Monty Settle

Mav's season ticket holder since '06-'07. #MFFL

[Mark Followill @MFollowill]

Huge running news Saturday, the one mile record fell at a meet in London. Josh Kerr ran a 3:42.66, breaking the record of the legendary Hicham El-Guerrouj that had stood since 1999! He knocked .47 seconds off the world one mile record.

One of my favorite books I’ve ever read is The Perfect Mile which focuses on the multiple men looking to run the first sub 4-minute mile in 1954, obviously eventually done by Roger Bannister. The mile isn’t contested much anymore but it was once one of the glamour events in track and that sub 4 minute mile was once thought by some as physiologically impossible. And as a runner I’m just in awe of watching what these elite runners are capable of doing! Check it out here!

[Kevin Gallagher @KevG163]

Happy 84th, "Captain America"!

#DallasCowboys legend Roger Staubach

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

After almost twenty years of sharing the gospel in India, I have lost count of how many of my Hindu friends, relatives, and strangers have said the same thing to me. They admit openly that the idols they bow before are not real gods. They know it. They say it without hesitation. It is spoken almost the way Westerns speak about Santa later in life. Not real, but useful. A noble lie they say. Something cultural. Something emotional. Something passed down.

Scripture already told us this would happen. Romans 1:18 to 23 exposes this. It is not ignorance. IT IS SUPPRESSION. The truth about God is known, yet deliberately pushed down. Not because the evidence is lacking, but because acknowledging the true God would demand repentance and surrender.

Men do not worship idols because they think stone has life. They worship idols because idols make no moral claims. They ask for rituals, not repentance. They accept offerings, not obedience. They comfort the conscience without confronting the heart.

This is why idolatry survives even when belief collapses. It is not faith that keeps it alive. It is fear of the living God. When the true God is removed, something must take His place. And so, men exchange the glory of the incorruptible God for images that demand nothing and change nothing.

And this is where we must be honest. This problem does not end outside Christianity. We have done the very same thing within it.

Many who call themselves Christians admit something similar, though they use different language. They do not deny Jesus, but they reshape Him. They speak of a Christ who never confronts, never warns, never judges. A Jesus who exists to comfort but never to command.

Just as idols are shaped to fit human desire, we have shaped our own version of Christ. A Jesus who affirms our choices, blesses our plans, and never speaks of repentance. A Jesus who saves without lordship and loves without holiness.

Scripture warns us about this. Paul says there will come a time when people will not endure sound teaching but will gather teachers to suit their own passions in 2 Timothy 4:3. That is not paganism entering the church. That is idolatry wearing Christian language.

Even superstition has found a place among us. Crosses are treated like charms, verses are repeated like spells, prayer is reduced to technique, and worship is shaped more by atmosphere than by truth. We anoint everything with oil as though the bottle holds power, sprinkle water as though holiness can be transferred by touch, and chase methods instead of repentance. Faith is measured by outcomes rather than obedience, by results rather than surrender. What was meant to draw us to Christ has been turned into ritual without reverence, practice without truth, religion without the fear of God. And in doing so, we unknowingly replace living faith with sacred habits that demand nothing from the heart.

This is not far from what Romans 1 describes. It is still an exchange. Not of stone this time, but of truth. We exchange the real Christ for a manageable one. A Jesus who asks for admiration but not surrender.

The tragedy is not that people reject Christ openly. It is that many worship a version of Him that does not exist. And a false Christ cannot save, no matter how sincerely He is spoken about.

The living God cannot be edited. He is not a symbol. He is not an idea. He is not safe. And until He is known as He truly is, even Christianity can become another form of idol worship.

[PGA TOUR @PGATOUR]

Celebrating Tiger Woods' 50th birthday with the top 50 shots from his career! (non-majors)

0:00 - 50, Tiger the artist (2019)
0:16 - 49, Lefty under bush (2019)
0:33 - 48, Flop to start tourney (2015)
0:46 - 47, Flub then hole-out (2000)
1:05 - 46, 184-yard wedge (2000)
1:24 - 45, Flub then hole-out (2019)
1:41 - 44, Flub then hole-out (2020)
2:01 - 43, Presidents Cup chip (2019)
2:12 - 42, From the rocks (1998)
2:25 - 41, Monster driver (2005)
2:41 - 40, 274-yard 2-iron (1999)
3:00 - 39, Dart mic drop (2012)
3:38 - 38, Bunker hole-out (2009)
3:48 - 37, Better bunker hole-out (2003)
4:02 - 36, Eagle to shoot 62 (2012)
4:36 - 35, 9&8 (2006)
5:27 - 34, Clutch dart (2009)
5:45 - 33, Front-nine 28 (2007)
6:11 - 32, Woods from the woods (2012)
6:28 - 31, Woods from the woods (2015)
6:46 - 30, Woods from the woods (2013)
7:08 - 29, Wild putt en route to win (2008)
7:26 - 28, Clutch shot, wry smile (2001)
7:46 - 27, Memorial mic drop (2009)
8:04 - 26, Rainy playoff birdie (2006)
8:29 - 25, Clutch putt to tie Cup (2003)
9:15 - 24, Off-balance bunker shot (1999)
9:33 - 23, Flub then flop hole-out (1999)
10:03 - 22, Clutch one-handed flop (2009)
10:21 - 21, 138-yard clutch eagle (2009)
10:42 - 20, Even Tiger said “wow” (2004)
11:16 - 19, Memorial mayhem (2018)
11:39 - 18, Playoff dart to win it (1997)
12:09 - 17, 98-yard clutch eagle (2000)
12:25 - 16, Match Play madness (2019)
12:42 - 15, Fist pump after 3-wood (2013)
13:15 - 14, “The dreaded twirl” (2009)
13:45 - 13, 72nd hole birdie to win (2001)
14:24 - 12, 72nd hole birdie to win (2008)
15:22 - 11, 72nd hole birdie to win (2009)
16:09 - 10, Ace in first pro start (1996)
16:31 - 9, Golf’s loudest ace (1997)
17:09 - 8, Birdie to win in the dark (2000)
17:51 - 7, Better than most (2001)
18:34 - 6, 7-shot comeback (2000)
18:54 - 5, Eagle to force playoff (2000)
20:03 - 4, Long birdie to win (2000)
20:22 - 3, Must-make chip-in (2001)
20:48 - 2, Fairway bunker brilliance (2000)
21:37 - 1, Insane flop shot (2012)

[FoundersMin @FoundersMin]

We are saddened to inform friends that our dear brother, Voddie Baucham, Jr., has left the land of the dying and entered the land of the living. Earlier today, after suffering an emergency medical incident, he entered into his rest and the immediate presence of the Savior whom he loved, trusted, and served since he was converted as a college student. Please pray for Bridget, their children, and grandchildren.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. – Psalm 116:15

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[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

(Warning: long rant)

My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.

I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.

Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious.

And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left.

Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.

Here are the facts:

Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.

Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.

Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it.

These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements.

Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this:

These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not.

These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.

When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.

They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit.

And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety.

When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”

They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.

And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes.

When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.

And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.

For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit.

In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations.

In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism.

> “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.)

> “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.)

> “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?)

> “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.)

In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection.

> “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.)

> “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.)

All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.

You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it.

Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do.

If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

[Monty Settle @lmb43]

The New and Better Adam - Alistair Begg Devotional - Truth For Life https://t.co/yuqormU3sH

[Monty Settle @lmb43]

YES @DallasStars 🙌

[Monty Settle @lmb43]

YES!!! @dallasmavs 🏀

[Monty Settle @lmb43]

@statmuse Sounds like Kawhi needs to diversify if he only has 4 stocks.

[Dallas Mavericks @dallasmavs]

He'll always be a 10 in our book.

Welcome back, @doefinney_10 🫶 #MFFL

[B/R Walk-Off @BRWalkoff]

The crowd-only version of Adolis García's walk-off 🔊 @MLB

[Dirk Nowitzki @swish41]

Game 7!!!!!! Let’s go

[Monty Settle @lmb43]

@wingoz He should play two balls on every hole. Double the pleasure, double the fun. Two rounds for the price of one.

[Monty Settle @lmb43]

@sagesteele @MegynKellyShow @megynkelly What an amazing interview!

[Monty Settle @lmb43]

@SarahBeth_41 Maybe they should resign from Twitter. 😂

[Monty Settle @lmb43]

@SarahBeth_41 And then they got really quiet. 😂

[Monty Settle @lmb43]

Love this commentary by @JonRahmpga for @CBSSports at the RBC Heritage golf tournament!

[Monty Settle @lmb43]

Sick dime from Luka to Hardy! #Luka #MFFL

[NBA @NBA]

EVERY ANGLE of Luka's ridiculous dime from the corner 📹

[Monty Settle @lmb43]

@MFollowill Was at the game last night and didn’t get to see this. I turned the TV this afternoon and it was still tuned into BSSW and it was near the end of the Mavs game last night. Hearing Harp predicting Durant’s missed free throw was solid gold! #MFFL