James Cook III finishes the 2025 season as the NFL’s leading rusher with 1,621 rushing yards.
Cook is the first Bill to lead the NFL in rushing since O.J. Simpson in 1976.
Shohei Ohtani homered. Again. Dead center off Trevor Megill.
He has three home runs tonight.
He threw 6.1 shutout innings and struck out 10.
This is one of the greatest individual performances in posteason history.
We don’t build the kingdom of God.
• we announce it.
• we seek it.
• we receive it.
• we bear witness to it.
• “we build for it” (N.T. Wright)
God builds it.
I used to be enamored with politicians and public servants who openly used Christian faith language in interviews and speeches.
I’m now far more enamored when politicians and public servants openly treat others with Christian kindness.
Lots of talk about the #NiceneCreed— if we need it, why it matters, its relation to the Bible and more.
The Creed is like the bowling bumper lines for your Bible reading; it ensures that you don’t read the Bible and come up with conclusions that contradict the nature and work of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Creed and the Canon (which books belong in the Bible) were shaped at the same council after all (Council of Nicea, 325AD). The phrases in the Creed are mostly taken from scripture and organized around the Trinity.
Here’s why I think it’s needed today:
1. The Creed is a purifier. It reminds us of what truly matters in our faith. It burns away the cultural corruptions and additions that come from traditions. (Baptists should appreciate that!) It returns us to the irreducible minimum of the Christian faith.
2. The Creed is a unifier. For all the differences and distinctives of denominations, we remember that we are one in Christ. Like the spokes of a wagon wheel, the more we push outward into our particulars, the further we are from each other; but the more we move toward the hub— the Center— the closer we get to each other. True Christian unity is not ultimately around mission; it’s around the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
3. The Creed is a magnifier. It puts the focus on the only one worthy of it: the triune God. Creation, salvation, the church, baptism, and more are all set within the life and activity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Humans are not the object of the action until the second stanza: “For us and for our salvation…” The first time we come into the story, it’s for our dire need of saving. That’s good news: We don’t push and strive to write our names in the story. We cry and confess that we need saving.
I can’t answer the question of what a Christian is without turning to the oldest and most unifying confessing in Christian history: the Nicene Creed.
https://t.co/w0NNvW97jV
In my role as a pastor, I’m not trying to get everyone to agree on everything so much as I’m attempting to create environments where our disagreements don’t automatically become cause for disunity.
POWERFUL: #Eagles star RB Saquon Barkley says that he recently became a Christian and it’s changed his life.
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the best year I had in my career, I found my faith. It gives me clarity in life.”
🙏🙏🙏
(🎥 Grant Horvat