@ThomRainer You are a blessing to many including me! I really enjoy hearing you say from time to time how much you appreciate being part of a small group at your local church. We all need community and accountability. Blessings!
Mat Best - Folded Flag (Official Music Video)
This song was written for the men and women who stepped into the fire for this country and never made it home, and for the families, friends, and brothers left carrying their memory forward.
Memorial Day isn’t just a long weekend. Behind every folded flag is a name, a story, and a sacrifice that built the freedom we live in every day.
This song proudly supports the Major Brent Taylor Foundation and the Gold Star families it supports.
Eric took the stage at UNC Chapel Hill to deliver a commencement speech to the next generation of Tar Heels, sharing a message for the graduates as they step into what comes next.
Watch the speech in its entirety here: https://t.co/DbqOdqiymt
“Outdo one another in showing honor” (Rom.12:10). Abba, free us. Life isn’t about winning but serving, not getting more but giving more, not gaining applause but giving love, not earning a higher place on the org chart but choosing a lower place where your grace pools.
The next time you experience a hard moment, tell yourself this: "these moments are not just for my own growth in grace, but for my calling to be a tool of that same grace in the life of a fellow sufferer."
Here is a video you do not want to miss. Two faith-filled police officers reached out to a young man who was standing on a bridge, ready to end his life.
Rather than just doing their job, these officers went above and beyond — they reached into his heart with compassion, courage, and faith. What they said and did in that critical moment is nothing short of inspiring.
It is a powerful reminder that God can use anyone, anywhere, at any time to make a difference. Sometimes all it takes is one person who cares enough to show up.
Watch this and be encouraged — then share it with someone who needs to be reminded that their life has value and that people care. Check it out-
Today is the National Day of Prayer — a day set aside to pray for our nation, our leaders, our churches, and ourselves.
I encourage you to find a church observing this day and join fellow believers in prayer. If you're unable to do that, pause throughout your day and pray wherever you are.
2 Chronicles 7:14 is a powerful verse packed with important principles for us to hold onto as we pray today. I break it all down in this short video. 🙏
We are having NDOP services today at @HarvestOC@harvestriv@KumulaniChapel at 7:00 PM.
Working on a sermon on hospitality today. I was blessed to grow up in a home with parents who were excellent examples of practicing hospitality. #KeepPressingOn
God's grace is not given to make us feel better, but to glorify Him. Good feelings may come, or they may not, but that is not the issue. The issue is whether or not we honor God by the way we respond to our circumstances.
Good Friday asks something of us that most days don't; to sit with the weight before we reach for the victory. To stand at the cross and let it be what it actually was: brutal, costly, and chosen.
He didn't bypass the pain. He walked straight into it, for us. The grief of Gethsemane, the silence of the Father, the darkness over Calvary. Jesus felt the full weight of every sorrow this world carries.
And yet, even there, His trust in the Father held.
Good Friday isn't a day to rush past. It's a day to remember what love actually cost. The joy that carried Jesus through the cross wasn't indifference to suffering...it was unshakable trust in the One who held the other side of it.