Digital tools have completely revolutionized online commerce, mostly for the better. Gone are the days of one-size-fits-all product offerings and static storefronts. Modern online businesses thrive by responding to customer needs at an individual level. Using massive databases of historical browsing and shopping data, companies construct detailed consumer profiles, which they then deploy to create online shopping experiences tailored to...

　　“Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Psalm 23:6 (NIV) 　　God is in relentless pursuit of your heart.Whether or not you feel loved in this season, you are. Love is who He is. 　　God’s love is active as the waterfall, crashing against...

　　Crosswalk Couples Devotionals: Is Marriage Counseling Worth It? 　　By: Vivian Bricker 　　Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.(Proverbs 15:22) 　　Once a couple is married, they might hear many friends and family members tell them about marriage counseling. While many people believe marriage counseling is only when your marriage is struggling, marriage counseling can be helpful...

　　4 Questions to Ask When Listening for God's Voice 　　By Cara Joyner 　　“Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,’ declares the LORD.’” – Jeremiah 29:12-13. 　　One of the...

　　Saturday, February 8, 2025 　　Words Will Never Hurt Me 　　“In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire.” (James 3:5 NLT) 　　Have you ever seen a roast? I’m talking about the comedy performance, not the cut of beef. A roast is when several comedians...

　　Fill Your Prescription 　　This devotional was written by Jim Liebelt 　　Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will. —Romans 12:2 　　One day, after not feeling well for some...

　　America seems to be buffeted by a host of existential crises. For starters, there is the (always) looming specter of climate change, the dramatic loss of an industrial base and uncertain transition to a digital economy, mass migration prompted by warfare and failed states, a dismal demographic forecast, and renewed racial unrest wrought by identity politics. Small wonder that we...

　　How to Endure the Worst of Trials 　　By Kelly Balarie 　　Bible Reading: 　　“Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.” – 1 Timothy 6:12 NIV 　　Have you ever noticed that, as a culture, we glorify mountaintop moments but...

　　The Sherman Act (1890) declares “every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states, or with foreign nations” (15 U.S.C. §1; emphasis added) to be illegal. The statute’s adoption of “restraint of trade” language has misled some commentators—even brilliant ones like the late Harold Demsetz—into thinking that the Sherman...

　　For some time, public debate in the United States has questioned whether import tariffs are effective economic policy instruments. Can tariffs address trade imbalances and encourage domestic manufacturing? Is protection the key to securing prosperity? 　　Tariffs have historically played this role in the United States. As the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton implemented high tariffs to protect American...

　　At least since Edmund Burke, the right has looked askance at mixing mathematics and politics. The French revolutionaries and philosophes, with their elegantly geometric counties and their 10-hour days and their Year Zeroes, were trying to squeeze the unruly contours of human nature into their godlessly oversimplified concepts. But out of the crooked timber of humanity, many conservatives insist, nothing...

　　What Happens When a Husband Leads His Wife in Prayer 　　By Gina Smith 　　“I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me.” - Psalm 77:1 　　There’s something comforting that happens when my husband prays. Our prayers together often begin after the lights have gone out at the end of the day, right before we fall asleep....