Chris Harrell

Disciple of Jesus, Husband, Dad, and Teaching & Vision Pastor.

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

42 years ago tonight, a boy named Daniel Larusso was brutally attacked by a gang of masked thugs.

Two months and one illegal crane kick later, young Daniel would exact his revenge with the help of a maintenance man from Okinawa.

Please remember the true meaning of Halloween.

[Tarleton State Men's Basketball @TarletonMBB]

1️⃣ WEEK‼️

[Polly Grotheer Harrell @pollylynnH]

I see you, Coach Jake!

[Tarleton State Men's Basketball @TarletonMBB]

Isaac made some trades and he came out pretty well in the end 🤠

Be part of the early arriving fans to get your own free shirt tonight at MIDNIGHT MADNESS!

[Tarleton State Men's Basketball @TarletonMBB]

CONFIRMED

Isaac always smiles 😁

[Tarleton State Men's Basketball @TarletonMBB]

Happy birthday Isaac 🎂

[Chris Harrell @chrisharrell]

I think this post reflects some well-needed wisdom.

@CompassJTown

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

One of the most consequential indoctrinations of this present era is the advanced science of blame-shifting. Generally speaking, we have forgotten how to take responsibility for our own errors, misjudgments, poor decisions and sins.

Watch, for example, how rarely we see individuals on social media apologize. We all blow it. No one on earth gets it right all the time and no one is a bigger pretender than the one who acts like he or she is always right.

As James teaches, the one who does not sin with his or her mouth is a perfect individual, able to control the whole body as well. If you’re anything like me, you’ve proved well UNable.

Yet even in this universal human condition, we seem to be unable to get the words *I’m sorry* or *I blew it* or *that was on me* out of our mouths.

Sometimes it’s not that we’ve forgotten. It’s because we know we’re going to get a double skewering when we do. People pile on in with, that’s not enough! Or, how about the time you did so-and-so! But that’s where we have to leave it to them to take responsibility for their own addiction to rage.

There’s also the reality that far fewer people see the apology than saw the mistake and we’re asked for eons if we’re ever going to apologize. I don’t think we have to keep doing it over and over. It will never be enough anyway.
Sometimes we just have to take the hit and move on with deeper humility.

Social media is by no means the only place we see a compulsive unwillingness to take responsibility. I’m a big proponent of seeking reputable therapy to sort out, for instance, why we were inclined to make such disastrous, self-destructive & other’s-destructive decisions. But, in doing only this, we stop too soon and deep healing eludes us.

We will never genuinely change if we constantly shift blame. It will not only affect the big situations but the everyday inability to simply say, *OK, I blew it there. I’m sorry.*

I’ll wrap this up with what’s most at stake. If we don’t take responsibility, we won’t repent. If we won’t repent, we can’t be refreshed.

I say this as one who is old and has made all the mistakes. Based on our inclination to often avoid it at all costs, I don’t think we realize the sheer gift from God we have in repentance. With sufficient self-awareness, we could humbly and sincerely repent, find grace and mercy at God’s throne and, see Acts 3:19, times of refreshing come upon us.

Honest to goodness, one enormous reason why we’re so harshly judgmental, dried up spiritually and meaner than snakes is our chronic resistance to repentance.

That said, I take full responsibility for this gargantuan, overly wordy post and, well, I’m sorry. :)

[Chris Harrell @chrisharrell]

"Maturity is radically predicated on honesty."

- Ronald Rolheiser

[Tarleton State Men's Basketball @TarletonMBB]

It’s our last week of camp before 4th of July break 😤

[Tarleton State Men's Basketball @TarletonMBB]

It started TODAY! 🏀🤠
#AlwaysUs

[Tarleton State Men's Basketball @TarletonMBB]

First team meeting in the books 📚

[Chris Harrell @chrisharrell]

@1049TheFox Flint 👊🏻

[PortalUpdates @portal_updates]

Elon transfer Ned Hull has committed to Virginia Tech.

The 6’3” redshirt sophomore guard appeared in 32 games, averaging 4.5 points, and 1.8 rebounds per game.

[Greg Herenda @CoachHerenda]

Young man w old school game …..
👏👏👏👏
OldSchool🏀

[Tarleton State Men's Basketball @TarletonMBB]

Isaac Harrell will look great in purple

[Eric Haut @Eric_Haut_TSU]

Welcome to the FAMILY, @IsaacWHarrell‼️

#BleedPurple💜 #RollTexans🤠

[Tarleton State Men's Basketball @TarletonMBB]

Tarleton State Men's Basketball adds Elon transfer Isaac Harrell

Read more - https://t.co/OvelHfDr9I

[Chris Harrell @chrisharrell]

Let's go!!!!!!!

[Tarleton State Men's Basketball @TarletonMBB]

Tarleton State Men's Basketball adds Elon transfer Isaac Harrell

Read more - https://t.co/OvelHfDr9I

[Tom Wright @profntwright]

Many Christians today, if they keep ‘Lent’ at all, follow it with only a single day of Easter celebration. But the early Christians celebrated Easter as a prolonged festival, running for forty days until the commemoration of Jesus’ Ascension. The present book, ending with a whole week of Easter reflections, is pointing towards that larger reality.

Why did they do all this? What did it mean for them? And what might it mean for us to follow the same kind of discipline?

Perhaps the most important thing they were doing was to remind themselves, in the weeks either side of Easter, that world history divides into two: the time before Jesus’ death and resurrection, and the time afterwards. New creation has been launched in the midst of the old.
-From Wilderness to Glory: Lent and Easter for Everyone

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

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