Hoke Smart

Christ follower. Greenville SC native. Proud Alumnus of @GeorgiaTech (HTS '00). Member of @GTliberalarts Advisory Board. @GTVolleyball fanatic. AKA Smartacus77

[Hoke Smart @HokeSmart]

@JaredHalusGT Oh, I 100% concur about the butt kicking our guys delivered in the actual game against the dwags. They've got no legs to stand on and they know it, so the only thing they can hold onto is advancing when we did not.

[Hoke Smart @HokeSmart]

@FTRSBlog I second this edit, 1,000,000%.

[Hoke Smart @HokeSmart]

@GreenvilleDrive This dude has crushed balls out of center field multiple times this season already. What a baller!

[Hoke Smart @HokeSmart]

Beach Night with @GreenvilleDrive and my amazing daughter! Love these moments especially now that she's adulting...

[Hoke Smart @HokeSmart]

I realize that my reach on this platform is not to any significant degree, but I do want to take a moment to acknowledge that I believe @NancyMace is a worthy candidate for Governor of our great state of South Carolina. I think all of us would rather be judged by the path of our present and not chained to the pain of our past. What I've seen from Rep. Mace is a fierce focus on policies and ideals that benefit SC in measurable ways.

I do not believe that @PamelaEvette will lead us well, nor do I trust @AGAlanWilson to put SC first. You may not agree with everything she says or does but I think Nancy has the determination and focus that our state needs moving forward in this chapter of our history.

[Hoke Smart @HokeSmart]

Resistance is futile.

[Georgia Tech Baseball @GTBaseball]

TECH WINS!!

The Jackets hit a program NCAA Tournament record SEVEN home runs to take game one of the Atlanta Regional!

#StingEm🐝 x #NoFinishLine

[Georgia Tech Baseball @GTBaseball]

Not bad

#StingEm🐝 x #NoFinishLine

[Georgia Tech Baseball @GTBaseball]

𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓

There has not been a better offense in the BBCOR era than the 2026 Jackets.

#StingEm🐝 x #NoFinishLine

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Galatians 4:4 looks like a transition verse.

“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son.”

If you read it fast, it sounds like a timestamp. But if read slowly, it is the most staggering sentence in the Bible.

‘Fullness of time’. Paul isn't saying God picked a convenient moment. He is saying God declared a moment complete. “The preparation is finished and everything I have been building across centuries is exactly where I need it to be”. God looked at human history and said: now.

Which forces the question. Why then? Why not a thousand years earlier, when Moses was fresh? Why not a thousand years later? What was so perfect about the first century?

I started looking into it and I have not recovered.

God needed a people with the theology. He spent 2000 years forming Israel; the covenant, the sacrificial system, the prophets, Isaiah 53 written seven centuries before Calvary, the framework of a coming Messiah who would bear the sin of the world. The Jews were shaped by wilderness, exile, and divine discipline, until the theological infrastructure for substitutionary atonement was fully in place.

But theology alone could not travel. God needed a language. Not a tribal dialect, but a universal tongue. So five hundred years before the Gospel, He let the Greek philosophers begin.

Heraclitus sat in Ephesus and concluded the universe was governed by an invisible rational principle. He called it the Logos.

The Stoics built on it. Philo of Alexandria stood at the intersection of Greek thought and Hebrew scripture and said the Logos was the mind of God in creation. For five hundred years, philosophy built a conceptual category it could not fill.

Then God sent a conqueror with no interest in theology. Alexander the Great wanted glory and empire. God let him want it. In satisfying his ego across three continents, Alexander Hellenized the ancient world and forged Koine Greek, the common tongue of the docks, markets, soldiers, and slaves. A language stripped of complexity, simple enough for anyone, universal enough for everyone.
The Hebrew scriptures were translated into it. The Septuagint was born. God used a pagan conqueror’s ambition to translate His own Word.

Then Rome came and paved the road. The Pax Romana. Piracy cleared. Stone highways stretching from Spain to Syria. A framework for movement the ancient world had never seen.

None of them knew they were collaborating.

Heraclitus thought he was doing philosophy. Alexander thought he was building a monument to himself. Rome thought it was building an empire for Rome. Not one of them understood they were stagehands. God was with Heraclitus in his pondering, with Alexander in his conquest, with Roman engineers laying stone, quietly requisitioning their work for a purpose none of them could see.

And then, when the covenant people were in place, the language primed, the roads built, and the category ready, when everything He had been quietly assembling was finally set, God stepped into the room they had unknowingly prepared.

John picked up his pen and wrote: “In the beginning was the Logos.”

Every Greek philosopher in the Mediterranean felt the ground shift. “And the Logos became flesh.” The category they spent five centuries constructing was not a principle. It was a Person.

The ‘fullness of time is not a timestamp’. It is God’s signature on a completed work. And the humbling thing is that this work was not built by saints. It was built by conquerors, philosophers, and emperors who thought they were writing their own story. God let them think that. And used every word. If this is not amazing then I don’t know what is.

[Georgia Tech Volleyball @GTVolleyball]

31 matches. One mission.

Mark the calendars — the full 2026 slate is officially set! 📅

📰 https://t.co/1A7eika4CB

#StingEm x #PointTech🐝

[Hoke Smart @HokeSmart]

I am cautiously optimistic about the way this schedule lays out if our squad stays healthy. Coach has always done a great job finding challenging OOC matches, so getting Nebraska was delightful news. Not saying the road is easy, but I trust her process and I think we have solid talent returning and coming in so it could make for an exciting season!

[Hoke Smart @HokeSmart]

Baby steps... Start with removing the tax on property as it implies a lack of true ownership of the asset.

[Nancy Mace @NancyMace]

Which would you prefer? Eliminate the state income tax or property taxes?

Please pick one (although truth be told I want to do both).

[Georgia Tech Baseball @GTBaseball]

𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫

For the first time in @ACCBaseball history, the Coach of the Year is a 1st year head coach. Congrats @jamesramsey23!! Very well deserved 🫡

#StingEm🐝 x #WreckHavoc

[Georgia Tech Baseball @GTBaseball]

TECH WINS!!!

THAT'S HOW YOU CLINCH A TITLE!!

#StingEm🐝 x #WreckHavoc

[Hoke Smart @HokeSmart]

Awesome step up for the programs! Kudos to the leadership for getting this done and to all those who supported the initiative. #StingEm

[Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets @GTAthletics]

Introducing the Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center. 100,000+ square feet dedicated to elevating the performance of Georgia Tech Athletics.

#StingEm 🐝

[Hoke Smart @HokeSmart]

If he's playing the long game, he'll endorse Paxton. It would absolutely make it clear that he sees Thune as a waste of leadership space.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

President Trump says he will make a decision in the Texas Senate runoff

“maybe relatively soon.”

Who do you want to see President Trump endorse?

[Hoke Smart @HokeSmart]

One thing has stuck out to me in recent months with all of these deep dives into the massive fraud and corruption taking place under our noses....

Why did it have to wait for independent journalists to start sniffing around for government to suddenly care about the problem? Notice that I am not blaming a particular party since they're both clearly either ignorant or complicit at this point, perhaps to differing degrees, but I think even the tiniest amount of misappropriation of tax dollars should be enough to make every tax paying American's blood boil....

[Hoke Smart @HokeSmart]

@NancyMace There's two issues I'd consider tied for number 1....

Lack of transparency within our state government -AND- lack of consistent infrastructure planning standards that can be adopted and adapted to each local jurisdiction.

[Hoke Smart @HokeSmart]

This is beyond infuriating to keep seeing these exposés from journalists like Luke and Nick Shirley. It is no wonder the swamp has become as muddy and dark as it is. The absolute power politicians have held over these kinds of things has corrupted politicians absolutely.

[Luke Rosiak @lukerosiak]

https://t.co/7V1oWKxuWZ