Dan Garrison

Follower of Jesus, father of 4, Jeppesen-ForeFlight Education team, midlife student pilot, FIRST Robotics Coach/Mentor, and fan of Krispy Kreme doughnuts 🙂

[Dan Garrison @DRGEQV]

Dead. Broken. Lost. Slave. Blind. ~Jesus ~ Alive. Healing. Found. Free. I can see! Him. #JointheJourney #HISstory #mystory

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what wrecked me when I was converting to Christianity?

Jihad is literally the gospel in reverse. Once I saw it, I couldn't unsee it.

The gospel says Christ shed His blood for YOU.
Jihad says you shed your blood for ALLAH.
Jesus lays down His life to save His enemies. Jihad calls you to take the lives of enemies in pursuit of God's favor.

Christianity says the Shepherd dies so the sheep can live. Jihad says the sheep die hoping the Shepherd accepts them.

They are mirrors. One is grace, the other is striving.

One says, "It is finished." The other says, "Do more."

Jesus never asked me to earn God's love with my blood, he proved God's love by shedding His own.

That's why the cross changed everything for me. Jesus didn't come to tell us how to die for God.

He came to die for us so we could truly live. PRAISE GOD! I AM FREE! Now, we need to make all the Muslims Christian.

[Dan Garrison @DRGEQV]

@PeteButtigieg And we could afford all that if the NGO / GO complex didn’t defraud the country by stealing our taxes, lining their pockets, and cheating on basically everything.

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@Tim_Walz https://t.co/36K5EA84P9

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Laotian national Tou Lue Vang was convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota. 

He was set to be deported until @GovTimWalz issued him a pardon.

Then, I revoked his legal status. @ICEgov has removed him from the U.S. and he will never endanger another American.

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@GovPressOffice

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@ML3democrats

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@SenMarkKelly

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@GavinNewsom

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

As Christians, our greatest allegiance is to an eternal Kingdom, above any earthly kingdom.

BUT... I love my country. I make no apologies for that. This quote from George Washington was on my heart this weekend.

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🇺🇸 250 and Counting

[Bannon’s WarRoom @Bannons_WarRoom]

JACK POSOBIEC: The Mamdani speech was the most anti-American thing I’ve ever seen in my life but at the same time it was pure, unadulterated Communism - cultural Marxism, where he said the rich have their money and we will take it and give it to the newcomers — he’s sitting there behind George Washington’s desk saying what is yours is mine. That was a throwdown.

President Trump responded saying ‘America stands for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Communism stands for death, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil.

You can be a Communist or you can be a Patriot. You cannot be both. @JackPosobiec

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[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

It began almost at once. The tsar had scarcely fallen before the new masters of Russia turned their guns upon the old faith. In the winter of 1918, when the snows lay high against the walls of monasteries older than the Romanovs themselves, squads of young Bolsheviks — factory workers in leather jackets, rifles slung casually over their shoulders — marched through cloisters as though kicking in the doors of a conquered world. What startled foreign observers was not merely the destruction but the speed of it. In just the first five years of Bolshevik rule, between 12,000 and 20,000 priests, monks, and nuns were murdered, along with tens of thousands of ordinary believers who refused to abandon their faith. Three centuries of Roman persecution had killed far fewer.

The killing of clergy became so common that even hardened soldiers grew uneasy. In Petrograd, a young commissar named Yakov Peters ordered the execution of forty-eight priests in a single night, later boasting that “the old Russia dies tonight.” Yet the men he killed had not resisted. Many, like Archbishop Andronik of Perm, merely asked to bless their flock one last time. Peters refused. Andronik raised his hands anyway, tracing a final blessing in the dim lamplight. A soldier struck him with a rifle butt, but the gesture had been made. An American correspondent who later interviewed witnesses wrote, “It was faith confronting ideology, and faith died standing up.”

What the Bolsheviks never understood was how deeply the old religion lived in the Russian mind. They believed that if they shot enough priests, tore down enough icons, and turned enough churches into warehouses, the people would abandon the past like an outgrown coat. Instead, they created martyrs — not the serene figures of Roman mosaics, but men with frost in their beards and women clutching their children as they faced the rifles. In 1922, when Lenin ordered the seizure of all church valuables, peasants in the town of Shuya formed a human chain around their wooden church. Troops opened fire. “We died for a church made of pine,” one survivor said, “but to us it was Jerusalem.”

In the end, the tragedy of the early Soviet years is not only counted in bodies — though they were many — but in the deliberate attempt to crush the spiritual inheritance of a people. The Romans persecuted Christians out of fear; the Bolsheviks persecuted them out of doctrine. Yet history keeps its own ledger. The Soviet Empire, which promised a world without God, is gone. But in the ruins of its gulags stand crosses once again, raised by the grandchildren of those who died — by the tens of thousands — for the faith their killers could not extinguish.

© Pivotal Historical Moments Fan

#archaeohistories

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a handful of imperfect men dared to declare something the world had never heard: that every human being is created equal, endowed by their Creator with rights that no king, no parliament, no army, and no government could rightfully take away.

That your soul is free because it belongs to God.

It was a revolutionary claim.

And it changed the world.

From thirteen fragile colonies grew a nation that became a light to the world. A nation that crossed mountains, built railroads, split the atom, conquered diseases, connected continents, landed on the Moon, fed the hungry, defended allies, welcomed dreamers, and proved time and again that freedom is the key to unlocking human potential.

Those who judge you often hold you to a standard of perfection that has never existed, in any nation, in any age, on any inch of this earth.

No nation have ever met that standard, because every nation is made up of human beings, and human beings all fall short of the glory of God.

But we are told how to judge things.

A tree is judged by its fruit.

And unlike the empires that crumbled beneath the weight of tyranny, America has weathered every storm, because generation after generation answered her call.

Farmers became soldiers.

Immigrants became citizens.

The enslaved became free men and women.

Factory workers became inventors.

Children grew into doctors, teachers, entrepreneurs, artists, astronauts, and presidents.

The impossible became ordinary,
because freedom gave ordinary people the opportunity to become extraordinary.

You have been a refuge for the persecuted, a beacon for the oppressed, and a home where countless families found opportunities their ancestors could scarcely have imagined.

You are more than your monuments.

More than your skylines.

More than your wealth.

You are a covenant.

Not a nation built on blood or soil, but one built on a covenant between a free people and the government they consented to establish, under God.

You were founded upon the most radical political ideas ever written into law:

“Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.”

Every empire before claimed the whole of a man, his labor, his body, and ultimately his soul.

America drew a line.

Caesar could have the coin.

Caesar could enforce the law.

But the conscience belonged to God, because it was never Caesar’s to possess.

Here in America, our rights come from God, not government. Every person possesses inherent dignity, because every person bears the image of the Creator. Government answers to the people, because both the people and their government answer to a higher law. The soul belongs to God alone.

That idea has inspired nations.

It has humbled kings.

It has toppled tyrannies.

It has encouraged millions to risk everything for the chance to stand upon these shores and call themselves Americans.

So today we honor those who paid the price for our inheritance.

The founders, who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

The soldiers who never came home.

The ordinary men and women who quietly did extraordinary things.

Critics will always point to America’s failures.

But a tree is judged by its fruit.

And for 250 years, the harvest has come in season after season, and it has been a harvest no nation in history has ever produced.

More liberty.

More innovation.

More opportunity.

More lives transformed than the world has ever seen from a single nation.

May you never lose the courage to defend freedom.

May you never forget the God who has blessed you.

May you always keep the covenant upon which you were built.

May you remain humble enough to correct your faults, wise enough to preserve your principles, and bold enough to continue to be the light for the rest of the world.

Happy 250th Birthday, America.

And may God continue to bless you. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2006. Senator Obama slams the Bush Administration for not doing more workplace raids to catch and deport illegal immigrants.

It appears that the Democrat party has changed a little bit over the past 20 years. 🤪

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@amuse Low IQ

[Jimmy Failla @jimmyfailla]

It appears the U.S. has defeated Boznia in Santa Clara but California still needs to count the MAIL IN GOALS.