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In Trump's shadow, Vance becomes face of Iran deal - BBC News

In Trump's shadow, Vance becomes face of Iran deal - BBC News

Parents of Serbia's teenage school shooter given jail terms in retrial - BBC News

Parents of Serbia's teenage school shooter given jail terms in retrial - BBC News

M 6.6 - 133 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

M 6.6 - 133 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

Thousands killed in US-Israeli war on Iran - but experts say true total may never be known - BBC News

Thousands killed in US-Israeli war on Iran - but experts say true total may never be known - BBC News

Daily Encounter: Nothing Goes Unnoticed for Thursday, June 18, 2026

Daily Encounter: Nothing Goes Unnoticed for Thursday, June 18, 2026

Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: June 18th

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: June 18th Morning “The Strength of Israel will not lie.” 2 Kings 7:1-17 Some time after the cure of Naaman, the king of Syria besieged Samaria and reduced the people to such famine that mothers ate their own children. At last Elisha was permitted to assure the miserable people of deliverance. 2 Kings 7:2 He was profane as well as unbelieving. This sarcasm was a specimen of his usual sneers at the Lord and his prophet. 2 Kings 7:6 , 2 Kings 7:7 If the Lord wills it, the most valiant foes of his church will run away like frightened hares. Why should we fear those who so soon become afraid of themselves? 2 Kings 7:8-13 God’s promise was forgotten or smothered in its effect by their fears; however they did well to send and see. Some will not take the trouble even to look when a blessing is given, they feel so certain that it cannot be possible. 2 Kings 7:14-16 God’s word was fulfilled to the penny and to the hour. 2 King...

Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for June 18

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for June 18 Tozer in the Morning Choosing Light God has given us a broad world of truth for our spiritual and intellectual habitation. This universe of truth is to the human soul as limitless as the air to a bird or the sea to a fish. There the Christian mind can luxuriate at perfect liberty. While the ages unfold the believer will need no more than has been already given, for it represents the broad and manifold will of God, the happy home of saints and angels. This vast sea of truth is expressed in nature, in the Holy Scriptures and in Christ, the Wisdom of God incarnate. Its rational phase can be reduced to a creed which may be learned as one would learn any other truth, and which when so learned constitutes Christian orthodoxy, best and most perfectly embodied in the beliefs of modern evangelical Christianity. But we must also remember that orthodoxy is not synonymous with Procrustean uniformity. We may bring every thought into ac...

Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for June 18

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for June 18 “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down” (Nehemiah 6:3) When work is pressing there are many little things that will come and seem to need attention. Then it is a very blessed thing to be quiet and still, and work on, and trust the little things with God. He answers such trust in a wonderful way. If the soul has no time to fret and worry and harbor care, it has learned the secret of faith in God. A desperate desire to get some difficulty right takes the eye off of God and His glory. Some dear ones have been so anxious to get well, and have spent so much time in trying to claim it, that they have lost their spiritual blessing. God sometimes has to teach such souls that there must be a willingness to be sick before they are so thoroughly yielded as to receive His fullest blessing. The enemy often keeps at this work. Sanballat came four times to Nehemiah and received always the same answer. It is best to stick to a good answ...

Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for June 18

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for June 18 “God Himself Shall Work ”  - Isaiah 33:10 When the spoilers had made the land as waste as if devoured by locusts, and the warriors who had defended the country sat down and wept like women, then the LORD came to the rescue. When travelers ceased from the roads to Zion, and Bashan and Carmel were as vineyards from which the fruit has failed, then the LORD arose. God is exalted in the midst of an afflicted people, for they seek His face and trust Him. He is still more exalted when in answer to their cries He lifts up Himself to deliver them and overthrow their enemies.  Is it a day of sorrow with us? Let us expect to see the LORD glorified in our deliverance. Are we drawn out in fervent prayer? Do we cry day and night unto Him? Then the set time for His grace is near. God will lift up Himself at the right season. He will arise when it will be most for the display of His glory. We wish for His glory more than...

Worthy Brief - June 18, 2026

 Worthy Brief - June 18, 2026 You are being transformed from glory to glory! 2 Corinthians 3:11-18  For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious. 12 Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech—  13 unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. 14  But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. 15  But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. 16 Nevertheless, when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.  17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.  Th...