Carlton C. McLeod

Really want to help pastors with this. reformationchurches.org

On Memorial Day, we thank those who courageously fight today and those who’ve selflessly gave their lives. 🇺🇸 🫡

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” May we always live worthy of their sacrifice, honor their memory, and never forget the brave Americans who paid the ultimate price.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, while God is marching on. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

@NUCLRGOLF LOL! Let the reader understand

“Designed my new irons based on my swing” 😆

@ThrillaRilla369 Never!

Having a paid off vehicle really makes you never want to get a car loan again. 💴 🚘 💰 😩

@TobyLogsdon @PatAbendroth Very true.

@PatAbendroth I've seen a lot of people come and go in my time as a pastor. Sometimes for good reasons, sometimes for bad reasons. I'll just say that every time someone has left for a bad reason, it has blessed our church body and produced more growth. Every time. To God be the glory!

People will leave your church. No matter what, people will leave. Therefore, stick to the nonnegotiables to the best of your God-given ability, and when people leave because you have not met their expectations for their ideal church, wish them well and pray for maturity.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” John 15:1-2 KJV

85 years ago today, in the freezing grey water between Iceland and Greenland, the most famous warship in the world died in under three minutes. HMS Hood. 48,000 tons. The pride of the Royal Navy for twenty years. The ship British schoolchildren drew in their notebooks. "The Mighty Hood." She was hunting the Bismarck. At 05:52 on 24 May 1941, Vice Admiral Lancelot Holland gave the order to open fire at 26,500 yards. He was closing the range hard on purpose, because Hood's weak deck armor could not survive shells falling from above at long range. He needed flat trajectories, and he needed them fast. He was three minutes too slow. Bismarck's fifth salvo straddled Hood as she turned to bring her rear guns to bear. A single 15-inch shell punched through her thin armored deck and detonated her aft magazines. Witnesses on Prince of Wales described a column of flame that rose higher than the mainmast, eerily silent at first, the sound arriving a moment later. Hood broke in two. Her stern rose vertically out of the sea, guns still pointed at the sky, and slid under. Her bow followed. Of 1,418 men aboard, three survived. Signalman Ted Briggs, Able Seaman Bob Tilburn, Midshipman Bill Dundas. They floated on a raft of debris in near-freezing water, watching their ship's oil burn around them, until the destroyer Electra found them two hours later. Briggs was 18 years old. He lived until 2008, the last man who had stood on the Mighty Hood. The Bismarck won the battle. But Prince of Wales, only just commissioned with shipyard workers still aboard fixing her main guns, had landed three hits before retreating. One ruptured a forward fuel tank. Bismarck began trailing oil across the Atlantic like a wounded animal. Churchill's order to the fleet was simple. Sink the Bismarck. Every available British warship turned to the chase. Three days later, at the edge of the Bay of Biscay, a Swordfish biplane from HMS Ark Royal, flying through a gale at near sea level, dropped a torpedo that jammed Bismarck's rudder hard to port. She could only steam in a slow circle, straight back into the Royal Navy. King George V and Rodney closed at dawn on 27 May. They fired on her for ninety minutes. Bismarck absorbed over 400 shells and at least a dozen torpedoes before she rolled over and went down with roughly 2,200 of her crew. The Royal Navy answered for Hood in 72 hours.

@MatrixMysteries Wow

“Minnesota sent taxpayer money to a ‘healthcare company’ for 26 YEARS." Nick Shirley went to the address on file. IT DOESN’T EXIST. 26 years of funding. No office. No staff. No operation. If fraud this obvious goes unnoticed for decades, CORRUPTION is incentivized.

This is what Memorial Day is about, This is also why We don’t tolerate People Burning our Flag!

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. — Ephesians 6:4

Living Color. It was really Funny!

@news_jul @nbcsnl First, the memes are hilarious. Second, what a good sport you are!

I'm glad I could take one for the team with @nbcsnl on summer break Thanks for the memes, internet! Hope you'll stick around for the reporting 🙇‍♀️

@virgilwalker reformationchurches.org/ethnic-reforma…

Perhaps someone can explain the white supremacy and oppression these black teens are supposedly suffering under. What’s actually sickening is watching this kind of blatant racism be ignored, excused, or even applauded, while people pretend it doesn’t exist because the targets are white.

Do you know any pastors who might Join us? reformationchurches.org reformationchurches.org/ethnic-reforma…

“If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” John 14:15-17 KJV

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.” 1 Samuel 15:2 KJV

Should the church be known for holiness? Certainly love. Certainly grace. But also holiness?