Chief of Navy Chaplains Gregory N. Todd

Another great example of the amazing ministry God has given to Navy chaplains

@megbasham Recommend @IssuesEtc @toddwilken brings a tradition of five hundred years of dialogue with the Roman church.

Can anyone recommend a Protestant podcaster who offers an apologia of our theology against Catholic theology who is a clear creationist—six days, global flood? I know there are some who do this who are local flood, symbolic creation type of people and I’m not interested in them. If it’s someone, for example, who would promote Biologos and Francis Collins or work with Biologos, I don’t want that guy. Is there anyone like this?

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.

This is one of the most insane stories of the year A Soros-backed prosecutor handed an insanity plea to an assassin who murdered a man in his bed with his family in the house The murderer will probably walk free in 5 years because he is CLEARLY NOT INSANE

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Happy 250th birthday, Marines

Here are the SIMPLE FACTS about the Democrat Shutdown: 1️⃣ Democrat votes are REQUIRED to reopen the government. 2️⃣ Democrats have voted 13 TIMES to keep it closed. 3️⃣ Democrats refuse to fund the government unless we restore- $200 BILLION in health benefits for illegal aliens, BILLIONS for foreign projects, $500 MILLION for leftist media outlets, and huge CUTS to rural hospitals. 4️⃣ Democrats ADMIT they’re using the pain and suffering of the American people as “leverage,” while boasting that “every day gets better” for them. 🚨🚨Democrats are doing this to appease their far Left Marxist base —because they are more afraid of THEM than the American people.

.@USNavy Rear Adm. Carey Cash, the Chaplain of the Marine Corps, speaks about mental health and strategies for maintaining a positive mindset. Chaplain Cash encouraged service members to draw on faith, hope and love, and advised them to seek support. #USMC #Marines

He was a Democrat, until this changed everything.

🚨 UPDATE: Republicans are now demanding The View's Alyssa Farah carry out her promise that she'd "wear a MAGA HAT on this show" if "[Trump] gets the Israeli hostages out." "I will say, thank you for doing it." "You have to be able to cheer for wins."

Some serve a lifetime in public office and never experience a day like today. In time history will detail the full story of how today was made possible. But for now all Americans should at least know this, that today would not have happened without @potus doing some pretty extraordinary things.

From yesterday's sermon: Like many of you, I saw those pictures from the security camera footage of Iryna Zarutska, looking up in horror right after she’d been stabbed. I’m still haunted by the expression on her face. And I imagine it will haunt me forever. I don’t think I’ll ever get over it. And I think there are a few reasons for that. First, I’m a father and seeing her looking up, confused and terrified, bewildered and curled up like an innocent little child…I can’t even bear the thought of that happening to one of my children. But theologically speaking, the picture haunted me as well. At first I thought it haunted me because she looked like a lost little sheep being devoured by a wolf for no reason. And she certainly did. But the more I’ve thought about it, the more I realized that the look of innocent, childlike terror on her face haunts me so much because I think that’s the kind of expression that Jesus had on His face as He cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” It’s the expression of an innocent one being hated without cause, an innocent one being pierced by those under the power of the demons. And that look, that expression? That’s the expression that Jesus willingly let be burned upon His own countenance to make you His own, to open your ears to hear His voice and to follow Him in the arms of God. That’s the sorrow that Jesus allowed to be emblazoned on His face in order to rescue you from sin and death and sorrow forever. That’s what Jesus Christ has done for you. It’s what He did for lost sheep who were also acting like vicious wolves. It’s what He did for David and Paul and countless others. And it’s what He still can give to countless souls in a world that seems filled with countless wolves. So just as we pray for the families of the Catholic school shooting in Minnesota, just as we pray for the families of Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk, so we can also pray for those vicious murderers who took innocent life and we can pray for the vicious hearts than enabled those murders and cheered them. We can pray for the government to punish the wicked where laws have been broken, just as we can pray that Jesus would find the wicked on the cliffs of their own making and bring them home. We can pray for God to use the government to shut the jaws of those flashing their fangs, and we can pray for God to use the church to turn the howling mouths of wolves into the hungry mouths of sheep who will feast on His forgiveness. Don’t despair over the state of the world. Jesus Christ has already overcome the world, and the devil and the wolves under his power are only howling because they know their time is short. But Jesus Christ will continue to pull His sheep out of the devil’s jaws and make for us brothers and sisters we never thought possible. Then, on the Last Day, He will return and burn all evil into ashes, just as He will lift us out of the graves, dry our tears eternally, and deliver us into the kingdom where we will never know sorrow again. This will happen. It’s more certain than the sun rising tomorrow. Don’t despair. The King who makes sheep out of snarling wolves is already reigning, already holding you in His hands, and He will never let this world devour you.

9/11 Commemoration Ceremony Held at Pentagon will be broadcast live this Thursday at 0900 EDT c-span.org/event/public-a…

Our nation was founded on the recognition that moral virtue and a steadfast faith in God are necessary preconditions of freedom. Yet under the Biden Administration, U.S. foreign policy belittled Christianity and weaponized government against faith. That era has ended. Under @POTUS’s leadership, the State Department will eradicate practices that devalue and demean the Christian faith. foxnews.com/politics/doj-t…

Yesterday's devotion on the liturgy and the lost: Psalm 51 A boy grows up in a Lutheran family, going to his Lutheran church every Sunday, singing the same liturgy week after week. Every service, he pulls his hymnal out of the pew, even though he doesn’t really need it for the order of service. For about as long as he can remember, he’s had the words memorized. The boy grows up and becomes restless. In his college years, he surrenders to his lust, to drunkenness and selfishness. He strays from church, strays from living the way His God commands him to. As he drifts, he gets angry at his parents because he perceives the disappointment they feel in him, so he stays away even longer. As he enters adulthood, he tells himself that church never really mattered to him, that it was never anything more than a weekly exercise in going through the motions. Then one day, as an old man, he gets sick and his strength fails. His doctors can’t help him. His wisdom can’t help him. And so, desperate, he wanders into a Lutheran church because that’s the kind of church he went to growing up. And though he’s worried that he won’t know what’s going on, it turns out the church is using the same liturgy he used growing up. And after the pastor preaches and tells the congregation to rise, the man finds his lips moving on their own. He doesn’t have to think about what comes next. He knows it all, the same words he sang countless times as a child, words he often sang without thinking. But now, as he sings them, he thinks about them: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation and uphold me with Thy free Spirit.” And there, in those words, the man finds peace. Through the words of King David, written after his adultery and murder, the man also cries out for forgiveness. He cries out for God to pull him out of the darkness of his own creation, to draw him near, to tell him that He never stopped loving him and never stopped looking for him in his decades of wandering. There, in those words, the seed that was planted seventy or so years earlier blossoms. And the man believes what he’d been confessing all that time, believes what he forgot so long ago. He believes that Jesus Christ, the One who died for him upon the cross, has indeed covered Him in the blood that makes every sinful heart clean. The man who thought he didn’t need Jesus comes home to Jesus through the words of the king whose throne Jesus completed. This is why the liturgy matters. This is why it’s worth singing the same things every week. This is why we should sing the words of Psalm 51 forever, until the day our Lord melts the earth and brings us into the tear-free kingdom of His arms.

Join us in lifting up these service members' families in prayer. May our gracious, incarnate Lord comfort their loved ones with peace found in Him. 🙏 militarytimes.com/news/your-mari…

What an amazing video! I’m here on NAS Jacksonville and they shared their Spiritual Readiness video. I love it! These leaders really get it. #navy #chaplain #chaplaincy #coastguard #usmc #seals #888navychc youtu.be/SoNNP3sNXc0?si…

"A tremendous difference": First rabbi in decades takes post at naval base in Japan stripes.com/theaters/asia_…

Happy Thanksgiving! #GoNavy | #RollGoats