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The White House has banned reporters from CNN, MS Now, and Politico from accessing White House grounds or participating in White House press events. In response, the White House TV pool, which is composed of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC is boycotting coverage of the White House and the president during the ban. The three banned outlets have filed a lawsuit seeking to be reinstated on First Amendment grounds. President Trump responded that it was not a restriction of a free press but rather a crackdown on fake news.

Any, and all of these things will pull you out of step with God and His will. These things can often creep in unnoticed, or maybe unwilling to confront in yourself. Do you a community around you? One that can help you see the things that you are hiding from yourself? Do you have friend that can challenge you on anything you are thinking? You need them. God made you for community. A community that knows it is just as messed up as you. Walk through life together and see how you can be pointed towards Jesus.

The U.S., Greenland, and Denmark have a deal, but it is not the long-discussed U.S. acquisition of Greenland. Instead, the three countries signed a deal to afford the U.S. expanded military presence in the country and reaffirm Greenland’s status as a self-determined territory of Denmark. Perhaps most significant is the agreement that no non-NATO military base will be permitted in Greenland. The leaders of the three countries signed the deal during meetings at the United Nations, and Denmark and Greenland will need to ratify it before it can take effect.

Jesus came to your rescue not just to give you life. He came to give you life to the full!

A few weeks ago, the Pacific Justice Institute, along with the Alliance Defending Freedom, filed an urgently important petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. This petition raises the following question before the U. S. Supreme Court: Can Olympus Spa, a Christian, family-run Korean bathhouse that provides an intimate environment exclusively for women and girls, be required to admit a male who identifies as a woman?

Election Day is less than seven weeks away, and Republicans held a “Midterm Convention” in Dallas last week to make their pitch to voters. President Donald Trump headlined the event, and party leaders hope it will help buck the historical trend of midterms cutting against the party in power. Democrats, on the other hand, hope to take control of both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House, as well as build momentum for the presidential election in 2028.

One cannot approach the doctrine of justification without first recognizing that mankind is sinful. That sinfulness means that the holy law of God has been, is being, and will continue to be transgressed by mankind. These transgressions leave man in need of justification before the Lord.

It was 25 years ago last Friday that planes were deliberately crashed into the two World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC, and another went down in rural Pennsylvania after passengers fought back against hijackers. Memorials were held at Ground Zero and many other locations, and the promise was again renewed to “never forget.”

It is rare for an industry to ask to be regulated, but the CEOs of two major Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies have done just that. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman are citing public safety and a pace of progress that exceeds human ability to guide it as the reasons for guardrails. Amodei penned an article detailing his recommendations and OpenAI put its initial public offering (IPO) on hold. Both companies suggested third-party auditors and global standards for advances in the technology.

In 2023, the FBI’s Richmond Field Office during the Biden Administration issued an internal assessment titled “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities.” The assessment claimed, largely without credible evidence, that white supremacists and other domestic extremists were increasingly attempting to co-opt or infiltrate “radical-traditionalist Catholic” communities. Properly appreciated, this document is inconsistent with the First Amendment right of all Americans—Catholics included—to freely exercise their religion, without government interference.

Giggles are so good. Truly, they are terrific and good for the soul. You should giggle today.

The joy of Lord is even better! If you root yourself in the strength of God’s Word, you just might laugh more than 20 times a day. But no matter the number of laughs, the joy of God’s Word will prove strong enough to support the work He has assigned you.

Being dad is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. It is entirely possible that you truest calling in life from God is to be a husband and to be a father. Any man can father a child, but a real man learns to be dad.

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, recently returned to the United Kingdom from the United States, where they had been living for the last six years, but King Charles has made it clear in a letter sent to government officials that they will remain non-working members of the royal family.

Five people were killed and at least five injured when an Amazon plane careened approximately 1,300 feet past the end of the runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday. The deceased were travelling in a van owned by an airport cleaning company and a separate SUV that was outside airport boundaries. Officials are still investigating the cause of the crash.

After six weeks of trial (which were preceded by a week of jury selection) and another week of jury deliberations, the presiding judge has declared a mistrial in the case against Lindsay Clancy.

Yes, God designed you to be free. But Christ’s love “compels you” to live not constraint-free, but rather “for him who died for them and was raised again” (2 Cor. 5:14).

Be bold and throw off the hindrance of sin that ensnares you! (Heb. 12:1) But in doing so, be careful to yield to the God-given constraints that graciously cover your brokenness. In this, you will “run in such a way as to get the prize” (1 Cor. 9:24).

Matthew 7:15-20 reminds us to distinguish good from bad according to the “fruit” produced. In other words, is the result nourishing or poisonous? In this instance, even amid great advances, there is a mountain of bad fruit. That reality should be instructive to Jesus followers as we regularly recalibrate our relationship with technology and especially the companies who design and market it to us.

Communication is the vital foundation to pretty much every positive relationship you have. It is especially important in your marital relationship and the crux of communication is learning to listen well to each other. But, like all aspects of life there are barriers that we allow to fester in our in behaviors that will impact our ability to listen well.

What will exist or be more fruitful in 100 years because of what you do today? If this is a difficult concept for you to grasp, start by thinking about the blessings you enjoy that exist because of those who lived a century ago. What does their forethought inspire in you? How can you emulate that today in a way that will be similarly reflected on long after your time on Earth has passed?

So much of our daily stress and effort is aimed at things that will not last. A story like this, sobering and tragic as it is, can be a stark reminder to vest your energy in that which will not be stolen by a thief in the night.

My friends, the fractures in our world and our culture are real. The gaps and the vulnerabilities are significant, and the proposed remedies and solutions are many! But so much of what is espoused is simply whitewash that will not stand when the testing comes. This week, as we consider a world of upheaval and tumult, let us take honest stock of our own lives.

Former U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell had his electronic devices seized and his home searched by federal agents over the weekend as part of an ongoing investigation of alleged sexual assault. The former Congressman resigned from Congress in April of this year after allegations intensified, and he ended a once-promising bid to be the next Governor of California. Federal authorities must now decide whether to bring charges against Swalwell.

Getting out of the slump takes some effort and work. It starts with acknowledging, maybe only to yourself at first, that you are in one. Bring it into the light. From there, here are steps you can take to get out of the slump.

How are you stewarding that which God has entrusted to you? What is your family’s debt-to-GDP, per se? Since we know our hearts follow our treasure, what does your spending allocation say about your heart’s condition?

Canada is the second largest trading partner for the U.S., making up approximately 13% of U.S. trade, and the U.S. is by far the largest trading partner for Canada, accounting for approximately 76% of all Canadian trade. The sheer size of this economic activity is likely to mean consumers feel the price pressure of these tariffs sooner and more significantly than has been the case for recent trade negotiations.

For the students in The Equipped family, the start of the school year is a fresh opportunity for choosing. Who will you be? Who will your teachers see? Will you set the tone for your peers even when it is undesirable, or will you set the example by demonstrating what it looks like to go first? Will you wait to see what they choose, or will you step forward and demonstrate your choice in order that they might follow?

When sin entered the world, perfect intimacy was lost. Adam and Eve were naked, but now they felt shame, fear, regret. They hid themselves because their intimacy had been destroyed. This battle is still faced each day in your marriage. There are a number of intimacy killers in your marriage today. Let’s take a look at some of them.

As we pray for the troops and their families, let us live in the light of John 15:12-13: “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” A decision to serve and be subject to a deployment like this one is a decision to put another’s life ahead of your own. It is an act of great love, and it is one way to emulate the love of Jesus. As we lift up in prayer those who are serving, let us also look for ways that we too can model the sacrificial love of Jesus!