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@CollinRugg Cool. Surreal. Mind boggling.

NEW: Astronaut Reid Wiseman shares a video of ‘Earthset’ that was taken with his iPhone “This is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye…” Wiseman said. This has to be the greatest iPhone video of all time.

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@ClimateFramo The North Island.

Per m^2 this has to be the most beautiful island on Earth. Anywhere you think comes close?

@OwenSparks So awesome.

Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover received a hero's welcome from his neighbors! 🇺🇸

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

@_NBAESP_ As an American living in New Zealand, I love this so much.

Imposible olvidar el día que la selección de Nueva Zelanda realizó su mítica Haka antes de enfrentarse a Estados Unidos... Los jugadores del Team USA no entendían absolutamente nada de lo que estaba ocurriendo; cada reacción es mejor que la anterior.

I live in New Zealand; this is amazing. And, that cyclone that is bearing down on us is...unwelcome. (State of emergency just declared in Northland.)

@MavsMuse Long-time Spurs' guy. Love this so much.

7 year ago, today, Dirk Nowitzki played his final game in Dallas. 💙

@TonyDungy Love this so much.

I am back at the Billy Graham Training Center this week doing two conferences with my friend James Brown. We are talking to business leaders today about leading in an Uncommon way to honor the Lord. It’s always a blessing to be here and I am enjoying JB’s inspiring words.

I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Take a moment and listen to this 81 second response from Victor Glover after being asked if he had any thoughts leading up to Easter. I don’t quite think it can be overstated how perfect this crew is for the job.

On the day we remember the cross, it’s important to understand why Jesus went. This wasn’t driven by anger, resentment, or obligation. From the beginning, this was always the plan, and it was love that led Him there. #GoodFriday #ChristianShorts #FaithInJesus #JesusSaves

@edstetzer This just never gets old.

@RealAbs1776 Excruciate: literally, ex (from) cruc/crux (cross) - from the cross. They invented a word to describe the level of pain associated with a crucifixion.

Understand this: The movies and shows about the crucifixion have been tame when compared to what He actually went through. Even The Passion Of The Christ was forced to hold back a little in order to avoid an X rating. Crucifixion was, and still is, arguably the most excruciating death someone can experience. The night before in Gethsemane, He was sweating blood. This is known as hematidrosis. This would have caused His skin to become extremely sensitive, thus making the beatings to come even worse. The fear He felt was the beginning of His feeling the weight of our iniquities being laid on Him. Yet - in this moment, He didn’t demand that the Father take it from Him. He only asked for the cup to pass Him over if it was within the Father’s will. Up next came the Cat of Nine Tails, or a Roman Flagrum. This was a weapon with long leather “tails”, each embedded with sharp bones and metal. He was flogged 39 times as Jewish law mandated “40 minus one”, because 40 was said to kill a man. This flogging wasn’t like being punished by your father’s leather belt. Every strike tore flesh, every strike exposed muscle. Every strike exposed nerve endings. Every strike tore flesh to the bone. This would be like getting struck with razor blades over and over again, leading to hypovolemic shock from blood loss. Oh, and the crown of thorns? These weren’t rose thorns. These were thorns which were 2-3 inches long. Beaten into his skull. These thorns would have pierced his skull, tripping the trigeminal nerve, thus causing unimaginable pain and even more blood loss from the dozens of head wounds. At this point, extreme nausea and dizziness would begin to set in. What came next? Carrying the cross. Which weighed around 300lbs. This would be like carrying two full kegs on your back. Splinters and wood grating against the open flesh on His back. And He had to carry it 650 yards, or close to a half mile. Imagine carrying a log on your back after being skinned alive. Up next? He was nailed to the cross with spikes 5-7in in length. Piercing His wrists - this no doubt pierced the median nerve, causing extreme burning sensations up and down His arms. A spike was driven through his ankles - severing nerves and tendons. This would have felt like standing on broken glass every time He pushed Himself up in order to breathe. He suffered for 6 hours. His chest muscles collapsing, making every single breath a fight for life. His shoulders were dislocated, His arms stretching unnaturally long. His heart was struggling to pump blood. He was extremely dehydrated, His lips cracking. His heart more than likely literally ruptured from the stress. And on top of all of that, He had to feel a separation with the Father for a period of time in order to REALLY bear the weight of our sin. He took up this burden for ALL sin before Him, and ALL sin which came after Him. HE DID IT ALL FOR US. To free us. To defeat sin. To give us a pathway to the Kingdom. Every sin we commit is exactly why He had to do it. And the real kicker? He knew what was coming when He rode into Jerusalem … and He didn’t turn around. He kept going. For us.

@HilzFuld It was never about the land.

What Israel’s then female prime minister, Golda Meir said over five decades ago is almost a prophecy. Every word is still relevant and highly accurate.

@NewEmergingKing I'm serious man, this is great. Why on earth this isn't normal stuff at school is beyond me. Either someone teaches you this stuff, or they don't. Too many of us that feel...I don't know...BEHIND in life because we never received so many of the basics of how to be an adult.

Most people don’t learn this until they have to. We teaching these boys now — bills, accounts, writing checks. Big thanks to the City of Albany Utilities for going above and beyond to make this real for them.

That’s good.

I'm going to keep posting this Alstair Begg clip "The Man on the Middle Cross" (less than four minutes in length) every Holy Week, because its message is true in 2026, it will be true in 2036 and it will be true in 3036. "If i take my eyes off the cross, I can then give only lip service to its efficacy while at the same time living as if my salvation depends upon me. And as soon as you go there it will lead you either to abject despair or a horrible kind of arrogance. And it is only the cross of Christ that deals both with the dreadful depths of despair and the pretentious arrogance of the pride of man that says you know, I can figure this out."

@VividProwess I have daughters who will be 25, 23, and 21 this year. I think about your fallen lionesses regularly. So young; too young. So brave; so wild that they've needed to BE so brave just because they're lionesses.

Eden Alon Levy (19) fell during a heroic battle on October 7th while saving the lives of soldiers under her command. Remember her name.

“Only God offers grace and that through Jesus. So free, yet so expensive. Giving up arrogance to admit inadequacy and receive grace is most difficult. Receiving grace leaves pride (our bastion of resistance) crumbling in the dust.” — Gayle Erwin

Never gets old.