Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to push north into Lebanon in the face of Tuesday's Iranian missile barrage and frontline casualties. Despite complaints from the Biden administration, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet appear determined to destroy Hezbollah's military capabilities.

<p>About 2 and a half years ago, Russia launched a full-on invasion into Ukraine. Countless lives have been lost, families separated, cities destroyed, and many are wondering if the war will ever end. Host Joseph Backholm is joined again by Gennadiy Mokhnenko, a Christian pastor actively preaching in Russian-occupied Ukraine, for an update of what life and ministry is like in a war zone. Pastor Gennadiy serves as a leader of battalion chaplains at the front lines. He describes how the war has impacted families (his included), what he believes to be Russia&rsquo;s &ldquo;end game&rdquo;, and confirms that Ukrainian children are being taken and brought back to Russia. The Ukrainian people are paying a large cost for freedom, but Pastor Gennadiy believes it is worth it to one day see a free Ukraine. Listen now to hear this special update and how you can be praying for the people of Ukraine.</p>
<p>Resources</p>
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<li><a href="https://washingtonstand.com/podcast/ep-65-life-in-occupied-ukraine--one-pastors-story-of-encouragement">Ep. 65: Life In Occupied Ukraine - One Pastor's Story Of Encouragement</a></li>
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About 2 and a half years ago, Russia launched a full-on invasion into Ukraine. Countless lives have been lost, families separated, cities destroyed, and many are wondering if the war will ever end. Host Joseph Backholm is joined again by Gennadiy Mokhnenko, a Christian pastor actively preaching in Russian-occupied Ukraine, for an update of what life and ministry is like in a war zone. Pastor Gennadiy serves as a leader of battalion chaplains at the front lines. He describes how the war has impacted families (his included), what he believes to be Russia's "end game", and confirms that Ukrainian children are being taken and brought back to Russia. The Ukrainian people are paying a large cost for freedom, but Pastor Gennadiy believes it is worth it to one day see a free Ukraine. Listen now to hear this special update and how you can be praying for the people of Ukraine.

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Too often those who speak truth lack the kindness that helps it be heard. Truth accompanied with kindness doesn't diminish truth. Truth accompanied with kindness enhances truth and brings out its flavor because kindness flows directly from truth.

To properly understand how completely Tim Walz failed in Tuesday's vice presidential debate with J.D. Vance, it is vital to understand the full extent of the job Democrats tasked him to do. The campaign hoped Walz would appeal to Midwesterners, "white dudes" for Harris, and - in a surprise twist - to Christian voters. How else can one explain Walz's misuse of the Gospel of St. Matthew in favor of the Harris-Walz campaign's illegal immigration policy?

Even while comporting himself with Trump's national neutrality policy on abortion during Tuesday's vice presidential debate, J.D. Vance made a few important distinctions that deserve the notice, and praise, of the pro-life movement.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is attempting to remake religious belief in its own image, according to a new report. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) published a report last week addressing the "sinicization of religion" policy enforced by the CCP, which includes mass arrests and the removal of religious imagery from churches.

A recent survey of 2,000 American adults found that a feeling called the "Sunday Scaries" is disturbingly common, afflicting "the average American" 36 times per year (out of 52 weeks in total). According to the survey, conducted by Talker Research in partnership with Pacific Foods, this "anxiety (32%) or dread (17%) over what to expect for the following week" begins at 3:54 p.m., on average. In answer to this stressed, fearful, anxious fact of our culture, Scripture blows a refreshing gust of biblical wisdom: it doesn't have to be this way.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz suffered what critics say was a "disastrous" performance during his only face-to-face showdown with Republican J.D. Vance before the 2024 presidential election, referring to himself as a "knucklehead" who has "become friends with school shooters." Walz also repeatedly promoted misinformation about the impact of state pro-life protections, calling abortion a "basic human right."

While I may not be a sports fan, I am a fan of courage and conviction. That's why I admire Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker - not for his performance on the field, but for his actions off it. And according to NFL gear sales, I'm not the only one.

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The mainstream media has been running cover for the pro-abortion presidential campaign run by Vice President Kamala Harris, allowing the candidate's false assertions to go mostly unchallenged in her race to the White House. But while ABC News may have refused to fact-check Harris's presidential debate arguments, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with The Washington Post is fact-checking the vice president's lies about abortion.

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More than any time in history, the Democratic Party has spent the last eight years warning that politics runs the risk of being contaminated by the foul specter of "misinformation and disinformation." Anyone conversant with politics knows "misinformation and disinformation" have long been synonymous with political campaigns from candidates of all backgrounds, but the Harris-Walz campaign wants to criminalize political differences. Here are nine examples of the campaign engaging in spreading misinformation and disinformation.

Nearly two weeks ago, the simultaneous explosion of Hezbollah's pagers triggered an aggressive, Israeli campaign to degrade the Islamist militia's military capabilities. The unprecedented attack has provoked varying strong responses. For Joseph Backholm, Family Research Council's senior fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement, the attack was "one of the coolest warfare things we've ever seen." He revealed his secret inner thoughts on the matter on Friday. "For all of us who just, like, wanted to be the international man of mystery and do covert things to destroy the bad guys, we're like, 'This is the best thing we've ever seen in our lives.'"

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