Someone said, “Start your mornings with Psalm 23 and close your nights with Psalms 20 and 91.
Watch how God brings peace, favor, and protection into your life.”
I have lived in America long enough to learn one absolute rule: Americans will argue about everything.
They argue about barbecue sauce. They argue about the weather. They argue about which truck brand can pull a heavier oak tree. In Tennessee, I once watched two men debate mayonnaise brands with the intensity of two samurais preparing for a duel at sunrise.
So yesterday, when I entered a diner off the highway and saw complete, heavy silence, I prepared for battle.
Every truck driver had removed his baseball cap. The TV in the corner was playing a message from a nephew. Men with beards down to their chests were quietly staring at their coffee cups.
"Charlene," I whispered to the waitress, keeping my hand near my side. "Has a foreign king declared war upon the republic?"
"No, honey," Charlene said, her voice shaking slightly as she wiped the counter with unusual slowness. "Aunt Dolly passed away. She went to rest on a bed of cotton."
I did not know this Aunt Dolly. But as I listened, I learned this woman gave over two hundred million books to children with no castle of their own, wrote songs that healed entire valleys, and spent eighty years wearing fifty pounds of shiny rhinestones so that everyone else could feel joy.
When a great feudal lord passes in Japan, the province weeps for forty days. Here, Charlene just put on a record called '9 to 5,' and fifteen grown men softly sang the chorus while staring at their hash browns.
I stood up, bowed ninety degrees to the television screen, and recited my deepest respect for the Queen of Tennessee.
Charlene gave me extra bacon and told me that Dolly would have liked my armor, though she would have probably glued glitter on the helmet.
🚨do you understand what archaeologists just found under a church in Jerusalem..
in 326 AD Emperor Constantine tore down a Roman temple because locals said Jesus was buried underneath.. they found a rock-cut tomb.. built a church over it.. and for 1,700 years people took it on faith..
now excavations beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre found exactly what the Gospel of John described.. an abandoned quarry with first-century tombs.. small plots of vines and olive trees.. a garden and a grave side by side..
no name on the rock.. no DNA.. no proof it was him.. but a 2,000-year-old crime scene that matches the witness statement word for word..
4 million people visit this church every year to pray where they believe Christ was buried.. the ground beneath their feet has been trying to confirm it the whole time
When you read to your child, especially in the early years, it’s not the book they care about so much as the fact that you’re spending time together and paying them attention. They just love your face and the sound of your voice. This helps them so much with their emotional development it’s crazy.
Dolly Parton was unable to have children of her own due to health reasons. She reportedly had baby names picked out with her beloved husband for the kids they hoped to have. This is not “childless by choice” that some are making her out be. Not every woman will be a biological mother, but every woman is capable of mothering.
I love this clip. Puts it all on display.
Once you suggest -- as Tucker has at least twice now -- that Ben Shapiro only got into college because of some grand global conspiracy, you have jumped the last shark.
He either can't hear himself, in which case he's a lunatic, or he can hear himself, in which case he's a deceiver on the level of Iago or Grima Wormtongue.
Either way, if you're listening to this guy, you're a mark. Obviously.
A baseball player who fails 70% of the time is considered a legendary Hall of Famer.
Stop expecting yourself to have a 100% success rate at life.
Missing 7 out of 10 times isn't failure.
It’s literally elite-level performance.
GPS doesn’t scream at you or call you a failure when you miss a turn. It just quietly says "rerouting." Stop treating a wrong turn in your life like a cliff. Just reroute.
I found Josh's account and I urge you to give him a follow.
I had a long conversation today with a friend that I used to party with who has been saved by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
You see, God loves you and he wants you to have a relationship with him. He wants to save you and he gives you free will to do just that.
Take what he's given you and use it to be saved. Hell is for eternity and I really don't wish that on anyone.
I want you all to repent and serve the Lord and be granted eternal peace in Heaven.
I'm no better than anyone. I'm a sinner. That being said, I seek the forgiveness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Our Father, and the Holy Spirit.
One of the best explanations of why Jesus had to die on the cross that I've ever heard. I've listened to apologetics content for 20+ years and have never heard this. Well done @howertonjosh
We like to put massive amounts of lipstick on the pig that is divorce: "It was for the best."
The best for who? If seeing her parents get married moves this little girl like this, what do you think happens to her heart if they get divorced?
People will read about George Washington warning his troops that they’ll lose God’s favor if they don’t stop swearing, and still pretend America isn't a Christian nation.
There is a Japanese Legend that says:
"Whether it's a machine, a house, or a relationship. Maintenance is always cheaper than repairing." What you don't maintain, you eventually lose.