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In our key verses (Romans 12:5-8), Paul lists seven spiritual gifts for the church of Rome. Paul doesn’t rank or delineate which gifts are of higher importance. We are all on the same team, and each gift serves a purpose, working together as the body of Christ.

Peyton Manning didn't hold back

Conservative NFL football watchers had their game ruined by a Kamala Harris ad claiming she'll cut taxes for the middle class, and Trump will raise them (with tariffs). Just like she'll cut the costs of everything. None of this matches the Biden-Harris record. One man tweeted in disgust at Harris-endorsing businessman Mark Cuban: "I just watched a Kamala ad in which she flat out said she will CUT taxes and Trump will RAISE them? Is this the kind of bald-faced lying that you support?" MRC Business associate editor Joseph Vazquez joins the show to take Bidenomics to the woodshed. Have you heard that Harris wants to tax "unrealized gains"? Profits that haven't happened yet? What could possibly go wrong? Joseph says he would love to see the debate moderators throw this at Kamala, although no one expects it. The new policy section of the Kamala campaign website promises, quote: “As President, she will fight to cut taxes for more than 100 million working and middle class Americans while lowering the costs of everyday needs like health care, housing, and groceries.” If you think she can lower the cost of everything, you must have slept through this presidency. Let's stipulate that tariffs can be categorized as indirect taxes -- tariff costs can be passed on to the consumer. The Tax Foundation says Trump levied in effect $80 billion in taxes in 2018 and 2019. They estimated the annual cost to taxpayers at $625, far below what Kamala's ads claim.  But the Tax Foundation also says "The Biden administration has kept most of the Trump administration tariffs in place, and in May 2024, announced tariff hikes on an additional $18 billion of Chinese goods, including semiconductors and electric vehicles, for an additional tax increase of $3.6 billion." So how does Kamala pose as the enemy of high tariffs now?  Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.   

The grave of an Alemannic man dating to the late 3rd or early 4th century A.D. has been unearthed in the village of Gerstetten, southern Germany. This is a rare find for the area, as very few early Alemannic graves have been discovered in the state of Baden-Württemberg, and previous graves were not as elaborate as this one. They were also in small groups of five to 12 burials, whereas so far this grave is the only one and in a very prominent location. Gerstetten is about 40 miles east of Stuttgart, which was founded in the 1st century as Cannstatt Castrum, a large Roman fort built to guard an important trade route and crossing on the Neckar river. The Upper Germanic Limes ran immediately east of Cannstatt at that time, but were moved 20 miles closer to Gerstetten in the middle of the 2nd century. That put the village about halfway between the large fort and civilian settlement at Cannstatt and the smaller fort of Castellum Guntia, modern-day Günzburg, on the Danube. The Alemanni invaded the area in 233 A.D., and the Limes fell around 260 A.D. The Alemanni tribe fully settled the area in the 5th century after Rome left for good. The Alemannic grave was discovered during a rescue excavation in Gerstetten’s historic center before construction of new affordable housing. The site was known to have been inhabited in antiquity, triggering a preventative archaeology survey, but no graves had been found there before. The deceased was a man of around 60 years old. The chamber grave was finely constructed out of wood (now decomposed) and contained high quality grave goods, including ceramic vessels, a fine-toothed comb and a glass beaker of exceptional quality comparable to one found at Guntia. The style of the ceramics indicate they were manufactured further north in what is today central Germany. The two ceramic vessels have been removed from the grave and transported to the State Office for Monument Preservation laboratory in nearby Esslingen where conservators have recomposed them from the broken fragments. The skeletal remains and other grave goods are being examined and documented by ArchaeoBW, the archaeological contractors who excavated the site, except for one rib which was sent to Mannheim for radiocarbon dating. The results indicate he was buried between 263 and 342 A.D.

As Twitchy reported over the weekend, Rep. Rashida Tlaib finally showed an interest in an American killed in Gaza when Turkish-American Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was reportedly shot by IDF forces after she had…

Two warnings apply to the video at the heart of this post:First, its content is NSFW. We think most people will laugh at the tongue-in-cheek reference to a  risqué comment by Trump, but some…

A new ad from the Kamala Harris campaign features former Vice President Mike Pence. In the new ad, the Kamala Harris campaign clipped a video of Pence calling out President Trump. In the ad, Pence says,…

Yesterday, we brought you a story about Haitian migrants invading and harassing the small town of Springfield, OH, where residents are fed up with the situation. Reportedly, the migrants have been snatching…