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The #MarsHelicopter’s success today marks its 1-mile total distance flown. It targeted an area called "Raised Ridges." This is the most complex flight yet w/ 10 distinct waypoints and a record height of 40 ft (12 m). Its scouting is aiding @NASAPersevere . http://go.nasa.gov/3dci8jEhttps://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1419152522757894147Goals for Flight 10:STATUS UPDATES | July 23, 2021 Aerial Scouting of ‘Raised Ridges’ for Ingenuity’s Flight 10https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/316/aerial-scouting-of-raised-ridges-for-ingenuitys-flight-10/

Assurance Versus Security Security When we trust in Jesus Christ, our eternal security in Christ becomes a spiritual reality whether we understand it or believe it. Ones belief in security in Christ does not make it true or false. If we have trusted in the person and work of Christ for personal salvation, security is a fact.Assurance Assurance is the confident realization of that security. It is the realization of what we have in Christ such as eternal life, forgiveness of sin, and being the object of God’s personal care as his children. Assurance has to do with our...

Yankees fans are human, after all. They appreciate a job well done. But woe to that third-baseman who falls short -- perhaps way short, in fans' eyes -- of expectations. Aren't you glad that God's not human? Alex Rodriguez is finally gettin' some love from Yankees fans. He should be. The $252 million man was leading the American League in home runs, RBIs and was second in batting through April 25. He's been far and away the most dominating player in the season's first month. Here's what some folks are saying about him: "A-Rod is having an April for the...

December 7th, 1941, a date that will live in infamy. Why did it happen? What was Japan's logic behind the sneak attack? What was the logic behind the U.S.'s demands for unconditional surrender in 1945? Answering these questions isn't just a dry exercise in trivial history. They carry an important lesson that most people are unaware of. First of all the Japanese military was under no illusion that they could defeat the United States military. They knew that the United States had the resources to defeat them. So why on Earth would Japan attack someone whom they knew could kick...

The Lord's Work What men want in doing the Lord's work is (1) Courage, (2) Enthusiasm, (3) Perseverance, (4) Sympathy. 1. Courage. - The man who is afraid, who holds down his head like a bulrush, is not the worker whom God will bless; but God gives courage to him whom He means to use. I have been all along with young men, and a great portion of my work these fifteen years has been among them, and I find that they generally fail for want of courage. There is any quantity of young men in Edinburgh just now...

Should You Stay in the Mainline? The Confessing Theologians Commission, a group of prominent theologians from most all of the mainline Protestant denominations in North America, met in Dallas, Texas, September 20-22. The commission gathered at the invitation of Dr. Thomas Oden of Drew University School of Theology, who called the group together under the auspices of the Association for Church Renewal (ACR). The ACR is an association representing the leadership of numerous confessing and renewing movements that have come into existence in most all of the mainline Protestant denominations in North America.“This team represents what we think are...

First we mourn, then we persevere, honoring the spirit of the U.S. troops who perished and were wounded yesterday in the most lethal attacks since organized combat was declared over in Iraq. These fine young Americans were engaged in service of a noble cause that is everyday becoming more vital to a secure future. It is terrible to imagine them shaken from reveries of well-deserved rest and relaxation and plummeting in a wounded transport helicopter, their blood spilled on soil to which they owed no allegiance. Such is too often the calling of the U.S. soldiers who have accepted the...

[IF] If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And...

(OMED: Brad loves old motorcycles. See his article on this subject. This summer he took a brief sabbatical from his job in the electronics industry and headed for the track to experience competition. This is the letter he sent about it.)Took the bike to practice night at Castle Rock, Friday evening. She ran great, got lots of compliments on it -- many of the racers have heard of BSA but had never actually seen one on the track. I wasn't expecting so much attention over the bike and became slightly overwhelmed, so consequently was reduced to mumbling "thanks" and not...

OP-Ed PageTCRNews.com ________________________________ ________________________________ Lux Mundi! A Word to the Scoffers, Secularists & the Discouraged By Martin de St. Jerome I am a Catholic – without sadness, without shame, and without any of that silly “Catholic guilt” I hear about. The Catholic Church needs no human defense, for the light streaming from God on high is sufficient to enlighten every man coming into this world concerning the truth. Nonetheless, because men in these days have freely chosen blindness, because they have freely chosen to harden their hearts, and because their attacks upon the truth display the most vitriolic contempt,...