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Today's top stories for you.

1. Iran Shuts Nuclear Sites

2. DAY 2: Alvin Bragg Asks Judge to Hold Trump in Contempt of Court... Threatens Jail Time

3. NPR Suspends Veteran Editor Who Called Out Network’s Left-Wing Bias

4. California Moves to Create Genealogy Office for Reparations Eligibility

5. Madison Cawthorn Crashes Car Into Florida State Trooper

6. Justice Thomas Returns to Supreme Court After 1-Day Absence

7. Atlantic City Mayor and His Wife Are Charged with Abusing 16-Year-Old Daughter

8. Vegeterian Blogger Jailed for Starving His Newborn Son to Death

✝️ Today's Verse for You

From [Christ] the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. —Ephesians 4:16

My thoughts on today’s verse

Ephesians and Colossians emphasize that no human being, or even a group of human beings, is the head of the Church. Jesus alone is the head of the Church. He sets our direction. He is our example. Christ is our goal for ministry and maturity (Colossians 1:28-29). Jesus also gifts people in his Church and arranges us in his Body as he chooses, giving us gifts he wants us to use to bless each other and honor God. Christ holds us together, enabling us to serve effectively as his presence in the world as each of us uses our gifts. So, let's set our hearts on Jesus. Let's use his life and love to inspire us. Let's look back on Jesus' earthly ministry to remind us how had whom we should serve. Let's give Jesus our allegiance and loyalty as the Christ, who alone is the head of his Body, the Church. Let's let him lead!

My prayer

Righteous Father, thank you for Jesus. Thank you for his example, service, obedience, love, and sacrifice. Thank you for his resurrection, exaltation, power, and presence today in your Church and in my life. Father, please use me and my brothers and sisters in Christ with me to do his work in our world and share your grace with all who are lost. In the name of the Lord Jesus, I pray. Amen.

⏱ This Day in History

Harriet Quimby's flight across the English Channel

On this day in 1912, American aviator Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel, guiding her French Blériot monoplane through heavy overcast from Dover, England, to Hardelot, France.

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