CoachJPDavidson

Follower, Husband, Father, Head Baseball Coach Pine Tree High School John 3:30

[Fox News World @FNCGlobalNews]

Americans travel to Pakistan and free some 300 Christians and others trapped in modern-day brick kiln slavery, paying off generational debts that kept entire families — including children — working under the sun for hundreds of years. The average cost to liberate one family: $8,500.

Idaho resident Aaron Hutchings says the work of saving them has been transformative: "Looking back, it is hard to see any of it as random. I believe God's hand was in it from the beginning, and even though we were doing all of this to show Jesus' love towards these people, we ended up receiving more than we gave."

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

"Men who prioritize fatherhood may lose some sleep, gain some extra weight & enjoy less free time, but they can also discover a richer life with greater meaning, purpose & connection. And when it comes to brain health and mental fitness, becoming a father is one of the best things you can do." https://t.co/ddL9y5Ncci

[Brandon Rexin @BrandonRexin36]

Call me old school, but I’d trade a lot of today’s tournament baseball culture for a little more focus on the game itself.

Less GameChanger obsession.
Less walk-up song production.
Less nonstop dugout chatter.

More competing. More learning. More baseball.

[Baseball Dudes Inc. 🇺🇸⚾️ @BaseballDudes48]

Maybe the most underutilized form of player development is the time spent with Mom and Dad playing catch, playing pepper, catching pop-ups, hitting batting practice, wiffle homerun derby, practicing pitching, and watching the game together. Grow the game.

[Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello]

🚨PRIDE MONTH🚨

The Texas Rangers are the ONLY MLB team not acknowledging “Pride Month.”

The Rangers are again not hosting an LGBT night event.

Instead, on June 18, they will be hosting a Faith and Family Night.

According to their website, the event will feature “personal testimonies from Rangers players Wyatt Langford, Josh Jung, Cody Bradford, Jacob Latz, Jalen Beeks, and others, sharing how faith impacts their lives both on and off the field.”

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.

But this one broke me:

Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.

I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.

I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.

But bro, you know what shook me?

There’s a night missing.

After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.

A lamb is slaughtered.

Its blood painted on the doorposts.

And death passes over every house covered by that blood.

The Passover.

I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.

Islam just skips it.

And here’s what wrecked me.

The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.

Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.

70 times.

So I had to ask myself the honest question:

If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?

You don’t forge a document 70 times.

That’s just not corruption.

That to me is preservation.

And then I read the line that finished me off.

1 Corinthians 5:7.

“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”

That’s when it hit me.

The whole story was never just about Moses.

It was always pointing to a King.

The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.

Forever.

The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.

Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passover…

he’s one step away from the cross.

[Coach Tackmann @coach_tack]

18 years ago when I got into coaching little did I realize that this thing right here would cause me to curse more than anything else in the sport.

[Alex Lubyansky @alexlubyansky_]

Took my eight year old to rec baseball.
Teams named Japan. Venezuela. Nicaragua.
Couple hundred dollars. Parent volunteer. No travel. No emails.
Just kids playing.
This is what soccer used to look like.
And we killed it.
#USMNT #MeritOverMoney

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

The Texas Rangers are the only MLB team not doing the whole Pride Month thing.

No rainbow jerseys, no special nights, just baseball for everybody.

And you know what? Good for them. Finally, someone keeping it about the game instead of turning the ballpark into a parade float.

If you’re tired of every team shoving politics down your throat with every pitch, support the Rangers.

Buy the merch. Rock that Texas hat. Go to the games.

God bless Texas. And God bless the Rangers for not caving to the insanity.

[Restore Halifax @RestoreHalifax]

Gad Saad explains suicidal empathy and its destructive effects on society.
https://t.co/Pp2DEi9yRh

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I used to ask Christians:

“If Jesus was really God, why did He eat, sleep, and bleed like us?”

And honestly, I used to ask it with pride like it was some unbeatable argument.

But later I realized something:

That question was not exposing Christianity.

It was exposing my misunderstanding of what kind of God Jesus claimed to be.

Because the real question is not:

“Why would God become weak?”

The real question is:

“What kind of God would willingly step into human suffering at all?”

Islam taught me about a God who was distant and untouchable.

But Christianity introduced me to a God who stepped into hunger, exhaustion, grief, pain, betrayal, blood, and suffering with us.

And suddenly His humanity stopped feeling like weakness to me.

It became proof of love.

If Jesus ate, it means He came close enough to experience hunger beside us.

If He slept, it means He embraced the exhaustion we carry.

If He bled, it means He did not stand above suffering watching us from a distance.

He entered it Himself.

Philippians 2 says Christ emptied Himself and took on flesh.

Not because He stopped being God, but because He wanted humanity to finally see what God is actually like.

And it turns out God is willing to suffer for the people He loves.

That changed everything for me.

Because every other religion demanded sacrifice from humanity.

Jesus became the sacrifice Himself.

And no prophet in history ever claimed that.

[CoachJPDavidson @JPDavidson_]

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[Jacob Turner @TheJacobTurner]

A PARENT’S JOURNEY THROUGH YOUTH SPORTS:

Age 5: “He’s got a cannon.”
Age 6: “He’s the fastest kid out there. Coach said so.”
Age 7: “Rec ball isn’t challenging him anymore.”
Age 8: “We tried out for select. Obviously made it.”
Age 9: “$2,800 for the season. Plus uniforms. Plus tournaments. Plus hotels.”
Age 10: “Cooperstown is basically a family vacation, right?”
Age 11: “He needs a hitting guy. And a pitching guy. And probably a mental performance coach.”
Age 12: “I’m not a crazy sports parent. The OTHER parents are crazy.”
Age 13: “We changed schools. For academics. (And also baseball.)”
Age 14: “Showcases are a requirement at this age.”
Age 15: “Ya his ranking just ticked up. We’re cooking.”
Age 16: “He just needs to get seen by the right school.”
Age 17: “The D1 schools want him to walk on. He’ll earn a spot by sophomore year.”
Age 18: “Okay, D2 is actually really competitive.”
Age 19: “He’s redshirting. Strategic.”
Age 20: “He’s focusing on school now.”
Age 21: “You know what? He’s so much happier.”

Roughly 7% of high schoolers play in college.

About 1.5% of those get drafted.

Less than half of draftees ever play one day in the big leagues.

The odds of our kids going pro are somewhere between “struck by lightning” and “find a $100 in old shorts.”

I love youth sports (all my kids play a bunch of them) just keep a good perspective my friends. ✌️

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

John 14:6

[Coach Swit @CoachSwit]

I coach varsity H.S. baseball and travel ball… and I’d take H.S. baseball every single time.

The school pride.
The community.
The rivalries.
The pressure to win.
The packed playoff games.
Playing for your town.

In my eyes H.S. baseball just means more.

[Derek Rishmawy @DZRishmawy]

Incidentally, when a pastor talks about the Sabbath v youth sports, they are up against a whole encroaching industry.

[Deerick Smith @coachdeesmith]

No I’m not interested in elite super select diamond sticks south north western world championship travel ball. We will go to our local park play for a local sponsored business and be just fine!! As was done for 50+ years before the cult formed

[Texas Rangers @Rangers]

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[CoachJPDavidson @JPDavidson_]

Agree with this and will add T-Ball walk up music, 3 games in a day (no other level does this), and 7U tryouts to the list.

[Deven Morgan @devenmorgan]

Why are we hell bent to make the game of baseball for single digit age kids look like the professional game? What do we actually gain?

New podcast episode out now:

🎙️ Lead Offs For 9 Year Olds Are Insane and I Will Die on This Hill 🎙️

[CoachJPDavidson @JPDavidson_]

@anymanfitness This is not true, however I do think if you don’t play travel you do have to make up some time in the fall/summer with skill development.