Michael Neiderer

#Writer #Painter Big Idea Hunter #BeachBum Former #CollegeProfessor Current Student Of The Game #MadMan #Storyteller

[Michael Neiderer @cdbythesea]

Brings new meaning to “Fear the Turtle!” #universityofmaryland #marylandterrapins

[Taylor Lyons @taylorjlyons]

The past ~12 months of Maryland athletics:

- Willard and Evans messy divorce
- Interim AD leads men's basketball coach search
- Football goes 4-8 again
- AD forced to announce Locksley will *not* be fired
- Men's basketball's worst season in 37 years
- Preseason No. 10 women's basketball loses in R32
- Preseason No. 1 men's lacrosse misses NCAA tournament for first time in 24 years

Elsewhere in College Park:

- The athletic department ranked last among Big Ten public schools in revenue and spending in 2025, has faced budget shortfalls each of last two years
- UMD announces hiring freeze last week, will cut up to 150 jobs across campus due to 10% reduction in state funding

This is a critical time for the university's leaders. Are the right people in charge?

[Michael Neiderer @cdbythesea]

“Turning on the TV, a man dressed in black says, ‘The tensions and waters are rising’ Happiness is treason, fiction is fact. And a storm's always on the horizon” -Alex

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Amen, brother.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Jesus rose from the dead and the first person He went to was His brother who thought He was crazy.

Not Peter. Not John. Not the twelve.

James.

His kid brother. The one who grew up sharing a room with God and didn’t know it.

Think about James for a second. His older brother is Jesus. Not “Jesus the Christ.” Not “Jesus the Savior.” Jesus the guy who worked in the carpenter shop and came home smelling like sawdust and sweat. Jesus who snored. Jesus who ate too fast. Jesus who their mother treated different and James never understood why.

Because Mary kept her mouth shut.

Luke 2:19. She kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. Angels showed up at His birth. Shepherds fell on their faces. Wise men brought gold. And Mary told nobody. She just watched her firstborn grow up in a ghetto in Nazareth and kept the secret in her chest like a coal she couldn’t put down.

James didn’t know his brother was God.

He knew his brother was weird.

He knew his mother looked at Jesus different. He knew Joseph moved the whole family to Egypt when they were little and never fully explained why. He knew that one time his parents lost Jesus at the temple and found Him three days later arguing with rabbis like He owned the place. Twelve years old. Already gone.

Then Jesus grew up. Worked the shop. Paid the bills.

Because Joseph died — the Bible doesn’t say when but Joseph disappears from the story — and in Jewish custom the eldest son takes over. So Jesus wasn’t posing for paintings in that carpenter shop. He was feeding His family. Putting bread on the table for His mom and His brothers and sisters in a town so poor Nathanael said “can anything good come out of Nazareth?”

Then one day He left.

Walked away from the shop. Walked away from the family. Left James holding the hammer and the bills and the responsibility for a widowed mother.
James was pissed.

Mark 3:21. His own family went to collect Him because they said He was out of His mind. That’s James. That’s the brothers. Showing up to bring the crazy one home before He embarrasses the family worse.

John 7:5. His brethren did not believe in Him.
His own blood. Ate dinner with Him for thirty years. Didn’t believe.

Then Wednesday happened.

The brother James thought was insane got arrested at night by temple guards. Got beaten until His face swelled shut. Got whipped until His back looked like raw meat. Got nailed to wood and hung up on a garbage hill outside the city.

And James had to stand somewhere — maybe in the crowd, maybe at home, maybe hearing it secondhand — and process the fact that the brother he called crazy just died like a criminal.

Three days and nights of silence.

Three days of James sitting with the guilt of every eye roll. Every argument. Every time he told people “I don’t know what’s wrong with Him.” Every time he showed up to drag Jesus home because He was embarrassing the family name.

Then Sunday morning.

Jesus rose. Conquered death. Walked out of the tomb.
And He went to James.

1 Corinthians 15:7. He appeared to James.

Not in a crowd. Not at a distance. He went to His brother. The one who didn’t believe. The one who thought He was crazy. The one who was pissed that He left the family behind.

He showed up and let James see the holes in His hands.
Matthew 28:10. Go tell my brethren. Not my servants. Not my followers. My brethren.

John 20:17. My Father and your Father. My God and your God.

He rose to the highest position in the universe and His vocabulary didn’t change.

Most men get a promotion and stop returning phone calls. Jesus conquered death and called the brother who doubted Him family.

James went from “He’s out of His mind” to leading the church in Jerusalem.

James went from trying to drag Jesus home to writing a book of the Bible.

James went from skeptic to martyr. They threw him off the temple wall and when he survived the fall they beat him to death with a club. He died for the brother he once thought was insane.

That’s what happened when Jesus showed up after the resurrection and said brother.

One word changed everything.

He’s not calling you servant today.
He’s not calling you subject.
He’s calling you what He called James.
Brother.
The same James who didn’t believe. Who rolled his eyes. Who showed up to take Him home. Who sat in the dark for three days choking on regret.

He went to THAT guy first.

If He went to James, He’ll come to you.

[Michael Neiderer @cdbythesea]

Check out this video, "" one of the best movie scenes in history. Will make you smile no matter what you’re going through. https://t.co/v9G2dqi92b

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@TM41142 @stephenasmith You’re an idiot either your head in the sand. Gino’s been a crybaby asshole for three decades.

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@MemphisDC13 @SportsCenter F u. He’s a crybaby a hole and always has been. Get your facts straight.

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@Matt_Pinner A for Amen

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@TinaBro11271587 @JoeJek69 @Matt_Pinner New Testament all written before Constantine! He lived 200 years after they were written. Get your FACTS straight

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@11thattcc @jjkushjr57 @Matt_Pinner You’re right about all those. That’s why the scientist that mapped the human genome believes in God a.k.a. Jesus’ Father.

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@TerpsMLax Worst team in 100 years. To go from number one preseason to a joke what a fall. 🐢🥍😩

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@flowabug @Gerashchenko_en @YMomof2 Just keep smoking cigarettes you dumb ass

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@TerrapinHoops buzz the fuzz Williams is one and done. This MF can’t coach a high school team. Fire his effing ass tomorrow.

[Michael Neiderer @cdbythesea]

@TerrapinHoops Buyer the coach. He sucks ass.

[Michael Neiderer @cdbythesea]

@TerrapinHoops Buy the coach. He sucks ass.

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@TerrapinHoops this shit ass coach needs to go. He is the worst coach I’ve ever seen and I’ve been rooting for Maryland and alumni for Maryland for 25 years. He literally sucks.

[Michael Neiderer @cdbythesea]

The greatest mistake you could make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

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@TerrapinHoops buzz sucks