Pennsylvania into the city and threw homemade bombs into a protest crowd outside Gracie Mansion—the official residence of New York City’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Investigators say they were inspired by ISIS and hoped to carry out a major terror attack. Thankfully they failed. No one was hurt.

But the media reaction quickly became part of the story. CNN posted this summary on social media—later deleting it after heavy criticism. It read:

“Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during the abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest.”

John, when something like this happens, what does it reveal about the moral framework our culture uses to interpret events—especially when clear acts of evil don’t fit the narrative?

STONESTREET: Well, it’s just another example that you wouldn’t believe if you didn’t see it yourself. But we also saw, for example, just the other night on CNN, on Abby Phillips’s show, where she also falsely reported that this was a terrorist attack that had targeted Mamdani, which of course there was no evidence of. No one had ever suggested that, and it certainly was not something that was said by the young men that were arrested here.

This is kind of treated, in a sense, as if whatever happened to these boys—they kind of stumbled into Islamic fundamentalist terrorism as they were taking a stroll through Central Park. It’s a bizarre sort of thing.

I don’t know that we need more evidence of the critical theory mood that has infected so much of American elitism, especially when it comes to the media, but also how inadequate critical theory is in explaining good and evil. The thing about a worldview is that it has to be big enough for the world. In other words, it cannot reduce the world down. It has to be big enough for the things that you actually experience in the world.

You talk about intersectionality—this story has intersectionality written all over it. But it would be a funny example if it weren’t dealing with something so serious.

EICHER: Here’s another symbolism story, John, from overseas. The Bank of England is considering redesigning its banknotes—and one proposal would replace historical figures like Winston Churchill with images of wildlife typically found in Britain: things like hedgehogs and badgers.

Now Churchill’s portrait on the five-pound note commemorates Britain’s leadership during World War II and its resistance to Nazi Germany. Led Britain in its darkest hour, and he seems more significant, with all due respect to these fine creatures, seems more significant than small woodland mammals.

John, when a nation moves away from honoring the figures who shaped its history—even in something like this—what does it say?

STONESTREET: The question of what is wrong with Great Britain goes well beyond what they choose to put on their currency. This is the same week that we heard that Britain was also going to name an anti-Muslim czar—someone to be in charge of stamping out anti-Muslim rhetoric and anti-Muslim hate in the nation.

I have not been able to find anything about whether the intention of removing Churchill is some sort of historical correctionism or the same kind of argument used for tearing down monuments. It is weird to replace him with hedgehogs and badgers.

But I do think there is a group of Brits that are trying to solve this problem. They are telling a group of stories in those Wallace-and-Gromit claymation-style videos called proudofus.uk. If you have not seen it, it is pretty cool. They go back and say: Brits, we should be proud of our heritage. We should be proud because we fought the Nazis. We should be proud because we ended slavery. We should be proud because, in the name of educating illiterate children who were chained to machines during the Industrial Revolution, the man who invented Sunday school taught 250,000 kids how to read the Bible.

These are amazing stories in British history. You do not have as big of a problem with one small step like saying, “Let’s get a new dollar bill,” if you have all that history in place. But they do not, and that is the problem.

BROWN: An Institute for Family Studies report published this week on the rates of loneliness rising, affecting four out of ten Americans age 45 and older. That’s a 5% uptick since 2018.

The report also points to a prediction that the number of Americans living alone in their 80s and 90s will soon skyrocket, doubling from 6% of all households in 2018 to 12% in 2028.

What seems to be driving this new data on increased loneliness, reearch that suggests women below the age of 45 who voluntary decide to remain childless, low fertility rates and rising life expectancy. Any surprises there?

STONESTREET: No, we have seen this script play out in Asia, especially in Japan, where the birth rate has been so low for so long that we started getting these strange reports of older women committing petty crimes so that they could go to prison and have somebody to talk to. Or the growing industry of hiring yourself out as a family member for holiday celebrations—a kind of gig economy of Uber meets the fertility crisis.

These are the things that we have seen in other parts of the world for a while, and you are going to see it here as well. The Institute for Family Studies deserves an awful lot of credit for pointing this out relentlessly.

The fact of the matter is that you do not have a society that is strong, resilient, and has a future if you do not have a strong family culture. It is because of things like this. We are not meant to be alone. We are built as image bearers to help one another and to build the kind of world that we were intended to build.

God instituted marriage and put procreation in that context so that children would be protected.

Just think of your own experience growing up in a large family. We have millions and millions more Americans growing up where they are reaching a part of their life and they do not have grandchildren. The math just does not work out. You cannot cultivate the kind of people you need in the long term this way.

I think we are seeing that, and we will continue to realize that there are even more areas that remain to be studied that will become obvious in the future if the fertility rate continues in this downward direction.

BROWN: One more story caught my attention this week. A high school teacher in Georgia died after a group of teenagers showed up at his house late at night to pull a prank—throwing toilet paper in the trees. He went outside to catch them, slipped in the street, and in the chaos that followed the teens—trying to drive away—accidentally ran over him.

But what’s remarkable is what his widow said afterward. She’s publicly asked prosecutors not to charge the boys, saying her husband loved those students and wouldn’t want their lives destroyed over what she believes was a terrible accident.

John, when people hear a response like that today, it almost sounds extraordinary, doesn’t it?

STONESTREET: I think increasingly this is yet another example of a distinctive of Christianity that will set it apart when lived out in our society. It is at the center of a Christian worldview, and it has no place in wokeism. It has no place in progressivism. It has no place in Marxism. It is forgiveness.

At the center of the Christian worldview is this great exchange: God takes your sin and gives you, in Christ, His righteousness. It is a swap.

That does not mean it is easy, and it does not lessen the tragedy one bit. But there is an understanding of the world that comes out of a Christian framing—that the world is not as it is supposed to be, and that forgiveness is actually possible and can bring about great good.

I think that is why people continue to be so astounded by it. The more Christianity is pushed to the margins of society, the more this will seem remarkable. It is always remarkable, but it is especially remarkable in a culture that has no room for it anywhere else.

I think it is going to be a Christian distinctive. It is going to seem bizarre to the watching world. It is going to be increasingly astonishing. It is going to be compelling, because a world with forgiveness is certainly better than a world without forgiveness.

But this is another example, and this list of stories is stacking up.

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

STONESTREET: Thank you both.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, March 13th. 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.

The deadline for our next World Journalism Institute is coming up quickly. It’s our college course, set to take place in May 14th-30th at Dordt University in Iowa. It’s a two-week intensive that allows students to learn firsthand how to approach journalism professionally and Biblically.

Last week during our company retreat, I heard many of my colleagues reminiscing about their time at the World Journalism Institute–most of our editorial employees have gone through the program at some point. We have WJI grads here on the podcast, writing for our digital and print products… and making great TV on our student news program WorldWatch.

But there are many more graduates of the course who weren’t at our retreat–because they’ve taken the skills they gained at WJI and are working for other newsrooms or publications. We reached out to one of those graduates to get her perspective.

ESTRUTH: Hi. My name is Michaela Estruth. I attended WJI in 2022 and WJI really formed a lot of my journalism skills, from radio to how to stand in front of a camera, how to speak to the camera, and also especially writing, especially efficiency in writing, how to turn a story over quickly with an accurate lead and write sources, especially with a Christian worldview. That's what I do today. I write for a Christian publication and WJI strengthened those skills of how to report without forcing a Christian worldview, but to cover the stories that no one else is covering, and to talk to the Christian leaders and thinkers that no one else will talk to, or to just offer both perspectives for your Christian audience. So I highly recommend WJI. It was a great experience, and I love the work that they do.

BROWN: So if you are a college student—or know one—who’s interested in journalism, now’s the time to get to work on the application for this year’s program.

Generous donors allow us to offer full scholarships for those who are accepted, so that means no charge to students, room and board is covered as well, but it is highly competitive and slots are limited.

The deadline for applications is Monday, March 23rd. And it is a long application, so don’t wait. You can apply online at WJI.WORLD. Again, that’s WJI.WORLD.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: a classic tale of betrayal and revenge.

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of literature’s most enduring revenge stories and the story has captivated readers in the many decades since the 1800s.

Now, PBS brings a new adaptation to viewers in the form of an eight-episode miniseries.

WORLD reviewer Steve Limkeman now on whether PBS stays true to the source material.

STEVE LIMKEMAN: Alexandre Dumas’ 19th-century novel The Count of Monte Cristo is one of history’s most popular. It’s been adapted dozens of times across stages, airwaves and screens. PBS’ new 8-episode series is a fairly faithful representation of the classic tale of one man’s quest for justice in a world that has left him for dead.

DANTES: Bless me, father, for I have sinned. I fear I have forsaken God.

This adaptation boldly begins in media res, with viewers introduced to The Count of Monte Cristo with a torturous confession made by its titular character.

DANTES: I wish to avenge myself for a grave injury that befell me.

PRIEST: What was done to you, my son?

DANTES: I was robbed of 15 years of my life. The only woman I ever loved was taken from me in that time. And now I want revenge.

Edmond Dantés is a young sailor, betrayed on the eve of his wedding and branded a political traitor, exiled in the middle of the night to the notorious French island prison, the Chateau d’If. There, he’d spend 15 years in misery.

When he returns to society, he’s the mysteriously wealthy Count of Monte Cristo and he’s determined to seek revenge on those who stole the best years of his life.

DANTES: God cannot grant me justice nor providence, then surely I must achieve it by my own means.

PRIEST: Promise me in God's name and the name of his son that you will never do these things that you are contemplating. You must forgive, my son, for without forgiveness, you'll never find love again.

The PBS adaptation succeeds on many fronts. The production design is fantastic, from Dantès’ castle prison to the treasure hunt on the island of Monte Cristo to the illustrious opera house and mansions where the Count plots his vengeance. Jeremy Irons makes for an excellent, charismatic Abbé Faria. He lifts the despondent Dantès’ spirit and elevates his mind while he is imprisoned, teaching him to contemplate the glory of the treasure he may find upon his escape.

ABBE: When we get out of here, we are going to be very rich men. Both of us, very rich. And you will be living among other rich men. So, we're going to have to eat with very, very wealthy people. For that, you have to learn two things: you have to learn patience, 'cause these meals go on forever and ever and ever, and you're gonna have to learn table manners. So you put the napkin around your neck…

The chemistry between Dantès and his fiancée Mercédès suffers in comparison to the 2002 film adaptation. But the series makes up for it by asking all the right questions about who was responsible for Dantès’ fate and who should suffer the consequences. The Count of Monte Cristo exercises incredible fortitude and patience, suffering the friendship of those who had cast him aside so that he might better lead his foes into the traps they have set for themselves with their various misdeeds.

Fans of Dumas’ novel will be disappointed in the show’s departure from a Christian conception of providence. In the book, Monte Cristo sees himself as an avenging angel of God’s wrath, but one who also comes to realize the need to forgive others as he himself stands in need of forgiveness. In the show, Monte Cristo explicitly states that he does not believe in providence in the religious sense, but rather in an impersonal force of destiny that “will ensure justice.”

VILLEFORT: And if it doesn't?

DANTES: Well, then, mankind must force it to do so.

VILLEFORT: [Scoffs] You don’t believe God can take care of that?

DANTES: No.

When he’s questioned about how he could consider himself the instrument of such a force, he merely storms off without reply. True to form, there is no grace offered to any of the major perpetrators of injustice, and the finale’s vague nod toward the healing power of love is underwhelming.

DANTES: There was a priest, a wise old man. He said to me, "If you're planning revenge, dig your own grave first." He was right.

MERCEDES: Love can heal.

By contrast, the final words that Dumas penned for Monte Cristo reflect his hero’s ultimate submission to divine providence. He writes: “Never forget that, until the day comes when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!”

I’m Steve Limkeman.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Finally today: the enduring music and tumultuous life Three Dog Night singer Chuck Negron.

EICHER: In the late 60s and early 70s, Three Dog Night was one of the most popular rock-and-roll groups in the country. It had three lead vocalists, but Negron was the voice on the majority of its hits.

BROWN: Negron passed away last month at the age of 83. WORLD’s music critic Arsenio Orteza says by the time of his death, Negron had become as well-known for overcoming addiction as he had for his contributions to the soundtrack of a generation.

ARSENIO ORTEZA: Chuck Negron had an unhappy childhood. In 1946, when he was just four, his father walked out on him, his mom, and his sister, leaving Negron with a “feeling of abandonment” that “haunted him most of his life.” A year later, his mother found work as an oil-company secretary, and Negron and his sister became the “original latchkey kids.” He skipped a lot of school and fell behind academically. Eventually, his mother placed him full-time in a Bronx daycare. He called it a “child’s hell” and prayed to God for help, but no help seemed to come. He wrote that that moment was when he lost his faith.

When someone loses faith in something, he often places it in something else. For Negron, that “something else” was basketball, which he played well enough in high school to receive offers of college scholarships. While playing at a junior college in California, he discovered his second “something else”: music.

MUSIC: [“I Dream of an Angel” by Chuck Rondell with the Sorensen Brothers]

“I Dream of an Angel” was one of three songs that Negron, using the name “Chuck Rondell,” recorded with a combo called the Sorensen Brothers in 1963. A year later, he accepted a solo offer from Columbia Records.

MUSIC: [“All’s Fair in Love and War” by Chuck Rondell]

Columbia intended to groom him to be the next Johnny Mathis, a role Negron rejected. For a while, he vacillated between basketball and music. Then, at a Hollywood Hills party in 1965, he met another fledgling singer, Danny Hutton. Two years later, Hutton and Negron, joined by a third vocalist, Cory Wells, began recording under the name Redwood with none other than the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson producing.

MUSIC: [“Time to Get Alone” by Redwood]

“Time to Get Alone” was one of two songs that Wilson recorded with Redwood, a group he intended to sign to the Beach Boys’ Brother Records. The Beach Boys, however, wanted Wilson’s Redwood material for themselves. So, instead of signing with Brother Records, the trio signed with ABC’s Dunhill Records and became Three Dog Night. The group’s first single, “Nobody,” featured Wells on lead vocals and failed to break the Hot 100. Its second single, “Try a Little Tenderness,” cracked the top 30. But it was their third single, which featured Negron’s voice, that became a top-five hit and the group’s first million seller.

MUSIC: [“One” by Three Dog Night]

The group’s next single also went top five. Negron sang that one too.

MUSIC: [“Easy to Be Hard” by Three Dog Night]

The image of Negron as the lead singer of a group that was supposed to have three was beginning to form. Wells would eventually sing lead on eight of the band’s hits, one more than Negron. And a number of the hits found Wells, Negron, and Hutton sharing leads. But Negron sang lead on five of the band’s top 10s. And he sang lead on what became the group’s biggest and best-known hit of all.

MUSIC: [“Joy to the World” by Three Dog Night]

Billboard named “Joy to the World” the number-one record of 1971. But the no-holds-barred rock-and-roll lifestyle was taking a heavy toll on the band in general and Negron in particular. He’d already developed a fondness for cocaine and alcohol. And, at the band’s early-’70s peak, he started using heroin. In typical heroin-user fashion, he became a full-blown addict.

In his autobiography Three Dog Nightmare, he recounts in excruciating detail the years and the almost unimaginable amounts of money that he wasted nearly destroying himself. “At the peak of my addiction,” he wrote, “I spent $2000 a day on heroin and bought other drugs too.” He was in and out of over 30 rehab facilities, and at one point lived in a shack with a fellow addict, with whom he shared needles.

It took nearly two decades for Negron to get the help he needed. In 2017, he told Mike Huckabee that what made that rehab experience different was a visit from a fellow musician, who told him that he had no choice but to pray.

NEGRON: And I went in later that day—because I was kicking my drugs—and I got down on my knees and I prayed to die. “Please, just let me die. Or give me one minute's peace from this relentless withdrawal and sickness.” And I sat on a bed, and I woke up four hours later. I fell asleep—when there is no sleep. You do not sleep when your body is screaming, you know, for something to calm it down. And when I woke up, I knew that God had done for me what I could not do for myself, and the obsession was gone.

Negron had begun finding the faith that he’d lost as a child decades earlier in the daycare.

He spent the next 34 years rebuilding his life, his relationships, and his career. F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that “[t]here are no second acts in American lives.” Chuck Negron proved that, with prayer, sometimes there are.

MUSIC: [“The Show Must Go On” by Three Dog Night]

I’m Arsenio Orteza.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Alright, time now to thank the team who contributed to this week’s programs:

Mary Reichard, David Bahnsen, Emma Eicher, Abby Young, Cal Thomas, Hunter Baker, Onize Oduah, Mary Jackson, Bethel McGrew, Maria Baer, John Stonestreet, Steve Limkeman, and Arsenio Orteza.

Thanks also to our breaking news crew: Kent Covington, Steve Kloosterman, Travis Kircher, Daniel Devine, and Christina Grube.

And thanks to the Moonlight Maestros, serving up the program each week-day bright and early: Benj Eicher and Carl Peetz.

Harrison Watters is Washington producer, Kristen Flavin is features editor, Lindsay Mast is producer. 

I’m Executive Producer Nick Eicher.

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

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 book of Luke records Jesus saying to one of the Pharisees:

“Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.” —Luke 7:44-47

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord this weekend as you gather with your brothers and sisters in Christ in church.

And Lord willing, we’ll meet you right back here on Monday.

Go now in grace and peace.

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