I’m sure, like me, you’ve taken a fan apart to clean or to repair. You’ve probably done it more than once if you have one with white or light-colored fan blades because the dust is especially noticeable. Most desk or box fans are held to the shaft by a single nut. If you fail to put that nut on, the blades will fail. Regardless of how well the motor works or weather or not it’s getting enough electricity, without that nut, no fan!
The same thing is true of a helicopter. In fact during the Vietnam war, that nut that held the blade on the shaft was named the “Jesus Nut” because despite the millions of dollars’ worth of hardware on that bird, if the shaft nut failed, you were going to meet Jesus.
Ironically, the resurrection is our theological “Jesus Nut”. If Jesus rose from the dead, then He is God and ALL of His claims are true! If He is still in the grave, then He was just another moralist teacher…. BUT this is the Year of Our Lord 2026; He did rise. He is sitting at the right hand of the Father. If two witnesses seal the deal, 500 are unimpeachable…
”For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep; then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles; and last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared to me also. For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.” Corinthians 15:3-11
Pastor Scott
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Jesus nut
The main rotor retaining nut[1] or mast nut, often colloquially referred to as the Jesus nut, holds the main rotor to the mast of some helicopters. The related slang term Jesus pin refers to the lock pin used to secure the retaining nut. A failure of this nut is likely to result in a crash. More generally, Jesus nut (or Jesus pin) is used to refer to any component that is a single point of failure and whose breakdown would result in catastrophic consequences, the suggestion being that in such case the only thing left to do would be to “pray to Jesus“.
Origin of name
The term Jesus nut may have been coined by American soldiers in Vietnam;[2] the Vietnam War was the first war to feature large numbers of soldiers riding in helicopters. The term may also have originated with the PBY Catalina, which had two Jesus bolts holding the wing onto the fuselage.[3]
If the main rotor retaining nut were to fail in flight, the rotor would detach from the helicopter,[4] hence the idea that all that would then be left for the crew to do would be to “pray to Jesus.” The nut/pin must be checked before the flight, even though real-world examples of the Jesus nut/pin failing are rare. For example, in 2000, the mast nut of a Bell 206B was removed to be repainted and was not restored and checked prior to a test flight. The helicopter crashed within ten minutes of takeoff, killing the two occupants.[5][6]
Grace Notes 