Jason Dooley

[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 🇺🇸

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

More freedom. More options. More information than any generation in history, and yet anxiety is up 25% globally. Loneliness at epidemic levels. A mental health crisis no policy seems to fix. Maybe the stories we're telling ourselves about what leads to flourishing aren't working. Dad thought so. He spent his last years diagnosing why. -Michael Keller

[Jason Dooley @JasonJDooley]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Not just the stories you tell, the ones you absorb. About identity. About freedom. About what makes life worth living. Tim Keller believed that recognizing these stories is the first step toward finding one that actually holds. -Michael Keller

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

We all absorb stories about who we are, what freedom means, and what will make us happy. But what if those stories are too small? Dad spent years examining the narratives our culture runs on and asking whether they can deliver what they promise. -Michael Keller

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

The Artemis II astronauts were all smiles on the flight deck of USS John P. Murtha after they were extracted from their Orion spacecraft after splashdown.

[Jason Dooley @JasonJDooley]

Another song???? Unreal #FinalFour

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

I'm going to keep posting this Alstair Begg clip "The Man on the Middle Cross" (less than four minutes in length) every Holy Week, because its message is true in 2026, it will be true in 2036 and it will be true in 3036.

"If i take my eyes off the cross, I can then give only lip service to its efficacy while at the same time living as if my salvation depends upon me.

And as soon as you go there it will lead you either to abject despair or a horrible kind of arrogance.

And it is only the cross of Christ that deals both with the dreadful depths of despair and the pretentious arrogance of the pride of man that says you know, I can figure this out."

[Jason Dooley @JasonJDooley]

RIDICULOUS

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Dan Hurley returned to his factory settings just seconds after Mullins’ shot

[kat @reallKAT]

“Can you prove the resurrection of Jesus scientifically?”

Mehn I’m saving this response 🔥🫶

[Gospel in Life @gospelinlife]

If you’re going through a wilderness right now, if you’re going through really, really difficult times, God has manna for you. It’s in Jesus. Here’s what I want you to remember. It’s hard to change your diet. It always is, but if you have nothing else going and you’re out there in the desert, in the wilderness, turn to him and he will feed you. ... He will give you a satisfaction in Jesus Christ that is deeper than anything else you’ve ever had. – @timkellernyc

Sermon, The Feeding
https://t.co/9Ap8AxLQEr

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Gospel of the Day (John 5,1-16)

There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep (Gate) a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes.
In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled.
One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be well?"
The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me."
Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your mat, and walk."
Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked. Now that day was a sabbath.
So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat."
He answered them, "The man who made me well told me, 'Take up your mat and walk.'"
They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, 'Take it up and walk'?"
The man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there.
After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him, "Look, you are well; do not sin any more, so that nothing worse may happen to you."
The man went and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus because he did this on a sabbath.

https://t.co/14JYKgESOY

[Gospel in Life @gospelinlife]

Christianity says salvation is by free grace, wondrous grace, amazing grace, crazy grace, absolute grace. Why? Because Christianity says we’re not saved by our life; we’re saved by his.

We’re not saved by our fulfilling the requirements of the law and loving and doing. We’re saved because he has done it all. He has fulfilled all of the requirements. He lived the life we should have lived. He died the death we should have died. He did it all in our place, and when I believe in him now it becomes mine. I receive it as a gift. – @timkellernyc

Sermon, The Pool
https://t.co/9Ap8AxLQEr

[kat @reallKAT]

John piper attempt to define “SIN” and I’ve never thought of it this way. Watch this and save it.

[kat @reallKAT]

“Do you shove God away during your hardest times? Or do you trust in His sovereignty? – John Piper | Desiring God

[Jason Dooley @JasonJDooley]

@NashvilleSC Very interested in hearing the weather plan

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

The most damaging statements that have ever been said about us are those things we have said about ourselves to ourselves.

[Sports Spectrum @Sports_Spectrum]

“Without Jesus, I’m nothing. Without His love and His care and His guidance just going through my whole life — the ups and downs that I’ve been through — He’s the only Truth and the Way to help me through.”

— NFL Draft prospect Taylen Green https://t.co/7Oy7zwZ0g3

[Liam Dooley @Ldooley_soccer]

MLS Next fall season highlights

[Jason Dooley @JasonJDooley]

Fall highlights https://t.co/B6jp4in3Mx via @YouTube @Ldooley_soccer