David Schoon

Committed Christian / Sports Lover / Big fan of selflessness and gracious speech (Eph 4:29)

[David Schoon @dsschoon]

@travismillerx13 What do you think, Travis? It sure didn't look like a WR to me and Ja'Kobe didn't think he ran better than 12.9 high. And it's on the same track as Tobi's WR from 2022 which also didn't look or feel like it was the best 100mH race ever run.

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

The child in the womb, though hidden from human eyes, is already a human life before God. The womb does not make the child less human. It only makes the child more helpless.

Scripture never speaks of the unborn as a thing, a possibility, or a disposable piece of flesh. David says, “You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:13). Before a mother holds the child in her arms, God has already formed that child in secret.

That is why abortion is not merely a social issue, political issue, or medical issue. It is a moral issue before the living God. To rob the unborn child of life is to destroy one who bears the image of God, one whom God Himself is forming.

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” (Jeremiah 1:5).

The world may change its language to soften the horror, but God is not confused by our vocabulary. What is hidden in the womb is not hidden from Him. The weakest human life is still human life, and innocent blood still cries before God.

“You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13).

A society that treats the womb as a place where life may be destroyed has not become compassionate. It has become blind. True justice protects the most helpless, not the most convenient.

Every child in the womb is known by God, formed by God, and accountable to the God who gives life. To take that life is not mercy. It is a grievous sin.

But even here, the gospel must be spoken clearly. There is mercy in Christ for those who have sinned deeply, including this sin. The same cross that exposes guilt also offers forgiveness to all who repent and come to Christ.

“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses” (Ephesians 1:7).

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

A man’s theology of Christ’s love will shape the way he loves his wife. If he thinks love is mainly emotion, comfort, attraction, or sentiment, then his love will rise and fall with mood, ease, and personal benefit. But if he understands that Christ loved His church with covenant faithfulness, sacrifice, patience, truth, and costly self giving, then he will know that a husband’s love is not measured by feelings alone, but by faithful laying down of himself for the good of his wife.

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her” (Ephesians 5:25). That verse does not allow shallow love. Christ did not love His church because she was lovely. He loved her to make her holy. He did not love her in words only. He gave Himself for her. So a Christian husband must not use headship as a throne for pride, control, laziness, or selfishness. His headship must look like Christ. It must lead, protect, nourish, cherish, correct with gentleness, and serve with sacrifice. “So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies” (Ephesians 5:28).

But Scripture also speaks clearly to the wife. A Christian wife is not called to imitate the rebellion of the world, nor to treat submission as weakness. She is called to honour the Lord in the way she honours her husband. “Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:22). This does not mean silence before sin, blind obedience to evil, or the loss of her dignity. It means she willingly walks in God’s order with faith, respect, wisdom, and a heart that desires peace, not control. “The wife must see to it that she respects her husband” (Ephesians 5:33).

So marriage is not held together by sentiment. It is held under Christ. The husband must love as Christ loved, not as a selfish man loves when it suits him. The wife must respect as the church honours Christ, not as the world teaches her to resist every form of godly order. Both must die to pride. Both must forgive. Both must repent. Both must remember that marriage is not a stage for self rule, but a covenant where Christ is to be displayed. “Be subject to one another in the fear of Christ” (Ephesians 5:21).

[Justin Basch @JustinJBasch]

17 years ago today.... 🐐

Under Cael Sanderson, Penn State has now won 13 of the last 15 contested NCAA Championships and its fifth straight for the first time in school history.

Coach Cael is now second in all-time NCAA history with 13 head coaching titles to his credit. The NCAA record is 15. 👀

Cael has had 44 Champs & 109 All-Americans in just 17 seasons.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

On this date in 1748, a slave-trader was converted on the Atlantic Ocean.

Near the end of his life, John Newton said: “Although my memory is fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”

Thank God for amazing grace.

[David Schoon @dsschoon]

@TaylorTannebaum @Slix_og_onttv My former sister-in-law was a long-time TV news reporter for the ABC affiliate in Atlanta. She always, as in ALWAYS, did her live reports with a wall, fence, building, or other large object immediately behind her.

[The Wrestling Room (Pat Mineo) @MrPatMineo]

Perspective on Penn State’s dominance this season:

Nebraska (12) + Wyoming (7) = 19 team points scored against PSU.

Every other opponent combined = just 20 total points.

That includes:
Oklahoma
Drexel
Lehigh
North Dakota State
Stanford
Rutgers
Iowa
Northwestern
Indiana
Maryland
Michigan
Ohio State

The Nittany Lions totaled 579 team points.

Absolute separation.

[challies @challies]

"God’s love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad." (D.A. Carson)

[Wade Lentz @wadelentz]

On this day in 1850, a blizzard in Colchester, England, changed the course of church history.
A 15-year-old Charles Spurgeon, burdened by the weight of his sin, was blocked by the snow from reaching his usual place of worship. He ducked into a small Primitive Methodist Chapel on Artillery Street just to escape the storm.
With the regular minister snowed in, a simple layman, traditionally remembered as a humble deacon, stood up to fill the pulpit. He lacked formal education and eloquence, but he had a text: Isaiah 45:22.
"Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else."
The preacher looked directly at the young Spurgeon and shouted: "Young man, look to Jesus Christ! Look! Look! Look! You have nothing to do but to look and live!"
In that moment, the clouds parted for young Charles Haddon Spurgeon. He later said, "I saw at once the way of salvation." The "Prince of Preachers" was born out of a simple look of faith on a snowy January morning, 176 years ago, today.
Whatever storm you are in today, the message remains the same: Look to Christ and live!
#Spurgeon #ChurchHistory #OnThisDay #Faith #Gospel #CharlesSpurgeon

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

God never owes us anything.

All we have or ever will have is from free grace.

“Who has first given to me, that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.” Job 41:11

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5

Deadly drought. Ripping wind. Blistering sun.

In the vine you will survive.

But nothing will save you if you cut yourself off.

[David Schoon @dsschoon]

@ryanweather The arctic blast may be unique, but isn't Nov 10 normal for a first freeze in Atlanta?

[David Schoon @dsschoon]

@KathrynSkeean @BrentRollinsPhD @ugasportscom And Gunner was first to the end zone to congratulate Nate!

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

John MacArthur explains the greatest gospel verse in the Bible:

2 Corinthians 5:21 - “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

[Owen Strachan @ostrachan]

Forgiven people forgive.

[David Schoon @dsschoon]

@travismillerx13 MJW is incredibly smooth, speedy, consistent, and gracious-- a joy to watch!!

[David Schoon @dsschoon]

@travismillerx13 @annaahalll Anna is looking great! Right near her 1st day Gotzis PB from earlier this season and no worse than 3rd of the 23 competitors in any of the first four events, not to mention a massive PB in the Shot Put 😀.