Shay Roush

Co-Lead Pastor at The Crossing, dad of three, husband of one. Co-host on “With You In The Weeds” Podcast.

[Shay Roush @ShayRoush]

“But God demonstrates his own love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ Jesus died for us us.” -Romans 5:8

My only hope, my joy, my satisfaction in this life and in the life to come.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

These are the 10 Oldest Churches on Earth.

The last one will blow your mind with how old it is…

🧵 # 10. Monastery of St Anthony, Egypt (356 AD) Founded near the Red Sea after the death of St Anthony, it’s one of the earliest monasteries.

The next church is…

[San Francisco 49ers @49ers]

The 49ers mourn the passing of former LB Aldon Smith.

📰 https://t.co/gVxEEdWtLp

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain.

We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable.

He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness.

As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy.

Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?

[Dr. Arthur Brooks @arthurbrooks]

Men tend to get lonelier as they age.

One reason is that many of their friendships are built around shared interests rather than shared inner lives.

There's nothing wrong with golf, fantasy football, or talking about work. But if every conversation stays there, it's possible to spend years surrounded by people and still have nobody you can tell the truth to.

I've met countless successful men who can name dozens of colleagues and acquaintances but struggle to identify a single person they could call in a moment of real pain.

By middle age, many have become fluent in banter and almost illiterate in confession. The friendships that endure are often built through small acts of courage: asking the deeper question, giving the honest answer, and risking being known.

Loneliness rarely arrives all at once. It accumulates quietly, one surface-level conversation at a time.

[Cruz Oxenreider @TheRealCruzOx]

CFB Game 96/221
#1 Oklahoma vs #11 Missouri
October 23rd, 2010

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

The grandpa you laughed at behind his back for letting you watch violent war movies as a kid, but who freaked out about the Disney show where the kid had 2 Dads... that guy was right.

There was evil in the war movie, but it was generally evil depicted AS EVIL in a great struggle between good and evil, and it trained the consciences of a generation to value things like...

- Valor
- Self-sacrifice
- Courage
- Integrity
- Honor
- Patriotism (yes, patriotism IS a good thing)

My Dad used to say, "The worst kind person is the guy who was born on third and acts like he hit a triple."

Be wise, but watch a war movie with your kids today and help your American kid understand they were born on third base because a bunch of people died to get them three bases ahead.

[The Jackal… @ToonDazza]

Simply the best. Give Me a shout if you’re a fellow Gen X……

[Jeremy A. Boyer 🎹 @JABsMusic]

Jimmy Ballgame’s game six blast in 2004

#stlcards

[Biblical and Reformed @reformedhg]

When I look at myself, I don’t see how I can be saved. When I look at Christ, I don’t see how I can be lost.

Martin Luther

[Augie Nash @AugieNash]

#OTD 2008 - In one of the most incredible displays ever by an outfielder, Rick Ankiel throws out two Colorado Rockies players at third base!

Ankiel also goes 2 for 5 at the plate with a home run!

#STLCards @TheeRickAnkiel

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Augie Nash @AugieNash]

As we celebrate Mike Shannon today, we will never forget his amazing call on this majestic Albert Pujols home run off Brad Lidge in game 4 of the 2005 NLCS.

(The official distance of this home run was 455 feet. I guess they measured it from 2nd base.)

#STLCards

[Neil Shenvi @NeilShenvi]

I see people lamenting the lack of "evangelical elites" so here's my perspective:

I graduated from Princeton summa cum laude and then went to UC Berkeley for a PhD in theoretical chemistry. My career was all planned out: awards, academia, prestige.

Then I became a Christian 1/

[StrongManGuide @StrongManGuide]

My father made a lot of mistakes while growing up:

Cheating with multiple partners
Never taking care of the family
He always disrespects his parents

At his funeral, no one showed up.

I asked my grandfather what makes a man remember forever,

And what he said shocked me:

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Ted Simmons used to drive me crazy when he was a young catcher.
One day he called time and came out to ask if I was giving him a hard time.
I said:
‘I’m trying to win the ballgame.
I don’t have the luxury of giving you a hard time.’
Simmons was a bright guy and he learned.
It took him a while, but he caught on.
As a 19 year old rookie, all he thought about was hitting line drives, which he did very well.
You can forgive a catcher for a lot of sins when he clears the bases with a double."
Bob Gibson.
"That was the greatest thrill of my life, catching a no-hitter.
Man, Bob Gibson was throwing fire."
Ted Simmons.
On Aug. 14, 1971 at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, Ted Simmons caught Bob Gibson's only career no-hitter, in an 11-0 rout of the Pirates, and became the only catcher in Cardinals history to collect four hits while catching a no-hitter.
Ted Simmons was behind the plate in 1,769 games — 1,578 were complete games!
He caught 122 shutouts, was an eight-time All-Star, batted above .300 seven times, hit
twenty-or-more home runs six times, and drove in 90+ RBI nine times.
Despite his incredible offensive numbers, only 5% of the "Baseball Writers' Association of America" voted for him on the 1994 Hall of Fame ballot, making him ineligible.
In 2019, the Modern Baseball Era Committee elected Ted Simmons to the National Baseball Hall of Fame!
"There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand, the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed."
Ted Simmons.
Retired with more RBI than Johnny Bench, more runs scored than Gary Carter, more hits than Carlton Fisk, higher batting average than Yogi Berra.
Drove in more RBI than all catchers except Yogi Berra.
Ted Simmons rebelled against baseball’s reserve clause, refused to sign a $25,000 contract, feeling he deserved bigger raise.
An anti-war activist, heavily criticized the Nixon administration, and wore his hair so long that he was nicknamed “Simba.”
Legend!!!

[With You in the Weeds @withyou_weeds]

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[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

Had the back patio redone last week.

Four guys showed up at 8:15.

At 8:30 I went outside and asked if they had five minutes for a quick standup.

The foreman said "a what."

I said "a standup. Quick sync. Five minutes. What did you do yesterday. What are you doing today. Any blockers."

He said "we just got here."

I said "right so no blockers. Great. Let's reconvene at noon."

He looked at his crew. His crew looked at the ground.

At noon I went back outside. Asked for a status update.

He said "we're on track."

I said "on track relative to what baseline."

He said "the plan."

I said "is the plan documented somewhere."

He pointed at the patio.

Fair enough.

My wife came outside around 2 PM.

She said "have you been out here all day."

I said "I've been providing board-level oversight."

She said "you've been sitting in a lawn chair watching four men work."

I said "that's what board-level oversight is."

She went inside.

They finished Thursday. One day ahead of schedule.

The foreman shook my hand at the door and said "good working with you."

I said "likewise. I'll send over a post-mortem."

He said "please don't."

Sent from my iPhone

[Erik Reed @ErikReed]

So this leftist org was funding racists to stoke racial conflict in the country so the media and Democrats could leverage it to push a narrative of white supremacy against conservatives?

And so many, including evangelical leaders, adopted the narrative without question. smh

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

To experience victory over sin, we need a greater love for God than we have for ourselves, and his divine grace is the only thing that has the power to produce that kind of love in us.

[Steve Guest @SteveGuest]

Bombshell CBS News segment on the Southern Poverty Law Center indictment where the SPLC lied to donors, paid violent extremists millions, and “manufactured racism” for its own purposes

“The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.” Per Todd Blanche

The Charlottesville rally leader attended “at the direction of SPLC” and made racist posts “under the supervision” of SPLC.