Rori Harmon stuck up for Madison Booker at the podium and consoled her after the game in the hallway...
She gave her reasoning after a question from @_dannydavis
"Mental health is a really big deal and I understand Maddie didn't play her best game and she really thinks it's her fault. When someone thinks that way you console them, that's your teammate, you never make them feel that they're alone...To me she's the best basketball player right now, I don't care about what everybody is saying. Madison Booker is the one"
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Judas ate with God for three years and never flinched.
Sat at the fire. Said the prayers. Watched blind men see. Watched dead men stand up. Watched lepers get clean skin back. Saw all of it. Touched all of it.
And it did nothing to him.
That should make you sick.
Because you know men like that. You’ve sat next to them in church. They sing the hymns. They say amen. They put the money in the plate. And they go home and do things in the dark that would get them killed in any century but this one.
Jesus called him a devil. Not after the betrayal. Before it. John 6:70. He looked at twelve men and said one of you is a devil. And then He let the devil stay.
He let him hold the money. Let him sit at the table. Let him hear every parable. Let him watch Lazarus walk out of a tomb.
And Judas saw resurrection with his own eyes and thought, what’s that worth in silver?
That’s not weakness. That’s not a man who lost his way. That’s a creature wearing human skin at the table of God, calculating the price of the blood on his plate.
Jesus washed his feet.
Read that again.
God kneeled in front of the thing that was about to murder Him and washed the dirt off its feet.
Not because Judas deserved it. Because the eleven men watching needed to see what love looks like when it’s aimed at something that will never love you back.
That’s the sermon your pastor won’t preach.
That Jesus didn’t die confused. He didn’t die betrayed. He sat across from a devil, broke bread, and said what thou doest, do quickly.
He gave evil permission to finish.
Because the cross was never Plan B.
And the son of perdition was never a surprise.
He was a prop in a story written before the foundation of the world. A creature who thought he was the predator and turned out to be the instrument.
The tomb didn’t stay shut.
But the field Judas bought with his thirty pieces? His guts are still in the dirt.
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With a saddened heart… I have to report that another candlestick has been removed by the hand of the Lord…
Voddie Baucham Jr. has gone home.
My heart is heavy today. This man of God poured truth into a generation that had nearly forgotten what truth sounded like. His boldness, his clarity, and his love for the Word of God shaped so many of us.
At just 56 years old, he has left this world after what they are calling a “medical incident”… but we know the Lord numbers our days and orders our steps.
The church has lost a shepherd… the world has lost a voice of reason… but Heaven has received a faithful servant.
May we honor his legacy not with empty words but by standing firm in the truth he so powerfully declared.
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1:5)
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I never understood how guys in their 40s would blow their lives up or off themselves.
I get it now.
All you do everyday is look after others. Always more requests. You're always pouring into the cup of work or family.
No one ever pours into your cup.
And nobody seems to care.
Council of Orange (529 AD)
Canon 4
CANON 4. If anyone maintains that God awaits our will to be cleansed from sin, but does not confess that even our will to be cleansed comes to us through the infusion and working of the Holy Spirit, he resists the Holy Spirit himself who says through Solomon, "The will is prepared by the Lord" (Prov. 8:35, LXX), and the salutary word of the Apostle, "For God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13).
Something I appreciate about my time on staff for a prominent megachurch was the care for excellence in aesthetics, branding, hospitality, communication, and more.
Now I pastor a smaller church that emphasizes the means of grace over programs. And I wonder if there's a tendency for like-sized and like-minded churches to overreact against mega-excellence by wearing mediocrity as a badge of honor:
"We just preach the Word."
But must the means of grace and care for excellence be mutually exclusive? May it never be!
It's not a mark of spiritual maturity for someone to look past an outdated, circa-1998 website, undrinkable coffee, and chilly non-hospitality and conclude, "But hey! They preach expositional sermons!"
We should want all kinds of people to come into our churches—not just those who are already pre-disposed to our confessional commitments—be blessed by what they experience and want to come back a second time.
It's okay to want LOTS of visitors in our churches and desire for our membership rolls to grow!
To that end, it's a good thing to make our "front door" attractive and hospitable.
It's good to have a clean, updated website.
It's good to have clear, well-designed signage to help visitors know their way around.
It's good to invest in fresh branding that graduates from clip-art logos.
It's good to brew the very best coffee you can.
It's good to create well-trained ministry teams tasked with serving visitors with excellence.
It's good to rehearse transitions in your order of service to avoid unnecessary awkwardness.
It's okay to expect our people to read, sing, or play instruments with excellence to the extent of their natural abilities.
To my skeptical, eye-rolling friend, that's not "church growth" philosophy, but wisdom and worship. True, nobody gets saved by these things. But it all communicates care or the lack thereof.
Is the God who arrayed lilies with beauty beyond Solomon's comprehension unworthy of comparatively trivial care for excellence on our parts?
All to say, I think small churches have a few things to learn from mega-churches.
I've long left behind a programmatic ministry philosophy for means of grace ministry. I'm as concerned about worldly pragmatism and fleshly consumerism as anyone.
And this isn't about having mega-budgets and mega-staffs. Excellence will be relative to the resources God has entrusted to each congregation.
But hear me out: What if some people never step foot in our churches the first time or return to our churches a second time NOT because they're shallow "consumers" but because we appear as careless stewards?
Amen! We should care about the Word and sacrament above all. But the Lord's appointed means of grace shouldn't discourage or dissuade us from caring about excellence in all things.
If anything, it should make us more excellent, all by his grace and all to his glory!
He didn’t get the Covid shot. They didn’t want to pay $20m to someone who didn’t whatever it took to be on the field. Missed two games in Covid protocols because he was unvaccinated. After that Was also fined by the nfl for not wearing as mask at Mavs game.
The Jones family let their money get mad and got rid of a talented player.
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