Nothing will kill the conference tourney faster than a team like Arkansas beating an NCAA Tourney team + two Top 5 seeds while losing a key player to injury
& getting nothing for it.
The same reason CFB conference championships are going away. Writing's on the wall.
So basically the Hogs could have not even gone to SECT, or gone 2&Q with backups, kept Aloy and Dietz healthy and been the same 2 seed? Sweet. That tourney is dumber than a bag of hammers.
Statement: Our team faced multiple extended delays over the weekend, extensive travel days and challenging rest and recovery periods as there's a drive into deep right field by Arkansas and that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 16-12 ballgame.
So apparently I’m embroiled in some sort of controversy. Let me set a few things strait:
1. I don’t know Sam Allberry personally. We've met in-person a total of once — back in January while I was in Nashville when I did the Shawn Ryan Podcast, where I ran into and took a picture with Sam. When I saw the news initially about his removal from leadership I took that picture down. I had already started to see people commenting that by keeping it up I was implicating myself in his sin. I do not think they were correct. But ironically, said comments were then replaced with ones telling me that by taking it down… I was hiding something and implicating myself in his sin. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
2. I believe the language in the current public statements to be potentially unhelpfully vague. From my (brief though not uninformed) understanding of the details of the situation, what Sam did that disqualified him from leadership was not due to sexual or even a romantic impropriety, but what could best be described as a sinful emotional attachment. This is not to justify it or say that it wasn't disqualifying (I think it probably was). But the lack of clarity has left room for those who desire to gossip, defame, and sinfully speculate online to run wild — which they have.
3. I am genuinely saddened with the internet’s desire to tear down and jump to harsh judgements regarding another Christian’s failing. When someone falls into sin, those who are spiritually mature should work toward their restoration, approaching them with a spirit of gentleness (Gal. 6:1-2). The motivation for restoration carries spiritual weight. Bringing someone back who has wandered from truth saves their soul from death and covers a multitude of sins (James 5:19–20). This isn’t merely about correcting behaviour, it’s about spiritual rescue. The desire to gossip and breed quarrels, which is so obviously warned against in scripture (Proverbs 17:19; 26:17; 2 Timothy 2:14, 23-24; Titus 3:9-11; James 4:1-2) is, to say the least, lamentable and disappointing to see.
4. Sam Allberry is being labelled as “Side B,” this is genuinely confusing to me. To quote Sam in his own words: “Same sex attraction is not a good thing. It is... a consequence of the fall. ...This kind of attraction is not something God designed for us, and it contradicts his design” (Is God Anti Gay, 63). Sam has expressed in multiple places throughout his written work and public talks that he holds to the biblical position of marriage, that homosexual relationships are sinful, and that identifying as a “gay Christian” is incompatible with scripture. To be clear, I don't agree with Sam on all the nuances of how he discusses the issue. But I can only conclude that this attempt to make him into an LBGT advocate comes from either shear ignorance of his public work or some sort of internet-level frothing of the mouth to jump on whoever “we don’t like this week.”
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. - Heb 3:13.
INCREDIBLE. Look at the absolute lightning speed of this Secret Service agent drawing his weapon.
Zero hesitation. Total precision.
These brave men and women are the best of the best, and they DO NOT play around when it comes to protecting their protectee! 🇺🇸
The pseudepigraphal literature, including 1st Enoch (typically what we refer to as “the Book of Enoch” — there are 3 but the 1st on is the famous one), operated within a fundamentally different literary framework than modern historical narrative. 1st Enoch is a pseudepigraphal, apocalyptic collection of narratives and visions ascribed to Enoch. This was a genre that deliberately attributed writings to ancient figures to claim authority rather than to deceive readers about authorship.
Understanding the genre’s intention requires recognizing its theological purpose. As a collection, 1 Enoch offers a glimpse of what was likely a common worldview during the later 2nd Temple period (1st Enoch almost certainly doesn’t predate this time), which identified the world as an evil and unjust place in which the Jewish people awaited the redemption of God in their eschatological world.
The primary message was the soon-coming divine retribution of enemies and the judgment and eradication of evil that permeated the cosmos, with the author’s truth and authority relying on his heavenly journeys during which God gave him divine revelation of the coming redemption of the righteous.
Rather than presenting factual history, pseudepigraphal works employed symbolic and visionary language to convey theological truths about divine judgment and redemption. Topics like angels, demons, the spiritual realm, and the coming Messiah are all being fleshed out by this type of work.
1st Enoch offers an embellished textual tradition of Gen.6, and the pseudepigraphal accounts parallel the Septuagintal tradition, reflecting the interpretative biases of the period. This interpretative expansion, albeit not literal reporting, was the genre’s defining characteristic.
The New Testament’s engagement with 1 Enoch further illustrates this point: Jude draws from the pseudepigraphal book of 1 Enoch, with Jude 14-16 detailing a “prophecy” made by Enoch regarding judgment on sinners and the ungodly, drawing on 1 Enoch 9:1, Jude cites Enoch not as historical documentation but as authoritative theological witness to eschatological judgment. The pseudepigraphal genre was never intended as literal history; it was visionary theology dressed in ancient authority.
The question remains, if we take Enoch seriously as actual history then why not the myriads of other pieces of ancient Jewish a Pseudopigrapha, a vast literary catalogue: the Apocalypse of Abraham, Apocalypse of Adam, Apocalypse of Daniel, Apocalypse of Elijah, Apocalypse of Zephaniah, and multiple versions of Baruch (2, 3, and 4 Baruch) and Ezra texts (including the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra, Questions of Ezra, Revelation of Ezra, and Vision of Ezra)? The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs represent a major collection, along with individual testaments attributed to Moses, Job, Solomon, Adam, and the Three Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), why not toss them in as well? All the same genre and vein that Enoch finds itself in.
The collection extends to works attributed to David (More Psalms of David), Jeremiah, Isaiah (including the Vision of Isaiah), Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Zechariah, and multiple works attributed to Solomon, including the Psalms of Solomon and Testament of Solomon. The Sibylline Oracles, Eldad and Modad, and the Book of Jubilees also claim ancient authorship. Some of these documents in their earliest iterations are as early as the 3rd century BC (through others the 4th or 5th centuries AD).
Sure, read 1st Enoch. But don’t confuse it for something it isn’t.
IRS: you owe us taxes
Me: how much do I owe?
IRS: you get to figure that out
Me: can I just pay what I want?
IRS: no we know exactly how much you owe but you have to guess the number too
Me: what if I guess wrong?
IRS: jail
Happy tax day!
The people in charge don't want you to know this, but Muslims love Jesus.
Islam reveres Him as a major prophet and messenger of the Lord, believes He performed miracles, and states that He will return to Earth to defeat the Antichrist. That's why Donald Trump's painting depicting himself as the Son of God offended the president of Iran. It was an attack on his religion as well as Christianity.
Today's Morning Note newsletter covers Masoud Pezeshkian's condemnation of Trump's “desecration of Jesus,” the Iran War's gutting effects on America's housing market, Colombia's plan to murder Pablo Escobar's hippopotami, and more. Read below.
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Dear "The Right", I don't know if you noticed, but we haven't "won" this whole fight with the leftists that are openly assaulting women in public and shooting people who disagree with them.
Can we please focus.
Yesterday many “experts” told you we were headed for nuclear war & spent the entire day losing their minds. Today the Dow opens up 1300+ points, S&P rises nearly 3%, & oil has dropped $20 a barrel. As always, it pays to be rational. Congrats to those who didn’t lose their minds.