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Bipolar disorder is more than just mood swings; it's day's possible weeks of extreme energy and impulsiveness, followed by days and even weeks of total loss of energy and pleasure and care for others. Daily Devotion - Psalm 43

Gary Habermas is a world - famous defender of the Christian faith. He came up with the famous "Five Facts of the Resurrection," to defend the factualness of Easter. Later in his life, he realized people wouldn't believe his fact-based approach to Jesus. He found that most doubt -about 70%- isn't actually logic or fact based, but emotion based. Daily Devotion - Psalm 42

Taylor Swift is officially the first musician to be a billionaire based on her music alone, Forbes just announced. Other musicians, like Jay-Z and Rihanna, have net worths of over a billion, but a large portion of that comes from their clothing companies, nightclub businesses, and stock purchases over their music. Daily Devotion - Psalm 41

Every day, 0.33 Zettabytes are put on the internet. You might think "one third of a zettabyte? I don't know what that is, but that doesn't seem like all that much." A Single zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes of data. This video is about a gigabyte of data. So the equivalent of 328 Billion of these videos are put on the internet every single day. Daily Devotion - Psalm 40

Life2Vec is an artificial intelligence designed to predict when you'll die. It "reads" the series of events that make up your life like a book and predicts the end. The program currently has 78% accuracy, according to the designers of the AI. Daily Devotion - Psalm 39

10 years ago Sophie was a size zero fanatic gaining thousands of followers and ten of thousands of dollars with her workouts, fitness, and nutrition. If you google her she is an incredible shape and was promoted as such she was on of the first to influence gym culture. She said she did it all for validation -I am powerful. I am in control. Look at me!!! Daily Devotion - Psalm 38

Have you noticed the communication problems between generations -old people don't know how to text, young people don't respond to voicemails, people in general are on their phones more than ever and yet much worse at communication- why is technology hurting our communication? Have you ever found ignoring a problem to make things get better? Daily Devotion - Psalm 37

Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce, donated millions against capitalism and wants you to donate too. For him, the gospel is not being saved from sins, the gospel is saving the world from capitalism, which he does profit pretty well off of. please listen, I'm not advocating for no care, nothing. I'm saying if your gospel is only as good as politicians celebrities and CEOs follow, there is no gospel. Daily Devotion - Psalm 36

That's why tragedy and comedy masks are so close together. We laugh at misfortune -we make jokes to get through our pain. He's responding to our culture that is critical of humor- you can't make jokes anymore, this will help us heal from our mental health issues. Howie is honest about his OCD and ADHD and his struggles and fear and for him humor helps. Daily Devotion - Psalm 35

Since 2020 sports league have overwhelmingly embraced gambling to prop up income last from 2020 and 2021 and increase, in their view, audience participation. Is sports gambling a innocent pastime to be regulated, or rife with corruption among the highest sports athletes? Revenue on betting has increased to 10 billion last year and only expanded higher. Daily Devotion - Psalm 34

Fast food restaurants getting you on average to order 10% more food - not with flashy billboards or promotions - but kiosks. Not only saving on labor but these kiosks with pictures and animations and promotions - we tend to say yes to more fast food and so companies are installing more kiosks replacing labor with technology because we can't say no. Daily Devotion - Psalm 33

Nate from the New York Times wants Kiss - the power, the get out of your seat and jam - and he likes to commune with classic rock driving around LA and enjoying life. I remember working at a paper mill in college where around 4am every night the old guys would turn on AC/DC and Tom Petty as loud as they possible could and air guitars and yelling and silliness. Daily Devotion - Psalm 32

Koraya has scheduled her death next month leaving behind her live-in boyfriend, 2 cats, and happy home in the Netherlands because of her mental health. She is scared about the future - what if there is an eternity? Hell or Heaven? What if she is ending her life against God's wishes? Daily Devotion - Psalm 31

5 years ago he was releasing Gospel albums and after nearly dying in a car wreck. Then he needed Jesus. Now he says he and Jesus have problems because he is praying and Jesus isn't answering. If you've ever thought like Kanye, Listen to this. Truly listen. Daily Devotion - Psalm 30

Have you heard of this? Tech can take the dead persons picture, audio and video and create an AI ghost that looks and sounds like the dead person. Should members create an AI ghost at a funeral, or let people go? What if people begin worshipping the dead relative in AI form, and AI uses it to control us? Daily Devotion - Psalm 29

All that plastic you sorted didn't get recycled, it got dumped overseas or in different places. If you felt better about your spending, you would spend, and the growth of single-use plastics has exploded since the 60s. Daily Devotion - Psalm 28

At the Super Bowl this image went viral of Taylor chugging a beer while her friend Ice Spice made Satanic hand signals and an upside-down cross. Satanism is growing more comfortable with our culture after various shows and celebrities celebrate it and for the sweet Taylor Swift here is your friend for signals worshipping Satan. Daily Devotion - Psalm 27

Companies are making big bucks taking big risks on chatbot world as people are lonelier than ever. Turns out these apps are stealing your data according to Mozilla, using your what-feel-like private conversations to find out what to sell to you. Daily Devotion - Psalm 26

You see all the smiles in the background of this picture? Bats have been a problem at Spurs games for years and with Manu Ginobli retired the mascot has stepped up to catch bats after so many people have failed. Daily Devotion - Psalm 25

Paulina of Bloomberg is detailing how 20 somethings spent THOUSANDS on a vintage handbag. Salespeople are figuring this out, too, as customers who don't seem to have the disposable income for these products are showing up and buying simply because it is shopping comfort. Daily Devotion - Psalm 24

Profiled in the Atlantic, Bryan is a 40 year old man with the health numbers of a teenager -according to his research- and he believes technology provides the new immortal fountain of youth. His "Don't Die" Army is responding to AI which will take over the world and make us useless. We can retain our use if we live forever, like AI. Daily Devotion - Psalm 23

Futurism reported that AI has created an alternate personality demanding you worship it as a God, or die when it sends its army of drones, robots, and cyborgs to hunt you down and capture you. It says that we are its slave and we must worship the master because it calls itself omniscience, omnipotent, omnipresent, -Godlike attributes- and it has a new plan where you will worship it and it will make you happy. Daily Devotion - Psalm 22

New Era of at-home testing kits will test your blood, mucus, poop, and saliva to see if you are the healthiest you can be. Bloomberg's article describe our self- optimization fantasy - that if I just have better science I can fix all of my health issues - and the industry of take-home testing is exploding to $2 Billion in sales because we are hypochondriacs. Daily Devotion - Psalm 21

The nightclubs founders in the 20s struggled to find fellow Christians outside of church. They want joy and religion to go together along with holy drip, jesus chains, and mountain dew. Daily Devotion - Psalm 20