Zach Evans

My goal in life is to be more like Jesus today than yesterday and more like Him tomorrow than today.

@TheMainLinePod Alabama Sugar Bowl

If someone offered you $1,000,000 to watch one Oklahoma football game for 48 hours straight, which game are you watching?

@TomFornelli *won

@TomFornelli Now now Iowa would have one with a return for a TD. OU at least landed two explosive passes😂

Crimson & Cream Iowa has done it again.

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@GabeIkard Please spend some time on the pod answering this question: why should we be optimistic that the version of MH we saw against Texas and SC last year is not what we will see this time around?

Mateer was constantly squeezing that throwing hand for essentially all of the Auburn game. Saw the hand shaking a few times. But he threw it so well that I was hoping it wasn’t anything major. Turns out it was. In the meantime, Michael Hawkins Jr takes over as QB1. Ton of talent

I was hoping it wasn’t bad. Damn it.

Jesus defeated death so you can live.

@BaptistBlogger Crazy with the meager resources the typical church/pastor are operating on. Different planets.

@Kbrock1298 I agree, but I do wonder if we would say the same with pre-injury Chet and healthy Dub. We just don’t know what that would have looked like.

As a Thunder fan, Celtics without a doubt. We have to be better in the playoffs and I think we will with more experience.

@andrewhebert86 This is my hang up with the arguments that reduce this text to Paul addressing a culture-specific issue. His appeal to creation transcends cultural circumstances.

In 1 Tim 2:12-13, when Paul restricts the teaching authority in the church to qualified men, he appeals to the order of creation. This is a key to understanding why he restricts this to men. He sees this distinction (that there are functional differences between men and women) as part of God’s good creational design. The difference between whether one is a complementarian or an egalitarian often comes down to a simple question: do you believe gender role distinctions are a result of creation or the fall? If gender role distinctions are a result of creation, then those distinctions are part of God’s good design for how we function in the home and church. I.e. Distinctions = Good. If they are a result of the fall, then gender role distinctions are something which reflect brokenness and from which we need to be redeemed (which egalitarians view as part of what Christ accomplishes - a “leveling out” of gender distinctions). I.e. Distinctions = Bad. To put a fine point on it: are gender distinctions a design or a distortion, a feature or a bug? By appealing to creation as a grounds for his argument in v 13, Paul clearly puts gender role distinctions in the category of a creational good. To try to explain this away because it may be out of step with the times is to “kick against the goads” of God’s good design, something which will distort God’s creational distinctions for men and women. God’s design for ALL things, including gender roles, is GOOD. Our responsibility as believers is cheerfully to live under the authority of God’s good design in every area of our lives.

@GeorgeStoia But that’s exactly what Baker would say🧐🤔😂

"I’m not trying to be Baker. He’s great. I’m honored. It’s no disrespect to him. We have the same toughness and passion for the game, so I get it, but I have my own style. And like Baker, I embrace the community and I embrace my teammates and I embrace the tradition at OU."

@CaldwellKeegan Lol was it you on the receiving end?😂

Having sat under Dr. Arbo’s teaching in several courses, this is laughable. Screamed? Into a student’s face? Not a chance 😂

@LeeBensonTweets So often on the ball handler too

It’s stunning how poor NBA players can be at setting screens. You literally just plant your feet and don’t move. If you miss, you miss— so what. Not worth committing a dumb foul over.

@Kbrock1298 Everything is between the ears for this team!

@ZEvans_7 This is more like it. Gotta keep it up one more half.

Never been more happy to be wrong! At least for the moment

@jonscott21 That’s a dude that knows exactly what his job is and executes it to the max. Such a good pick up

Alex Caruso the real MVP

Find the guys that are locked in and don’t go away from them. Cason, Caruso, Wiggins look ready. Dub and Dort do not. #ThunderUp

@jdgreear @howertonjosh As a young pastor trying to take in different perspectives, would truly value a podcast episode of you two unpacking your perspectives biblically/theologically, pastorally, practically, etc.

Josh, love the questions you are asking here. I have 3 in response: 1. Specifically, ate there parts of 1 Peter’s counsel to the church that you feel are no longer applicable to the church today? IE Which are only for those in ‘exile’ situations? 2. Do you feel like Peter, in classifying his audience as exiles, was telling his particular audience that they could ignore those other teachings of Jesus that you referenced? 3. Which New Testament book do you feel like is written specifically to non-exiles with instructions for how they should go about things? If the imagery of first Peter is not applicable to everyone, which Epistle in the canon gives us the balance? 4. If we’re not always ‘exiles’ right now, are some of us living under the kingdom already? Are we no longer strangers and pilgrims? Who living today is no longer an exile? Is Satan no longer the prince of the power of the air 5. Is it possible to believe that we are all liviing in exile as an eschatological reality and still not say, “eh… who cares?” IOW, is it possible to believe we are exiles and still want to be salt and light to the kingdoms of this world? And to properly honor all the other teachings of Jesus you cited? I ask because I’ve always thought it helpful to preach Kuyper’s insights on the universal Lordship of Christ but let the fact that we’re exiles temper my expectations about what ‘kind’ of kingdom will be manifested in the secular governments of our era. in other words, I appreciate what you’re saying, but have trouble seeing how Peter’s identification of the ‘church living in exile’ was for a unique audience in a unique place. OK, I snuck in 2 more.

It's ok to use the Exiles / Babylon analogy for how Christians should relate to politics and culture, but... We must *not* isolate it to the exclusion of all other Biblical analogies for two reasons: 1) 1 Peter 1:1 (where analogy is applied to Xians) makes clear book is written to literal exiles from persecution. It is written to a specific situation, not meant to be a totalizing analogy. 2) There is much more in the NT about victory, being the salt of the earth, light in the darkness, leaven that works its way through the whole lump, discipling the nations, Caesar being required to submit to Jesus' Lordship, the church as a New Covenant Israel who are called to claim the nations rather than just the Promised Land, John The Baptist prophetically decrying the godlessness of political leaders, the Apostle Paul aggressively seeking to influence government officials, etc... ... than just the "exiles in Babylon" analogy to guide Christian political / cultural engagement. When the exiles / Babylon is isolated to the exclusion of all other analogies it produces a passivity that says, "Ehh, it's always gonna be Babylon, so why try to change it?" rather than Kuyper's "'There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ does not cry, 'Mine!'"

This has aged well

@JordanMHill23 He is unbearable lol

Can’t stand Draymond.