Chad Painter

Student Pastor at Hope Christian Church | 🦅 Avon Eagles 🏡 Cleveland is home 📸 IG: chadpaintermeetsworld

[Mark Perez-Krywany @Perez_Sports]

BREAKING🚨

The Cleveland Browns tie Avon as the winningest team at Huntington Bank Field this FB season. 🏈

[Chad Painter @ChadPainterEXP]

We baaaack

Pre-season Chapel 0 on enduring suffering. Get up with us 🙏

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@coach_elderm @FinJerdone85867 @jairelf1 @jacksonPalmer_1 @GoldianJack @robkenolan @Fitch_Jack_ @ColburnMichael0 @KrugmanCaden Elite

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Grateful for Emma Ody sharing her testimony A powerful reminder that our identity is found in Jesus, not in sports or earthly idols. “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”
Colossians 3:2 Emma is impacting so many people with her faith. So proud of her!!

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Next FCA ....

Mark your calendars for Monday, April 20th at 7:15pm! We’re fired up to welcome Avon alum Emma Ody as our guest speaker. Room 226... Bring your teammates and friends!

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

I went back to Luke this morning just to revisit the story of Christmas… and Luke 2:7 hit me like an arrow to the chest:

“She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.”

We romanticize that line so much that we forget how brutal it actually is. If the gospel narrative is true, then that’s not a cute nativity detail. That is the most explosive statement in human history.

The God who created galaxies entered His own creation… and there was no room for Him.

No royal welcome, no palace, no safety, no honor, not even a bed. He comes into the world He made, and the doors are closed in His face.

This is the single greatest scandal of Christianity: God doesn’t supervise salvation from a throne. He steps into it. He doesn’t arrive in glory. He arrives vulnerable. He doesn’t come intimidating humanity into submission. He comes as a child who can’t even hold His own head up. If you were inventing a religion, this is not the story you’d write.

Luke is quietly showing something staggering about God’s character:
He wins, not by force, but by love.
He saves, not by domination, but by self-giving. He comes close, not as a King demanding space, but as a Savior entering even when there is “no room.”

And that manger isn’t sentimental. It’s confrontational.

It confronts our pride, cos humanity has always had space for power, wealth, celebrity, and status… just never space for God unless He serves our plans.

It confronts our illusions of strength cos God is showing that real power isn’t the ability to crush. Real power is the courage to empty yourself for the sake of others.

It confronts religion, cos God bypassed temples and elites and arrived where animals feed… then announced His coming not to emperors, but to shepherds.

Luke 2:7 tells us who God is.

He is not distant, He is not indifferent, He is not cold sovereignty. He is the God who chooses weakness so He can stand with the weak. He is the God who walks into human pain instead of observing it from afar. He is the God who would rather be rejected with us than reign without us.

If this verse is true, Christianity isn’t just another belief system. It’s a radical claim that the deepest power in the universe is love; not might, not fear, not spectacle.

So yes… this verse broke me today.
Because if this is who God is… then hope isn’t sentimental. Grace isn’t theoretical. And Christmas isn’t “cute.”

It’s God stepping into history quietly…
exposing us gently… and saving us completely. Luke 2:7 isn’t a children’s story. It’s a revolution.

Merry Christmas 🎄❤️

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@Updates_SThings Great question, ALSO where is Suzie!

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Grateful for an incredible FCA huddle! Huge thanks to Chad Painter for sharing his powerful testimony! We are so thankful for all he does for Avon!
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…” Romans 12:2 NKJV

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Next FCA will be Monday December 15th at 7pm.  See everyone next week!

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@JakobSanderson Jordan Matthews

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Real winning is living, leading, and loving like Jesus. True success isn’t about what you achieve, but how you live out God’s purpose. Deut. 10:12 calls us to walk in His ways, love Him, and serve with all our heart.

[Chad Painter @ChadPainterEXP]

We prayed for times like this 🙏

For Jeremiah #LLJK

Blessed to do ministry with this championship TEAM. The name of Jesus will be lifted HIGH in high school sports

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FCA Thanksgiving Breakfast! Thankful today and every day for our future middle school FCA, our present leaders, and the alumni who return and remind us why this group is a blessing. FCA will always bring us back to gratitude. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Stay prayed up 🙏

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@AvonFCA @avoneagles

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So good to catch my new friend @kevinwalshnfl at Avon games these past couple seasons. Many more to come brother 🤞Love what you’re doing in these communities and with athletes.

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Next FCA is on Monday at 7pm in room 226! Bring a teammate!

[Nolan Robke @robkenolan]

Blessed to see 17!🎉