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Welcome to Breakpoint this week.

From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone

Street, president of the Colson Center.

John, I do just briefly want to start today's program by asking for prayer together for

the Bebus family.

I think a lot of our listeners are probably familiar

with this story, but we're recording this on Thursday morning, and I believe Israel

confirmed yesterday that people were holding out hope until then, but that Shiri Bebas,

I believe she's 32, a young woman, a young mom, and her two very young sons, Ariel and

Kaffir Bivas, were confirmed killed this past week. They'd been taken hostage on October

7th by Hamas, and her sons were, I think, four years old and nine months old, and understandably

the world and her family were holding out hope

until now that they were alive. But I think for a lot of people, it's become a symbol of the

brutality of Hamas and what they did on October 7th and are continuing to do. But it still just

feels really gutting to have the confirmation that they've been killed. And of course,

Shiri's husband is still living and just can't imagine what this is like for them. So I think it

would be lovely if we could get as many people to pray for them and peace and comfort as possible.

Yeah, you have these stark reminders that that's still going on and that the realities of the evil that started

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