Aaron 🜋 Layne

heart and hustle, spirit and strategy, grace and grit

[MLB @MLB]

"He's a menace ... I WANT SPIDER-MAN!"

J.K. Simmons is at the Mets game tonight and ran into a familiar face 😂

[Aaron 🜋 Layne @AaronLayne]

"But I do not count my life of any value to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace." Acts 20:24

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV: “It is, therefore, not enough to state simply that men and women have equal dignity and rights; it is necessary that this be reflected in concrete decisions, such as in laws, access to employment, education, social and political responsibilities, and the way society listens to and values women’s contributions. As long as this gap persists, we cannot say that society truly and fully recognizes that women have the same dignity as men.”

[Aaron 🜋 Layne @AaronLayne]

The axe forgets what the tree remembers

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

Travel time between earth and all planets
based on nasa

#nasa#earth#planets#solarsystem
#Educación

[NASA @NASA]

We're building a Moon Base!

@NASAMoonBase will serve as a habitat where astronauts live and work during long-term science missions.

Join us at 2pm ET on Tuesday, May 26, for a live news event where we’ll share updates on our lunar exploration plans: https://t.co/IJXA7xYwju

[Today I Learned @TodayiLearrned]

This is the creativity that restores passion to the soul 😍💙👌!

[FENDI @fend_zones]

When you give your life to Jesus 🥹🥹🥹

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

As white Christian nationalists gather in DC today… we are streaming all day on @RedLetterXians and other platforms — for 9 hours… Reminding everyone that Christian nationalism is a heresy, a threat to democracy and a threat to authentic Christian faith.

Over 40 diverse faith leaders will be sharing today… inviting us all to redirect America towards love, compassion, and justice for all.

https://t.co/z5DAHLWCvC

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Crazy footage:

Two U.S. Navy jets
- Super Hornet
- EA-18G Growler

Collided mid-air and exploded during today’s Gunfighter Skies Air Show at Mountain Home AFB in Idaho.

Both aircrews ejected safely.

Thankfully everyone is OK!

[Oliver Burdick @oliverburdick]

The Bible was written on three continents:
- Europe
- Asia
- Africa

In three languages:
- Hebrew
- Aramaic
- Greek

By over 40 different men:
- Kings
- Prophets
- Fishermen
- A doctor

Yet it tells one unified story:
- Creation
- Fall
- Redemption
- Christ

God is incredible.

[Aaron 🜋 Layne @AaronLayne]

What were you taught about God growing up?

[Aaron 🜋 Layne @AaronLayne]

Statistics are real people with tears wiped away.

[Tara Dublin, Rock Star Author & Political Savant @taradublinrocks]

This is GLORIOUS

David Letterman & Stephen Colbert on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theatre bringing back the classic @Letterman routine one last time

This is how you go out, @StephenAtHome! 😂

And may @CBS implode literally the same way without you

[Aaron 🜋 Layne @AaronLayne]

"𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴"
A Graduation / Mother's Day Sermon
https://t.co/YXZRc5Nhlc

[Dante @DanteTheDon]

Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.

Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.

Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.

Tune them when you’re whole, not just when you’re broken.

Watch the whole thing.

[GodlyAction @GodlyAction]

“Being a Christian isn't for cowards. It takes a real man to live for God, much more so than to live for the devil.”

- Johnny Cash

[The Adventurous Soul @TAdventurousoul]

Timing so good it feels fake

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

Why in the Lord’s Prayer do we ask our heavenly Father not to lead us into temptation? God tempts no one (James 1:13), so why make that kind of request?

The mistake we make is that we do not view the full thought within the prayer. Jesus does not simply say, “Lead us not into temptation.” He continues: “but deliver us from evil.” That is crucial.

Asking God not to do something, but instead to do something else, is a pattern of prayer firmly established in the Psalms, and that pattern is continued in the Lord’s Prayer.

This is why praying the Psalms is so crucial. The Lord’s Prayer is, in many ways, a digest of all 150 psalms. If we do not hear it with psalm-shaped ears, we will misunderstand it.

In the Psalms, we repeatedly see this “not this, but this” form:

“O Lord, do not be far off; come quickly to my aid” (Ps. 22:19)
“Do not forsake me, O Lord… make haste to help me” (Ps. 38:21–22)
“Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries… have regard for the covenant” (Ps. 74:19–20)
“Do not incline my heart to any evil… set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth” (Ps. 141:4; 141:3)

Sometimes the negative comes first, sometimes the positive, but together they form one complete thought.

O Lord, do not do this, but do that.

That same pattern is at work in the Lord’s Prayer. “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil” is not two separate ideas. You cannot take either part in isolation.

Together they form a single request: Father, do not let us fall into temptation, but instead rescue us and deliver us from evil.

God is not going to tempt anyone. Rather, we are praying that he would preserve us, guard us, and deliver us from any evil that may harm us or lead us into what is contrary to his will.

That is what we are asking: rescue us, deliver us from every evil of body and soul.

And we understand this only when we hear the Lord’s Prayer through the voice of the Psalms.
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