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@ShashiJairam Listening to Cousins talk ball versus Geno is worlds apart. Good move by the Raiders.

Biggest Takeaway: If you plan on drafting a QB early, you better get an offensive minded HC...to minimize offensive transitions.

@allgood122172 @FootballCravee There is no such thing as neutrality.

@FootballCravee “Clubs must be neutral” Celebrating the gays isn’t neutrality

On March 31st the NFL released a memo to all 32-teams concerning Jayden Ivey, TreVeyon Henderson and club social media policy. Religious imagery or language that could be perceived as antithetical to the NFL’s stance on LGBTQIA+ & Pride is strictly prohibited. Christianity, the Cross and the Resurrection were specifically named.

@JustBlogBaby He can play and he knows the game. Feel bad for AOC. He is a team player and did everything asked of him in impossible situations.

#RaiderNation How do we feel about the Kirk Cousins signing?

March 29, 2026 In light of the House of Commons passing third reading and adoption of Bill C-9, Boniface Presbytery of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches makes the following statement. Until Bill C-9, the Criminal Code of Canada recognized a good-faith religious-speech defence, which protected religious leaders who, in the course of their duties, taught from Scripture on matters of morality. That protection has now been stripped away. Under this bill, a pastor who reads Romans 1 from the pulpit and applies it to his congregation could, in principle, face criminal prosecution. Religious leaders across the country have raised the alarm, and they are right to do so. The Bible is not hate literature. It is a love letter. The movement of Scripture, from creation to fall to redemption to consummation, is the story of a God who refuses to abandon the creatures he has made. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him” (John 3:16–17). That is the point of the entire Bible. God made the world. God loves the world. God entered the world to rescue it. If that is hatred, then the word has lost all meaning. Yes, the Bible identifies a problem. The problem is sin. God created the earth as a home for man, a place of beauty, order, worship, and communion. He placed Adam in the garden, gave him a mission, gave him a bride, and walked with him in the cool of the day. And man rebelled. We hated God. We sought to remove him from his throne and seat ourselves upon it. We wanted autonomy, self-rule, the right to define good and evil on our own terms. The consequence of that rebellion is death. “The wages of sin is death” (Rom 6:23). This is not the language of hatred. It is a diagnosis. A doctor who tells you that you have cancer is not expressing hostility toward you. He is telling you the truth so that you might seek treatment. But God. Those two words are the hinge of all history. We rebelled, but God did not leave us in our rebellion. He sent his Son into the world to rescue us from ourselves. Christ took on human flesh, lived the life we could not live, died the death we deserved to die, and rose again so that we might live in communion with the Father forever. “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ” (Eph 2:4–5). The gospel is the announcement that the God we hated has loved us anyway, and that he offers life to everyone who will receive it. And that means repentance. The gospel calls men, women, and children to turn from their sin and trust in Christ. This is where the accusation of hatred always lands, because repentance requires that we name sin as sin. The modern world can tolerate a God who affirms and validates sin. It cannot tolerate a God who says, “You are wrong, you must turn around and forsake your sin.” But a God who never corrects is a God who does not love. “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives” (Heb 12:6). The call to repentance is the most loving thing the church can speak to a dying and dead world, because it is the only message that leads to life. Herod understood this, and he hated it. John the Baptist told Herod plainly, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife” (Mark 6:18). John was not promoting hatred against Herod. He was expressing the love of God to Herod, telling the king the truth about his sin so that the king might repent and live. Herod had a choice: receive the word and repent, or silence the messenger. He silenced the messenger. He had John arrested and beheaded because he preferred his sin over God. He preferred death over life. He preferred hatred over love. But the world called John the hater and Herod the victim. The pattern has repeated itself across the centuries. The church speaks, the world rages, and the church is accused of hatred. The real haters, of course, are those who love their sin more than they love God, who prefer the darkness to the light, suppress the lovers of life and congratulate themselves for their tolerance. Jeremiah was thrown into a pit. Jesus was crucified. Stephen was stoned. Paul was beaten, imprisoned, and beheaded. In every generation, the messengers of life are accused of hatred by the enemies of life. The accusation is not new. People can and do misread the Bible. Every heresy in the history of the church has claimed biblical warrant. Men have twisted Scripture to justify tyranny, hatred, and every kind of evil. We grant all of this freely. But the problem of misinterpretation lies with the reader, not with the text. A man who reads the Bible and concludes that it authorizes him to hate his neighbour has not understood the Bible. He has contradicted it. “You shall love your neighbour as yourself” (Matt 22:39) is not ambiguous. You do not ban the book because some readers are fools. You do not criminalize the message because some messengers are frauds. Let me state the obvious: the church rejects hatred, intimidation, and violence against any person, as those terms have been traditionally and rightly defined. Every human being is made in the image of God (Gen 1:27), and that fact confers a dignity that no parliament can grant and no parliament may rescind. We affirm without reservation that all people are to be treated with the dignity that belongs to them as God’s image-bearers. The preaching of repentance does not contradict this affirmation. It flows from it. Precisely because every human being bears the image of God, the church owes him the truth about his sin and the remedy God has provided for it. To withhold that truth is not love, but hatred. The Bible is not hate literature. It is the only book in the world that tells you the truth about your condition and offers you a remedy in the same breath. “You are a sinner,” and “God loves you and sent his Son to save you from your sin.” That is not hatred. That is grace. The real hatred is the spirit that suppresses this message, that would rather let men perish in their sins than permit someone to call them to repentance. The real hatred calls love a crime and calls repentance an offence. Should Bill C-9 ever be used against a Christian who loves his neighbour enough to tell him the truth, the state will not have punished hatred. It will have committed it. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees freedom of conscience and religion, freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression (s. 2). These are not privileges the state extends at its discretion. They are fundamental freedoms, recognized as belonging to every Canadian. Bill C-9 contravenes both the word and the spirit of the Charter. A law that exposes faithful Christian teaching to criminal sanction does not protect anyone. It suppresses the free exercise of religion in precisely the manner the Charter was written to prevent. The church that preaches God’s Word must receive the state’s protection, as the Belgic Confession (1561) rightly declares: Their task of restraining and sustaining is not limited to the public order but includes the protection of the church and its ministry in order that all idolatry and false worship may be removed and prevented; that the kingdom of antichrist may be destroyed and the kingdom of Christ promoted. They must, therefore, countenance the preaching of the word of the Gospel everywhere, that God may be honoured and worshipped by everyone, as he commands in his Word. Consequently, Boniface Presbytery calls upon all leaders in Canada, whether elected or appointed, whether legislative, judicial, or executive, whether local or national, to defend the preaching of the Word of God everywhere. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Rev. Garry Vanderveen Presiding Minister, Boniface Presbytery

@thejoezaza It doesn't need a sequel.

Yes, but with a black trans character as the lead, am I right?

The #Raiders are reportedly a dark horse candidate to land WR Tyreek Hill Hill is 32 and recovering from a devastating knee injury that will most likely sideline him until late 2026 Wouldn’t love this, #RaiderNation whats your thoughts?

@jesus_is_issue @bridgeswisdom Unmerited means not deserved, not earned by one’s actions or worth...focus is on God, not performance. We aren't called to quietism nor pietism alone. We're called to know God is the source of grace, walk worthy, & work out the salvation we already possess. Phil 2:12-13 Both/And

JESUS — Grace Is God’s Very Life in You Grace isn’t only “unmerited favor to folks who deserve wrath.” That still keeps our eyes on us … what we did or didn’t do. It leaves us relating to God on performance. Grace is deeper. Grace is God Himself… available right now, active in us. It is His being, not a plan or a handout. Jesus lives His life through us by the Spirit. We don’t earn it. We don’t lose it. We simply receive Him. On good days or bad, the issue stays the same. Are we living from Christ’s life in us… or from our own effort? Jesus is the issue here. Grace isn’t a favor we hope for; it’s Christ in you, moment by moment, no matter the day.

Both have forgotten the meaning of grace — God's unmerited favor to those who deserve only His wrath.

@Fred_Butler Costco employees don't want scan and go. You need less of them. When I go to Sam's I only interact with one employee at the exit door. 10% of Costco is Teamsters. They will never go for it.

Sam's Club has had scan and go for years. Download app. Tether credit card you wish to use to account. Scan the products as you put them in your cart. QR code created so the door checker can verify. Costco has actively resisted this improvement.

@ShashiJairam @ThrillaRilla369 Get biblical on them: “If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account." Exodus 22:2

@ThrillaRilla369 What are you going to do? Ask them nicely in the dark? Pat them down to see if they're armed? Ask them nicely to stay away from knives in the kitchen? And ask them not to try to overpower you? And to take your valuable and leave nicely? Or to assault you gently and leave? 🤔

Even if an intruder is unarmed, should you still be allowed to shoot them for breaking into your house?..

If it's true our relationship with God is based on His grace instead of our performance, why are we so prone to fall into good-day-bad-day thinking? It's because we've relegated the gospel to the unbeliever.

As Passion Week approaches, download 13 devotional readings and Scripture meditations from 𝘞𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘸 highlighting Jesus' passion and resurrection (link below). Readings are for March 29–April 10.

'Pistol Pete' Maravich sharing his testimony of faith in Jesus Christ in 1987 less than one year before his death at the age of 40: "I want all of you to know this tonight about Peter Maravich. You may never have heard of me. It makes no difference. I'm just one person on this earth saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. I want you to know this, that the change that came into my life was Jesus Christ. It was not winning. I won all my life. I won every trophy, award, everything you can think of, but every time I won something, I wanted something more. I had to win again. It wasn't money, because money'll buy you everything but happiness. It'll pay your fare at every place but Heaven. Material things—I've driven everything some of you strive for from Rolls Royces to BMWs to Mercedes to Porsches. It wasn't religion because in the name of religion, Jesus Christ was placed upon that cross. And the purest thing about Christianity is the fact that it's your choice. You can't work. You can't earn. I knew that, and I understood it now. I want you to know this. The last thing I'd like to say is this, next week I'll be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I'll get that big ring. In fact, it's a bigger ring than I would have got for the championship, but I'll tell you something about all the awards. They all pale to the glory of Christ and what He's done in my life. It's amazing what He has done in my life. I wouldn't trade my position in Christ for a thousand NBA championships or a thousand Hall of Fame rings or for a hundred billion dollars. There's nothing like the joy of Jesus Christ in your life."

Just as our acceptance with God must come through the righteousness of Christ, so our power to live the Christian life must come from Christ as well. As Jesus indicated in John 15:5, we have no ability within ourselves to grow. All of the ability must come from Him.

@ShashiJairam If it wasn't the Raiders holding the 1 pick, this wouldn't be a discussion. Nothing but hate.

One ESPN guy covering for another ESPN guy. This isn't called lying season for nothing peeps.

@FB_FilmAnalysis If it was anyone but the Raiders with the 1 pick, there would be no discussion.

Seeing some Simpson QB1 chatter and there are some things that he does better than Mendoza but the question is who will develop into a better QB in the long run? Don’t think it’s close.

IMO-Ty Simpson is the best QB in this draft

Jonny Ardavanis responding to the question of whether a woman can teach from the pulpit of a church under the authority of her elders on a Sunday morning: "Well, listen, the Bible either says women can preach, or they cannot...I would just encourage people, you and I are not allowed to make arbitrary decisions and say, 'You know what, we think she can teach under our authority once a month.' A woman may be preaching under the authority of her elders, but she is most definitely not preaching under the authority of the New Testament, nor the Holy Spirit who wrote it... You may be asking, 'Would I leave a church that has a woman preaching, even if under the authority of her elders?' Yes, I would. Yes, I would. I would ask the elders to reconsider their position. I would present to them Scripture. And you may be asking, 'Why? What's the consequence of this?' Well, the consequence of this is just, it's disobedience. It's in the Bible. What's the consequence? Weak churches. And when men don't lead, churches die. And when churches break down, the culture breaks down, and you're watching this in our world today. Like in the garden, when you overthrow God's design for the family and for the church, there are disastrous consequences."

Chuck Norris held a 183-10-2 record and was a 6x world champion in full contact bare knuckle karate. On top of that, he beat heavyweight kickboxing world champion Joe Lewis 3 consecutive times and also had a brutal sparring match with undefeated kickboxing world champion, Bill Superfoot Wallace, that lasted an hour and a half. According to Wallace, they practically stalemated and "beat the crap out of each other". Chuck was trained in kickboxing/boxing by Benny The Jet Urquidez and was also trained in BJJ by the Gracies and Machados for 20 years. Even being able to submit Carlos Machado himself on occasion. Chuck had a 315 Ibs bench press at 180 lbs bodyweight and was said to have a grip back in the day that nobody could escape from because he was so strong. Even Jean Claude Van Damme said he'd never fight Chuck Norris, despite being a kickboxing world champion himself. Chuck held a 10th degree black belt in Chun Kuk Do, a 9th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, an 8th degree black belt in Taekwondo, a 5th degree black belt in Karate, a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a black belt in Judo. Rest in peace, Chuck!

@TexasPreacher Great opportunity to use the Law to bring a knowledge of sin and prick the conscience rather than address the intellect. A golden opportunity to preach the gospel. (Apologies if that had been done in an earlier portion). Keep preaching pastor!