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Luke was a doctor. Paul calls him the beloved physician. Colossians 4:14. And Luke is the only gospel writer who records what happened to Jesus’s body that night in the garden. Luke 22:44. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. The other three gospels tell you He prayed. The doctor tells you what the prayer did to Him. There’s a name for it now. Hematidrosis. It’s rare, but it’s documented in medical literature: under extreme anguish, the tiny blood vessels around the sweat glands can rupture, and blood mixes into the sweat. It’s been recorded in soldiers before battle and in men facing execution. The body of the Son of God was breaking under the weight of what was coming, and nobody had touched Him yet. No whip. No thorns. No nails. Just a man on the ground under the olive trees, and the knowledge of what the morning would bring. Now look at where He was. Gethsemane. The name means oil press. An olive grove on the Mount of Olives, with a press for crushing the harvest, great stones bearing down on the fruit until the oil runs out. He went to the place where olives are crushed, on the night He was crushed. And look at the word Luke uses. Agony. In Greek, agōnia. It’s an athlete’s word, the strain of a wrestler at the limit of his strength. He’s not resting in prayer. He’s fighting in it. Mark says He began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy. And then Jesus said the most frightening sentence a human being has ever said about himself. Mark 14:34. My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death. The man who calmed the storm with three words, who had raised the dead, who knew the end from the beginning - on His face in the dirt, telling His friends He was so overwhelmed it felt like dying. Matthew 26:39. He went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. What was the cup? The prophets had already told you. Isaiah 51:17, the cup of his fury. Jeremiah 25:15, the wine cup of this fury, given to the nations to drink. It was the cup of the wrath of God against sin. All of it. Every century of it. And He was going to drink it to the bottom. That’s what He saw in the garden. Not the nails. The cup. Now go back to the first garden. Genesis 3. The first Adam stands in paradise. Every tree is his. One command. And he chooses his own will over God’s. Then the voice of God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam ran. Genesis 3:10. I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. The first Adam hid from God among the trees. The last Adam went into the trees to find Him. The first Adam said: My will. The last Adam fell on His face and said: Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. Now read what God said to Adam on the way out of Eden. Genesis 3:19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground. Sweat. The curse was sweat. The sweat of your face, until you return to the ground. And in Gethsemane, in a garden, the doctor watched the sweat of Christ’s face fall to the ground, mixed with His blood. The curse that started in a garden ended in a garden. The last Adam took the sweat of the first one, and He bled it out onto the same ground Adam was made from. One more detail. Luke again. Luke 22:45. When he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow. For sorrow. Matthew and Mark just say they were asleep. The doctor gives the diagnosis. They weren’t lazy. They were grieving so hard their bodies shut down. Three times He came back and found them asleep. Three times He went back alone. Could ye not watch with me one hour? He asked His closest friends for one thing, one hour, on the worst night of His life. And they couldn’t give it to Him. He prayed it alone. And look at what comes after the third prayer. Matthew 26:46. Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me. He doesn’t run. He doesn’t hide in the trees. Torches are already moving across the valley, and the man who was face-down in the dirt stands up and walks toward them. The fight was over. It was won on His knees, before a single soldier arrived. Now you. Some of you are in your garden right now. You’ve prayed for the cup to pass. You’ve asked three times. Thirty times. You’ve fallen on your face over a diagnosis, a child, a marriage, a fear you can’t say out loud. And heaven hasn’t moved the cup. And your friends are asleep. Not because they don’t love you. Because they’re tired and they don’t know how bad it is. You’re praying alone. He knows that garden. He’s been in it. He sweated through it. And here’s the thing about that cup. The worst cup, the cup of wrath, the one with your sin in it - He didn’t let it pass. He drank it so you will never have to. Whatever is in your cup tonight, that isn’t in it anymore. What’s left is the prayer. The hardest one there is. The one that turned the curse around. Not my will. He prayed it first. Now you can.

Dude is just built different. I’m already home, in my sweats & vegging on the couch….and it’s only 6pm…😂

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For 131 years, the Georgia State Capitol stood without this fence. Then came 2020. Atlanta burned. Violent crime surged. The National Guard was called in. And an 8-foot steel fence went up around our Capitol. It’s still here. An ever-present reminder of what happened under Keisha Lance Bottoms’ watch. A bad Mayor won't make a good Governor.

JOHN, CHAPTER BY CHAPTER (3/21) John 3:16 is the most famous verse in the Bible. But most people have never read the conversation it comes from: a secret meeting, at night, between Jesus and one of the most respected religious men in Jerusalem. And how that man's story ends is one of the most beautiful turns in the entire Gospel. THE SETTING Chapter 2 ended with a warning. Many people in Jerusalem believed because they saw miracles, but Jesus "knew what was in man." Chapter 3 immediately shows us one of those men: "There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews." He was a Pharisee, devoted to keeping the Law. He was a ruler, most likely a member of the Sanhedrin, the council that governed Jewish religious life. Jesus calls him "the teacher of Israel." This was a man at the top. And he came to Jesus by night. THE CHAPTER IN FOUR MOVEMENTS 1. A visitor in the dark (vv. 1–8) Nicodemus opens politely: "Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him." Jesus skips the compliments and goes straight to the heart of it: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." The Greek word translated "again" can also mean "from above." Jesus means both. You need a second birth, and it has to come from God. Nicodemus takes it literally. "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb?" Jesus presses further: "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Then He uses an image you can feel. "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." In Greek, the word for wind and the word for Spirit are the same: pneuma. You can't control the wind or see it. But you can see what it does. That's what new birth is like. 2. The serpent on the pole (vv. 9–15) Nicodemus asks, "How can these things be?" Jesus answers with a gentle sting: "Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?" The prophets had spoken of exactly this. Ezekiel 36 promised that God would sprinkle clean water on His people, give them a new heart, and put His Spirit within them. Then Jesus reaches back to a strange story from the wilderness. In Numbers 21, Israel was dying from the bites of venomous snakes. God told Moses to make a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. Anyone who was bitten and looked at it would live. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life." The cure was not medicine, effort, or ritual. It was looking. Jesus would be lifted up on a cross, and anyone who looks to Him in faith will live. 3. God so loved (vv. 16–21) "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." The Greek word translated "so" usually means "in this way" or "like this." It's not only telling you how much God loved the world, though that's true. It's telling you what His love looked like: He gave. It points right back to the serpent on the pole. This is the way God loved the world: by lifting up His Son. "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved." Then Jesus explains why some don't come. "Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." Remember who He's talking to: a man who came to Him at night. "But he that doeth truth cometh to the light." That isn't a rejection of Nicodemus. It's an invitation. 4. He must increase (vv. 22–36) The scene shifts to John the Baptist, still baptizing. His disciples come to him, worried. The man John pointed to is now baptizing too, "and all men come to him." They expect John to feel threatened. Instead, he gives one of the most humble answers in Scripture. He calls himself "the friend of the bridegroom." At a Jewish wedding, the friend's job was to prepare everything and then step aside. His joy was hearing the groom's voice, not being the center of attention. "He must increase, but I must decrease." The chapter closes with a summary of everything before it: "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life." WHAT MOST PEOPLE MISS Nicodemus doesn't disappear after this chapter. In John 7, as the religious leaders plot against Jesus, Nicodemus speaks up cautiously: "Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him?" He's mocked for it. Then in John 19, after the crucifixion, when the disciples had scattered and hidden, Nicodemus appears again. He comes with Joseph of Arimathea, carrying about a hundred pounds of myrrh and aloes, enough for a king's burial. He helps take Jesus' body down from the cross. The man who first came at night now stands at the cross in daylight, in front of everyone. And remember what Jesus told him in chapter 3: the Son of Man must be lifted up, like the serpent, and whoever looks to Him will live. Nicodemus heard those words at night. Three years later, he stood looking at the One who had been lifted up. John never says when the wind of the Spirit started blowing in his heart. But you can see where it carried him. THE HARD VERSE "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." (v. 5) What does "water" mean here? Christians have read it several ways. Some see it as natural, physical birth, since Jesus goes on to contrast "flesh" with "spirit." Many, especially in older church traditions, see it as baptism. John the Baptist was baptizing with water in this same chapter and the one before it. Others point to Ezekiel 36, the passage Jesus scolds Nicodemus for not knowing: "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean... A new heart also will I give you... And I will put my spirit within you." On this reading, water and Spirit describe one new birth: cleansing from sin and new life from God. In the Greek, a single preposition covers both words, which fits this view well. Faithful Christians disagree about this verse. But every view agrees on the main point. New birth is something God does. You can't produce it by being religious, respected, or learned. Nicodemus had all three, and Jesus still told him he needed to be born from above. WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU If you're religious, even deeply, John 3 asks a direct question: have you been born from above? Nicodemus knew the Scriptures better than almost anyone alive, and Jesus told him that wasn't enough. If you're coming to Jesus "at night," privately, with questions, unsure what others will think, He doesn't turn you away. He received Nicodemus at night. But don't stay in the dark forever. The wind is meant to carry you into the light. If you feel like you've done too much damage to be saved, remember the serpent on the pole. The Israelites didn't heal themselves. They looked. "Whosoever" has no fine print. If you're in ministry, leadership, or any place where people look to you, take John the Baptist's words as your own. "He must increase, but I must decrease." Your joy is in pointing to Him. And if you've known John 3:16 your whole life, read it again slowly. God didn't just love the world in feeling. He loved it in this way: He gave. The question isn't whether God loves the world. The question is whether you've looked up. Which part of John 3 means the most to you?

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🚨 BREAKING: Georgia’s State Election Board Turns to Federal Gov’t Over Voting Machine Concerns Georgia’s Republican-controlled State Election Board has formally asked the Trump DOJ to shut down the state’s QR-code voting system before the 2026 midterms. The core issue: Voters select choices on a touchscreen, but the actual votes are tabulated via an unreadable QR code—not the paper summary the voter can see. Key demands in the letter: 🔹 Ban “unreadable, unverifiable QR-code-based vote tabulation” 🔹 Force a 6-month phase-out of the current Dominion/Liberty Vote system 🔹 Open an investigation into the Secretary of State’s office for alleged record withholding 🔹 Require installation of EAC-certified software (v. 5.17+) with independent verification The resolution passed 3-2, with the board arguing it’s “irresponsible” to use equipment with known vulnerabilities. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office dismissed the letter as “unserious.” Early voting begins October 13—just weeks away. 🔗 Read the full letter here: [Link] #gapol #Georgia #ElectionSecurity #VotingRights #GeorgiaPolitics #Midterms2026

Today, friends are gathering to cover our dear friend Chris in prayer. She has been diagnosed with small cell lung cancer that has spread to her skull. She has finished radiation and is facing the next difficult step in treatment, along with so many side effects. Please keep her, her doctors, and her family in your prayers. Heavenly Father, please be close to Chris through every step of this difficult journey. Give her strength for each treatment and comfort through the side effects. Guide her doctors and care team with wisdom and compassion, and bring peace to her family. Let her feel surrounded by love and support, and hold her through the hardest days. In Jesus’ name, Amen Please join us in prayer for our beautiful friend! We Love You , Chris @CrystalSin22064 🙏🏼🤍

When Florida teacher Diane Tirado gave students zeros for work they never turned in, she says the decision helped cost her her job. In 2018, Tirado was teaching eighth-grade U.S. history at West Gate K-8 School in Port St. Lucie. One assignment required students to keep an explorer’s notebook for two weeks. Some never submitted it. Tirado entered zeros. Then she encountered a grading policy she said prohibited teachers from giving students less than 50 percent, even when no work had been submitted. Tirado refused. Her argument was simple: giving half credit for nothing did not teach responsibility, and it was unfair to students who had actually completed their assignments. After only weeks at the school, Tirado was terminated during her probationary period. The school district disputed her version of events, saying there was no districtwide rule requiring a minimum grade of 50 and that her dismissal involved performance concerns. Tirado maintained that the grading dispute was central to what happened. Before leaving, she wrote a message on the classroom whiteboard for her students: “Bye kids. Mrs. Tirado loves you and wishes you the best in life! I have been fired for refusing to give you a 50% for not handing anything in.” A photograph of the message went viral, turning one teacher’s firing into a national argument about what grades are actually supposed to measure. Tirado’s story struck a nerve because the question was bigger than one classroom. If a student does nothing, should the grade reflect exactly that? Or should a school protect a child’s ability to recover academically by refusing to let a single zero become mathematically devastating? Tirado knew her answer, and she was willing to lose her classroom over it. -She's So Cool

🚨🚨 THIS IS BIGGER THAN THE GRAND CANYON 🚨🚨 Georgia’s State Election Board just detonated a political earthquake. In a 3-2 vote, the board formally asked the Trump DOJ to declare the statewide Dominion (now Liberty Vote) QR-code voting machines UNLAWFUL under the Help America Vote Act before the midterms. They want Attorney General Todd Blanche to ban unreadable QR-code tabulation that voters cannot verify, force an immediate software patch for documented vulnerabilities, order forensic backups of election servers, and set a binding six-month phase-out. Executive Director James Mills sent the letter after a resolution by board member Carolyn Roddy. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office is stonewalling and calling the demand “unserious” chaos, even as early voting starts October 13. The board says the current system encodes the actual counted votes in QR codes voters can’t read, and they’re done waiting until 2028. This is the full-blown federal showdown over Georgia’s voting machines, not a press release. 🔥⚖️🗳️

Hi, Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on Ben.⚕️👨‍⚕️ The doctor's appointment went well, even though Ben's eye is still swollen and painful he is progressing as well as expected. It will just take time to recover (Ben's immune system compromised ) Continued prayers are much appreciated!🙏 -Tina

BREAKING: Georgia State Election Board Executive Director James Mills has formally requested DOJ intervention before the November 2026 election. His letter calls for immediate fixes to Georgia’s Dominion voting system, protection of ballot secrecy, and an end to QR-code tabulation that voters cannot verify. It also seeks investigations into alleged alteration and withholding of election records and the sharing of voter registration and motor vehicle data with outside organizations — calling for action against officials responsible for wrongdoing. Huge! file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/75/05/8D632C3E-852C-41FD-BE76-713AB088A4BA/Formal_Request_for_DOJ_Intervention_-_The_Honorable_Harmeet_Dhillon.pdf

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🚨GEORGIA SENATE DISTRICT 47 — VOTERS NEED TO KNOW THIS BEFORE NOVEMBER Justin Gillespie, the Democratic nominee for Georgia Senate District 47, has been convicted of cruelty to children and battery and sentenced to SEVEN YEARS — with TWO YEARS to serve in state prison. According to reporting based on the Madison County case, the victim was a 5-year-old child at a daycare where Gillespie was working. Authorities said the child was struck in the lower back with a spatula, leaving a red, raised welt. Gillespie acknowledged striking the child but maintained that it happened accidentally. Following a bench trial, Superior Court Judge Chris NeSmith found him guilty. And here's where the November election gets unusual: Gillespie's name may STILL appear on your ballot. His opponent is incumbent Republican State Senator Frank Ginn. District 47 includes Madison County and portions of Clarke, Barrow and Jackson counties. Because ballots have already been printed, a Georgia Secretary of State spokesman said Gillespie's name will likely remain on them. The spokesman also said a challenge to Gillespie's candidacy would likely be appropriate and that votes cast for Gillespie would not be counted. This isn't a rumor or a social-media allegation. There is now a criminal conviction and prison sentence. District 47 voters should know exactly what happened before casting their ballots. Vet your candidates. Know who is on your ballot. Read article here: aol.com/articles/georgia-sen…

I’m still in shock of losing my friend, Joe Rossi. He was so measured, careful, prepared, polite and he articulated his arguments with vigor to the State Elections Board and @GovKemp whom he considered a friend who had lost his way. If you know me, you know that I live by the principle “live life with no regrets”. In my relationship with Joe, I do have your regret. We never got to go fishing together. At State Elections Board meetings, we would frequently sit together and share notes to make sure that our speeches would not unnecessarily overlap. It was in those times that Joe would share his latest fishing pictures where he loved to fish at local ponds for bass. I loved seeing his pictures because and kidded with him that he was the only fisherman I’ve ever known who wore crisp khakis, a dress shirt and loafers while fishing! He told me that he was always dressed like that because he was typically coming back from teaching and saw a good place to fish. I’m going to miss him and I will miss not having the memory of having gone fishing together.

🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT — FORMAL ELECTION COMPLAINT DROPPED🚨 THIS MORNING, September 28, 2026, I submitted a formal Immediate/Expedited Request for Investigation to the Georgia State Election Board concerning David James Dillie, the Democratic nominee for Georgia House District 161 in the November 3 general election. Official qualifying records identify Dillie as the Democratic candidate for HD-161. ICYMI, on September 24, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger publicly announced that his office had opened an investigation into reports that a Georgia House candidate allegedly cast ballots in both Georgia’s May 19 primary and Nevada’s June 9 primary. The Secretary of State says investigators will obtain voting records, signatures, and other evidence to determine what happened. My 27-page complaint and supporting exhibits lay out the records that prompted the request for investigation. The Georgia records included in the complaint show Dillie participated in the Democratic May 19 primary by early in-person voting on April 27 and the Democratic June 16 primary runoff on Election Day. The Nevada material included in the complaint reflects a June 9, 2026 vote-by-mail entry associated with a Nevada registration bearing the same name and birth date. In an AJC article, Dillie has denied casting that Nevada ballot and admitted the Nevada address was his former residence, which is precisely why this needs an official investigation—The complaint specifically requests investigation of a potential violation of O.C.G.A. § 21-2-572. 🚨THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTIONS MATTER AND NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. David Dillie isn’t merely a voter whose records raise questions. He is currently asking Georgia voters to elect him to the Georgia House of Representatives. My filing therefore requests expedited review because he is a candidate in the 2026 general election for House District 161. The complaint and supporting documentation will also be provided to the appropriate Clark County, Nevada election authorities and the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division for whatever review they determine appropriate. The records deserve answers and the voters of House District 161 deserve the facts!!

REVELATION 8:13. And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! KJV

Yesterday in church, my pastor carried two things to the front: a $100 note and an envelope. He asked us which one had value. Obviously, we said the $100. Then he crushed the $100 note and asked, “Does it still have value?” Yes. He crushed the envelope too. Then he placed the $100 inside it and asked, “Does the envelope now have value?” Yes. And that was the lesson. Sometimes life will crush you. You may find yourself in places where people don't recognize your value. You may go through rejection, disappointment, failure, or difficult seasons. But being crushed doesn't mean you have lost your value. The $100 was still $100, even when it was crushed. Then we read 2 Corinthians 4:1–5, which reminded us that we are carrying a treasure, but we are not the treasure's ultimate destination. We don't preach ourselves; we preach Christ Jesus as Lord. That made the lesson even more powerful for me. Yes, you are valuable. But the greatest value in your life is not simply what people see in you. It is what God has placed in you and what He can do through you. Your experiences can become a testimony. Your struggles can encourage someone. Your journey can give someone hope. And when you share what God has done in your life, you are not glorifying yourself you are pointing someone back to God. So wherever you are today, remember: You are valuable. You may be crushed, but you are not worthless. You may be overlooked, but God has not overlooked you. And whatever treasure God has placed in you, use it to point others to Christ. Sometimes the world sees a crushed envelope. God sees what He has placed inside it.

🚨HERO: A 24-year-old babysitter turned herself into a human shield to save an 8-month-old baby girl from a horrific dog attack! Felicia Hambrick was caring for her best friend's three children in Tacoma, Washington, when the family’s pit bull unexpectedly burst out of a bedroom and charged toward them. Holding the 8-month-old infant, 4-foot-11 Felicia made a split-second choice. Instead of trying to run, she threw herself backward onto the floor and curled her body tightly around the child, using her own torso and limbs as a protective barrier. The dog launched a relentless attack, biting and clawing at Felicia over and over. She absorbed roughly 40 severe bite wounds across her neck, arms, legs, and stomach, refusing to let go or expose the child. The mother was able to beat the dog back with a broom to free Felicia before emergency responders arrived. Felicia spent five days in the hospital and needed 94 staples to close her wounds. Because she absorbed the full force of the attack, the 8-month-old baby girl walked away without a single scratch! Absolute bravery and selflessness in the face of sheer terror—that is what a real hero looks like!