John David Gilmer

[Neyland Press Corps @NeylandPress_]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Oct. 17, 1970) —

Tennessee tailback Don McLeary moves the ball up field with the help of a block from Sonny Leach (84).

The Vols won, 24-0 at Neyland Stadium.

📸 Knoxville News-Sentinel

[Tony Lane 🇺🇸 @TonyLaneNV]

A woman hiking in Canada nearly became a grizzly’s next meal and the video circulating right now is genuinely one of the most intense wildlife encounters you will ever watch - her dog is with her, a massive grizzly is right there, and somehow she kept her head together long enough for both of them to walk away breathing.

That is not a small thing. Most people talk tough until nature is standing ten feet in front of them and every instinct in your body is screaming to run, and running is exactly the worst thing you can do.

Grizzlies are built to chase, they top out over 700 pounds and can cover ground faster than any human alive. The people who survive these moments are the ones who override pure fear with pure discipline and this woman did exactly that.

If you hike, camp, or spend any real time in the wilderness - bear spray is not optional, it is the difference between a story you tell and one somebody else tells about you.

Could you have kept your cool?

Hats off to her.

[Matt Couch @RealMattCouch]

This is insane… the WNBA left the biggest name in their sport, Caitlin Clark off the 30 year anniversary poster.. yet put Angel Reese and others on it..

They have to rent out bigger arenas at away game cities because of Caitlin.. it’s like they want to destroy themselves..

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

The US men’s soccer team sings along to the national anthem with their hands over their hearts. The vibe shift is real, American athletes are over the anti-American woke BS era. Awesome to see. Let’s kick ass again today.

[ustonymc @ustonymc]

"I regard Custer's massacre as a sacrifice of troops brought on by Custer himself, that was wholly unnecessary."
President Ulysses S Grant

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

If you ask Him to, Jesus Christ will come into your heart and He’ll change you. He’ll forgive you and cleanse you of your sins. He will make you a new man or woman. #ThursdayThoughts

[CHANNEL TN @CHANNEL_TN_]

Grant Williams
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Jaden Springer
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Julian Phillips
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Chaz Lanier
Jahmai Mashack
Nate Ament
Ja'Kobi Gillespie
Felix Okpara

Rick Barnes now with 13 players drafted in the last 7 years at UT

[FOX Sports Knoxville @FOXSportsKnox]

Two years ago today, Tennessee won its first-ever national championship in baseball 🍊🏆

[Milwaukee Bucks @Bucks]

A special message from Coach Barnes. 🧡

[More Important Issues @More_Issues]

Two years ago today, Tennessee won the National Championship�

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

Join us for DAY 40 of 50 Days of Prayer for America with Pastor D.J. Horton of SOUTH CAROLINA.

Let us know you’re praying in the comments below, and go to https://t.co/3Tyi8DyyTX for all 50 videos and more…

#OneNationUnderGod #50Days50States50Prayers @BGEA

[Fox News @FoxNews]

"The players were neither fined nor disciplined, nor will they ever be."

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is pushing back after Sen. Josh Hawley accused the league of targeting San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verse references on their Pride Night hats.

In a letter to Hawley, Manfred said the players received only a "routine oral warning" related to MLB's uniform policy and stressed that no fines or discipline were issued. He also said the league later learned the Giants had not clearly informed players they could opt out of the Pride-themed cap and wear a standard game cap instead.

The dispute has become the latest flashpoint in the debate over religious expression, Pride events, and professional sports.

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Little-known Revolutionary fact:

Many historians call Samuel Adams, not George Washington, the Father of the American Revolution.

Years before independence was popular, Adams was teaching that our rights come from God, not government. He argued that the colonists possessed rights “as men, as Christians, and as subjects”—in that order.

Adams was also deeply influenced by the Great Awakening and the preaching of George Whitefield. He believed that liberty could only survive among a moral and religious people.

Washington would lead the army. Jefferson would write the Declaration. But Samuel Adams spent decades preparing the minds of Americans for freedom.

The Revolution was won on the battlefield, but it began in the hearts and convictions of men like Samuel Adams.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Tom Burnett called his wife Deena four times from Flight 93.
He was a senior vice president at a medical device company. He was 38 years old. He had three daughters under ten. And somewhere over Pennsylvania on the morning of September 11, 2001, he understood exactly what was happening and decided what he was going to do about it.
By the third call, he had already confirmed that two other planes had deliberately crashed into buildings. He told Deena clearly: ""I know we're going to die."" Then he said something else. ""Some of us are going to do something about it.""
He asked her to call the authorities and tell them everything he had shared with her. He was gathering information between calls, quietly taking stock of who was on the plane, what the hijackers were doing, what windows of opportunity might exist. He was, by every account of those calls, calm. Focused. Organized. The kind of person who, in the worst moment imaginable, did not waste a single second.
His fourth call was brief.
""We're going to rush the hijackers,"" he said. ""I love you. I love the girls. I'll call you back.""
He never called back.
Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03 in the morning. The Capitol building, believed by investigators to have been the intended target, was spared.
Tom Burnett's words have been quoted in congressional testimony, read at memorials, and included in national remembrances of that day. And yet, for many Americans who visit the Flight 93 memorial in Pennsylvania, his name is still new to them.
That is worth sitting with for a moment.
He made four phone calls in the last hour of his life. He spent that time gathering information, organizing a response, saying goodbye to his family, and then doing what he said he was going to do. He did not panic. He did not spend those calls in despair. He spent them working the problem, loving his family, and deciding that if this was how it ended, it was not going to end without a fight.
The plane went down in a field instead of a building full of people.
His daughters are grown now. Deena Burnett has spent years speaking publicly about her husband, about those four phone calls, about what it means to have been on the other end of that line while history was happening and there was nothing she could do but listen and write down what he told her.
Tom Burnett called four times. He said he loved them. He said they were going to do something about it.
Then he did.

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Two hundred fifty years ago, a handful of ordinary men decided they’d rather be dangerous than be ruled.

They weren’t generals. They were printers, farmers, preachers, and a few outright troublemakers. Fathers, most of them. And when they walked out of that hall in Philadelphia, somebody asked Franklin what they’d built.
“A republic,” he said. “If you can keep it.”

If.

That one word has been sitting there for two and a half centuries, waiting on us to answer it. And as we roll up on the 250th, I’ll be straight with you. I don’t think we’re keeping it.

We’ve handed over our liberty a piece at a time and called it safety. Let them watch us, track us, search us, and cage us, and then thanked them for it. Doesn’t matter which party held the pen. Pick a team and they’ll gladly take a different cut of you while you cheer.

We lost our identity. We stopped being free men and women and let ourselves get sorted into demographics, audiences, voting blocs, and customers. Something to be farmed.

And we lost each other. They taught us to hate the neighbor with the wrong sign in his yard, while the people who actually run things don’t care about your sign at all. The division isn’t a side effect. It’s the product - and we keep buying it.

I’ve got nine kids. The republic I hand them is the only inheritance that matters, and right now I’m not proud of the shape it’s in.

Franking knew something and he tried to warn us - keeping it was never going to be comfortable. “If” isn’t a promise. It’s a dare. Two hundred fifty years later it’s still pointed right at us.

So happy (Founding) Father’s Day. Be dangerous. Do good. And for God’s sake, let’s keep the republic.

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

Thank you to everyone who is joining in to pray for our nation as we look forward to celebrating our 250th anniversary. I believe in the power of prayer for this country! Come back at noon ET every day, leading up to July 4, to pray for America with a different pastor from each of our 50 states.

#50Days50States50Prayers #OneNationUnderGod @BGEA

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: The MLB has BACKED DOWN, DECLINES to fine the Giants players after they wore Bible verses on the LGBTQ pride caps

"The players were neither fined nor disciplined, nor will they ever be." — letter to Sen. Josh Hawley

The MLB ADMITS they screwed up.

NEVER BACK DOWN when defending the religious freedom of Christians!

HUGE blunder by the MLB that this even became an issue. Christians won't take it!

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Good mornin' folks...

Folks, know this, the enemy is doing his best to lure our focus with evil works and worldly desires that entertain our flesh. If we aren't careful, these things will redirect our love and devotion away from God. As Christians, we are reminded to check our behaviors, actions, and attitudes to ensure that all we say, think, and do are aligned with God and His word. Are we perfect? NO, but we serve a PERFECT GOD, who wants us to keep our eyes on Him and strive to do our best each day. If you choose to serve Him, do it with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength, and tell the devil today:
BUT AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE,
WE WILL SERVE THE LORD!!
...Remember...God's gotcha folks...have a gooden

[John David Gilmer @CC304Life]

@JamesHu27192912 I’ll be praying for you to have a speedy recovery.🙏🙏

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

Love summertime in Banner Elk!