Jason Sneed

When it's grim, be the grim reaper.

[Jason Sneed @F3Flatley]

@dogwoodblooms @mattvanswol Two of the best NC follows on X!

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Absolutely WILD footage has emerged from North Carolina where a 30-foot inflatable pumpkin broke loose in strong winds and started tumbling down the road.

An Uber driver stopped his car to help the owners grab it.

[Jason Sneed @F3Flatley]

@FlannyMLB @FlannyMLB if you can do that - and eliminate @MLB 's inane blackout rules, we'll haul you out of retirement and make you Commissioner for Life.

[Jason Sneed @F3Flatley]

@BasedMikeLee Senator D'Amato (R-NY) engaged in a 15-hour talking filibuster in October 1992. I remember it as a Senate staffer at the time, when the GOP was in the minority. Senator Thune needs to get his head screwed on straight.

[Jason Sneed @F3Flatley]

@AriA1exander Rudy Martin Jr. had the walk-off hit in the Spring Training finale for KC in AZ. He can play. What do the #Royals have to lose?

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

ALEXANDER HAMILTON: "The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to change & corrupt the national spirit.

To admit foreigners indiscriminately is to invite a Trojan horse into the citadel of our liberty & sovereignty."

[Jason Sneed @F3Flatley]

@royalsreview Depends on the question ...

[Romi Bean @Romi_Bean]

This Frenchman describing Buc-ee’s is the only thing you need today

(IG: Erosbrousson)

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Chiefs are re-signing CB L’Jarius Sneed to a one-year deal worth up to $5 million, per the Katz Brothers.

[Jason Sneed @F3Flatley]

@EchoesofWarYT @mkhammer The Boys of Pointe du Hoc. One of Reagan's best speeches.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Christianity has the harshest verdict on human nature of any religion on earth. It also has the most extravagant grace of any religion on earth. That is not coincidental.

Every other religion does one of two things. It sets a bar you can clear; works, rituals, devotion, and moral accumulation, with a path to standing before your god with something to show.

Or it dissolves guilt altogether, telling you the self is an illusion, that sin is merely ignorance, that enlightenment is just a reframe. Human religion, across every culture and every century, moves in one of these two directions. Earn your way in, or talk your way out.

Christianity does neither. It does something no human committee would or could design.

The Sermon on the Mount is not mere moral teaching, it is an intense prosecution. Jesus does not merely raise the behavioral bar, but He relocates it to the interior, where nobody can hide. The Pharisees; the most disciplined religious performers in the ancient world, could clear the behavioral bar. They could not touch the heart bar. Nobody back then could and nobody since has.

Anger is murder, lust is essentially adultery. When Jesus finished speaking in Matthew 5, no one in that crowd was still standing, all their defenses collapsed. That does not look like religion, it resembles a courtroom. And the verdict is an emphatic GUILTY, without exception.

Now watch what happens next.

The same God who delivers that verdict does not simply show mercy. A judge who acquits a criminal is merciful. What Christianity offers is not acquittal. The criminal does not simply walk free. He moves into the judge’s house, he gets the last name and he receives an enormous inheritance. Romans 8:17 says we are heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ. Not pardoned, or tolerated but adopted and entitled to the full inheritance of the eternal Son.

People underestimate what that inheritance means because they think in earthly categories. The richest human who has ever lived will die, and his estate will eventually dissolve. What Romans 8 describes is something creation itself is groaning in anticipation of; the full revelation of the glory of the sons of God. You are not inheriting assets. You are inheriting glory. The shared, eternal glory of the Son of God.

No human religious imagination arrives here. The gap is too wide. The indictment is too severe and the grace is too extravagant, and they are too precisely proportional to each other to have been invented. The depth of the hole and the height of the rescue match exactly. That kind of architecture does not come from a fleshly committee.

The most devastating indictment in the history of religion. The most generous verdict in the history of religion. Both in the same book, both from the same God. The paradox is not a contradiction. It is in my opinion, comprehensive proof of the substance and the veracity of this beautiful faith.

[Jason Sneed @F3Flatley]

@AttorneyF_ Very well said, thank you.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Galatians 4:4 looks like a transition verse.

“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son.”

If you read it fast, it sounds like a timestamp. But if read slowly, it is the most staggering sentence in the Bible.

‘Fullness of time’. Paul isn't saying God picked a convenient moment. He is saying God declared a moment complete. “The preparation is finished and everything I have been building across centuries is exactly where I need it to be”. God looked at human history and said: now.

Which forces the question. Why then? Why not a thousand years earlier, when Moses was fresh? Why not a thousand years later? What was so perfect about the first century?

I started looking into it and I have not recovered.

God needed a people with the theology. He spent 2000 years forming Israel; the covenant, the sacrificial system, the prophets, Isaiah 53 written seven centuries before Calvary, the framework of a coming Messiah who would bear the sin of the world. The Jews were shaped by wilderness, exile, and divine discipline, until the theological infrastructure for substitutionary atonement was fully in place.

But theology alone could not travel. God needed a language. Not a tribal dialect, but a universal tongue. So five hundred years before the Gospel, He let the Greek philosophers begin.

Heraclitus sat in Ephesus and concluded the universe was governed by an invisible rational principle. He called it the Logos.

The Stoics built on it. Philo of Alexandria stood at the intersection of Greek thought and Hebrew scripture and said the Logos was the mind of God in creation. For five hundred years, philosophy built a conceptual category it could not fill.

Then God sent a conqueror with no interest in theology. Alexander the Great wanted glory and empire. God let him want it. In satisfying his ego across three continents, Alexander Hellenized the ancient world and forged Koine Greek, the common tongue of the docks, markets, soldiers, and slaves. A language stripped of complexity, simple enough for anyone, universal enough for everyone.
The Hebrew scriptures were translated into it. The Septuagint was born. God used a pagan conqueror’s ambition to translate His own Word.

Then Rome came and paved the road. The Pax Romana. Piracy cleared. Stone highways stretching from Spain to Syria. A framework for movement the ancient world had never seen.

None of them knew they were collaborating.

Heraclitus thought he was doing philosophy. Alexander thought he was building a monument to himself. Rome thought it was building an empire for Rome. Not one of them understood they were stagehands. God was with Heraclitus in his pondering, with Alexander in his conquest, with Roman engineers laying stone, quietly requisitioning their work for a purpose none of them could see.

And then, when the covenant people were in place, the language primed, the roads built, and the category ready, when everything He had been quietly assembling was finally set, God stepped into the room they had unknowingly prepared.

John picked up his pen and wrote: “In the beginning was the Logos.”

Every Greek philosopher in the Mediterranean felt the ground shift. “And the Logos became flesh.” The category they spent five centuries constructing was not a principle. It was a Person.

The ‘fullness of time is not a timestamp’. It is God’s signature on a completed work. And the humbling thing is that this work was not built by saints. It was built by conquerors, philosophers, and emperors who thought they were writing their own story. God let them think that. And used every word. If this is not amazing then I don’t know what is.

[Jason Sneed @F3Flatley]

@Gdams70 What is the point of the guy in the yellow vest?

[Dante 🇺🇸 @DanteTheDon]

Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.

Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.

Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.

Tune them when you’re whole, not just when you’re broken.

Watch the whole thing.

[Jason Sneed @F3Flatley]

@dogwoodblooms Agree with @dogwoodblooms 98% of the time. On BBQ, no. Just no.

[Jason Sneed @F3Flatley]

@dogwoodblooms Kansas City native follower here, been in NC for 26 years, @dogwoodblooms . NO. Just no.

[Jason Sneed @F3Flatley]

@Sachinettiyil TooGoodForVegas...

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@ericmmatheny SorryWillNotCheerRaiders...

[Jason Sneed @F3Flatley]

@annamlulis This is not right. The #Raiders ? He is too good for them.