Joshua Manley

I am a slave of Jesus Christ

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If you love Jesus you should love what Jesus loves, and that ultimately means you should be an official, active, and serving member of your local church (Eph. 5:25).

Church membership should be normal for Christians. Lives lived in regular accountability demonstrate the gospel’s reality to the world, particularly through the mutual love that Jesus identified as the mark of his followers. This is both biblical and strengthens evangelistic witness. Weaker and newer Christians gain feeding and accountability through membership, and mature and seasoned believers demonstrate authentic Christian living.

Hebrews calls believers to “consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,” explicitly warning against forsaking assembly “as the manner of some is” (Heb. 10:24–25). This suggests participation isn’t optional but essential to spiritual health.

Church membership preserves biblical truth by establishing who bears responsibility for rooting out false teaching and protecting the gospel when leadership itself becomes compromised. Paul’s letter to the Galatians exemplifies this. I say this as a positional elder in my church — Paul appealed to the whole congregation rather than leadership alone to address doctrinal corruption. Think about it: how are you to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal 6:2), which positions mutual care as a central Christian obligation, if you’re not actively in a membership role? Thessalonians similarly exhorts believers to “encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thess 5:11), framing encouragement as a reciprocal responsibility that requires presence and investment.

Healthy membership equips believers to recognize heresy when taught or communicated and transforms them from passive consumers into active defenders of the faith.

Acts depicts the early church persevering in apostolic teaching, communion, and gathering daily, with believers holding possessions in common (Acts 2:42–47), a portrait of intensive communal engagement rather than individual isolated devotion or nominal affiliation.

Ultimately, practicing membership glorifies God as Christians gather to form his body, living under the life giving words of scripture, fellowshipping with one another sacrificially, and reflecting his character.

[Daniel Berk @danielcberk]

Spotify needs to release a “kids” setting so I can play all the songs my kids listen to without it affecting my own Discovery algorithm.

Insane that I can’t do this already.

My Discover Weekly is just nursery songs and Moana.

@Spotify please fix this.

[John Nabors @JohnNaborsShow]

Lol sorry that is not even close to a flagrant 2.

[Arkansas Men’s Basketball 🐗 @RazorbackMBB]

FIRST it was the assists record. NOW it’s the scoring record. Darius Acuff Jr. is rewriting everything. 🐗 #AcuffPOY

[Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein]

Darius Acuff with 36 points and six assists as Arkansas beats High Point.

The best PG in college basketball.

The best freshman PG to ever play for John Calipari.

[Dawn Staley x John Calipari x Zeljko Obradovic @dawncalipari]

John Calipari currently has the best point guard in the NBA (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander), in college (Darius Acuff Jr.), and in high school (Jordan Smith Jr.) The greatest recruiter of all time. Generational.

[Curtis Wilkerson @CurtWilkerson_]

How do you call nothing around the rim with bodies flying all over the place and then give Ole Miss three free throws for a kid ducking his shoulder into Pringle at half court?

What a joke.

Momentum gift wrapped for Ole Miss going to the break.

[Aaron Torres @Aaron_Torres]

Arkansas fans are furious with the Ryan Silverfield hire, and its hard to blame them.

Here's the sad truth: Hogs were never getting the candidate they wanted with Hunter Yurachek at AD.

Its time for that entire athletic department to get a fresh start.

[Ben Brandon @BenBrandonHoops]

Back to back layup attempts created by hooks. Nice.

He’s already near unstoppable, but when you allow that, what is the defense supposed to do?

[Connor Goodson @ConnorGoodson]

Cam Boozer is really talented. He's also very good at hooking his defender without getting called for it. Calipari has been riding the officials all game for them to call it and it hasn't been.

[Kevin McPherson @ARHoopScoop]

Boozer great, but allowed to grab, hook, travel, camp in paint for 3 seconds, etc. ... picks up 1st official foul of game at 5:56 in 2nd half ... Duke leads 66-64 w/5:14 to play ...

[Curtis Wilkerson @CurtWilkerson_]

Cam Boozer gets Drew Timme levels of leeway with the pivot.

[Barstool LSU @LSUBarstool]

Nothing against Oklahoma

But playing them for the last weekend of the year just doesn’t feel right at all

Give us Arkansas vs LSU on thanksgiving weekend back……

[David Marts @DavidMarts13]

How can you not want to make this a rivalry game every year?

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Let me pass on to you that which is of primary importance: that Jesus Christ, God come in the flesh, died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried in tomb, and that He was raised on the third day, putting death to death, according to the Scriptures. And that this genuine and historical event — the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus — is both intellectually credible and existentially satisfying.

I was just on the @SWANCapital podcast with @AndrewMcNairRYP, he asked me "if you could write one post on X that would be read by everyone in the world, what would it say?" my answer (posted above), combined a paraphrase of 1 Cor. 15:3-4 and the words that supposedly pushed @timkellernyc over the edge of belief.

[Protestia @Protestia]

Things we like: this video from HeartCry Missionary Society

[Robert Booden (Bobert) @BobertRooden]

There have been 326 officially recognized no-hitters in MLB history going back to the start of record keeping in 1876. The most strikeouts? 17, by Max Scherzer and Nolan Ryan.

@RazorbackBSB Gage Wood just had 19 in an elimination game with just 1 baserunner...

ONIONS!

[Greg Harvey @BetweenTheNums]

# of Players in CWS history to throw a no-hitter: 3️⃣

# of Players in CWS history to strike out 19+ batters in a game: 2️⃣

# of Players in CWS history to do both in the same game: 1️⃣ (GAGE WOOD)

[Ben Brandon @BenBrandonHoops]

Scotty Thurman’s shot vs. Duke

Darren McFadden’s 321 rushing yards vs. South Carolina

Gage Wood’s no hitter vs. Murray St.

What we saw today was the stuff of legends. We will never forget this one!