Fourth generation Alabamian (turned Texas transplant) here - Alabama is incredibly underrated. I went to an excellent high school with an IB program & more AP classes than one person could take. Beaches, mountains, lakes, a top 50 public university (Auburn - my alma mater. War Eagle! 🦅 ����), top 100 public university (Alabama), a top 35 med school (UAB), a top 50 law school (Alabama), Huntsville has Boeing, NASA (including Space Camp), the Redstone Federal Arsenal, and the highest PhDs per capita in the nation. Budding food scene. College football is life! People are friendly. You can buy a house for not a ton of money. I could go on!
Phillip Yancey's wife, Janet, to whom he’s been married for 55 years, said in a statement regarding his 8-year-long adulterous affair:
"I, Janet Yancey, am speaking from a place of trauma and devastation that only people who have lived through betrayal can understand.
Yet I made a sacred and binding marriage vow 55½ years ago, and I will not break that promise. I accept and understand that God through Jesus has paid for and forgiven the sins of the world, including Philip’s.
God grant me the grace to forgive also, despite my unfathomable trauma. Please pray for us."
An alcoholic friend of Philip Yancey once said to him:
“When I'm late to church, people turn around and stare at me with frowns of disapproval. I get the clear message that I'm not as responsible as they are. When I'm late to AA, the meeting comes to a halt and everyone jumps up to hug and welcome me. They realize that my lateness may be a sign that I almost didn't make it. When I show up, it proves that my desperate need for them won out over my desperate need for alcohol."
There are many young people who approve the killing of Charlie Kirk.
There was a "young man" who approved the killing of Stephen.
That same young man would later become a world-changer for the Messiah.
May many Sauls become Pauls in the aftermath of this. 🙏🙏🙏