for all you know, this could be your last summer.
as homer wrote, you will never be lovelier than you are right now. so tell her she has a pretty smile. get lean or become a unit. find wonder in boarding the airplane. drink more coffee than you need. walk on the beach until your feet hurt. write your girlfriend a note on a tuesday. waste money because its not all about retirement. pull over at the lookout. ask the uber driver about his life. tell the woman in the elevator you like her shoes and mean it. call your mother. ask the waiter his favorite thing on the menu and order that.
theres so much life in the slow moments, and you sprint past it chasing the next thing. but at any time, in any situation, you can find the good. smile. be happy. recognize it for a one of one life experience. what good is walking around a curmudgeon when tomorrow could be curtains.
for heavens sake, flirt with the world.
Pattern Recognition is also the form of intelligence that causes the most stress.
You will see things that others do not.
You'll feel crazy.
Things will be *so obvious* to you, and others will just deny it.
You're right bro, Christianity brainwashed me. I want to spend the rest of my life with one person, pray for those who hate me, forgive easily, raise a beautiful family, stay away from gossip, and find true purpose in Jesus.
A man at coffee hour told me last Sunday the country was going to hell.
Drag queens. Abortion. Pride flags on the firehouse.
I asked him when he last hated his own sin.
He went quiet.
Most Christians don't have a culture problem.
They have a Pharisee problem.
You can hate everything the world does and still walk home unjustified.
The publican didn't list other men's sins. Just his own.
God be merciful to me a sinner.
That is repentance.
Conservatism is not Christianity.
Voting right is not being right with God.
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
I was waiting at a crosswalk in Tokyo. The traffic light was red but no cars were coming. A bunch of people were waiting anyway.
The tourist next to me said to his friend "why is everyone waiting? There's no cars."
He started to cross. An old woman said something to him in Japanese. He didn't understand and ignored her.
She stepped in front of him, blocking his path. Said more firmly in Japanese, pointing at the light.
A Japanese guy nearby translated for the tourist: "She says you must wait for the green light. Even if there are no cars. That is the rule."
Tourists got annoyed. "That's a stupid rule. There's literally no cars."
The translator told the old woman what he said. She responded in Japanese.
The translator said: "She says rules are not about cars. Rules are about respect for order. If everyone follows rules only when convenient, society breaks down. You wait for the green light because that is what civilized people do. Not because of cars. Because of civilization."
The tourist kind of scoffed but stopped trying to cross.
The light turned green. The old woman smiled at him, gestured for him to go ahead of her.
As we all crossed, the translator said to me quietly "she is right, you know. We follow small rules so we can trust each other with big rules."
That stuck with me. The idea that waiting at an empty crosswalk isn't about traffic. It's about proving to each other that we're all willing to follow rules even when no one would know if we didn't.
THE THREE QUESTIONS THAT WILL MATTER MOST ON JUDGMENT DAY
There is a day appointed for every human being.
A day when you will stand before Jesus Christ.
Not hearing about Him.
Not debating about Him.
Not posting about Him.
But standing before Him.
📖 Hebrews 9:27 (KJV)
"And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:"
This is not poetry.
It is not symbolism.
It is a divine appointment no one will cancel.
📖 Revelation 20:12 (KJV)
"And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened..."
Nothing hidden.
Nothing edited.
Nothing erased.
Every life revealed before the throne of God.
📖 Romans 14:12 (KJV)
"So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God."
Every one of us.
And when that moment comes, three questions will matter more than fame, money, titles, followers, or applause.
These are eternal questions.
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1. WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY SON?
📖 John 14:6 (KJV)
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
The greatest question will not be:
“Were you successful?”
It will be:
“Did you know Jesus?”
Religion cannot save you.
Church attendance cannot save you.
Good morals cannot save you.
📖 Romans 3:23 (KJV)
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"
Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse sin.
📖 Matthew 7:23 (KJV)
"And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you..."
Not everyone who spoke about Him truly belonged to Him.
The answer that matters is this:
“Lord, I trusted You.
I surrendered to You.
I gave You my life.”
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2. WHAT DID YOU DO WITH WHAT I GAVE YOU?
Your life is not random.
Your gifts are not accidents.
Your calling carries responsibility.
📖 Luke 12:48 (KJV)
"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required..."
God gave you time.
Opportunities.
Influence.
Resources.
A voice.
A purpose.
Did you use them for His glory or only for yourself?
📖 2 Corinthians 5:10 (KJV)
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ..."
Heaven celebrates faithfulness more than popularity.
One day God will ask:
“What did you do with what I placed in your hands?”
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3. HOW DID YOU TREAT PEOPLE?
📖 Matthew 25:40 (KJV)
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
Your love for God is revealed by how you treat people.
Not only the important people.
Not only the useful people.
But the broken.
The rejected.
The forgotten.
The weak.
📖 1 John 4:20 (KJV)
"If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar..."
Love is not just words.
Love is evidence.
On judgment day, Jesus will not be impressed by performance without compassion.
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TEACHING SUMMARY
• Judgment is real.
• Every soul will stand before Christ.
• Salvation comes through Jesus alone.
• Your gifts are responsibilities.
• Faithfulness matters deeply to God.
• Love for God is demonstrated through love for people.
• Grace is available today, but tomorrow is not promised.
You are still breathing.
That means mercy is still available.
Today you can repent.
Today you can return to God.
Today you can surrender your life fully to Jesus Christ.
One day you will stand before Him.
Live prepared for eternity.
And if this message stirred your heart, do not keep it to yourself.
Someone is silently struggling.
Someone believes they still have time.
Someone is drifting far from God.
Share this message.
Not for attention.
Not for likes.
Not for numbers.
But because souls matter.
One post can reach someone you may never meet.
One share can become someone’s warning before destruction.
One message can become the reason a person returns to God.
📖 Luke 15:7 (KJV)
"...joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth..."
Let this truth travel.
Let someone find Jesus while there is still time.
So I opened my Bible this morning like I always do. No bookmark. No theme. No plan. Just opened it and started reading.
And I about fell out of my chair.
My eyes landed on a verse I have read before but clearly never felt.
Isaiah 45:3
“I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the Lord, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel.”
Treasures.
Of darkness.
That stopped me.
There are things you learn in grief you will never learn in comfort. There is authority forged in suffering that cannot be manufactured on a stage. There is intimacy with God that only grows when everything else has been stripped away.
Hidden riches.
Not obvious blessings. Not flashy miracles.
Hidden.
There is depth being built in you that applause could not sustain.
The darkness is not your grave.
It is your treasury.
And when God brings you out, you will not just be relieved.
You will be refined. You will be stronger. You will know Him in a way you never could have if the lights had stayed on.
I thought I was randomly opening my Bible this morning.
But Heaven had an appointment.
And if you needed this today, maybe it was not random for you either💗
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump...
I said, "Don't do it!"
He said, "Nobody loves me."
I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?"
He said, "A Christian."
I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?"
He said, "Protestant."
I said, "Me, too! What franchise?"
He said, "Baptist."
I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?"
He said, "Northern Baptist."
I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"
He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist."
I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?"
He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region."
I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?"
He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912."
I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.
BREAKING NEWS: Seventy-Two Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Massachusetts.
A National Guard task-force detailed to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault-style weapons, was ambushed by elements of an anti-Government, para-military extremist faction.
Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.
Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “treasonous criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order.
The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault-style weapons.
Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that “none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily.”
Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition.
However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government’s plans.
During a tense standoff in the Lexington town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists. Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.
Ironically, the local citizenry blamed the government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the National Guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.
Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops.
Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction, remain at large.
And this fellow Americans, is exactly how the American Revolution began, April 19, 1775.
History. Learn it, or repeat it.
I want to be rich. But not Lamborghini
or Rolex rich, I want to be rich enough to go to the gym at 3pm and nobody can tell me no. To tap the family in front of me at the supermarket and say, "It's on me," Rich enough that my future wife never has to worry about getting a job. Rich enough to show my children the world, not pictures of it. Rich enough to take my friends to dinner and say, "| got this", Rich enough that God uses me to help the people who are in need. That's my version of rich.
Never forget that 33 years ago we learned the government will kill your dog, shoot your 14 year old son in the back and snipe your wife in the doorway while she holds your infant child.
*RubyRidge
Imagine being 14 years old, living off the grid in the Idaho woods in 1993. You’re walking your dog when suddenly he growls and *bang*, the dog is shot and killed. You look up and see a man in a Ghillie suit with a rifle pointed at you. Fear grips you. You pull your gun and fire. You’re just defending yourself. This is your home.
You run back toward your parents, only to be shot in the back and killed before you can reach them. You never understand what went wrong or why.
The next day, a sniper fires again. Your mother, standing in the doorway holding your baby sister, is hit in the head and killed instantly.
All of this started because your father Randy Weaver, sold two sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent and refused to become a government informant. They gave him a false court date and set up armed surveillance at your home, waiting for the moment they could escalate.
Randy Weaver was a former U.S. Army Green Beret. He served in the military before moving off the grid with his family in northern Idaho. His military background added to the tension for federal authorities, because he was trained in weapons and survival, but it didn’t make him violent or a threat to anyone outside his property.
After an 11 day stand off with Randy and the baby inside with two dead bodies, the government was ordered to pay millions in settlements to Randy.
They were proven to be in the wrong for this deadly power trip.
But that doesn’t bring back a 14 year old boy or his mother.
Stay educated. Some of our history isnt taught in school for a reason. 💯
Speaking about the deep contradictions in human nature, Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada said:
“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one barely use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about the relatives still in their lives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have a partner often fail to appreciate them. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the full complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.
The key to happiness is gratitude—to truly see and value what we already have, and to understand that somewhere, someone would give everything for what we take for granted.”
@SovereignIM Best thing in the world is a walk/jog/run in the hard rain. It like cleanses your soul. It's helped my depressive episodes and much more. Highly recommend.
The most racist man you know would still save a brown man from a burning building. The least racist woman you know would laugh at your funeral if you voted wrong
Atheists often come to my page yapping about the "sky fairy" & how illogical it is.
I used that a COPE for a long time too.
Then, I sat next to the chief engineer that designed our first rover on mars.
I played poker for 6 hours next to him.
He told me that he & most of his colleagues started out atheist but the more they studied the universe the more it became apparent there must be an Intelligent Designer, AKA God.
Afterwards, I was determined to study both sides.
The ONLY logical conclusion to me is there is a God.
Both sides require some level of FAITH.
Atheism requires much more FAITH in my opinion & is beyond illogical the more you look into it.
I urge everyone to explore & ask these big questions & seek truth.
"The first sip from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you."
-Werner Heisenberg
Historically Jesus may have been crucified naked to double the shame 💔
They pulled his beard out , mocked him, spit on him, put a crown of thorns on his head, whipped him, and beat him before ultimately crucifying him which is horrifying because you also cannot breathe and have to lift your body that has been nailed to a tree to breathe, imagine how painful his wounds were… but the worst suffering was that he drank the cup of the wrath of God , our sin nailed to that cross … the sinless lamb of God took our punishment.
I deserve that cross, you deserve the cross.
Our God died for us.
He wasn’t recognizable as human he was beaten so badly.
Isaiah 52:14 As many were astonished at you— his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
Lord have mercy on me, a sinner!
Lot’s of people are responding negatively to my analysis that Project Hail Mary is a Christian movie. Especially Christians.
Faith Based Entertainment has spoon fed Church Slop to Christians for so long they don’t know how to do critical analysis of stories anymore. They can’t comprehend that a story about a man named Grace aboard a ship called Hail Mary who sacrifices his life to save humanity is a Christian story.
Because nobody said a sinner’s prayer at the end and there wasn’t an altar call in the third act. Twenty years of Church Movies broke your brain.
Faith Based entertainment has absolutely dumbed down Evangelicals.
Let me get this straight:
Beers before a 10am flight? Typical sight.
Mimosas at brunch? Accepted.
Power-hour martinis at 1pm? No problem.
Pitchers at happy hour? Standard.
Delicious Cab with your steak? Classy.
Drinking by the pool all day? Encouraged.
But a little cannabis in the quiet of the night makes you a f@cking degenerate?
Get real.