Elisha Freeman

[Johnny Barner 🤙🦅 @jrptigers]

What it’s like being an Auburn and Atlanta sports fan

[The Sport Parent @TheSportParent]

5 Ways To Teach a Daughter to Have Grit

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[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Justin Verlander gets greeted by his daughter as he leaves the mound for the final time.

The perfect end to a Legendary Hall of Fame Career

[Chad O. Jackson @chadojackson]

The quickest way to lose your republic is to convince the public that every grievance requires a “government solution.”

[CBS News @CBSNews]

"We are fighting for survival."

Matt Bell, 52, has been farming for more than half his life in central North Carolina.

He grows soybeans, corn and wheat and raises beef cattle on more than 1,000 acres. But Bell, who voted for President Trump, says soaring prices for fuel, fertilizer and equipment are hurting his farm and leading some of his fellow farmers to consider calling it quits once this growing season ends.

"I do not want any Americans to feel sorry for the American farmer," Bell said. "I want the Americans to be mad that we have been put in this situation."

[Jon Gruden @BarstoolGruden]

🚨HEY AUBURN TIGERS🚨

I am coming to the game THIS SATURDAY against Florida and I need your help!

Reach out to @jakemalasek to let us know where we need to go, what we need to see and what we need to do to get the REAL Auburn game day experience!

Can't wait to see it!!!

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“I don’t have this story without faith,” says Bravo, the U.S. Air Force officer who was rescued from Iran.

“I am not saying faith is [a] replacement for training,” he says. “Training helps us understand what we do. But faith is the backstop of all of my actions.” https://t.co/oaIHxJpCDz

[BetterMe App @betterme]

Reach your muscle goals 💪
Stick to this simple plan to succeed:
1. Take a 1-minute quiz
2. Get a workout and meal plan
3. Follow the program (easy-peasy)

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

I'm deeply persuaded that the secret to a confident heart and a peaceful night of sleep isn't a secret at all. Rather, it's plain-and-simple theology. By that, I mean trusting foundational principles that God lays out in his Word. Here are five:

1. Accept The Chaos
We have a miniscule amount of control in a gargantuan universe. Each day will provide fresh trouble (Matthew 6:34). The more we try to manipulate the situations, locations, and relationships of life, the more we'll become exhausted and discouraged. Live responsibly and be wise, but recognize that you were not designed to govern this world.

2. Know The Facts
Even though I just told you to accept the chaos, the Bible actually declares that everything in the universe is managed with complete and specific authority (Acts 17:26). Nothing is chaotic in God's eyes; he is never confused or taken off-guard. When we tell ourselves otherwise, it makes sense that we'll be stressed and anxious.

3. Trust The Father
God is more than just a ruling deity, exercising his sovereign power of people and places. The Bible tells us that he is also good and will give his children everything we need and more (see Matthew 6:26-32 and 7:9-11). Your life is secure is the hands of a powerful and loving Father.

4. Pursue Spiritual Disciplines
In the midst of trials, it's very tempting to abandon the spiritual disciplines of your faith and try to make it on your own. Pray, fast, meditate on and memorize Scripture, and keep attending worship services and small groups. Immerse yourself in God, his Spirit, his Word, and his body of believers.

5. Know Your Limits
Too many Christians fret trying to decipher God's secret will for their lives. It's a secret, after all! Instead, we should rest within the clear limits of what God has made known to us. Let God be God, and let him establish our steps (Proverbs 16:9).

You and I can sleep because God is wise, loving, and powerful. He is in moment-by-moment control of every detail of our lives.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

25 years ago today Welles Crowther gave his life helping others on 9/11. This is the best story @espn has ever done. Share it with your kids and any others who may not have been alive on 9/11 and don’t know what true bravery in the face of evil is.

[Elisha Freeman @elishaabcd]

@VanAllenPlexico Miami if strictly speaking football but UNC for basketball or Duke

[This Day In Sports Clips @TDISportsClips]

September 7, 2011: Coastal Carolina head football coach David Bennett: “Be a dog. We need more dogs.”

[SEC Shorts @SECShorts]

LSU's intervention goes off the rails.

Presented by: @renasant

[Jake “JBOY” Crain @JakeCrain_]

First Enter Sandman of the year

Show some respect

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

Leah Farrow’s son, Soren, who is autistic, has a passion for ringing doorbells. She hoped to plan something special for his 11th birthday, but it would require some buy in from her neighbors in Huntsville, Alabama. Their response blew her away. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road.

[Auburn Football @AuburnFootball]

Write the next chapter 🦅

[Peter Leithart @PLeithart]

"I died, and Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body I live by the faith of the Son of God," Paul says.

Scary thought. To receive Christ, I have to lose my own identity.

Here as everywhere, we gain only by the way of loss. By losing myself, I become more truly myself.

I am fully myself only when, Christ in me, I become infinitely more than myself.

What is true of you is true of your brothers and sisters in Christ: Christ also lives in them. Honor each one as infinitely more than himself.

[Auburn Football @AuburnFootball]

𝙊𝙉𝙀 𝙒𝙀𝙀𝙆 ⏳🦅

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Dolly Parton is dead, and the church never knew what to do with her.

Half my feed is posting rhinestones today. The other half never trusted her, because she would not wear the uniform.

She never preached a sermon.

She just did the works.

One man. Fifty-eight years. In an industry that eats marriages. No scandal reel, no reality show, no trading up. Just Carl, and a promise kept until death did them part.

She could have built towers in Nashville. Instead she built in the mountains she came from, so the people she came from could work.

Two hundred million books. Given away to children, free, no strings, while the rest of us argued about what to read.

A million dollars for a vaccine in the middle of a plague, and she called it what it was: helping.

She was a feminist who never used the word, a superstar who never left home, and a believer who never made you watch her pray.

"Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works." James 2:18.

We spent years asking whether she was one of ours.

She never asked whether we were one of hers. She was too busy feeding children.

I do not know her heart. That was never my job. I know her works, because the whole county she came from lives on them.

"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Matthew 7:20.

You want to honor her today? Put down the tribute post. Put a book in a kid's hands. Stay married. Do the works.

That was the whole sermon. She just never said it out loud.