Danielle Imel

Loves Jesus ✝️ Beef 🐂 & Baseball ⚾️

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

I’ll keep posting this video at least once a month for the foreseeable future

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Erika Kirk forgives her husband’s assassin:

"Our savior said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. That man, that young man, I forgive him."

So incredibly powerful.
Pray for Erika 🙏🏻

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

Revival Lord. Pour down your Spirit.

[🇺🇸 𝓐𝓟𝓡𝓘𝓛 𝓢𝓟𝓐𝓡𝓚𝓢 🇺🇸 @AprilSpark1890]

🙏🏼🇺🇸❤️Such a beautiful prayer honoring Charlie Kirk.❤️🇺🇸🙏🏼
#TEXASISCHARLIEKIRK

[MELANIA TRUMP @MELANIATRUMP]

Charlie’s children will be raised with stories instead of memories, photographs instead of laughter, and silence where their father’s voice should have echoed.

Charlie Kirk’s life should serve as a symbolic reminder that compassionate awareness elevates family, love, and country.

[Megyn Kelly @megynkelly]

I don’t care right now about the haters on cable. I don’t care about anodyne statements from politicians about Charlie.
I only care about 3 things:
1. That his killer be caught, tried and given the ultimate punishment;
2. That we pray for his family, friends and colleagues and do everything possible to ease their pain; and
3. That we amplify Charlie’s message to the mountaintops and not retreat in spreading it even one fucking inch.

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

13-year-old Camp Mystic, Texas survivor rewrites the lyrics to Hallelujah in the aftermath of the floods

This gave me chills.

Skyler Derrington, who has attended Camp Mystic in Texas since she was young, was among those who escaped the devastating floods while at the camp, which sits on the banks of the Guadalupe River in Texas Hill Country.

In the aftermath, she rewrote the song “Hallelujah,” turning her experience into a heartfelt tribute to resilience, community, and the place she’s loved since childhood.

[Trooper Ben @TrooperBenKs]

I keep stumbling across this picture.
It’s shown up more than a few times in the last 12 hours.
And I’m certain others have seen it too…

It’s powerful.
Not because of what’s happening in the moment…
But because of what it represents.

This isn’t a picture of one bad call.
It’s the weight of many.

Law enforcement officers see things most people never will.
Things they carry with them long after the scene is cleared.

They’ve knocked on doors at 2 in the morning to tell someone their loved one isn’t coming home.
They’ve tried to save lives… and sometimes they couldn’t.
They’ve heard the screams of families who just lost everything.
They’ve searched for the missing and recovered those who didn’t survive.
They’ve stood in courtrooms, in crash scenes, and in homes forever changed.

And somehow, they keep showing up.
Shift after shift.
Year after year.

You might see them smiling at a gas station
Or waving to a child
Or standing quietly at a public event

But you don’t see what they’ve held onto from the night before.
You don’t see the calls that replay in their mind when everything else goes quiet.
You don’t see how certain places bring back certain memories.
You don’t see how they keep some stories locked away just to keep functioning.

And most of the time, they don’t talk about it.

Not because they don’t feel it
But because they do.

The job asks for more than time.
It asks for presence,
Compassion,
Composure,
And strength in moments that could break anyone else.

And in the middle of it all…
Some don’t make it home.

They leave behind uniforms folded neatly in lockers.
And families holding folded flags.
And a silence that never quite goes away.

So if this image keeps finding you like it has me.
Let it remind you of this.

Behind every badge is a human being.
Carrying more than most will ever know.
And doing it anyway.

Support them,
Pray for them,
Encourage them,
Because they carry the weight,
So others don’t have to…

Be safe ,
Trooper Ben
#HelpMore

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

Good thing the Affordable Care Act made health insurance so affordable…

[PragerU @prageru]

NEW: The Government Doesn't Make Money—You Do

You build wealth on the basis of your own efforts, experience, and skills.

But it’s a very different story for the government. Where does the government’s “wealth” come from?

Does it make anything?

@caroljsroth explains.

This video was made possible by a generous gift from The Peter & Judy Copses Foundation.

[Danielle Imel @danielle_imel]

The People's President! 🇺🇸

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

🇺🇸President Trump's address guests share a heartfelt message with him ahead of his speech:

"From the bottom of my heart, thank you for everything."

[Ryan Clark @Realrclark25]

Cooper Dejean walked into the Super Dome wearing his OABCIG high school letterman on Super Bowl Sunday. His cleats also read 712->215. It represented his journey from small town Odebolt, Iowa to the big city life of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

It was the biggest moment of the rookie phenom’s career & he carried his hometown on his back. Even at 22, he understands what he represents & who he represents for. He hopes his achievements inspire, & hopes his love shows his gratitude for the support that’s gotten him here!

@thepivot X Super Bowl Champion @cdejean23

#ThePivot #NFL #SuperBowl #CooperDejean

https://t.co/2iyl688G1q

[John Hough @JohnHough__]

Cooper DeJean attended a Class 1A school called Odebolt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove (OABCIG) High School with an enrollment of 306 students and grew up in Odebolt, Iowa which has less than 1,000 people. That pick 6 was for all of the small town kids in America. #SuperBowl

[Natasha Crain @Natasha_Crain]

In this year’s Super Bowl, the He Gets Us campaign is doubling down on its progressive, fully human Jesus.

As many of you know, I’ve written an in-depth article on my website critiquing the He Gets Us campaign each of the last two years. But today I want to address the new Super Bowl ad specifically.

The ad is titled, “What Is Greatness?” It shows a series of photos of people helping each other in various, often sacrificial ways. For example, they show people helping someone push a car out of snow, someone donating an organ, a woman saving another woman from a car accident, and other uncontroversial actions. Embedded in these shots are also a couple of more culturally-charged examples, including a man washing the words “Go Back” off a building (presumably an immigration reference), and a man wearing a John 3:16 hat hugging another man in the middle of what appears to be an LGBTQ pride event. All of this is set to the song Personal Jesus (written by Depeche Mode)—the idea being that you can be Jesus to someone else by being “great” in these ways.

The ad ends with these words: “Jesus showed us what greatness really is. He Gets Us. All of Us.”

As in the previous years, there will be Christians defending these ads as being helpful in generating interest from nonbelievers in learning more about Jesus. And as in the previous years, I am going to say that these ads are actually incredibly harmful to the cause of evangelism because the campaign reinforces what culture wants to believe about Jesus while leaving out what culture doesn’t want to believe. If culture’s wrong ideas about Jesus become more deeply seated due to a campaign like this, it simply makes it harder for biblically faithful Christians to share about the REAL Jesus—a Jesus people often don’t want to hear about.

In particular, here are four things you should know about the ad.

1. The ad centers around a question that is problematic in and of itself.
The concern of Scripture, and therefore Jesus, is never what makes humans “great.” The concern of Scripture is who God is, what makes GOD great, who man is, what makes man FALLEN, how we can be reconciled to our Creator, and what God expects of us as His children once we put our trust in Jesus as Lord and Savior. Loving others—which is what the campaign is conflating with being “great”—is an outflowing of our love for God. As such, we serve others not because we can become great somehow ourselves, but because our good works can give glory to GOD (Matthew 5:16). The He Gets Us campaign continually has made Christianity centered around humans rather than God, and this year we’re seeing the same thing.

2. The song Personal Jesus problematically reinforces the idea that Jesus is just a good moral example.
I’ve written extensively already at the links in the comments about how the campaign portrays a completely human Jesus—nothing more than an inspiring human who relates to our problems and cares a whole lot about a culturally palatable version of social justice. Culture likes that version of Jesus, so culture will also like this ad. The idea that Jesus is a great moral example and that we can literally be a personal Jesus to others by doing good works doesn’t tell nonbelievers something different than what they already believe. It simply reinforces the idea that we can be just like (a fully human) Jesus. To be clear, that’s different than the biblical belief that we do good works not because we can be the same as Jesus, but because those good works glorify God. That may seem like a subtle distinction, but it’s a critical one. Good works in and of themselves aren’t the goal, but one would certainly think that from this campaign.

3. The immigration and LGBTQ references slyly promote a progressive agenda.
This is the part that I find particularly deceptive. Strictly speaking, there’s nothing unbiblical about the pictures with immigration and LGBTQ references. Spray painting “Go Back” on a residence with immigrants is something I think we can all agree is unloving, and taking the action to wash it off would be appropriate, regardless of what you think about any given border policies. Yet, we all know this is making a bigger picture statement about those (typically conservatives) who are concerned about the border status. There’s a huge difference between antagonistically spray painting a building and believing that it’s necessary to have a secure border or even that it’s necessary for some people to return to their countries. Yet, the message conveyed is that Jesus would never send people “back”—something progressives will see as a rightful condemnation of the politically conservative Christians they already think have Jesus all wrong. There’s so much nuance needed in the immigration conversation—and plenty of room for biblically faithful Christians to disagree—but using this image clearly targets politically conservative Christians specifically.

Similarly, the LGBTQ image implicitly targets theologically conservative Christians as well. There’s nothing wrong with a Christian hugging someone at an LBGTQ event—if they’re there to share a biblically faithful message of the gospel that doesn’t in some way affirm sin. But, of course, there’s no context for the picture, and everyone looks quite happy in it, so once again, culture will see the Jesus they already like (one who affirms everyone exactly as they want to be affirmed). Now, I bet the campaign promoters would say that they just want to show it’s great and loving to embrace people with different beliefs, but if you know culture already presumes a false understanding that Jesus affirms everything they want, it’s extremely problematic to add to that false understanding with a picture they’ll clearly take a different message from. I’ll be frank: I absolutely believe the ambiguity is intended. Read my other articles (on my website) for plenty of evidence that there are many progressives behind the campaign.

4. The closing statement, “Jesus showed us what greatness really is,” completely misses the entire point of the gospel.
I’m not sure they could have gotten Jesus more wrong. Jesus showed us the greatness of GOD. He wasn’t here to cheerlead us into thinking we’re great when we help others. If nonbelievers watch this ad and understandably conclude that Jesus’s key message is that humans are great when we help others, they will have learned nothing they didn’t believe already and nothing about who Jesus actually is and what he taught. And if they somehow are interested enough to go to the website, they’ll see even more to confirm their pre-existing beliefs (again, see my other articles for more on that).

It’s tragic that an organization that has the money to run Super Bowl ads is only adding to culture’s confusion about Jesus. But use it as an opportunity to explain to people why this ISN’T a faithful representation of biblical Christianity. God can use anything for His glory, and in this case, it might be the opportunity to CORRECT an ad many people will be talking about.

#hegetsus

[Danielle Imel @danielle_imel]

@JustineBateman Maybe she needs a refresher on the ages of some of our founding fathers.

[Danielle Imel @danielle_imel]

@NBSaphierMD @SecDuffy Amen! I keep thinking about his wife's post about the words of wisdom Justice Thomas gave him at his swearing in. "Lord, give me the wisdom to know what do to and the courage to do it." May God bless and guide him!

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Classic progressive pastor—quick to speak of God’s grace but hesitant to condemn sin. Preaching half the truth isn’t preaching the Gospel at all.

[John Ekdahl @JohnEkdahl]

Because we grew up drinking water from a garden hose and then you made us wear masks outdoors.

[Lisa Boothe @LisaMarieBoothe]

Witnessing this as I left the Trump victory party moved me to tears. These people have been slandered and demeaned. They are good people. Patriots of all backgrounds who love this country and came together to make it great again. 🇺🇸

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

Dear media people who still don’t understand:

This is not about Trump

This is about safety
This is about peace
This is about strength
This is about prosperity
This is about freedom
This is about reclaiming the American Dream for the middle and working class

This is what you fail to understand