Paddy

Jesus follower, Carlin’s husband, duffer, weed assassin, Clemson grad '00

[Nolan Hauser @nolanhauser]

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[Rudy Cerda @RudyCerda]

This video will never get old.
The gospel of Jesus Christ explained in 1 minute.

[Mark the Caddie @caddietales]

Watching a Hallmark Christmas movie.

Using their formula, I think I can produce one with a gruff caddie and a down on her luck LPGA golfer. They are thrust together by circumstance, have chemistry, have a fallout, get back together for a Hawaii Christmas tourney win and fall in love.

Boom!

Possible titles include, "Tees and Tinsel," "Love on the Links," "Christmas in the Clubhouse" and the more risqué, "Who's your caddie?"

Who should star?

[Paddy @weed_assassin]

Can Tyler from Spartanburg call every week?!? #Clemson

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

The Eyelid and God

I worked for a farmer named Johnny when I was a teenager. Among other skills, he taught me how to weld—a necessary talent on any farm since equipment is always in need of repair. One day, having completed his weld, Johnny was chipping away at the hot slag over his bead before adding another layer to the weld. I was standing about 10 feet away, looking on, with no safety glasses on.

It was an eerie moment. In a millisecond, my eye registered a tiny piece of metal slag flying through the air like a missile aimed straight at my pupil. Without the least bit of conscious thought, as soon as my eye registered its flight, my eyelid slammed the door over my pupil and that red-hot speck of metal burned into the skin of my eyelid instead of my eye. I experienced a few seconds of burning pain instead of a potentially permanent injury.

In Hebrew, an expression for eyelid is eye-guard (sh‘murah [שְׁמֻרָה]), from the verb shamar (“to guard”), as in Psalm 77:4. When that fragment of hot iron came flying toward my eye, my sh‘murah knew exactly what to do. It took one for the team. It absorbed the pain to protect my eye.

When we pray, “Keep [shamar ‘guard’] me as the pupil of your eye” (Ps. 17:8), what are we asking our Lord to do? We are asking for his intimate, ongoing protection from everything that would bring us harm. We are asking him to be our divine sh‘murah, our divine eyelid, which stands in front of us to shield us from the fiery arrows of the evil one.

Christ, as the word made flesh, is the Father’s answer to our prayer. He stepped in front of us, took the arrows, took the sin, took the pain, took the condemnation, took death itself into his own body in order to save us. He guards us as his very own pupil, as the apple of his eye, for indeed we are.

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

Clemson has been on their opponent’s goal line four different times this season where they didn’t score a single point.

Lined up in the shotgun on all four. The ensuing plays’ results:

First (vs. Duke, down 13-7, 3Q 10:55)
• False start, sack, blocked FG

Second (vs. Duke, down 13-7, 4Q 14:38)
• Fumble (picked up, returned 65 yards)

Third (vs. Miami, 0-0, 1Q 4:07)
• Fumble (Miami 80-yd TD on next play)

Fourth (vs. Miami, down 28-20, 2OT)
• Sack (loss of 8, end of game)

The Tigers are 130th out of 130 in the FBS in fumbles lost this season. They have fumbled 10 times, the only team in CFB with double digit fumbles.

If they watched one Eagles game and learned what to do at the goal line they’d be 6-1. 💀

[Paddy @weed_assassin]

@john_lamb Players moms need to call and tell them “you suck”

[Paddy @weed_assassin]

@ilovenostalgia 1 Goonies
2 Raiders off the list ark
3 Top gun
4 Deja vu

[MacDill AFB @MacDill_AFB]

All aircraft on the installation have been evacuated/secured in preparation for #HurricaneIdalia . During the evacuation, the 50th ARS recorded St. Elmo’s fire, a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created in an atmospheric electric field.

[Paddy @weed_assassin]

@Diddy Reminds me of a verse from the Bible

[Banks @BarstoolBanks]

That has to fall. Physics just betrayed us all.

[No Laying Up @NoLayingUp]

How

[Teddy Mitrosilis @TMitrosilis]

Navy SEALs have a saying.

You may find it helpful.

When something sucks, they look at each other and say:

"FULL BENEFIT"

It’s an instant mindset shift.

• Hiking and it starts pouring rain?
• Driving and your car breaks down?
• Working on a project and lost a draft?

FULL BENEFIT.

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LESSON: Adversity is an opportunity

The message is simple.

Every adversity is an opportunity.

• To grow
• To learn
• To evolve
• To get stronger
• To become better

These moments forge us if we let them.

The next time you're facing something hard, welcome it.

Work through the process.

Learn the lessons.

Reap the full benefit.

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Follow @TMitrosilis for more content like this.

[Paddy @weed_assassin]

@barstoolsports @PFLMMA Forgot this one

[Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShow]

As Jesus breathes his last breath following a day of tortuous scourging to the point of disfiguration, that concludes with literally being hung out to dry on a wooden cross with nails hammered deep into his extremities, he cries out these words:

“It is finished.” Or “It is accomplished.”

What was finished/accomplished?

The justifiable wrath of God — ignited by all the evil mankind has committed with the freedom and dominion God gave us, is committing, and will commit upon itself and the whole of a creation — has once and for all been satisfied. The debt has been paid as it only could be by Jesus. The sinless, spotless lamb slain (to atone for the sins of the people) before the foundation of the world.

No other debt for our sin must be paid. Nor can we offer anything or anyone else but Christ to be released from the wrath we deserve. To offer God anything else after He has already offered up something as precious as His one and only Son, is to tell your Creator you reject His mercy you already didn’t deserve. As well as cosmically diminish what he sacrificed on your behalf. In other words, you are ingrate.

Some will say “how can it be that this is the only way?” Some will claim it is wrong to reject a wider path to restoration with God. But they are looking at it all wrong. A loving Father made it simple and plain how to know Him for all of eternity. No secret knowledges, no confusing quests, no intermediaries to satisfy, and no mysteries to be solved. Just you and Him one on one amid the entirety of the universe, at the Cross.

The Cross was an intersection of of two wooden beams, and it is only here where He and us truly intersect as well. The road is simple, but it is not easy to humble ourselves before this awesome sacrifice and acknowledge how undeserving we are of all its suffering.

There will come a day when we all will acknowledge it, however. When every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Yeshua of Nazareth, this baby born in a barn who becomes our atonement on the Cross, is King of kings and Lord of lords.

You may do so now and accept His grace that secures your forever destination in paradise with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Or you will do so later as you are confronted with an eternity of damnation you earned for your acts and thoughts of evil.

But make no mistake, either way, bow and confess you shall.

#GoodFriday

[Paddy @weed_assassin]

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[Fore Play @ForePlayPod]

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[Mark Pangel @markpangel]

Hey @elonmusk our local food pantry could use some help. Here’s our wishlist on Amazon.

https://t.co/VABESGrW7O

[Paddy @weed_assassin]

@ClaryGrayson 💪🏽🤩

[Prep Redzone South Carolina @PrepRedzoneSC]

Who are the "must-know" 8th graders?

@AlPopsFootball and @PrepRedzoneNext are looking to evaluate.

Tap in⤵️

[Paddy @weed_assassin]

@Chesschick01 @markpangel