Dorothy Rackley

#PoundCakes | #StonehouseBakery

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

Last week, as flooding swept across the Texas Hill Country, my phone rang.

It was my pastor, Gregg Matte of Houston’s First Baptist Church.

He had 325 middle schoolers and dozens of volunteers at Camp Eagle near Rocksprings. The flooding had washed out the only road out. Seven charter buses were waiting to bring them home to Houston, but they couldn’t get through.

“Can you help me get these kids out?”

My team got to work immediately with Pastor Gregg and state and local officials. What followed was an extraordinary Texas rescue operation.

First responders rolled in SHERPs — massive all-terrain vehicles with giant inflatable tires built to cross ground no ordinary truck can touch.

The SHERPs drove down the washed-out road. Picked up the campers in groups. Carried them to the firetrucks. The firetrucks got them to the county road where seven buses were waiting to take them home to Houston.

Every camper and volunteer made it home safe.

Thank you to Pastor Gregg, Judge Rubio, State Sen. Wes Virdell, Texas DPS, the Game Wardens, the firefighters, the bus drivers, and every volunteer who worked through the weekend to bring these kids home.

Our office was proud to play a small part.

Praise God they’re all home.

[Dorothy Rackley @TSHBakery]

@realDrTT No! One of the reasons I love your discussions is that you say what you believe to be Truth. Then we discuss and add our Truths. No judgment, no condemnation. No one feels the need to tell anybody they are going to hell. How refreshing! Thank you, Trevor! Prayers for your family.

[Trevor Tomesh ☕ @realDrTT]

Hey, everybody.

In case you didn’t hear it today — I love you.

You were created by God in His image and are worth more than all the birds of the air and fish of the sea.

If you’re feeling down, let us weep together.

If you’re feeling joy, let us laugh together.

See you tomorrow.

[Trevor Tomesh ☕ @realDrTT]

I started reading The Book of Mormon because I wanted to understand a group of people who seemed strange to me — people who seemed to get a lot of hate for their beliefs.

I’m halfway through now and I will tell you that I have found some of the most kind and Christlike men and women I’ve ever known.

Do I believe everything that they do? Of course not! I’m a Catholic and I intend to die that way.

However, we are all followers of Christ and we MUST work to bring together the Body of Christ regardless of how far we have strayed from one another.

Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, non-denominational and LDS alike, we all call Christ “Lord” and it is time that we came together to save our civilization from the very real evil that threatens to destroy us.

We don’t have to agree on everything — but we do have to pull in the same direction, and that is in the direction of Christ (regardless of how imperfectly we find our footing).

Join us tomorrow evening for another “A Catholic Reads the Book of Mormon!”

https://t.co/GZt6bS0HRb

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas.

The ultimate sacrifice.

Our nation grieves.

Heroes. 🇺🇸

[Graham Allen @GrahamAllen]

Please join me in prayer…

The Pentagon has just identified the two U.S. service members killed in Iranian attacks on an American base in Jordan on Friday and Saturday.

- Lt. Tyler James Feehan
- Pvt. Isabella Gonzales

[Dorothy Rackley @TSHBakery]

@realDrTT Yes! Sounds amazing!

[Dorothy Rackley @TSHBakery]

@realDrTT A couple of things that help me in these conversations to to find out how they came to believe as the did, and also why? What have they found that has answers and why?

[Trevor Tomesh ☕ @realDrTT]

My approach to evangelism is as follows:

I have a conversation with people who have a different perspective than I do on the nature of God and ask them what they believe -- and listen. And I listen not to respond or to argue, but to genuinely understand what it is that they believe.

Then I explain what I believe, and they listen, and I invite them to consider what I believe.

If they choose to accept it, great. If not, then I've made some new friends and learned some interesting things about them.

It's amazing how much more receptive people are when the first thing out of your mouth is not an insult or a rebuke.

[Dorothy Rackley @TSHBakery]

@realDrTT I have been compiling soom books on Amazon with recommendations from you and you Catholic listeners. I just ordered A Concise History of the Catholic Church by Bokenkotter. I also want to find a book on the Cathol liturgy and rituals. I am excited as a member of the LDS.

[GeneralConference @ldsconf]

Even after being driven from their homes, Joseph Smith and other early leaders insisted on protecting religious liberty for any believer, whether they were Christian or not.
https://t.co/kYKVQ0qcoM

[Trevor Tomesh ☕ @realDrTT]

@Bossdaddy81 God calls us to faithfulness before He calls us to philosophical precision. He commands us to love Him, love our neighbor, and keep His commandments—not to fully comprehend His ontological nature, let alone bicker and persecute others over differences in understanding.

[Gérald Caussé @Gerald_Causse]

The conversion story of my mother-in-law reminds me of how grateful we should be for the restored truths that are unique to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

[John Kennedy @SenJohnKennedy]

Here’s why I have to work harder than an ugly stripper.

[Quentin L. Cook @CookQuentinL]

“Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it” (Doctrine and Covenants 135:3).

[Dorothy Rackley @TSHBakery]

@SandiFrame Keeping you both in my prayers.

[Trevor Tomesh ☕ @realDrTT]

If you’re a Catholic and support my efforts with the LDS, let me know.

I want to follow you.

[Dorothy Rackley @TSHBakery]

@realDrTT 2 Timothy 1:7
"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."
I turn to this verse when all seems hopeless. God loves you because you use His gifts to serve - especially the gift of friendship. I am praying for you and your wife!

[Trevor Tomesh ☕ @realDrTT]

Followers.

Please post something positive.

I am quickly getting burned out by all the negativity.

If all 6.8k of you posted just ONE positive thing and encouraged others to do the same, we could break the cycle of hate for just a moment.

That's all I want right now.

[Church News @the_churchnews]

In 1898, Inez Knight and Jennie Brimhall went to England and became the first full-time single sister missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in this dispensation.

Now a new mural depicting their service covers a wall at the Provo Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, where sister missionaries who are making history today walk by and receive inspiration from Knight and Brimhall’s examples.

Thinking of the first single sister missionaries is inspiring to Sister Kate Henderson, from North Carolina, as she trains at the MTC and is surrounded by many other young sister missionaries at the same time. Right now, there is a wave of 18-year-old sisters beginning their service, following the Church’s lowering the missionary age to 18 for young women last November.

“It’s really inspiring to be part of this group of amazing women, and their whole goal is just to do the same thing,” Sister Henderson said. “And so looking at that painting, it was the same then, it’s the same now. It’s just women choosing to love God and to make sacrifices and to further the work.”

Read more in the link in the thread below.

📸: Leslie Nilsson and Hunter Winterton, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Ryan Jensen