@DaneMooreNBA and @KyleTheige
First off, love the new uniforms and courts. However all the jerseys say "Wolves"...This made me think about when the North Stars became the "Stars". Then I realized there is no real reference to Minnesota, only that M on the shorts... Am I crazy?
I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection" Philippians 3:10 Jesus is risen and when you know Jesus, you will experience His power inside of YOU! Surrender to Him now. Blessed Easter! Peace
Hey y’all - could use your prayers.
Some crazy stuff going on last couple of days.
About to launch our biggest prayer challenge of all time by far. It’s the best content we’ve ever had. Makes me cry just finishing listening to it one last time.
We finished the last audio edit on the day 2 prayer and right at the end of the scripture reading from Sr Miriam the audio became all distorted and ended up sounding demonic for like 30 seconds.
Our audio engineer said he’d never seen this happen before.
Then this morning all of our marketing campaigns just shut off for no reason. No one can explain why.
Anyway - please pray.
St Joseph terror of demons, pray for us.
Lord, I trust in You. You have no rival. All things work for good for those who love You.
I love You Lord. Thank you even for this.
May Your will be done. May the hearts you want to reach be reached through this work. It is all Yours Lord. Take it.
@SneakerReporter He will still be buried behind more senior guards in Chicago. I hope the kids get a legit chance to show what they can bring at some point.
The Oklahoma City Thunder were rolling like a machine.
25–2 entering a matchup with the Timberwolves on December 19, looking untouchable, looking inevitable.
Then one night changed the energy.
That Minnesota game got loud as Chris Finch got ejected, later fined $35,000.
OKC lost, and they haven't looked the same since.
Since that moment? The Thunder are just 5–5.
Over their last nine games, they rank 26th in free-throw attempts per game.
For a team built on pressure and pace, that's a noticeable drop.
So it's fair to ask the uncomfortable question. Did that night change OKC's whistle?
Because whether coincidence or consequence, the numbers say something shifted.
The Minnesota child care fraud saga is so strange because years ago it was fully investigated, documented, and reported on by a team of state investigators set up to catch and stop child care fraud.
They spent years gathering evidence including many hours of surveillance footage. In 2018 they compiled a detailed report and delivered it to their boss, the DHS Inspector General.
Directly from the report: "Investigators, as well as the Supervisor and Manager of this unit believe that the overall fraud rate in this program is at least 50% of the $217M paid to child care centers in CY2017."
What did the Inspector General do with this information? She refused to meet with her own team, refused to discuss the findings of the report, and then spent $90,000 of taxpayer money to have an outside company write a report saying the fraud isn't quite as bad as her own team of investigators was claiming.
Here's an email summarizing the fraud that the lead investigator sent the IG in 2018. Those currently in the MSM claiming that child care fraud isn't a serious problem should read this.
The real question is how highly paid state investigators spent years investigating child care fraud in MN, reported on said fraud, and eight years later not only was the fraud not stopped, it was bigger than ever.
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You correctly intuit that your framing of God "needing" praise is wrong. Worship is entirely for our benefit.
As a general principle, any question that asks "Why does God NEED x from us?" should be re-framed into "What good is God leading me into by commanding me to do x?"
In the case of worship: since God is goodness itself, the ultimate fulfillment of all our desires, and the only one who can free us from enslavement to sin, it is good for us to willfully and intentionally direct our thoughts and words to his praise and glorification.
If we don't do this, we will give ourselves over to something lesser that ultimately cannot fulfill us and will destroy us.
So God commands worship so that we turn away from that which kills and towards himself, who gives life.