Mac Threinen

so much history so little time. looking into the past well allows us to create a better future. Psalm 19:14

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: Liberal Law Professor Donte Mills on Karmelo Anthony: “I think the law worked here … You can’t turn a shove into a stabbing … I think in this case the jury got it right.”

[Mac Threinen @PastorMacT]

Who is paying off Twins pitching??

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Most Badass Americans You Don’t Know D-Day Edition: John J. Pinder Jr.

Technician Fifth Grade John J. Pinder Jr. landed on Omaha beach on his birthday. He didn’t make it off.

Born June 6, 1912, in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Joe Pinder was the oldest of three children. His father worked in the steel industry.

He graduated as valedictorian of Butler High School in 1931.

Pinder spent the next several years as a right-handed pitcher in the minor leagues.

He played six seasons in the farm systems of the Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, Washington Senators, and Brooklyn Dodgers.

In 1941 he won 17 games and was still chasing a shot at the major leagues when the war came.

He entered the Army in January 1942 after Pearl Harbor.

Assigned as a radio operator with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, he fought in North Africa and Sicily.

In Sicily he earned a Bronze Star for staying at an observation post under fire.

On June 6, 1944, Pinder landed with the first waves on Omaha Beach on his birthday.

Communications were shattered. His job was to get a working radio ashore.

He made it off the landing craft. They were 100 yards off the beach.

Then he was hit. A round tore into his face after only a few steps off the boat.

Pinder held the torn flesh of his face together with one hand, carried the radio with the other, and delivered the radio to his unit, while wading thru waste deep water.

That should have been enough. It wasn’t.

Weakened and bleeding, he turned around and went back into the surf and fire three more times to salvage communication equipment.

He even recovered another workable radio.

On the third trip machine gun fire hit him again, this time in the legs.

Still he kept going.

Weakening but exposed on the beach, he helped get the radios working so the men around him could call for support.

While doing so, he was hit for the third time and killed.

Medal of Honor. Posthumous.

It was presented to his father on January 26, 1945.

Pinder was initially buried in Normandy.

In 1947 his family brought him home to Grandview Cemetery in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania.

He was the only professional baseball player awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II.

John Pinder is an American Badass

Thank you, John! 🫡🇺🇸

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

Steven Bartlett, host of the podcast, The Diary of a CEO, released an interview with Christian apologist, John Lennox, this week, and his closing comments to him were fascinating:

"One of the most compelling arguments for God that you've presented (and your way of seeing the world and being) is not actually necessarily anything you've written in your books or not not necessarily anything you've said. It is actually you.

You have a certain peace and contentment that I rarely see in people that I interview, but I often see, and I've almost always seen, in the Christians that I've interviewed, and this is a interesting phenomenon for me...it seems to be a trend that a lot of the Christian apologists that I've interviewed have that anchoring that so many of us are looking for."

What a great witness.

Link to interview below

[Noah Taylor @ByNoahTaylor]

June 5, 1944 —

“Tonight is the night of nights.

Tomorrow throughout the whole of our homeland and the Allied world the bells will ring out the tidings that you have arrived, and the invasion for liberation has begun.”

[The Iceman @the_iceman64]

90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.

Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

You’re the villain btw

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

JOHN ADAMS: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral & religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

Love this. 

Tennessee softball pitcher Karlyn Pickens reveals she has Psalm 18:32 inscribed on her glove

"It is God who arms me with strength and keeps my way secure" ✝️

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large, there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad."

— Alexis de Tocqueville

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Every single day of my childhood, my parents asked the same question at dinner. Not “What did you learn?” but “Who did you serve?”

Wonderful reflections from Ben Sasse’s daughter.

https://t.co/lST2ZyResf

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”

-C.S. Lewis

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

One of the best Charlie Kirk answers of all time.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

CBS News said there was no evidence of fraud.

The NYT said the Somali community was being targeted

CNN said there was "little evidence."

Tim Walz said it was “white supremacy” to expose fraud

Today: $90M busted and 15 charged.

IT WAS ALL FRAUD AND THEY KNEW.

[Kat Kanada 🏴 @KatKanada_TM]

“If you think strong men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”

— Jordan Peterson

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”

-Rudyard Kipling

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

There it is. There is your Suicidal Empathy.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

BBC doesn't want this to go viral.

[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

A 99-year-old man recently became baptized during a church service after spending most of his life identifying as an atheist. Emotional and supported by others around him, he publicly declared his faith through full immersion baptism. The moment led many people to reflect on spiritual change and faith later in life.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Don’t EVER forget that FEMA kicked ENTIRE FAMILIES out of their hotels and into the ice and snow in Western North Carolina…

…while giving $59,000,000 to let illegal immigrants live in luxury hotels in New York City

AND THEN THEY LIED TO US ABOUT IT FOR MONTHS!!!!!