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  • A sermon on Matthew 14:22-33

    Jesus not only walked on the water to save his disciples, but he walked on the dirty road to Golgotha to save us all. I believe Jesus fell three times because He was running to Golgotha to accomplish His Father's will and bring us home. 
  • Administration needs to stop sending mixed messages on energy production 
    The administration needs to stop sending mixed messages about energy production. One week they are asking U.S. companies for more supply and the next they are raising rates and fees to produce oil and natural gas. The administration should incentivize – not discourage – new energy production.
  • Neither Biden nor Trump are up to the country’s challenges
    But for the fact that the presidential election is still 15 months away, the widespread unhappiness with the prospect of a Trump-Biden rematch hasn’t yet turned into a full-blown panic. Assuming that those two do become the major party candidates, it will.
  • How my opinion of Guatemala has changed in 11 years
    We just returned from our annual mission construction trip to Guatemala. Well, it was annual up until 2019, then we skipped three years due to COVID. It sure felt good to go back.
  • Charges against Trump hinge on what he believed and when
    Not included in the 45-page document? A smoking gun, according to Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law professor emeritus. “They seem to have lots of people who are prepared to testify – who will testify – that Donald Trump actually believed that the election was stolen. He was wrong. He was dead wrong. But the Supreme Court of the United States has held repeatedly that there's no such thing as a false opinion under the First Amendment,” Dershowitz told the Hill Rising. 
  • Shop toad
    It was one of those summer days that was true to the forecast, hot and humid and not conducive to working outside. When thunder was not thundering off in the distance, it was thundering right overhead, and rain was pouring down from a dark gray sky. 
  • Old hooks
    I simply use my hook to peel off a layer of hay from a round bale, but no matter the difference, every single time I feel the worn wooden handle fit comfortably into the palm of my hand, I smile to know that I really am my father’s daughter.
  • Help veterans learn of new benefit eligibility
    Veterans and survivors must file a claim before Aug. 9 to be eligible for retroactive compensation. Post-9/11 combat veterans discharged more than 10 years ago and not enrolled in VA health care must enroll by Oct. 1 to avoid a phased-in enrollment.
  • Ensuring farmers have a seat at the table
    Part of what makes Missouri agriculture so special is that 97% of our farmland is family owned. And with 2/3 of our state’s makeup being farmland, Missourians are continuing their family legacies all across our state.
  • Border crisis creates national security threat for U.S., observers say
    The number of terror suspects captured trying to enter the U.S. illegally has soared since President Joe Biden took office. With more than 1 million unidentified foreign nationals evading apprehension after entering the U.S., the potential that at least some are on the international terrorist watch list poses a potential major threat to national security and raises the chances of terror attacks, observers warn.
  • Cracking down on Wall Street-backed investors driving up home prices
    In too many communities in Ohio, big outside investors funded by Wall Street are buying up homes that could have gone to first-time homebuyers. It’s driving up prices and it’s making it even harder for Ohioans to buy a house – especially for young families buying their first home.
  • Ramaswamy donor memo: ‘Vivek on track to eclipse DeSantis’
    Ramaswamy qualified last week for the first Republican presidential debate, and he has consistently polled in third place in the RealClearPolitics average ahead of more established candidates such as former Vice President Mike Pence and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.
  • Fighting back against attacks on hunters, anglers
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced a rule to ban cost-effective lead ammunition and tackle in eight national wildlife refuges. This is arguably a broad attack on hunting and fishing. The USFWS rule, which lacks scientific backing, increases costs for sportsmen and women for traditional ammo and tackle that would otherwise be cost-effective.
  • It is critical that we vote 'Yes' on Issue 1
    Liberal, progressive, anti-gun Democrats will use a no vote on Issue 1 to take away your right to self-defense. They will take away your guns. This is not an accusation. It is a fact. How do we know?  Because they said so.
  • Sunset of Trump tax cuts will darken the economy
    If Congress does absolutely nothing – which is what Congress is best at doing – then pretty much every American will soon be paying higher taxes. Rich or poor, your tax bill is going up – and economic growth will decrease – when the non-permanent provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 expire at the end of 2025.
  • The strange death of Warren G. Harding
    Real Clear Wire It was 100 years ago this week – Aug. 2, 1923 – when President Warren G. Harding suddenly died. He was in San Francisco, on the tail end of a cross-country promotional tour that had taken him as far as Alaska. It would have been an exhausting trip even for a younger man without a bum ticker. Then Harding contracted pneumonia along the way and, if that wasn’t enough, was laid low by some tainted seafood.
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