Thomas Acton

out to pasture

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Nobody is still arguing about the carpenter from Nazareth 2,000 years later by accident.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Voltaire passed away today in 1778.

There are two quotes of his I always come back to:

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

and

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

[Thomas Acton @acton_tom]

@shebringsjoy Praying 🙏🏻

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

The wicked plots against the righteous
and gnashes his teeth at him,
but the Lord laughs at the wicked,
for he sees that his day is coming.

The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows
to bring down the poor and needy,
to slay those whose way is upright;
their sword shall enter their own heart,
and their bows shall be broken.

Psalm 37:12-15

God’s justice is certain.

[Thomas Acton @acton_tom]

Always required significant rehearsal.

[My Friend Don @TheDonStein]

Pronounced all the Pentecost places and peoples without a single trip or error. 💪

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

...Johnson has destroyed the city and its economy with the help of the unions. https://t.co/YZi17yp0x1 Rather than make the Bears want to stay, they are focusing on burning other deals to the ground. They are literally pushing the Bears into Indiana.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

As a Bears fan, I am mortified by the thought of the team moving to Indiana. However, Mayor Johnson and Chicago Democrats are spiking efforts to keep them in Illinois. Rather than actually create an appealing business environment, they are sabotaging efforts to allow them to move to other Illinois cities... https://t.co/ZY2JGWLc1D

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

RT for the chance to win a paintbrush signed by our own Bob Ross, @RomeOdunze 🖌️

[Thomas Acton @acton_tom]

Excellent read! Bet you didn’t know. . .

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Most people picture Martha Washington as a quiet woman in a bonnet, pouring tea while George won a war.

The real woman was something else entirely.

She was 5 feet tall. George was 6'2". When they married in 1759, she was a 27-year-old widow with two small children, and the richest woman in Virginia. She brought 17,500 acres and roughly 84 enslaved people to the marriage. George Washington didn't make her wealthy. She made him wealthy.

When the Revolutionary War broke out, she didn't stay home.

For 8 straight winters, every single year of the war, Martha left Mount Vernon and traveled hundreds of miles by carriage, through territory crawling with British soldiers and Loyalists, to spend the freezing months in army camp with George. She was at Morristown. Cambridge. Newburgh. Middlebrook.

And Valley Forge.

In 1776 she got herself inoculated against smallpox in Philadelphia, a procedure that killed plenty of people who tried it, so she could keep traveling to the front. While there, she sewed shirts for soldiers, organized the other officers' wives to mend uniforms, and walked through the camps visiting the sick and dying.

By the time the war ended she had buried both of her surviving children. Patsy died of epilepsy at 17. Jacky died of camp fever right after Yorktown. She raised two of his orphaned kids at Mount Vernon.

She hated being First Lady. In a private letter she described her own life as that of a "state prisoner." She wasn't being cute. She meant it.

When George died in December 1799, Martha did something historians have been mourning ever since. She sat down at the fireplace and burned nearly every letter they had ever written each other. Forty years of marriage. Gone.

Only three letters survived.

She lived two more years. Then, quietly, she freed George's enslaved people about a year before her own death, reportedly because she had grown uneasy about so many people having a personal incentive to wish her dead.

In 1886, the U.S. Treasury put her face on the $1 silver certificate. She is, to this day, the only woman ever featured on American paper currency.

Almost no one alive has ever seen the bill. Almost no one alive knows any of this.

That's Martha Washington.

[My Friend Don @TheDonStein]

Baptism now saves you.

St. Peter gives us such comforting words from the Holy Spirit.

[Lawrence Jones III @LawrenceBJones3]

Last Saturday, we were informed that the state would be responsible for our protection, and we were prohibited from bringing our firearms as they had taken control of our security. Later that night, an assassin stormed the event, exposing the significant security lapses. However, something extraordinary occurred that night that I can’t shake off. The goalpost shifted. The night was deemed a success because the perpetrator failed to reach the president or the cabinet. What?! Look, I don’t believe what transpired on Saturday night at WHCD was the result of a massive conspiracy. I don’t think the law enforcement officers who rushed toward danger were not brave and honorable. Nevertheless, I refuse to accept that this was our best performance. Washington seems content with waiting for us all to move on to the next story. I refuse to move on. Our entire security apparatus demands scrutiny. How many times have we heard after a major casualty event that there were signs that were overlooked? Last Saturday night, they assured us that they had control, but they didn’t. And if you’re going to ask us to surrender our firearms, you better rise to the occasion. They did not.

[Thomas Acton @acton_tom]

A natural spontaneous blessing from a gifted Lutheran Pastor.

[My Friend Don @TheDonStein]

When a mommy brings an unborn baby to Holy Communion, they get a blessing, too. A person’s a person, no matter how small.

“May the Lord preserve you by His Word in the waters of the womb until you receive the waters of Holy Baptism. Amen.”

[Thomas Acton @acton_tom]

Now about all those dinners. . . Turning something terrible into a blessing for others.

[Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello]

🚨AWESOME NEWS🚨

The Hilton donated approximately 2,600 unserved dinners from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

They freeze-dried the steak and lobster to extend shelf life before donating the meals to two shelters for abused women and children.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

SOURCE: CBS

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

Millions are turning to Jesus IN SPITE of the religious blather coming out of Rome and Canterbury. When will these leaders repent of their silence in the face of evil?

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

It’s almost as if this is what we’ve been saying the whole damn time.

[Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello]

Kanye West is barred from entering the UK, while Islamic migrants who sexually assault their women and children aren’t blocked from entering or deported.

[Thomas Acton @acton_tom]

A warning from the captain

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

Been watching the news 📺 on #ArtemisII. I feel like it’s the 1960’s all over. ☝🏻We must keep our thoughts about our brave Artemis astronauts for their reentry. From what I understand this is going to be tricky. There have been some stories about the heat shield, and the change of angle of entry. A very big deal is about to happen. Reentry is so dangerous, so precise. All my thoughts will be with them as they return to earth.🌎 🙌🏻

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

Planned Parenthood also received a record $832 million in taxpayer funding during the period, a 5% increase from the prior year.

So yes, you’re funding the murder of children.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

NO ONE IS LEFT BEHIND!

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Karl Marx's body is in his grave, London.

Nietzsche's body is in his grave, Lützen

Muhammad's body is in his grave, Medina

Buddha's body is in his grave, Pingliang

But, if you travel to Christ's grave in Jerusalem, it's empty, & has been for 2,000 years.