I’ve made a wealth of mistakes. | Learned from a few. | I love Jesus a lot. I adore my wife and 4 daughters. | Lead Pastor of the church I grew up in. | Writer.
For any hurting pastors out there…
At 23 I was starry-eyed going into my first full-time ministry staff role.
By 30 I was fried, convinced that the Lord was done with me. I thought I was called, but I had failed. I must have misheard.
Thankfully, I lived to fight another day.
BREAKING: The DOJ has arrested a special forces soldier who made $400,000 betting on the removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to ABC.
Federal investigators say the soldier bet more than $33,000 just hours before Trump announced Maduro's capture.
The special forces soldier was reportedly directly involved with the capture.
"The largest position -- a $32,537 bet that Maduro would be out of office by Jan. 31 -- resulted in a 1,242% profit of $404,222," ABC News reported.
"Following his successful trading relating to Maduro- and Venezuela-related contracts, [Gannon Ken] VAN DYKE allegedly sent most of his proceeds to a foreign cryptocurrency vault before depositing them into a newly created online brokerage account. The same day of the operation, VAN DYKE withdrew the majority of his allegedly unlawful proceeds from his Polymarket account..." the DOJ announced.
"VAN DYKE, 38, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, is charged with three counts of violating the Commodity Exchange Act, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison; one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; and one count of an unlawful monetary transaction, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison."
Principal Kirk Moore, who tackled the school shooter, walked into prom a few days later to a huge celebration from the students and was named prom king.
>American airman asleep on a train in France while on vacation with his childhood friends
>Wakes up to the sound of screaming and breaking glass
>Sees a terrorist step into the aisle carrying an AK-47 and 300 rounds of ammo
>Doesn't look for an exit, doesn't hesitate
>Sprints 30 feet down the aisle straight at the barrel of the gun, completely unarmed
>The terrorist pulls the trigger; the rifle miraculously jams
>Tackles him, gets slashed in the neck and hand with a box cutter, almost losing his thumb
>Ignores the bleeding, chokes the attacker unconscious with his bare hands
>Credits God for the jammed rifle and his survival
>Saves everyone on board
Patriot airman Spencer Stone is a hero.
@churchtalkative Bad take. I’ve been a pastor 27 years and know ZERO pastors who I’d entrust my soul to who would say this. It’s not just wrong, it’s irresponsible.
If it were true, you’d also have to be able to say, “You don’t need thyroid medicine, or a statin…”
Rethink this please.
The disciples of Jesus who were in a position to know whether Jesus had risen from the dead or not, died excruciating deaths when they could have saved themselves by simply saying, "Look, it never happened."
The Naples School District has 2 electric buses. They've crunched the numbers and right now, they're paying about 36 cents per mile for diesel and $3.18 per mile for electric. Here's part of my conversation with the transportation director. Full story tonight on @news10nbc
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Deputy AG Todd Blanche just CALLED OUT Fake News ABC George Stephanopoulos to his FACE for running cover for Don Lemon storming a church
"CONVENIENTLY missing from what you just showed, George, is the appellate court and a judge on the appellate court who said just a few days later there was clearly PROBABLE CAUSE — and it wasn't even a close question!"
"A grand jury, which is what our system has set up to determine whether probable cause exists, concluded that there was probable cause!"
"That indictment is now public. Everybody in this country can pull it up and read for themselves and see what the grand jury found that Mr. Lemon did."
"We talk about the First Amendment right. You have a right of freedom of religion, which is just as important as any other right that we have!"
"And George, I don't know if you've watched the videos or read the indictment about what it's alleged that Mr. Lemon did, but if anybody in this country thinks that that is quote, independent journalism, I would like to have a conversation with you."
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"Instead of organic carrots having to be called organic carrots, maybe they could just be called carrots, and carrots grown with chemicals could be called chemical carrots?"
"And maybe those that grow with chemicals have to demonstrate and show the chemicals that were used in the production?"
"If that was on the supermarket packs, I wonder how our behaviour would change."