Brennan Plucknett

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

[Brennan Plucknett @BPlucknett]

@OPaladins2 You mean it's totally unrealistic to dream of a utopia where we can just sit in a theater and watch free movies all day??

https://t.co/mQwC2EMHjp

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Obviously, the NBA will never give up the massive revenue that courtside seating has brought to their table. Maybe I'm just getting older and cynical, but I can't stand what it brings to the game and I'll die on the hill that we'd be better off without it.

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@KevinSmithtewdg @WesleyLHuff So you concede that the purpose of the Old Covenant (and its articles, like the Ark) was fulfilled in Jesus?

[Brennan Plucknett @BPlucknett]

@KevinSmithtewdg @WesleyLHuff Hebrews 8 would seem sufficient to back the claims Wes is making here. Drop the conceited Orthobro schtick and be a team player.

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@dexd_pines @Dominion_Taker Only if you think people take that position out of blind conformity, not because of common reasoning and conviction. Otherwise, the bandwagon fallacy is just a convenient excuse for foolishness: a "pass card" for holding on to ideas that people who know better have discredited.

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@Pro__Ant Even better was Collinsworth commenting after that play on how little of an impact Diggs had on this game. Where have you been for the last five NFL postseasons, Chris?

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If you watched football today it should be pretty obvious that Stafford is the MVP even if he will be at home on the couch while Maye goes to the Super Bowl.

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@RGIII @OuttaPocketRG3 @Patriots @DrakeMaye2 Nah. He's a great young QB, but unless he wins a playoff game where the opposing offense can score more than 16 points I'm not giving him that much credit for this team's run. Maybe the Super Bowl changes that, but I'm skeptical.

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@NateGearySports Same play as last year....except this one was a catch? It never goes our way.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

A man said "I accept Jesus Christ" on his deathbed.

The church asked if he really meant it.

I need to ask you something.

When did we become the gatekeepers of grace?

I've watched Christians dissect Scott Adams' final words like prosecutors.

They parsed his phrases. They weighed his tone. They measured his faith against some invisible scale and found it wanting.

"That doesn't sound like surrender," they said. "That sounds like a man hedging his bets."

And I understand the instinct. I do.

But there's a verse that haunts me. Not because it's obscure—because it's too simple.

"Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
(Romans 10:13)

Whosoever.

Not "whosoever truly believes in their heart of hearts." Not "whosoever demonstrates sufficient sincerity." Not "whosoever calls early enough in life that we trust their
motives."

Whosoever.

The moment we add prerequisites to that promise, we've traded the Gospel for religion.

We've smuggled works back in through the side door labeled "authentic faith."

I know what some of you are thinking.

But he admitted he wasn't a believer.
He talked about "risk and reward."
He said he hoped he'd "qualify."

Yes. He did.

And those words make us uncomfortable. They don't sound like the confident declarations we want from converts. They sound uncertain. Calculating. Human.

But here's what I need you to hear:

The thief on the cross didn't have time to develop mature theology either.

He was a criminal. Hours from death. He looked at Jesus and said, "Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom."

That's it.

No profession of belief in the resurrection. No renunciation of his former life. No evidence of transformed character.

Just a desperate man, reaching for a hand he wasn't sure would take his.

And Jesus said, "Today you will be with me in paradise."

We have a problem, and it's not Scott Adams.

It's us.

We've internalized a law that God never gave us. A natural sense of fairness that says late arrivals should get less. That deathbed conversions are suspicious. That the math
should somehow work out—more faith, more years, more sacrifice equals more standing before God.

Jesus told a parable about this.

We skip over it because it offends us.

A landowner hired workers throughout the day. Some came at dawn. Some at noon. Some showed up with one hour left.

At the end, he paid them all the same.

The early workers were furious.

"These who were hired last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day."
(Matthew 20:12)

And the landowner replied:

"I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?"

There it is.

The scandal of grace is that it feels unfair.

A man who mocked God for sixty years gets the same inheritance as the saint who served since childhood. A skeptic who hedged his bets at the last breath stands in the same kingdom as the martyr who gave everything.

And something in us recoils.

That's not grace rejecting us.

That's us rejecting grace.

Let me tell you what I see when Christians interrogate a dead man's faith.

I see the older brother standing outside the party, refusing to go in.

The prodigal came home reeking of pig filth and poor decisions. The father ran to him. Threw a robe on his back. Killed the fattened calf.

And the older brother?

"Look! All these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!"
(Luke 15:29-30)

He couldn't celebrate the return because he was too busy auditing the journey.

Sound familiar?

Here's the truth we don't want to face:

We can't see hearts. We can only see words.

And the words Scott Adams spoke were: "I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior."

Were they perfect? No.
Were they confident? No.
Were they the words we would have scripted? No.

But they were the words.

And the God who receives those words is not checking for tone. He's not running sentiment analysis. He's not grading on a curve.

He's looking for open hands.

Paul wrote something that lands differently now:

"Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand."
(Romans 14:4)

Scott Adams was not our servant to judge. He answered to his own Master.

And the Lord is able—able—to make him stand.

That's not my promise. That's Scripture's promise.

The question is whether we'll submit to it.

I know why we do this.

I know why we parse and weigh and question.

Because if grace is really this free, then we didn't earn our place either.

If the deathbed convert gets in, then our decades of service weren't the price of admission. They were the privilege of knowing Him longer.

And that reframes everything.

It means the faith we've built isn't a resume. It's a relationship.

It means our years weren't buying something. They were receiving something.

It means we were never the workers earning a wage.

We were always the prodigals coming home.

So did Scott Adams get saved?

I don't know.

But I know what the Scripture says.

Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

I know what Jesus promised the thief who had nothing to offer but a desperate plea.

I know what the father did when his son came crawling home with a rehearsed speech that never even got finished.

And I know what the landowner said to the workers who were angry that grace didn't do math the way they wanted.

"Are you envious because I am generous?"

The gate is narrow, but it's not locked.

The standard is high, but it's not ours to enforce.

The Judge is holy, but He is also the one who ran to meet the prodigal while he was still a long way off.

Stop auditing the dead.

Start marveling at the grace that let you in.

"Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

Whosoever.

Even him.

Even you.

What saith the Scriptures?

That's the only question that matters.

[Brennan Plucknett @BPlucknett]

How can anybody (outside of Miami) not love the Trinidad Chambliss character arc?

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@NateGearySports Can't be any worse than the last Seahawks-Broncos Super Bowl, right?

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@TJDMCR They narrowly got past us when we finally ended the drought. The next time we got to the playoffs, it was Houston in OT. If we're going on a super bowl run, it's time to overturn all of our past sufferings by beating both of these teams in 2026. This is the way.

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@Pro__Ant To be fair, I'd also be mad at Josh if I was wide open in the end zone on my lone target of the day and he sailed the ball a mile over my head.

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@BillsOnReal November is too early to judge. Nov 2023, I was expecting them to miss the playoffs - and then they won 5 straight + a wild card game. Last November it felt like they were finally going all the way but needed help from Mark Andrews to even reach the AFC title game.

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@richtidwell My man...if you're looking at Judges to orient your moral compass, the last verse of the book makes it pretty clear that you've missed the plot entirely.

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@NateGearySports His response to the Steve Smith question last week made it clear that he's aware of the criticism. I'm wondering how much it's in his head now, considering he also knows the team was shopping for a WR at the deadline.

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@BuffaloRyann Devil's advocate here: Diggs was essentially a 1st round draft pick and was a bonafide top-5 WR in the league for the time he was here. 2020-2023 there wasn't a pressing need for taking WR early in the draft. Then, the year Diggs left Beane used his first pick on a WR. 🤷

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@RhodaRose26 @JeremyWingert79 @MikeWingerii So people who practice Islam are their own unique race now? That sounds kind of...racist.

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@AjayCybulski James Franklin...