Peter Link Jr

Husband, dad, pastor, & teacher called to love according to the gospel. Co-author of #Bible101

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

Good word from @EWErickson. Those of us who have the privilege of living in America are tempted to only notice the problems. It takes those who see it afresh to remind us how good we have it.

[Colby Adams @ColbyAdams]

Great news: SACSCOC has restored full accreditation to @SWBTS, with all sanctions removed. Deep gratitude for the faithful leadership of Dr. Dockery, the Board, and so many across the Southwestern community whose hard work made this possible. https://t.co/JLNi9NydzQ

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

The World Cup kicks off today in the United States, and for the next five weeks, a sport most Americans cannot be bothered to watch will bring the rest of the planet to our doorstep. They are already arriving. Germans, Spaniards, Egyptians, Australians, every continent but Antarctica is showing up, and something is happening that ought to make us pause. Their minds are being blown away by us.

https://t.co/9JUUg86dls

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Texas has replaced California as the state with the most Fortune 500 capital. 💰

Texas’ 57 Fortune 500 companies made roughly $2.8 trillion in revenue last year, compared to California’s 56 companies and roughly $2.7 trillion revenue.

New York comes in third with 53 companies and $2.2 trillion.

https://t.co/81xtLGBJ3B

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Maybe the foreigners have it right. Maybe the eagle and the flyover and the canyon and the kindness of a stranger with car keys really are worth crossing an ocean to see. Maybe, watching them fall in love with the place we take for granted, we could fall in love with it again ourselves and decide to be a little more charitable to the neighbor God told us to love, even when we cannot stand how he votes.

https://t.co/9JUUg86dls

[Daniel Darling @dandarling]

Excellent resolutions passed this year at #sbc26. Including:

- an immigration resolution balancing law and order and compassion
- an America 250 amendment on both patriotism and religious liberty
- a resolution condemning political violence and sinful speech
- a resolution on disability ministry
- a resolution against assisted suicide
- a resolution against anti-Semitism
- on the importance of the physically gathered church ona digital age

[Brandon Smith @brandon_d_smith]

5 simple ways to lead and love the SBC:

1. Understand Baptist polity and SBC systems

2. Build unity through coalitions of likeminded (not necessarily identical) people

3. Aim for institutional health

4. Listen to and don’t patronize messengers

5. Take the BFM seriously

[Peter Link Jr @peterlinkjr]

@SSNCharlestonSo We will have to wait and see how the other pressures on TT’s administration develop. The Big 12 is the key player, in my opinion, because the bylaws allow them to act as a conference against what TT wants for the benefit of the whole conference. I have no idea how it ends ….

[Daniel Ritchie @DanielRitchie]

If I have learned anything about the Southern Baptist convention in the past 12 months as first vice president, seeing the breadth of Great Commission ministry the convention does.

There are more Baptist doing gospel work then I can begin to conceive.

I praise God that we take the call to “Go” seriously.

[Daniel Ritchie @DanielRitchie]

Just under 70% of babies in the US found with disabilities in utero are aborted.

I recognize I’m biased given my own disability, but I can tell you without a doubt my life & every disabled life is worth it.

I do not say it has been an easy life but it has been an amazing one. A life worth both savoring and protecting.

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

The Supreme Court upholds parental rights in public schools:

"In a 6-3 decision written by Justice Alito, the Court held that forcing those books on young children with no way to opt out violated the parents’ First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion.

Alito’s line cut to the bone: the right of parents “𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘶𝘱𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮”.

[Peter Link Jr @peterlinkjr]

@TMacWakeForest @NathaninSeoul Correct me if I am wrong about your comment, Tracy. But, your “why” is not about Ireneaus’ motives.

It is about finding what he saw, what he understood, and what evidence led to his conclusion. We assume he is reasonable, and we are pondering his evidence against our own.

[Peter Link Jr @peterlinkjr]

D-Day
June 6, 1944
Grateful for these men.

[Brandon Smith @brandon_d_smith]

I’ve been playing with ChatGPT and Claude every once in awhile as I write, not for my own sake or to apply to my work, but to understand it better given its proliferation among students and others.

And I have to say.

It’s worse than you think.

Every story you hear about making up quotes and sources, not being able to adjudicate good from bad research, writing in a reductive and generic idiom, “apologizing” for doing shabby work instead of doing it right the first time, etc. is not a bug but a feature.

As I keep telling students, your attempts at using it even “for research” is actually making your work worse. And it’s very best, it’s a supercharged Google, which isn’t saying much. An AI-produced paper, even with the best intentions and prompts, is C-level at best when compared to my expectations.

If you sneak it by me, shame on you. And maybe shame on me a little too.

Of course, the deeper issue is it’s robbing you of creative discovery, hard-won knowledge, and the ability to articulate thoughts—all sorely needed skills in ministry.

It just ain’t worth it.

[SEC Numbers Guy @secnumbersguy]

Texas has won more National Championships THIS YEAR than Texas Tech has ALL TIME.

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

"I am a man. See me as a human being—not a birth defect, not a syndrome. I don’t need to be eradicated."

Frank Stephens pleads for the humanization of people with Down syndrome, studies suggest 67-90% are aborted in the United States due to faulty prenatal screenings.

[Texas Softball @TexasSoftball]

YOUR TEXAS LONGHORNS ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS… AGAIN 🤘🏆

#HookEm

[Jonathan Parnell @jonathanparnell]

The city of Saint Paul has officially determined the January 18 invasion of our church and the desecration of our worship to be a “peaceful protest.”

Here’s my question for Mayor Her:

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

Compared to a baby born to a married mother, a baby born to an unmarried mother is:

✔️3 times more likely to need Medicaid or other government or charitable assistance to pay for his or her delivery (68% versus 23%)
✔️2 times more likely to have received late or no prenatal care (11% versus 5%)
✔️1.6 times more likely to be born at a low birthweight (under 2,500 grams) (11% versus 7%).
✔️14 times more likely to have been fathered by a man not identified on the birth certificate (29% versus 2%).

~ Dr. Nicholas Zill https://t.co/qa9hWVNsw4

[Brandon Smith @brandon_d_smith]

Many of us were encouraging this change, and I am grateful Dr. Mohler was open. This makes the amendment even stronger, and I believe more unifying.

“Specifically” is better than “such as” because some of the biggest concerns were the amendment being implemented beyond its intention. Its intention is much clearer now. As I said elsewhere, any amendment could be abused, but getting language as clear as you can is the best way to work against it. And I believe this represents what the BFM 2000 generally assumed in the first place, and how the vast majority of SBC churches already function. But clarity was needed.

The specificity in the new language should also allow for even more freedom and autonomy among local churches to encourage women in the innumerable ministry opportunities God has given them to serve the church.