#ourCOG Daily Brief [March 8, 2026]

Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for March 8, 2026.

Tonight in world news, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has called special elections for three open seats next month, hoping his party can gain a majority. Meanwhile, the U.S. has announced a new coalition to fight violent cartels, with seventeen countries signing on to a joint security agreement aimed at eradicating these groups in Latin America. In the Middle East, a new crisis has the U.S. once again appealing to the stateless Kurds for military help as boots-on-the-ground proxies in Iran, a request complicated by the memory of past letdowns after their vital roles in Iraq and Syria.

Looking at our video offerings, today’s main feature is “A King of Righteousness and the King of Kings,” presented by Dr. David Lamb as part of Sunday Service, streaming live from citylife church in Dallas. You can catch the service at 9:30 AM and 11:30 AM EST.

From our FaithNews RSS feed, we’re tracking a Church Planting Intensive set for March 11th through 13th, a church’s emergency appeal to resume worship, and “The Bible Recap” hitting the Top 100 on Apple Podcasts. Also making headlines is a multi-million dollar gift that’s launching a new era for SMCH.

In prophecy news, scientists reported today that a spacecraft’s impact successfully changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, a finding that could help divert future killer space rocks. This follows yesterday’s news of new-technology laser weaponry being deployed in Operation Epic Fury, as Space Force continues to stop Iran’s missiles in their tracks. Earlier in the week, an exposé revealed the principal of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked school in Florida had scrubbed terror ties from her bio, and the Trump administration continued to show impressive job creation numbers, even with significant cuts to the federal workforce.

Finally, in Jewish history, looking back at March 9th: In 590, Bahram Chobin was crowned King Barham VI of Persia, enjoying support among Persian Jews. Moving to 1230, Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeated Theodore of Epirus, and tragically, two Jews were reportedly thrown from a mountaintop for refusing to blind the defeated Greek ruler. Just a few years later in 1233, Pope Gregory IX issued a papal bull forbidding Christians from disputing matters of faith with Jews, and by 1244, the Pope ordered the burning of the Talmud.