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The president should not do this. There are no exceptions to that rule.

"And your time spent in Tulsa did not help your shooting" @TpTroubadours But it did help your preaching!

19 years ago, a high school basketball coach put his team manager into a game for the final four minutes. The kid had never played a single minute of competitive basketball in his life. He scored 20 points. Jason McElwain was diagnosed with severe autism at age two. He didn’t speak until he was five. He couldn’t chew solid food until he was six. He wore a nappy for most of his early childhood. As a baby, he was rigid, wouldn’t make eye contact, and hid in corners away from other children. He tried out for his school basketball team every year and got cut every time. Too small. Too slight. Barely 5’6 and about 54 kilograms. But he loved the game so much that his mum called the school and asked if there was any way he could be involved. The coach created a team manager role for him. For three years, McElwain showed up to every practice and every game. He wore a shirt and tie on match days. He ran drills, handed out water, kept stats, and cheered every basket like he’d scored it himself. On 15 February 2006, the last home game of his final school year, the coach let him suit up in a proper jersey and sit on the bench. With four minutes left and a comfortable lead, the coach sent him in. His first shot missed. His second missed. Then something shifted. He hit a three-pointer. Then another. Then another. His teammates stopped shooting entirely and just kept passing him the ball. He hit six three-pointers and a two-pointer. 20 points in four minutes. The highest scorer in the game. When the final buzzer went, the entire crowd rushed the court and lifted him onto their shoulders. His mum tapped the coach on the shoulder, in tears. “This is the nicest gift you could have ever given my son.” McElwain won the ESPY Award for Best Moment in Sports that year, beating out some of the biggest names in professional sport. He’s 36 now. He works at a local supermarket, coaches basketball, has run 17 marathons including five Boston Marathons, and travels the country speaking about never giving up. When asked about that night, his coach still gets emotional. “For him to come in and seize the moment like he did was certainly more than I ever expected. I was an emotional wreck.”

In 1526, the Bishop of London burned copies of William Tyndale’s English NT at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, calling it a “most pernicious poison.” This summer that same church will host a special exhition for the book to mark its 500th anniversary. stpauls.co.uk/whats-on/exhib…

Practically overnight, we took an ancient vice—long regarded as soul-rotting and civilizationally ruinous—put it on everyone’s phone, and made it as normal and frictionless as checking the weather. What could possibly go wrong? theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

A NBA simplesmente lançou um COMPILADÃO dos arremessos mais frios e DECISIVOS da carreira do Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Tirei os replays e cortei pra 5 para vocês apreciarem SEM moderação:

Paging @KodyGibby

At #SBC26, I’ll be joining the panel at FTC | Orlando on Tuesday, June 9, at 12pm alongside @jasonkeithallen, @tonymerida, @StephenRummage, and @hbcharlesjr. @drmcboz will lead worship. I’d love to see you there.

The young man who wrote this is a student at North Greenville University, a Southern Baptist college. As I’ve said, sports betting is a scourge. And with young people, instead of learning to save and invest, they’re playing a game in which one always loses in the long run.

Excited that the Prez of the SBC will be joining the party at For the Church | Orlando! - Tuesday, June 9 @ 12pm - Lunch included - @jasonkeithallen, @tonymerida, @StephenRummage, and @hbcharlesjr - @drmcboz will lead us in worship Join us! sbc26.events.mbts.edu/registration/s…

With every fiber of your being you must resit the impulse to anthropomorphize machines. We are a psychotic society that believes that unborn humans are not persons but an advanced TI-89 might be?

My friend Afshin is an amazing pastor. This is worth listening to.

If you are working to understand God’s call on your life, you will be well-served to work through this free course!

I normalized the Y-axis and made the United States lime green for easier visibility.

Want to give the secular media warm fuzzies? Dress up liberal ideology in Christian-sounding language. Want to empty a church? Do the same thing from the pulpit.

On campus this week @MBTS for a seminar on philosophical theology and here is what I am seeing: *Happy students - I am blown away by how happy the students seem to be here. They are engaged and energized. *Accessible faculty - I ran into multiple professors today just being with students. Talking with them, sitting with them. *Hospitality - @drandrewmking invited me to come train jiu jitsu with him this week, @KodyGibby ran into me and suggested lunch. This seems normal here. *Professors are interested in ideas - This might sound obvious, but I've been in three different seminaries and let me tell you: It's not. The professors at MBTS are interested in serious engagement with ideas. They are neither dismissive nor disinterested. If you are looking to jump into seminary education, take it from someone who has degrees from three other strong seminaries: Nobody is doing what MBTS is doing like they are doing it. They are operating at a different level right now. Dive in.

Dr. Walker is right. And the circumstances are a reminder to think critically about how candidates and issues are framed by the media and portray themselves. Be objective because few others are going to do it for you.

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" -Wayne Gretzky -Michael Scott

📆 Coming to #SBC26? You don't want to miss this event! Make plans to join @jasonkeithallen, @geoffchang, and @jeffmedders on June 12 for a conversation on the joy and humor in Charles Spurgeon's ministry. Register today for our Alumni & Friends luncheon at bit.ly/4aRKYGd