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@Stanimal032 This is incredible!!!

Brody had his 5th grade music program last night and we are so grateful to his band teacher, Mr. McMahon. When Brody said he wanted to play trumpet, he went to work to make it happen. This is Brody’s 3D printed trumpet from a company called Digibrass. It uses buttons instead of valves and he can tilt it to change the pitch. It plugs into a guitar amp and takes much less breath work to play than a regular trumpet. We are so grateful to Andover schools and Mr McMahon in particular for finding ways to include Brody so he can pursue his love of music.

@espn When I was a kid in the 90’s I was a big Royals fan but they were never on TV. I could always count on seeing Braves games on TBS to scratch my itch to watch baseball. Those were some incredible Braves teams, always in contention for championships. RIP Skipper.

Longtime Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox, a Hall of Famer who won a World Series and more than 2,500 games in his storied career, has died at 84, the team announced Saturday. More: spr.ly/6018BBoYhk

@kathrynw5 @Whitney_Hartman

NEW: Cinco de Mayo falls on Taco Tuesday. Prepare accordingly.

@archivekamala @CoryBooker Preaching at people and making them feel guilty isn’t gonna win anyone over.

.@CoryBooker: “You may disagree with her [Kamala Harris] on 10% of her views, but you let someone get in office who you disagree with on everything. You let somebody get in office who is locking up our children. You let somebody in office who is taking away our healthcare.”

@RpsAgainstTrump I sure hope he is referring first and foremost to many of our politicians.

Secretary Howard Lutnick: The worst thing is the sucking sound of how many people try to suck off of the U.S. government

God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us. - John Stott

@FallonTonight @jackblack @supermariomovie Jack is truly one of the best humans alive on planet earth! Nominash! 😂

.@jackblack performs an impromptu, stripped-down version of “Peaches” from @supermariomovie and calls out Ryan Gosling for his Academy Awards snub 😭 #FallonTonight #SuperMarioGalaxyMovie

@MattWalshBlog @MeghanMcCain All of these career politicians on the left and the right are the same. They depend on each other to remain in the the swamp that benefits them so much.

While our country is at war, our airports are a mess, DHS is not funded, and our elections are not secure, Lindsey Graham is wandering around Disney World with a bubble wand. This is an image that should live in infamy.

2 must see endings to start the Sweet 16!

@KStateMBB Welcome coach Alexander! Go Cats!

Next stop MHK 🛫

@mtgreenee We are trapped in a two party system where both parties need each other. It’s a two headed monster that needs the status quo to remain in order to keep powerful and corrupt people safe.

Good morning. Everything in Washington will be purely performative, for the remainder of the year, to gaslight you to vote in the midterms. We all knew and discussed in internal meetings back in January of 2025 that we only had 6-9 months to do anything serious and after the third quarter of 2025 our opportunity would be gone because courage would fade and campaign mode would kick in. And all that was really accomplished was an extension of the tax law with a few additions. No accountability for Covid. No accountability for 4 years of lawfare. No accountability for the 2020 election. No accountability for Epstein files. Not only is there nothing tangible in terms of accountability, but Republicans have done NOTHING to make health insurance affordable and hide from the issue like the pedophiles in the Epstein files. Meanwhile we are on the verge of war with Iran from the “NO MORE FOREIGN WARS” President. This is where you are now. The red meat throwing tough talk and legislation that will go nowhere phase but will only create some vial media posts and headlines to try to inspire you and scare you into voting for Republicans again in the midterms. And the Democrats are no better. After getting brutally beaten in 2024, they learned nothing and made no serious changes to their policy platform on the issues they lost the biggest as they continue to put illegals and trans first, while suddenly (starting in 2025) caring about the Epstein files. It’s all America LAST from both sides of the never ending Political Industrial Complex.

@BethMooreLPM I so appreciate you and am thankful for your consistent witness. Grace and peace to you!

I share this post in earnest and (what may prove a naive) hope that a few people caught in the situation I’m about to describe will hear instead of rushing to the usual tropes, criticisms and caricatures. For what it’s worth, I offer this in good faith. Between 2016 and 2022, I faced a test of the genuineness of my faith so large and consequential, I’m almost at a loss to think of the right adjectives to describe it. It might not have been so big to someone else but it involved so much of my Christian identity, it was all but existential. Well more than that. It was a dying. It is this test that helps me understand why people who seem deeply devoted to the Lord Jesus and hold the scriptures in highest esteem also hold to a system, institution or leader no matter what they do and defend a side or individual to a degree that is baffling. I can tell you why because I had to face every bit of it. Identity, community, camaraderie, what we’ve known and loved, what part of it we still love, the people we loved, the people we still love, reputation, what people will think, how you will be judged and condemned and thrown over to the other side who doesn’t want you either. And to whom you also do not align and would not belong. Friendships. How you will be misunderstood and misrepresented. How adrift and alone you will feel. How disliked. And then there’s this and it would be a mistake to minimize it: your JOB. Your source of income. Your vocation. This is the part of the crisis I most write these words to convey because I think they are most in play for many right now, whether in media, ministry or politics. Let me try to put this in the words that were constantly resonant in my spirit in those years. And to this day. Though you have no other place to go, Beth, and no place to fit and it not only MAY have financial repercussions but WILL have financial repercussions to the ministry and to your family and will also make them targets and none of it will ever look the same or be the same, will you choose what you believe to be right and put everything else in your vocational life at risk? This is what is at risk for many people whose professional reputations and positions are tied up with leaders, institutions and political parties. Mine was, too. The cost is enormous and the options are often untenable. And so there we are. Having to cast ourselves on the mercy of God. Not for a third way. But as THE ONLY WAY. The only truth. The only life. I’ve made multiple errors in judgment. Jumped too quickly to condemn. Spoken wrongly. Remained silent wrongly and confusingly. I never get it completely together. But what I will tell you is that I believe we are meant first and foremost to call out our own house, our own side, and our own identity group for its mind-boggling hypocrisy. These were my people. Evangelicals. Conservatives. Claim what you will but I know who I am: I am pro life from conception to casket. I am pro small government. I am pro godliness and the pursuit of a holy life. I am pro marriage and family and pro-those God calls to remain single and sanctified and I’m deeply thankful for them. I am pro traditional sexual ethics. I am pro love of God and love of neighbor and the dignity of every person as an image bearer of Christ. I am pro love all. I am pro church. I believe in the community of the saints. I am pro Bible study to the death and believe the aim of all discipleship is to know and love and follow and emulate Jesus Christ. I am pro gospel. Dear God in heaven, I am pro gospel. I believe there is one name by whom we must be saved. Jesus. What I am not is pro Trump. Wasn’t pro Clinton. Wasn’t pro Biden. But those were not the candidates many in the world that I loved so much were cheering on. I accept that Donald Trump is my president. I pray for him on a regular basis. I’m a law abiding citizen and pay my taxes. But I believe Trump fosters something in people that makes them lose their way.

For anyone putting loyalty to a person above loyalty to the Constitution, Justice Gorsuch’s remarks should be required reading. His words are a reminder that our highest duty is to the rule of law and the founding principles that define America.

Hello….who dis? K-State basketball?! Where the heck ya been?

@BethMooreLPM @BrianZahnd did a really good 3 part message series on Job last year. Highly recommend it to everyone. really struggled with Job and have largely avoided it up until watching that series.

Have many of you taken a deep dive into the book of Job? I’ve read it & taught out of it thru the years. But I’ve been neck-deep in it now for several months for a series I’m doing with my Houston class. 1 of the most fascinating things I’ve ever studied. The writing is stunning.

Can we just say this Rams/Seahawks game is the Super Bowl for this season?

@kurt13warner Well after the refs gifted Denver the game last week this feels appropriate.

So glad this weather game is dictating who goes to the SB!!! 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

This stack of napkins at the Chinese buffet was set down just me. Table of 1. I’ll try to behave myself.

Time for some big changes in the offseason for this Chiefs team. Some guys need to retire. Assistant coaches need to go. I am ok if Reid sticks around but this team is stale, tired, predictable and boring.

@ksuwildkat We were just at Disney World last weekend. Such an amazing experience! The fireworks at Magic Kingdom was incredible!!!

8.3miles in the park today. Happily exhausted Tomorrow is 4 Parks, 1 Day