Mark Mann

Family Mann: Wife: Kendal. Kids: Irene, Bijou, and Ty. Teach at Texas Woman's U. in Kinesiology. Pastor @ Leonard GMC & Nueva Esp. work w/ ORU Volleyball.

[Mark Mann @summitmann]

Bijou and I at WCWS- Texas vs. Mississippi State

[Mark Mann @summitmann]

Working on chatGPT derived collage. It’s a little blurry. But, it really threw the info together quickly!

[Dinn Mann @mooseoutfront]

RIP, René

[Dinn Mann @mooseoutfront]

Fernando Valenzuela’s 1990 no-hitter, with René Cárdenas on the mic, a finishing touch of full Fernandomania magic. René was a big part of Houston becoming Major League and of Colt Stadium and the Astrodome looking and sounding like EVERYONE belonged. RIP!

[Dinn Mann @mooseoutfront]

Please just appreciate when Fernando Mendoza expresses faith after this game that it explains how he crushes pressure. With peace that surpasses all understanding.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

A lesson for humanity. 🙌🙏🫶👇

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Kurt Warner shares the lesson that changed his entire career and it applies to everything.

He sat on the bench for 4 years in college. When a friend asked the coaches why he wasn't playing, the answer wasn't what he expected:

"The reason I wasn't playing was because I was not very good in practice."

His first reaction? Allen Iverson mode.

"Practice? What're you talking about, practice?"

But then he did the math.

"In college we play 12 games in 365 days. In the NFL we play 16 games in 365 days."

That's less than 5% of your year.

"95% of our lives are lived in practice. And the biggest impression we make on people, the way people can understand and really realize who we are, is what we do every day in practice."

This is the 95% Rule. And it applies to everything - sports, business, relationships, life.
1: Show Up With Your Best Effort - Compete and give your best every single day. People can't question how you show up - your effort, attitude, and actions. Consistency removes doubt.
2: Trust Is Built In Practice, Not Games - Trust is earned in the thousands of moments before it's given. Before you can be trusted, people want to know you're dependable. Every day. Not just when it matters.
3: Master Daily Consistency - Success isn't about intensity - it's about consistency. Your habits compound. What you do daily defines who you become.
4: Big Moments Are Earned In Small Moments - The little details make the biggest difference. Greatness starts with preparation - it's earned in the boredom of doing the work when no one's watching.

Excellence isn't an event - It's a habit.

Practice is where trust is built.

How you show up daily is who you really are.
(🎥 Passing the Torch Podcast)
(🎥 @kurt13warner)

[PaulsCorner-VerseQuest @TNTJohn1717]

🚨‼️One of the most uncomfortable realities in the Gospel of Luke is that Jesus spends a staggering amount of time with the “wrong” people. You would think that if God showed up in the flesh, He would spend His days in seminaries, synagogues, and theological roundtables earning respect from the religious class. Instead He is eating with publicans, walking with fishermen, healing lepers, and talking to Gentiles. The Pharisees didn’t just dislike Him for breaking their rules; they hated Him for breaking their social categories. Luke forces you to confront this: if your Christianity can’t function outside your bubble, it isn’t biblical, and it isn’t Christlike.

Luke does not present mercy as compromise. He presents mercy as confrontation. When Jesus forgives a sinner, He exposes the self-righteous by default. It’s automatic. That’s why Luke 15 opens with, “This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them” (Luke 15:2). The complaint wasn’t about doctrine, it was about dignity. Too many modern believers are terrified of being seen with the very people Christ came to save. Jesus wasn’t ashamed to touch lepers, talk to women, heal Samaritans, or dine with tax collectors. He did it in public. He did it repeatedly. And He did it on purpose.

If you study Luke long enough, you’ll notice that Jesus never apologizes for showing compassion, but He also never softens the truth to make anyone comfortable. He forgives sinners, and then tells them to sin no more. He honors faith wherever He finds it, and rebukes unbelief wherever it hides. That’s the Christ of the Bible, not the Christ of modern marketing. The church that learns from Luke learns how to stand on truth without becoming cruel, and how to show mercy without becoming spineless. That balance is rare today because it requires a fear of God, not a fear of men.

Here’s the kicker: the people who loved Jesus in Luke were the broken, the desperate, the outcasts, and the repentant. The people who hated Him were the proud, the religious, the polished, and the uncorrectable. Nothing has changed. If your Christianity only works for people who already have it together, you’re not following Christ, you’re following culture. Luke blows the doors off that kind of religion. It drags Christianity out of the cloister and drops it back into the streets where Jesus put it. And if that makes you uncomfortable, good. Revival rarely starts with comfort. It starts with confrontation, repentance, and a Savior who isn’t afraid to sit at the wrong table.

[Manny Sanguillen @TheRealSangy35]

Rest in Peace to my brother Dave Giusti. Dave was a champion who threw a nasty palm ball. More than that Dave was a great family man..Ginny was the love of his life along with his daughters and grandchildren.

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

This speech will change your life 💯

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

If you start the movie "Hoosiers" at 10:07 p.m. and 48 seconds on New Year's Eve, you'll ring in 2026 just as Jimmy Chitwood hits the winning shot.

No need to thank me.

[Talk Church @churchtalkative]

Amazing! Listen to this message! ♥️

[Mark Mann @summitmann]

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[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Walt Disney once told Charles Schulz he wasn't good enough to draw background art.

Form letter. Very polite.

"We only hire the very finest artists."

Sparky wasn't one of them.

His yearbook rejected his cartoons. His school gave him a zero in physics. He failed every subject in eighth grade.
Every. Single. One.

The other kids called him "Sparky" — after a horse in a comic strip.

They were calling him an animal.

Paul Harvey said it best:

"Sparky wasn't actually disliked by the other youngsters. No one cared enough about him to dislike him."

So this invisible boy did something strange.

He didn't try to prove Disney wrong.

He wrote his autobiography in cartoons instead.

Named the main character after himself.

Charlie Brown.

A kid whose kite never flies. Whose team never wins. Whose crush never notices him.

Then Schulz did something the network executives hated.

He put Luke 2 at the center of his Christmas special.

"Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy..."

They told him to cut it.

Too religious.

He refused.

Christmas Eve, millions of families will watch that scene.

A loser became the messenger.

Disney said he wasn't good enough.

God said otherwise.

[tom keene @tomkeene]

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[ORU Volleyball @ORUVolleyball]

On the dotted line ✍️

Welcome to the Golden Eagle family, @Khylie23Khylie !

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[ORU Volleyball @ORUVolleyball]

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The Golden Eagles reached 1,000 wins as a program with their 3-1 win over Kansas City!

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