Richard Hooper

Jesus Follower, IT Director, Educator, Husband, Father.

[Richard Hooper @rthooper]

Awesome full rainbow over Ponder, Texas this evening.

[Richard Hooper @rthooper]

This is really great stuff. Eric Church bringing the hard truths wasn’t what I expected to see today.

[Dan Proft @DanProft]

Life is like a guitar. @ericchurch offers a brillianct commencement address (and guitar lesson) at his alma mater, UNC, that belongs in the pantheon of addresses of this sort with those of Steve Jobs (Stanford) and David Foster Wallace (Kenyon College).

[Dustin Benge @DustinBenge]

Five mothers in Scripture worth emulating:

Hannah
She wept before the Lord in bitterness of soul and prayed for a son. When God gave her Samuel, she gave him right back. “For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition” (1 Sam. 1:27). A mother’s first and greatest work is prayer.

Eunice and Lois
The mother and grandmother whose sincere faith lived in Timothy long before he ever pastored a church (2 Tim. 1:5). From childhood he had known the sacred writings (2 Tim. 3:15). Two ordinary women, two generations of faithfulness, one pastor who shaped the early church.

Mary
She did not understand everything she witnessed but “treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart” (Luke 2:19). Faithful mothers are often quiet mothers, watching, treasuring, trusting God with what they cannot yet see.

The Proverbs 31 woman
Her children rise up and call her blessed (Prov. 31:28). She is not famous. She is not flashy. She fears the Lord, and that is enough.

Every faithful mother today walks in the footsteps of these women, and though not famous on earth, heaven will not forget her name.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The beauty of Ruyi Bridge in Taizhou, Zhejiang China.

It's made up of three bridges across the Shenxianju Valley and it features a glass-bottomed walkway.

[autocorrect2.0 @autocorrect2_0]

Imagine a God who loves you so much that He would put on mortal flesh, endure all the trials and temptations that you do, and then suffer a brutal, humiliating death to pay the cost of your wrongdoings.

It defies human logic that the Creator of the Universe is also the humblest being in the Universe. Yet that is who He is. Two thousand years ago, Jesus left His place in eternal glory to embark on a rescue mission in a perishing world. He was born a helpless infant. He walked with us, talked with us. He laughed and cried with us. He treated us as brothers and sisters, sons and daughters.

And then He laid down His life.

That is how much God loves you. And that is why we celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

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[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

It’s the 23rd anniversary of 9/11. If you haven’t ever watched it, watch this today, the best story ESPN has ever done, the man in the red bandanna:

[Richard Hooper @rthooper]

Appreciate Chris Miller’s insights at Apple’s trainings during TCEA 2024. A long way his days back at Sanger ISD. #AppleEdu

[Richard Hooper @rthooper]

@ReedTimmerAccu @ConnorWX Here's pictures of the storm from about 10 minutes ago taken from Ponder, TX looking N/NW. @ReedTimmerAccu

[Richard Hooper @rthooper]

Interesting view of the storm in NW Denton County. Taken from Ponder looking to the northwest. @RickMitchellWX @wfaaweathertoo

[Scotty Smith @ScottyWardSmith]

When our Father tells us his grace is sufficient for us, that’s like saying Niagara Falls is sufficient to fill our finger thimble, or 1000 lightning bolts are sufficient to power our 60 watt bulb, or the Swiss Alps are sufficient to provide us with snow for a snow cone.

[Richard Hooper @rthooper]

@willcain No tonado warnings Will - just very strong and damaging 80+ MPH winds possible.

[Richard Hooper @rthooper]

He has been found now and is safe!

[Richard Hooper @rthooper]

They have now released a photo of the missing gentleman. He was last seen wearing these clothes as well.

[Denton County Office of Emergency Management @DentonCountyOEM]

Heads up, Denton County!

Ponder VFD needs your help locating a 90-year-old male with Alzheimer's.

He is approximately 6' tall, with grey hair & glasses. Last seen wearing blue tennis shoes, khaki pants, a blue shirt, & a grayish-blue jacket.

1/2

[Miles Smith IV @IVMiles]

On his 72nd birthday, its important to remember that--not joking--Phil Collins is the most important collector of Alamo and Texas Revolution artifacts who has ever lived.
https://t.co/o9O2EojIwt.

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

It’s been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades.

Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022.

Extraordinary.

https://t.co/cOPyln0ifd

[Scott Milder @smilder]

Excellent article about the troubling circumstances facing our public schools, largely caused by politicians, in my view. https://t.co/bVryWnGIeL

[Richard Hooper @rthooper]

What a sad, but so very true and funny statement!

[El Arroyo @ElArroyo_ATX]

🥸 https://t.co/P1TjTKcZwu

[Baylor University @Baylor]

Dr. John Cheng died Sunday, literally taking the bullet for fellow congregants while heroically tackling the gunman at an Orange County church.

Cheng was also a Baylor Bear — Class of 1991. 💚💛

Please join us in praying for those who knew & loved him:

https://t.co/vQNK0mlgrH

[Craig Smoak @CraigSmoak]

#NFLDraft + UDFA = 10 Bears headed to the league. #SicEm

Pitre - #Texans
Thornton - #Patriots
Bernard - #Bills
Woods - #Chargers
Ebner - #Bears
Barnes - #Panthers
Smith - #Saints
Newman - #Titans
Texada - #Packers
McVea - #Rams

[Richard Hooper @rthooper]

@howertonjosh So, my kids want to know what this “phone book” thing is that you speak of. 😂