This is your friendly reminder that just believing in Jesus won’t save you. You actually have to love God and obey Him.

I never thought I was missing much as a Protestant by not going to confession. It seemed like a burden- we can just take our sins to God. I was wrong. It really is healing. Protestants are missing out.

Pope Benedict XVI’s Germany won a World Cup. Pope Francis’s Argentina won a World Cup. Will Leo XIV deliver for the United States?

🇺🇸 @StuHolden saw this @USMNT beauty developing way down the field

The World Cup absolutely mogs every other sporting event. It’s what the Olympics wishes it was X100. You’ve got Europeans road-tripping across America and having their minds blown by Buc-ee’s and Bass Pro Shops. You’ve got a small Kansas town falling in love with an Algerian club that chose Kansas City as their homebase. You’ve got South Korea training in Utah to prepare for the altitude in Guadalajara. For one month, the whole world forgets we’re supposed to hate each other over differences that barely matter. It’s the closest thing we have to world peace.

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

After winning the UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid took the trophy straight into the Almudena Cathedral and officially offered it to the Blessed Virgin Mary 🇪🇸✝️

If you could send a 3-word message to yourself in 2010 from today, what would it be?