TXAggie93

Retired, BS Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M, Army & Texas NG Veteran. Dachshund lover, History book reader, & bird lover, Catholic, Husband

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

You know what’s interesting about the MLB warning the Christian San Francisco Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their Pride hats?

The league NEVER made a public statement, and to my knowledge, never gave former Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw a warning for writing the same verse on his hat last season.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Catholic actor Rob Schneider has offered to pay any fines imposed on Christian MLB players after Major League Baseball criticized members of the San Francisco Giants for wearing Bible verses on their Pride Night hats during a game against the Chicago Cubs.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

Rob Schneider is putting his money behind the message.

The Hollywood star says he'll cover any potential fines for MLB players who wear Bible verses on their uniforms after league officials warned three San Francisco Giants pitchers who displayed Bible references on their Pride Night caps.

The moment has quickly turned into a bigger fight over religious expression, league rules, and where MLB draws the line on what players can show on the field.

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

Can someone make it make sense?

[Pastor Rich Bitterman @w_bitterman]

He took a rainbow stitched onto a San Francisco Giants cap and placed beside it the first Word God ever spoke over that sign. Genesis 9:11-16.

That was enough for the league to warn them to not write a Bible verse on the pride hat again. A covenant became an offense.

MLB could point to the uniform rule and maybe the rule was clear enough. Still, everyone knew the ink was not the real scandal. The scandal was Genesis.

A verse from the first book of the Bible appeared beside a rainbow and suddenly the old story came walking into the modern room. God had spoken first..that was the wound. Before it was claimed by a movement, it was placed there by mercy.

Landen Roupp said there was no hate in it. He said the rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant and as a believer he wanted to stand firm. Good!

There are times when standing firm looks less like shouting from a platform and more like refusing to vanish under a hat. Writing the verse in ink was small a small thing. The witness was not.

I admire him. He could have worn the cap and said nothing, carried his convictions quietly back to the clubhouse. Instead, he wrote Genesis 9 beside the rainbow. It was not a spectacle. It was a confession.

To understand why, we have to leave the ballpark and walk back into the soaked world of Genesis 9. God speaks as the world was still wet with judgment when God blessed Noah.

He gave Noah’s family the earth. He sent them out to fill it and placed a holy fence around human life and said, in effect, “Do not treat people like animals. They bear My image.”

Every person carries that mark. The baby in the womb and the old man in the nursing home. The angry critic online and the confused soul wrapped in a flag. Every one of them lives beneath the hand of the God who made them.

Christian courage can never be cruel because every person bears God’s image. Mercy still hangs over this world and sinners still have time to come home.

Then God lifted His sign into the clouds.“ I have set my bow in the cloud,” He says, “and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth” (Genesis 9:13).

The word is bow. That is easy to miss because we have turned the rainbow into greeting-card weather with soft colors after rain. Scripture’s bow is often a weapon. It belongs in the hand of a warrior. Scripture’s bow is often a weapon, bent with judgment, strung with arrows, aimed by wrath.

In Genesis 9, God hangs the bow in the clouds with no arrow in it.

Look at that again. The bow is there, but the string is quiet. The storm has spent itself. Sunlight breaks through the wet air. Color bends across the sky and creation receives a sermon without a single human word. God remembers. He keeps His promise. The world deserves judgment, yet mercy still hangs over our heads. The rainbow is a sermon.

Long before flags, merchandise, corporate campaigns, political speeches, or team uniforms, God placed the rainbow above a guilty world and made it preach patience.

That is why Genesis 9 belongs in this conversation. Christians do not need cruelty to speak clearly. Sneering never strengthens truth. When believers say the rainbow belongs to God, we are saying more than “our symbol came first.” We are saying the world is still being held together by the promise of a holy God who gives sinners time to repent.

The rainbow is beautiful because mercy is beautiful.

It also warns because mercy delayed carries a clock inside it. Peter tells us the Lord is patient and calls sinners to repentance. The same God who set His bow in the clouds has appointed a day when every mouth will close and every knee will bow.

That makes the cross shine brighter. At Calvary, judgment did not stay in the distance. It landed as the arrow we deserved struck the Son of God. Christ stood beneath the wrath sinners earned and mercy flowed from His wounds. Genesis 9 gives us the empty bow in the clouds. Golgotha gives us the Savior on the tree.

So yes, be thankful for these players. Be thankful for men who can stand beneath public pressure and say, with open eyes and a steady voice, “I belong to Christ.”

Christians should learn from that. Stand firm when the culture demands your silence. Hold your ground when conviction is called hatred. Do it with tenderness, clean hands, tears for the lost, love for your neighbor and your Bible open.

A rainbow appeared on a baseball cap and a few men remembered the God who set it in the sky.

That is enough reason to be grateful. The rainbow is still preaching and let the church stand firm under it.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

I will pay the fines for any @MLB Christian player who wears a Bible verse on their uniform.
@MLB is ANTI-CHRISTIAN

[Sean Feucht @seanfeucht]

Double down! Don’t stop! We got your back!

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.”

Romans 12:2

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

It's times like this when MLB needs to remember Billy Martin's cap.

(Look closely.)

[FBI Atlanta @FBIAtlanta]

FBI Atlanta has now seized 21 drones from operators violating the temporary flight restrictions near FIFA World Cup events downtown. Also, one operator, Lorenzo Rojas-Martinez, has been arrested for violating the TFR and also for allegedly being in the country illegally. More here: https://t.co/GPRBYuBbIN

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Wow. Major League Baseball (@MLB) have now warned that writing Bible verses on their hats won’t be tolerated by players after multiple @SFGiants pitchers wrote Bible verses on "Pride Night" hats. Every Christian player should do it in protest and Christians should boycott MLB.

[cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander]

I think every other World Cup should be in the USA.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 AWESOME! President Trump has just been gifted a 47 jersey in Europe by German Chancellor Merz in front of everyone

Merz is DESPERATELY trying to show respect for 47 again after he bad mouthed America!

They don’t want to be on his bad side! 🔥

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

One of the hallmarks of communism is the exaltation of ugliness. Contrast our gorgeous Depression-era LA architecture with the commie brutalist slop vomited upon us today. I'll support any candidate who vows to throw this architect in prison for crimes against beauty.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

OMG

Denver Public Schools Board just voted UNANIMOUSLY to DISMISS lgbtq teacher Jennifer Honka after she reportedly made female students kiss each other and graded them on it

What is going on in these schools?!

[TXAggie93 @TXAggie93]

@cheftai @RustySuretteTV Here!

[Chef Tai Lee @cheftai]

Very sad to hear…B52 that crashed was the one that I got to stand by the airfield with hundreds of fellow Aggies as the former Commander of the wing (an Aggie) retired and used this very plane to do the farewell flight over the Aggieland. R.I.P. to our crew… @RustySuretteTV

[FOX & Friends @foxandfriends]

BREAKING: The FBI says it thwarted a drone attack targeting Sunday's UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House South Lawn.

Five suspects are in custody after allegedly plotting a multi-phase terror attack that involved using explosive-laden drones to strike buildings near the event, sparking mass panic and driving the fleeing crowd toward a sniper team poised to pick them off.

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

Cape Verde fans brought out Goats this evening to celebrate their draw against Spain 😭🐐

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

FiPaw..🐕🐾⚽😅

[Luke Evangelist @lukeevangelist_]

No matter what you do, please do not retweet or like this video. It would be a shame if it gets spread around more. Clearly, the administration of Texas Tech wants this to go away so we will respect their decision.