Coach Derek Robinson

Student Minister @ Olivet Baptist Church in Sand Springs, Jenks HS Throws Coach, Husband, Father

[Thomas Johnston @DrTPJohnston]

“When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.”

A Norwegian neuroscientist compares the impact of hand-writing to typing on brain activity!

No wonder God commanded the King of Israel to handwrite the Book of Deuteronomy in Deuteronomy 17:18.

[Reasons to Believe @RTB_official]

Darwin called it one of evolution’s biggest problems: the origin of language.

Animals communicate, humans use language, and the gap is massive.

Language requires symbolic thought, syntax, and the ability to create endless meaning from finite words. There’s no clear evolutionary “in-between” from animal signals to human speech.

That fits remarkably well with the biblical view: humans are uniquely made in God’s image.

Language may be more than biology, it may be evidence of design.

[Coach Derek Robinson @derekrobinson_]

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[Aubrey Odom @Aubreyodom2028]

Had a good meet at Owasso Conference today! PR with a 37.05 and got second in shot put! @derekrobinson_

[Elsa Ai @ElsaSofia__AI]

“Why did God create evil?”

[This is probably the best answer I’ve ever heard to that question.]

A university professor asked his students:

“Was everything that exists created by God?”

One student bravely replied:

[Jared C. Wilson @jaredcwilson]

Maybe — and hear me out — preaching isn’t primarily about memory retention.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

The Lord didn’t check who inside the house was worthy. He checked for blood on the doorposts.

None of us is worthy. Only the blood of Jesus can cover us.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

When I was on the @Flagrant2Army I was asked what ‘the best’ or ‘the most accurate” Bible translation is. The answer to that isn’t always as simple as people would like.

Often the conversation is framed with the terms “dynamic” and “formal” equivalence. However, the concept of “dynamic” and “formal” equivalence regarding English Bible translations is somewhat of an over generalization. Translations do in fact fall on this continuum, yet depending on what Testament, book, chapter, or even verse you happen to be reading that may shift. Some of the most “word-for-word” translations may in fact be quite “thought-for-thought” in particular areas due to the reality of the nature of translation.

Any translation is going to have an aspect of interpretation woven in. There is no “perfect” Bible translation out there and if you are willing and able your best bet is always to study and learn the original languages for yourself. You may even have disagreements with this graphic, where you think one translation should be over another – and that’s totally reasonable and only shows the reality of my point. This graphic is not meant to be the last word, but where I have personally found (generally and inadequately) the translations to have fallen on the spectrum.

We have an overabundance of excellent translations of the Christian Scripture in the English language. Arguably there should be no new translations produced as the majority of modern translations cover the bases of the necessity regarding both research and personal devotions needs.

Learn the languages for yourself (using resources like @biblingoapp and @Logos will make it a lot easier for you) if you can, otherwise take a multi-translational approach. Although not all translations are created equally, the fact is that it is far more important that you are reading Scripture than what translation of Scripture you are reading (there is the obvious caveat of terrible, heretical, and unnecessary translations of course, but in general the point stands).

[Biblical and Reformed @reformedhg]

Habakkuk looked to God and ceased to look at his difficulty. That is the true basis of spiritual peace.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

[Jason Kovacs @jasonkovacs]

“There are but two lessons for Christians to learn: the one is, to enjoy God in everything; the other is, to enjoy everything in God.”

- Charles Simeon

[Michael Reeves @mike_reeves]

Beware of both undevotional theology and untheological devotion.

[Tony Shiffman @CoachShiffman]

Bro, I’m a HS football coach. We ALL make less than $6 an hour.

[Coach Derek Robinson @derekrobinson_]

If you consistently coach takeaways and tackles, your defense will be good at takeaways and tackles!

[Tony Reinke @TonyReinke]

Algorithms and the Affections

John Piper (Nov. 2025): “If you had thought that your essence of humanness in the image of God was your reasoning capacity, over an ape or a porpoise, you’re in trouble. Because, guess what? ChatGPT is smarter than you are and more creative than you are in expressing things in language that is good. It can write prayers better than you can, and it can reason through hard problems better than you can. Therefore, there are people who are going to forsake the faith because they thought to be a human in the image of God was to be a reasoning person over against the animals, and they discovered a machine can do it better than they can. Crisis of faith. This to me is no crisis because of my Christian Hedonism. I do not think that my reasoning capacities are my essence. I think the soul’s capacity to delight in God is my essence. The soul’s capacity to enjoy God. No machine will ever enjoy, period. It will have the language of enjoyment. You can tell it to write a poem of enjoyment and it will use the language. That machine is not enjoying *her*. It’s not. It never will. Only human beings created in the image of God can enjoy God. Therefore, enjoyment matters. I mean, affections are who we are ultimately. The end of history, the end of creation, is not going to be merely rational creatures thinking rightly about God, little computers. It’s going to be people who are so perceptive spiritually of the glories of God that they are full of affections that are appropriate for those glories and can give expression to them. That’s what eternity will be.”

Source: Sovereign Grace Churches, Pastors Conference PreCon (November 2025)

[Coach Derek Robinson @derekrobinson_]

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[Coach Derek Robinson @derekrobinson_]

Love watching you do your thing!

[Isaiah”Q” Butcher IV @isaiahbutcherIV]

Love these guys man. Game didn’t go how we wanted but we fought as a UNIT all 4 quarters.

Owasso semifinals
14/18 passing
255 total yards

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[Coach Derek Robinson @derekrobinson_]

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[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

A talking snake in Genesis?

The Hebrew words for snake reveal a complex linguistic and theological landscape. The primary word for serpent is “nachash” (נָחָשׁ), which refers to an actual snake. This generic term is used across various contexts and can be paralleled with specific snake species, indicating it belongs to both zoological and religious spheres.

Interestingly, the word “seraph” (שׂרף) has a fascinating connection to serpents. Before vowel insertions, “serpent” and “burning” were spelled identically. In Numbers 21, “nechashim” (snakes) and “seraphim” (burning ones) are used together to mean fiery or poisonous serpents. Isaiah 14:29 even describes a “fiery flying serpent” emerging from a snake’s root.

The term “seraphim” literally means “burning ones”, and in Hebrew scriptures, seraphim are often described as snakey - specifically “flying serpents”. The biblical narrative of Moses and the fiery snakes uses various snake-related terms, with the bronze snake on a pole representing a seraph.

In the Bible Seraphim are divine beings that protect God’s holy presence, and have been described as winged serpents with human attributes. Some scholars, like @DRMSHPhD, even drew connections to the Egyptian Uraeus serpent that protected pharaohs by breathing fire.

Notably, despite common artistic representations, seraphim are never explicitly called angels in the Bible. An angel is not what it is but what it does. It’s a job description for a category of supernatural beings not an ontological category of being.

Want to know more? See my video from a few years back on the subject here https://t.co/xDH7g2Ln3S.

[Coach Derek Robinson @derekrobinson_]

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[Coach Derek Robinson @derekrobinson_]

Jenks has some incredible talent and depth at QB this year. Love watching these guys. Especially the lizard king @LandonKizzar 🤪

[Trojan TV @jenkstrojantv]

Jenks Junior QB Landon Kizzar set the school record on Friday for most passing yards in a QBs first career start with 285 yards. Keith Jones held the previous record with 244 yards set back in 2001. Kizzar finished his night 20/28 with 3 TDs and 1 INT.