Daniel Balcombe

Imagine how worthless the Resurrection would be if Jesus said, "See, that's how you do it, now you try."

My help comes from the LORD

We are fearfully and wonderfully made

Current situation: 19 hours away from brain surgery. I thank God that he saw my Palm Sunday and Easter messages and decided it wasn't what he wanted my church to hear so he has graciously made it impossible for me to preach. Grateful for godly elders and neurosurgeons.

@jaredcwilson After church on Sunday I was one of 3 local pastors who showed up at Chipotle for lunch

When you go on a hospital visit and another pastor is already there.

If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affection. Psalm 119:92

It was good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. Psalm 119:71

Today is basically the worst day to fly. Good luck, travelers.

This breaks my heart. It seems likely the truck heard the "Stop" as being directed at the Frontier flight that was taxing and not at them. Airport logistics are extremely delicate and we need to assure that those working in it are well supported.

@PastorRyanA They're crap at every level but nothing is quite as obvious that it's coaching failures than their performance after time outs. Those are 100% coaching moments the Cats have been awful all year.

@DanielBalcombe There's some major chemistry problems in this squad. And it shows when the pressure comes.

I've seen Kentucky look bad. I've never seen them look *this* bad.

@PastorRyanA Be that as it may, high school teams don't look this awful. There's no sense in giving Pope another season especially in this era. There's no degree of talent that can play under a coach that allows his team to become this lazy, sloppy, ugly.

@DanielBalcombe I think "level of talent" had been greatly exaggerated with this crew.

@PastorRyanA Those were bad teams. But they never had this level of talent playing this poorly in a tournament game

@DanielBalcombe I have seen worse. Billy G.

Lol, 17 turnovers in 29 minutes

Ugly. Sloppy. Lame. Garbage basketball

Having to cheer for a team playing this terrible is miserable. The only hope is that Pope gets fired before he can get on the plane home.

@JonnyRoot_ "I apologize to nobody for that" 😂

"You play real good, you start. You don't play as good, you work your way back in. That's the American way. Except America has gotten soft..." - Michigan State HC Tom Izzo Spot on, coach. Young men need coaches like this. Earned not given.

Jesus suffered many things for us.

@JJ_Denhollander Your 14 y.o. sounds like my 13 y.o. daughter. She wished the movie did a better job of capturing the difficulty of the interstellar travel 😂 We enjoyed it very much

14 y.o. says it's not as good as the book but that's because he likes "puzzles solved with science." I felt the characters in the movie are more fleshed out. (Weir struggles with writing emotionally believable characters, IMO) The space visuals are the best since Interstellar👎👎

Project Hail Mary is great. You should see it, took my 11 + 14 year old kids and their grandpa. They all really liked it, too.

@Rainmaker1973 Hilarious that it was the competition between nations that empowered and enabled the space programs to be successful. But sure, let's just ✨ imagine ✨

Former astronaut Ron Garan returned from space convinced that humanity is “living an enormous lie.” During his 178-day mission aboard the International Space Station in 2011—spending nearly six months in orbit and covering over 71 million miles—Garan experienced the transformative “Overview Effect.” From 250 miles above Earth, the planet appeared as a single, delicate blue marble suspended in the void, with no visible borders, nations, or divisions. Political lines vanished; instead, he saw a fragile, interconnected biosphere wrapped in an astonishingly thin atmosphere—the sole protective layer sustaining all life against the deadly vacuum of space. This perspective shattered his prior worldview. He observed an iridescent, teeming world of life but no trace of the global economy that humans prioritize. Garan realized the “enormous lie” we perpetuate: the illusion that we are separate from one another, from nature, and from the planet itself. Our systems treat the Earth’s life-support mechanisms—air, water, ecosystems—as mere subsidiaries of the economy, when the orbital view reveals the opposite truth: the planet comes first, then society, then economy. In his words, this realization highlighted how crises like climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity loss stem from this fundamental misperception of separation. Garan argues that embracing this unified, fragile reality—seeing ourselves as crew members on “Spaceship Earth”—is essential for collective survival and effective global stewardship. The view from space didn’t just change his outlook; it underscored an urgent call for humanity to realign priorities with the undeniable interconnectedness of our shared home.