Tim Shutes

The prevalence of the “don’t want to be disrespected, then win” crowd defending #Michigan is evidence of a much broader cultural trend of ongoing deconstruction of mores, especially those representative of restraint, respect and humility. It’s not a good trend.

@venturetwins Hex encoding doesn’t work

ChatGPT refuses to say the name “David Mayer,” and no one knows why. If you try to get it to write the name, the chat immediately ends. People have attempted all sorts of things - ciphers, riddles, tricks - and nothing works.

@NFLNotify Dominick Puni ✅

Is Bo Nix officially the rookie of the year leader after today’s ugly game by Jayden Daniels?

@Walmart Considering canceling our Walmart+ subscription after how we were treated in store today. Who can I talk to about this?corporate.walmart.com/policies

@pastoremase I'm grateful for your ministry

6 years ago I dealt with a ton of backlash concerning my book Woke Church which was a call to biblical justice in and thru the church. The amount of slander, videos and even whole conferences done, books written against me personally and the issues in this country was staggering. Nonchristians were very encouraging to me and many Christian’s were as well. I had Hebrew Israelites and other BRIC’s and folks from the conscious community saying they didn’t know black Christian’s call out racism in the church and this country. I called out the issues with both conservatives and liberals. I had those who were pastor associates doubting my salvation. Woke/conscious was a term used by blacks to speak of an awareness we all should have for the racism in this country and beyond. The left highjacked the term and the right defined it based on the left’s misuse of it. Over time I became disillusioned with spaces that I was in where the majority culture was arguing about CRT and politics and there being no such thing as systemic racism. I can’t be placed in a monolithic box. I’m pro-life and anti racism, I’m for the nuclear family and not for transgenderism. During this time I became very depressed being connected to majority cultured evangelical circles. So I pulled out of all of them. It was hard at first, but ever since then, as I’ve focused on the mission God has given His church and the assignment that God has for me, I feel like I’m so in the will of God. I didn’t deconstruct, but I was depressed, I didn’t abandon the faith, but I sought to abound in gospel clarity and commitment. I was going thru a storm of spiritual warfare on every level of my life. Church, family, relationships and personally. I even found out that a witch coven had made it their assignment to specifically assign demons to me and my family to torment me and destroy me in very specific ways. I was suicidal in secret. And begged the Lord to help me stay here for my kids, my wife and His glory. I went into counseling, told my closest friends, wife, and church. Got the help I needed. And God renewed me. I’ve watched so many of my brothers and sisters whom I love dearly leave the faith over the last 4yrs. Im still here by the grace of God and my resolve is ever clearer than ever for YHWH AND HIS glory! Yeshua will get the glory, all of it! I’m convinced that we are in the last days. Idk why I’m posting this, but just felt led to. Maybe it’s for just one person that needs to hear this. God loves you and so do I! Hold fast.

@dougponder I find it ironic because usually people posting go through a couple stages of realization. Stage 1: Trump must have cheated and not counted millions of democratic votes. Stage 2: Wait, it looks more like Biden cheated if you stare at it.

@dougponder An ironic form of denial I've seen is the "where are all the missing votes?" posts, along with the #TrumpCheated hashtag. They usually have this very misleading graph (note the truncated y-axis). Simple answer: 17M still outstanding. Good breakdown here: x.com/JaredWalczak/s…

I've noticed that many Democratic voters and Never Trumpers have been moving (at various speeds) through something like the Kübler-Ross stages of grief following Trump's re-election. Some thoughts on this trend and what it likely means for conservatives in the future 🧵👇🏻

@dougponder this 2 minute take was so cogent

👆🏻 “I also feel like this election. . . is something of an indictment of the political information complex. We've been sitting around here for the last couple of weeks, and the story that was portrayed was not true.”

“[This was] the revenge of the regular ol’ working class American. . . who has been crushed, insulted, condescended to. They’re not garbage; they’re not Nazis. They’re just regular people who get up and go to work every day and are trying to make a better life for their kids.”

@drantbradley The impulse to immediately doubt the statistic and assume that Catholic Priests had a higher % / per capita was very revealing. The receipts show the opposite (public school had higher % of both students and employees involved in abuse)

The silence on this is extraordinary.

@derekradney I think this conversation may be confusing matters of degree and substance. There's an autonomous authority somewhere. The PCA places that authority between the local church elders and Christ. By your definition, the General Assembly is an autonomous church.

More than their rejection of infant baptism, I find the Baptist's rejection of connectionalism in favor of congregational autonomy to be not only wrong but verging on scandalous and schismatic in that it controvenes our unity in Christ and the catholicity of the church. Just as true Christians may not (ordinarily) remain outside the visible church, so also churches may not (ordinarily) remain autonomous but will connect with other churches in confessing the faith, accountability, ordination, and mission.

I love preaching rotations, but reject the reasoning here. I've sat under leaders who preach a faithful diet of Christ-centered expository sermons week in and week out. It beats "powerful inspiration" significantly over time.

@IVMiles @grimkeseminary Ethics class was 🔥

Genuinely curious; do any "evangelical" or "evangelical"-adjacent seminaries have a category for--much less classes on--natural theology?

@JL_Chapman not the right tactical play in that situation right? it works out, but a significant chance you go up 8 with 40-ish seconds left

Isaac G with the vet slide!!!

@S_U_Network Def top dog is @fred_warner #FTTB

Without googling, can you name a famous Fred?

@Ike58Reese and now you know

Niners fans, Purdy is healthy & you’re at home.

@Mcclainseanm @getnickwright you know that throw would have been a PI had it not been caught. Flag already thrown. Not sure the game was that effected by the 3 extra yards

@getnickwright Purdy played great in the 4th quarter but he got super super lucky with that one throw in the 3rd that turned the game. Still credit is where credit is due. He took advantage of the luck and got his team to come back and win. Better to be lucky than good.

Credit where it’s absolutely due: Purdy’s scrambling this half has been tremendous.

@chrissantosss_ blocked and reported

"Christ's command means that we all should be devoting all our resources of ingenuity and enterprise to the task of making the gospel known in every possible way to every possible person." ~ J. I. Packer esv.org/verses/Matthew…

"There is no viable 3rd party vote in our system" "Why?" "Because everyone believes there is no viable 3rd party vote in our system" 🔁

@GarciaTalks Story will be if Lions can run. Mismatch there vs. Niner D. D-line has been good all season and will pressure Goff. He'll get the full treatment unlike the mobile "set the edge" focus (no stunts, etc) given to Love. Still, 18 pressures & forced INT's. x.com/akashanav/stat…

@GarciaTalks Counterpoint: Niners match up great against Lions. Niners O vs Lions D = biggest mismatch on the field. Niners D stuffs run, shuts down TE's & receiving RBs. What metric has Goff > Purdy? Niner D vulnerable vs mobile QBs w/ multiple great WR's. Lions have neither.

The Lions are a mismatch disaster for the 49ers after what we saw from both teams this weekend.