Nancy Hale

The honest part of that quote stings a little, doesn't it? Most of what we worry about isn't ours to control — not really. And yet we carry it like it is. The invitation today isn't to stop caring — it's to stop carrying what was never yours to hold. Hand it over. He can handle it. What worry can you release to Him right now? 🤍

We thank God for the safe rescue this Easter weekend of our U.S. Airman whose plane had gone down in Iran. Thank you to the hundreds of U.S. military who put their lives on the line to execute this extraction mission. This is another reminder to pray for our leadership and the men and women of our military every day. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Friday was grief. Saturday was silence. But Sunday... This is the hinge of all human history. Every promise God has ever made rests on this morning. Every sorrow carried to the cross, every prayer offered in darkness, every fragile thread of faith, all of it held together by a risen Savior who walked out of that grave. True life. Eternal life. Glorious life. Not someday in the abstract. Yours, right now, in Him. He is risen. He is risen indeed. Sunday is the day death lost.

He is risen! Happy Resurrection Sunday!

Today is the quietest day of the Christian calendar. No triumphant entry. No resurrection announcement. Just a sealed tomb, a grieving handful of followers, and a silence that must have felt like the end of everything. But heaven was not silent. The cross was not an accident. It was not a tragedy God scrambled to redeem. It was love — deliberate, costly, personal. He gave His Son knowing exactly what it would require. And He did it anyway. For you. "But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." — Romans 5:8 In the silence of this day between Friday and Sunday, there is an invitation — not to rush ahead to the empty tomb, but to let the weight of the cross settle in. To sit with the question: do you actually believe He did this for you? Not for humanity in the abstract. For you, by name, in full knowledge of your story. Maybe today is the day that finally lands.

On that first Good Friday, Jesus did what we could never do for ourselves. What looked like defeat became the way of salvation as He gave His life so that we could be forgiven and have the hope of eternity through Him.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. John 3:16-17

Happy Palm Sunday 🌿 #PalmSunday

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“I trusted in Him not just in the good, but in the bad [this season]. I understand that suffering is good for us, as followers of Jesus. I’m taking that into my next route in [pastoral] ministry - Just leading people by example, as a servant, like Jesus was.” - High Point Guard Chase Johnston after their loss vs Arkansas Johnston was wearing a “Jesus Wins” shirt too 👏

Praying for Susie Wiles today. Before her dad, Pat Summeral, died he asked me to take him to Israel. He wanted to be baptized in the Jordan River. Great memory of a great and grace filled man.

Our outcomes do not determine God’s character. He is always kind and always sovereign. And He is always planning good things for us, even when our circumstances seem grim. We don’t pray to get what we want. We pray to grow closer to our good God.

Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. Deuteronomy 6:7

Plans change. Purpose doesn’t. God’s promises don’t fail. His hand is still guiding the story, even when the path looks different than you imagined.

Please join us in praying for the family of Sgt. Benjamin Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Kentucky. A true American hero, Sgt. Pennington gave his life defending our liberty and freedom against the tyranny of the Iranian terrorist regime.

The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him! Lamentations 3:22-24

Iranian expatriates are celebrating across the U.S. and around the world! I saw some in Minnesota yesterday. They are thanking President @realDonaldTrump and America for taking action against the Islamic regime that held the people of Iran captive and brutally oppressed them for over four decades. Pray for our military and especially for the families of the four service members who have made the ultimate sacrifice as a part of Operation Epic Fury. nypost.com/2026/02/28/wor…

Pray for our many Christian brothers and sisters in Iran. Pray for their safety, yes, and also pray that God would raise up brave believers to share the gospel. Pray that that gospel spreads like wildfire throughout the nation and the Middle East.

“And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” (Matthew 24:6-8)

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. Luke 6:45 (NKJV)