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williamcolle retweeted
So I guess we are back to Negative World.
Here’s my response: Disciple more men. More Christian marriages. More Christian Dads and Moms. More Christian children. More Christian churches. More Christian schools. More Christian-owned businesses. More Christians in politics & government. Dig in. Focus on your neighborhood. Preach the Word. Set an example. Do evangelism. Love your neighbors. Send missionaries to the nations.
Jesus Wins.
williamcolle retweeted
Most the churches/pastors in this great piece are Salt Network!
thegospelcoalition.org/artic…
williamcolle retweeted
Couple of things that upset me about this
A) it’s not holding. He chops his arm down and he lost his balance
B) this is very important. Holding is only supposed to be called if it could effect the play. The DE is double teamed and the ball is gone at the time of the “holding”. He’s nowhere near the QB.
Just an all time bad call. It’s an official looking to be part of the game.
williamcolle retweeted
Can we please get the soft porn ads off playoff broadcasts, TBS, Fox, NBC, @MLB? My son wants to watch baseball with Dada, but how do I justify that when a half-naked women could come on screen anytime?? This is America’s Pastime. Parents shouldn’t have to worry about this.
Hey @MLB - wanna get more kids watching baseball?
Maybe start with the commercials.
Watching the playoffs tonight with my kids and here's the rundown:
- Megan Fox selling ED pills in a red bodysuit
- The scariest movie trailer you've ever seen
- Sydney Sweeney in zero clothes promoting betting on sports
Leagues can't figure out why kids don't watch.
You don't need a Nickelodeon game. You're not the Savannah Bananas.
Just show baseball in a way I can leave on in my house.
williamcolle retweeted
Dominant offensive rebounding performance from Florida State freshman Marcis Ponder
The 7-0, 285 pound freshman was ultra dominant crashing the glass using his monster frame to bully Auburn’s frontcourt
Ponder had 13 points, 21 rebounds (12 offensive rebounds) 3 blocks, 83% at the line, in just 25 minutes
Brought tremendous effort on both ends, had better processing today, capable free throw shooter, draws a lot of contact and was a massive boost for Luke Loucks squad.
williamcolle retweeted
“That’s a lot” vs. “We won’t miss it.”
A powerful word for parents of teens. 🔥
williamcolle retweeted
This angle gets me, where he’s just kind of standing there soaking it in, then sees his daughter and smiles, then instantly melts into tears … whew. Hell of a run, 35.
williamcolle retweeted
"No group of Americans seems to be having more sex—and more satisfying sex—than married men & women who regularly attend a place of worship. In fact, we find the only Americans who have avoided the country’s “sex recession” are husbands & wives who attend religious services at least twice a month." ~ my latest @TheAtlantic w/ @grantjbailey
"In the popular imagination, religious faith and a thriving sex life don’t tend to go together. Movies, books, and TV shows depict religious couples as sexually inhibited or dysfunctional. But the data tell a different story." @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0… @FamStudies
williamcolle retweeted
I can’t even have College Gameday on in the background while I hang out with my kids on Saturday morning anymore. Lost count of the number of curse words Pat has let out in the first 5 minutes of the show. Ridiculous and unnecessary for a show I used to love so much.
williamcolle retweeted
This morning I got a text from one of my college roommates. After a short stint in the MLB, he went on to become a school administrator & lay elder at his church. This morning, his oldest child who went away for her freshman year attended a new church. He asked me if I knew it…
williamcolle retweeted
I knew about Flight 93 - the other plane hijacked on 9/11, whose passengers stormed the cockpit and crashed the plane into a field rather than allow it to be used in another attack.
But I didn’t know that two fighter pilots - including 26yo Heather Penney, chosen alongside squadron leader Marc Sasseville because she happened to be already suited up and ready to go - had scrambled to their jets with no time to load weapons, intending to ram the passenger plane. A suicide mission, and one that would also have meant killing a whole plane full of civilians. They didn’t have to because those civilians did it for them. What incredible bravery and resolve.
On 9/11, the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 stormed the cockpit, forcing the hijacked jet to crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
But before the world knew of their bravery, members of Washington, D.C.’s Air National Guard were prepared to make their own sacrifice.
@nickschifrin shares the story of pilot Heather "Lucky" Penney.
williamcolle retweeted
This is correct. There is no obsequious devotion to Trump in particular. This thesis reinforces something I have written about at length: Biblical Christianity has structural resonances that code, today, on the political right. That's circumstantial, not permanent. To put it differently, the Bible is simply not a Leftist manifesto by Leftist accounts. Some would dispute that, but if Scripture addresses the nature of morality, moral responsibility, creation order, the scope and limits of government, and a particular account of flourishing, then by sheer circumstances of the current moment, people will vote accordingly where such views concentrate or are at least treated with greater hospitality. Now, that could change over time as labels and parties shift. When a political party more closely aligns with the source of authority that guides a people's moral outlook, it should not be surprising that vote density clusters around that party. If you want to challenge my thesis or wish for a less partisan version of Christianity, the way forward would be for the modern Left to abandon its attack on the most rudimentary principles held dear in biblical Christianity—the good of religion, human dignity, the immutability of the sexes, and the family. If it did, I would expect a more dispersed political makeup. Until the modern Left ceases its attacks on Genesis 1-2, the constant hectoring of evangelicals as slavishly devoted to one party will continue to ring hollow. I do not vote for liberals because I am a conservative first; I do not vote for liberals because I view liberalism as more parasitic to historic, biblical Christianity than the alternative.
williamcolle retweeted
If it is true about the 1 male juror being a hold out in the Clancy case…
He is a hero, defender of children, life, basic morality, and is standing against the perceived inerrant therapeutic dogma of our age.
Whether he realizes it or not.
williamcolle retweeted
I hope you understand what needs to happen now.
Human beings are mimetic creatures. Whether we want to or not, we imitate what we see. Boys without fathers often become destructive men, because they were destroyed by his absence. Boys become admirable men by watching admirable men, beginning (ideally) with their own fathers.
Women are no different.
Right now, young women are consuming an endless stream of content designed to alienate them from marriage and motherhood. The dominant messages misdirect and distort their gloriously empathetic, nurturing, and protective instincts. Motherhood is presented as oppression. Children are burdens. Husbands are enemies. Female suffering is elevated and romanticized. Blurring the line between being honest about the challenges of mothering an infant and being virtuous for eliminating that infant.
We will not reason women out of a vision they absorbed through a thousand images. We will not scorn them into embracing something better.
They need to *see* a different version of womanhood and motherhood, one compelling enough to displace the materialistic, self-obsessed, “I am the victim” paradigm of modern femininity.
That begins with modeling a joyful home life for our own children, so our daughters grow up knowing that their futures will become richer, not smaller, through marriage and children.
It expands to the other girls in our orbit. My daughters have had a deep bench of female role models at church: women of different ages, talents, temperaments, and family sizes who remained faithful to their husbands and delighted in their one child or their eight children. None were doormats. All partnered with their husbands to forge their own little societies in the middle of a hostile city.
And then we have to go after the online girls: the ones we may never meet, but whose imaginations are being discipled by Instagram divorce porn, “wine o’clock” mothers, and women who cannot wait to escape their husbands and children for the weekend.
It is not enough to tell young women what to reject. It is not enough to warn them against the narcissistic, shallow vision of female life being sold to them.
We have to give them a (more beautiful) alternative to copy.
williamcolle retweeted
100 Yards with FSU Football’s Micahi Danzy at Doak.
Watch to get to know the man behind the uniform, and see who wins in a 100-yard sprint on Bobby Bowden Field 👀
(Yes, he gave me a healthy head start.)
williamcolle retweeted
Discernment is like an immune system. You'll die if yours stops working and won't attack disease, but you'll also die if it starts overworking and thinks everything is a disease.
- Tranwei Yu
williamcolle retweeted
We opted out. Here to testify that my kids missed no growth opportunity, gained 1000’s of hours together as a family (many of them in church), and are all wonderful contributing adults. The clear cost is the💰, but the killer cost is the ⏰. We were unwilling to part with either.
‘Travel sports,’ a term that has come to encompass all sorts of private teams, leagues, and clubs, used to be for the truly exceptional young athlete. Now, they’re for anyone willing to pay — an expensive, exhausting commitment that has become popular not necessarily because millions of parents want them for their children but because it can feel like there’s no other choice. Rec programs are underfunded and struggle to compete with for-profit leagues for prime field, rink, and court times. And the level of play is diluted, often very early, as travel teams are incentivized to enroll children at young ages.
Around 5 million children in the U.S. now compete on travel teams. Parents find themselves trapped. They know the benefits of sports and want that for their children, yet giving it to them often means buying into a sports ecosystem that’s inherently flawed. As the pay-to-play model increasingly takes hold, so does the idea that kids should start competing at younger and younger ages, risking their sense of self along with their shoulders and ACLs.
“I never want my kids to look back and say I didn’t do everything I could to help them live their dreams,” a mother of three soccer players said. She’s hired professional photographers to take action shots for her 12- and 13-year-olds’ Instagram accounts — the platform has become a recruiting tool — and they’ve both asked her to pay for personal trainers.
“I think the word isn’t ‘specialize’; you are ‘professionalizing’ your kid early. You are exposing them to everything professionals have to deal with — I’m talking injury, time, schedule, everything,” said John Van Benschoten, a former MLB player and travel-baseball coach.
It makes one ask: All this for what? And for whom? Read Caitlin Moscatello’s cover story on how travel leagues have made youth sports more expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming — and the investors who are making a killing: nymag.visitlink.me/1-gbZQ
