Jacob

I try to be like Jesus Christ. I fail often. Husband. Father of two wonderful young men.

[Frank Brown @FrankBr05713205]

I teach auto shop at a small high school. We work on students cars, teachers cars, students parents cars and some community people cars. We only charge for parts and not labor, so we saved some people a lot of money last school year. This last school year we did 126 oil changes, 68 brake jobs, 85 alignments, 4 steering racks, 22 tune ups, 32 struts, 20 shock absorbers, 4 transfer cases, mounted and balanced 82 new tires, 4 timing chains, 15 valve cover gaskets, 14 thermostats, 4 radiators, 12 in tank fuel pumps, 8 EVAP canisters, 6 exhaust manifolds, 4 mufflers, 15 AC repairs including evacuate and recharge, 8 alternators, 22 batteries, 9 starters and so much more! Proud of those students I am!

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Take it all in, West Virginia 💛

For the first time ever, those country roads lead straight to Omaha‼️

[Jacob @AlphaVolsDad]

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@Fat_Electrician @ChrisZimmer The ones currently running and being built are not closed loop unless you count the water cycle as closed loop. They are changing to closed loop systems, but that is something they are fighting due to the increased capital required.

[Jacob @AlphaVolsDad]

Old but gold. GBO!

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@XFreeze Weird. I didn't get the same result. It points towards you training the model beforehand.

[Jacob @AlphaVolsDad]

@BoCamaro Imagine how Satan felt when the guy on the cross gained salvation. That's what it's like being a Tennessee fan.

[Jacob @AlphaVolsDad]

This is awesome man. Thank you for sharing. I invited my grandmother to church a few weeks ago. She brought up what a previous pastor did years ago, I think before I was born, and said she couldn't believe a man of God could do something like that. All I could think about was how God doesn't even know about it anymore because he confessed and repented, but we, all mere humans, will remember each other's sins regardless of what we do after we turn away from them. I am thankful that Jesus made the way for me to have salvation and redemption, because I could have never earned it. Bo, I thank you for sharing these things as I am positive God is working through your testimony.

[🍊🍊Capt'n Cornjuice🥃🥃 @BoCamaro]

So I watched "The Passion of the Christ" last night. And I am on my back deck tonight thinking.

Think about this.

In the movie, they have beaten him to near death and when they first take him to his cross, Jesus clings to it, and the thief chastised him for embracing his own cross. Mocking him for doing so.

Then Christ gave all he had to carry that cross which weighed as much as him.. They beat him while he did. It came to the point that his physical body couldn't carry it any longer, so a man was ordered to carry it with him. Yet Christ still clung to the cross.

Do you know why?

Because he knew at the other end of that short journey was OUR freedom. Not his.... OURS..... with every single step, with every drop of blood, with every single tear, he knew he was one moment closer to being at the right hand of the Father and his mission complete to free us all.

The man embraced the cross. Begged God to forgive the men nailing him to it. Begged God to forgive those that had beaten him with whips and canes and hammered a crown of thorns on his head.

He embraced it all.... for US......

And now, when times get hard and life gets even slightly uncomfortable, we claim that "God isn't listening and won't take my burden" as if we even know what a real burden is...

How many times would we cling to the proverbial cross for another and suffer as he did to free them from the pain? Would we ever do it at all? Maybe for our own child? Maybe?

As you lay down tonight, pray a prayer of thanks. Not for the normal things. Not tonight. Tonight, pray a special prayer of thanks that he held on to that cross and carried it as far as his mortal body would allow... because that took more dedication than any of us could give for anyone.

By the time you wake up in the morning, he will have risen, 2000 years ago. He will have beat death. 2000 years ago, all the sin you and I will ever commit was paid for because he clung to that cross like it was a lifeline.... not for him... But for you and me.

[Jacob @AlphaVolsDad]

Today I am thinking about the silence, the waiting, the mourning, the unbelief, and the way the Apostles and disciples of Jesus felt on this day. The man who had saved so many, who had cast out devils, who had made the lame walk and the blind see, is dead and in the tomb. Imagine that feeling of hopelessness and lost in confusion. Jesus said it would be 3 days before he would be raised, but they had surely forgotten that in their grief and sorrow. All they could do was wait for the Passover to end and start back over. But, that's not what happened was it? So, if you are in that moment of confusion or just wondering what is going to happen next, I tell you now that God is working and is going to do what he says. We just have to be patient and trust him.

Romans 8:28 NIV

[28] And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

Now I know why they call it Good Friday

[Jacob @AlphaVolsDad]

John 17:20-23 NIV

[20] “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, [21] that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. [22] I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— [23] I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

[Jacob @AlphaVolsDad]

John 14:1-3 NIV

[1] “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God ; believe also in me. [2] My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

[Jacob @AlphaVolsDad]

DOGE drove much larger overall federal workforce shrinkage in 2025 (hundreds of thousands exited, with net reductions of ~250,000–300,000+ after hires), but most of that came from voluntary exits like the "Fork in the Road" deferred resignation program (~149,500), early retirements/buyouts (~105,900), and attrition—not involuntary layoffs. These voluntary departures skewed more toward mid- and late-career employees eligible for incentives or retirement.

[Jacob @AlphaVolsDad]

@WhiteHouse So, they fired everyone mid/late career and now want to replace them with younger cheaper individuals? Who would fall for that? It'll just be repeated in those individuals mid/late careers.

[Jacob @AlphaVolsDad]

@BoCamaro I have thought about this before. Thank you for sharing!

[🍊🍊Capt'n Cornjuice🥃🥃 @BoCamaro]

Let's write a little bit...

This week is Easter. It will be my first Easter as a saved man. It will be my first Easter since I was a child that I will be in a church.

Over the years I have studied all the reasons Christians shouldn't celebrate Easter. It's Pagan, they say. It's about the rebirth of the world. The coming of Spring. The flowers blooming. It's about fertility. It's why we use the Easter Bunny, which has one of the shortest gestational periods of all animals, and the Easter Egg.... It's about the celebration of love, I used to argue...

Oh, I can go on for days about how Christians ripped off the Pagans for the holiday... I know it all.... I can refute any Christian argument for a logical debate.

You see, I can speak all the logical reasons why Easter isn't Christian. Satan made sure, in my weakest moment, that he fully armed me to fight Christians, word for word....

Yet here I stand.... a new Christian excited to celebrate with my family and my friends for the first time ever?

Why???

Because no bunny died for me on a cross on Calvary. No egg was painted for my sins to be washed away.

Tonight, I read the book of John from chapter 14 through the end.

I read about him being betrayed. I read about Peter denying him 3 times before the rooster crowed. I read about Pilate basically telling Jesus to just recant his own words and he could be free.

And I read about Jesus refusing to do so. I read about him being beaten with a lead tipped whip. I read about them crucifying him.

And as I was reading, I thought to myself, "Where was his deciples? Where were the people he healed and that followed him? How could they just leave him there?", and I thought to myself, "If I were there......." and then I had a real conversation with myself...

I denied Christ for years. Thousands of times, but I want to pass blame on Peter for doing it 3 times?

I think I would be some super hero for Jesus when I won't even pray out loud in a restaurant as to not offend those non-believers around me? I just sit there in silence like I am ashamed to mention his name?

Tonight, Jesus basically said, "You would deny me over and over again... and that is ok. You are just a man."

And that's where my mind is tonight as I sit here alone in my thoughts.

I look forward to this weekend. I look forward to celebrating the sacrifice that Christ made for me. I look forward to watching the children search for those colorful eggs, and getting their Easter baskets, even though I know whay they mean...

Because Salvation is something no Pagan God could provide and we really are, after all, celebrating LOVE.... The greatest love that has ever been given.... and for that... I am finally truly....thankful.

[Jacob @AlphaVolsDad]

John 16:1-16 KJV

[1] These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. [2] They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. [3] And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. [4] But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you. [5] But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou? [6] But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. [7] Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. [8] And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: [9] of sin, because they believe not on me; [10] of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; [11] of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. [12] I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. [13] Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. [14] He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. [15] All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. [16] A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.