My dads a really smart man.
✅Read a book a week for 30 years!
✅Can fix anything!!
✅Socially strong & networks well!
✅Great leader!
He never moved up in his company.
I recently asked him why & the answer he gave me brought me to tears!!
Man I love my dad ❤️🙏
Preached tonight & referenced the prodigal son. He doesn't return home because of a renewed love for his father. He comes back home simply to survive b/c he ran out of money and is starving. And his father is perfectly fine with that!
God just wants you home.
A salvation earned by good works and moral effort would favor the more able, competent, accomplished and privileged. But salvation by sheer grace favors the failed, the outsiders, the weak, because it goes only to those who know salvation must be by sheer Grace.
If they are actually talking to the only one who has any authority in the world we live in or can do anything about our current circumstances, then that is truly one of the most beautiful things I can think of.
I tend to think about people's social media comments that say "praying for you" or "sending my prayers your way."
Sometimes I wonder if people are actually praying. If they are actually taking time out of their day to talk to God, the creator of the universe, about MY problems.
Take a moment today and thank God for your mental health.
Reach out to someone you haven't had an intentional conversation with recently. Put life on hold and be the light for someone today because their life could constantly be on hold.
One of the saddest things to think about is that a lot of people die without ever living. I'm not talking about living for the party I'm talking about where true life is found.
Phenomenal play all around as Nate Stanley finds T.J. Hockenson for the @HawkeyeFootball bomb. 😲
The gain led to a Noah Fant TD and a tie game at Kinnick: