@themattbank Engage your imagination in the preshot routine to picture each shot. Then look back on the green and review after each hole. Don’t keep score on a scorecard, mentally keep track of your +\- to par in the round.
@NoLayingUp One of the biggest events in golf - in all of sports for that matter - & there's only a handful people standing around the green on 18 to end on Saturday... absolutely shocking. Trick it up tomorrow @USGA & make it interesting.
@TourSwingsTommy His spine angle obviously raises just slightly but he is still one of the greatest at compressing it and moving through impact. Always been a beautiful “swinger”, never a hitter = the bend in this right arm, wrist angle, weight shift, and beautiful hand work at impact
@UAPWatchers Possibly also where Christians went to hide during persecution’s in the first and second centuries, along with the many other underground cities built by Christians in Cappadocia
“The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans... I love being an American...[but] I don’t love the rampant consumerism that treats God as a product to be marketed.”
— Eugene Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir
Beware of following Christ for anything other than Christ.
Secondary motives always corrupt true discipleship. Some follow for benefit, for comfort, for answers, for reputation, or even for escape. But when those things fade, so does their devotion. “You seek Me… because you ate of the loaves and were filled” (John 6:26).
Jesus does not call us to use Him, but to come to Him. “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me” (Luke 9:23). That is not built on gain, but on surrender.
True faith is not anchored in what we receive, but in who He is. “Whom have we in heaven but You? And besides You, we desire nothing on earth” (Psalm 73:25).
So we follow Him, not for what He gives, but because He is worthy.
If we follow Him at all, let it be for His own sake.
“The whole modern world is at war with the nature of man, and it calls this war ‘progress.’ It breaks the tools of the soul and then wonders why the soul no longer works.”
— G. K. Chesterton
Jesus riding on a donkey on Palm Sunday is a fulfillment of prophecy, and a reframing of power.
This story places before us two options:
1. Will we live according to the world's definition of power or...
2. Will we live according to Jesus' demonstration of power?
#sermonprep
People think Jesus is too gentle to change the world.
Too humble to lead in conflict.
Meanwhile His kingdom is the only one still expanding 2,000 years later.
Caesar is dead. Rome is a tourist attraction. And Jesus is king.
He is, He will, He has always been…right
@statcrux31@AmSolidarity Damning other souls carries with it our damnation. We must protect the weak, yes. But unless we see the need to pray for our enemies, and yearn for the redemption of all people, we have not truly understood Christ.
@statcrux31@AmSolidarity False. Christianity grew in Rome over 300 years from 0 to 12% of the population, all while being persecuted and martyred in non-violent witness to Christ. Reflecting Christ in laying our life down non-violently is the only tool we have been given to truly apply Christ’s victory.