Jake Olson

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[USC Trojans @USC_Athletics]

USC is the only school to have an athlete featured on the Madden cover and College Football cover in the same year.

And we’ve done it twice…

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝙇𝘼𝗖𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

It is true to “love your neighbor.” Jesus Himself said it’s the second greatest commandment. But He also said the first and greatest is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind (Matthew 22:37–38).

And there’s a reason the first comes before the second.
To love God is to know God. And to know God is to know love. Scripture says in 1 John 4:8 that God is love.

So yes, we absolutely should love our neighbor. But before we talk about how to love, we have to let God define what love actually is.

1 Corinthians 13 gives us that definition:
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.”
Then verse 5 adds:
“It does not dishonor others, it is not self‑seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”

All of that sounds beautiful and agreeable.
But then comes verse 6… The part that makes people like this take a hard U-turn from their attempts to use Scripture as a “gotch ya.”

It says, “Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.”

And that’s where the tension always shows up.
Because according to Scripture, loving someone never means celebrating what is harmful to them. It never means affirming what God calls destructive. Love doesn’t cheer for anything that leads someone away from the truth that sets them free.

So yes, love your neighbor.
But love them the way God defines love, not the way the world defines it.
Love them with patience, kindness, compassion — and with truth.

Anything less isn’t love at all.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

I see the world differently because I see with no eyes. And sometimes that difference lets me notice what others overlook.

When I watch the Henry Novak footage, here’s what I see: a man pleading for help, as if it’s the last thing he has the strength to offer with death standing inches from him. His posture, his tone, the way he holds himself, they’re the universal signals any of us would give in our final moments. Signals that should ignite every instinct in a trained first responder. Signals that should scream, This man is dying.

And then I see the people whose job is to observe, interpret, and protect — and their communication with each other, the words coming from their hearts, their whole demeanor all reveal a kind of stunned distance. It’s as if the reality in front of them refuses to come into focus. A weak, deteriorating human being is collapsing before their eyes, and somehow they can’t see it. One officer is literally arresting him for assault and reading him his rights as he breathes his last. I mean, how blind do you have to be?

This man didn’t need a courtroom strategy. He didn’t need a legal defense. He needed someone with eyes to see his right to live. Someone with the basic human instinct to recognize suffering, to recognize fear, to recognize a life slipping away. And they just couldn’t see it.

Now, there are many reasons the wool gets pulled over people’s eyes, whether that be cultural, institutional, ideological. Others can debate those layers. I’m simply saying this: when you start looking at the world through categories instead of truth, when labels become your lenses and assumptions become your sight, be careful.

Because that isn’t seeing.
That’s walking through the world with your eyes wide open and still blind. And nothing is more dangerous than a person who thinks they see when they don’t.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

Lol, I thought this was parody at first. Still not totally convinced it isn’t. This argument ends up making fun of itself more than anything, because Jesus is far better attested than almost any other first century figure. We have more written documentation about Jesus than we do for Augustus, the emperor of Rome, while he was ruling the most powerful empire on earth. That’s like someone in 2,000 years having more evidence of you than of a sitting U.S. president, and then pretending that means you didn’t exist.

Has to be parody.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

When a society walks away from objective truth, from God’s definitions of good and evil, distortion seeps into everything. Even the institutions meant to uphold order start to bend. Freedom won’t return through opinion or power. It returns through the Truth.

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: Henry Nowak's father speaks out on the murder of his son:

"He told officers he could not breathe NINE TIMES, he said he had been stabbed FOUR TIMES, but the officer replied saying' 'I don't think you have, mate.'"

What a brave man.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

For the life of me I don’t understand why they don’t make the CFP start the week after reg season ends, have it go through the month of December, and Championship is on Jan 1 at the Rose Bowl. It could be so simple.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

ESPN has sold off nearly half of the college football playoff games in this upcoming year. Budget issues? Also, playing the title game on January 25th is absolutely insane. Way too late.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

@Atomsmade That’s not christianity brother. I’m sorry you were taught a false gospel.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

@RaminNasibov Rollercoaster Tycoon

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

@tees4texas @_OKJ__ I think he knows this or at least I hope he’s smart enough to realize it. He just likes to get engagement by making uneducated statements. No different than any other bigot.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

@michaelshermer @candle84640 So Elvis’s body can be founnd in the ground. That’s what.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

@RealShahriqKhan @autocorrect2_0 Really good. Praise God for his Spirit helping you see.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever. So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

Or in other words…

Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.

All answering your first comment…

These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

@xonphused You suffer from myopia my man. Time to get that sight corrected.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

Far from wishing misery, I said I hope you don’t get what you deserve. Even as you would claim that’s immoral.
You’re the one making the initial argument here that evil must be punished. I don’t disagree. You’re included in that evil. I’m telling you someone has already taken on that punishment for you. But if you don’t want to accept that and believe that and rather face the full weight of consequence for your evil, that’s your choice. But please don’t twist this truth into me rooting for you to make the wrong choice. I could’ve stayed silent, but instead I’m telling you:
Jesus died for your sins too. Repent and believe. Judgement is coming, yet salvation could be yours.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

To be with God is heaven; to be apart from Him is hell. You get to choose. I’m sorry if you don’t like the choice, but at the end of the day He’s giving you what you want. So own up to it. Don’t relinquish your agency or hide behind the idea of an ultimatum. It’s not coercion, it’s consequence. Freedom means you decide, and that decision carries the weight of eternity.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

@incarceratedbob Miss John so much. Also, being accustomed to the pitch clock now, the time between pitches feels so long. But so right. Let’s the drama build. Always thought it might be an interesting idea to turn off the pitch clock in the ninth inning.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

In this scenario, christians say he is going to heaven because heaven isn’t for good people, it’s for forgiven people. The price you can’t pay has been paid for you. Tetelestai.
It isn’t moral in the sense that yes, it should’ve been us on that cross. But thanks be to God for his grace and mercy that he would carry the punishment on his shoulders. Justice has been served for whoever believes that counted for them. That’s why it’s moral.
For those who reject this, however, justice and judgement is coming. And you’re right, it will all be moral. In the end, all sin will be accounted for.

[Jake Olson @JakeOlson61]

@LizzyStarrrdust Casual sex is an oxymoron. Everyone is using sex to be loved. You can try and lie or numb yourself off that truth but it’s still gonna lead to the same emptiness. It’s designed for love, real true selfless love, and nothing less.