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Peter was not some random on a street corner in the year of our lord 2025 with a sign. The answer is no, it doesn’t work today and never has in modern times. You could argue that it’s had the opposite effect based on sharp declines in reported numbers of practicing Christians.

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Peter wasn’t some elite religious figure giving a polished talk— he was a fisherman whom Jesus called to preach the Gospel. There was nothing inherently special about Peter himself. He was simply a man filled with the Holy Spirit. What mattered was the message he preached: Repent and Believe upon Jesus Christ. That is what converted people on the day of Pentecost, not Peter’s status, credentials, or cultural moment. And let’s be clear: Peter himself was nothing special. This is the same man who denied Jesus three times out of fear. If effectiveness depended on the charisma, résumé, or social status of the preacher, Peter would have been the last candidate to see three thousand people converted in a single day.

The point is that God uses ordinary, flawed, fearful men to proclaim an extraordinary message. The power is not in the preacher — it’s in the Gospel itself. That’s why mocking the person or their method misses the point entirely. God has always chosen “the weak things of the world to shame the strong” (1 Corinthians 1:27), and He delights in using imperfect vessels so that the power is clearly His. If there was something special about Peter then God would not receive all the glory.

If people aren’t being converted in modern times, maybe the issue isn’t that preaching “doesn’t work,” but that much of what passes for preaching today isn’t the Gospel at all. When pulpits are filled with “your best life now,” self-help, country club membership, after school programs and social gospels, it’s no wonder there’s a decline. That’s a far better explanation than pretending God’s ordained means of salvation suddenly stopped being effective in the 21st century.

Scripture tells us exactly how God brings people to faith:

Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? … How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace… 17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

God’s method hasn’t changed. He the same yesterday, today and forever. Faith comes by hearing the preached Word — not by marketing trends, not by cultural relevance, and not by watering the message down.

So yes, the preaching of the Gospel still “works,” because God is the one who makes His Word effective. The decline in Christianity says more about the decline in faithful preaching than it does about God’s chosen means.

People hate this kind of preaching because it exposes what they’d rather keep hidden. Scripture says plainly that the natural response to the Gospel is hostility, not applause. Jesus Himself said:

“Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:19)

Street preaching, open proclamation, and calls to repentance shine that light in a very public way. That’s exactly why it makes people uncomfortable. It confronts sin directly instead of flattering the ego or blending into the culture.

Mocking the preacher doesn’t refute the message — it simply reveals the heart’s reaction to the light. People love darkness, and the Gospel drags the darkness into the light.

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He called 45 pass plays versus 9 runs.

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And three of those runs were on the first series of the game. The first two put us in third and short. And he then called a jet sweep concept with Brooks which went no where. So one-third of the run plays in the game were early in the game. He clearly abondoned the run.

In Seattle Kenneth Walker has a career low 3.7 yards per carry with Gubb as OC. Walker normally averages 4.6 yards per carry (4.6 - 2025, 4.1 - 2023 and 4.6 - 2022). MacDonald clearly wanted a better running game and fired Grubb after last season.

Here are some quotes from the Seattle Seahawks... Unfortunately we've seen this in action.


Disillusioned and Incompatible: Inside Seahawks Decision to Fire Ryan Grubb

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"He thought he was facing Stanford or something," a team source remarked, harkening back to his time dominating Pac-12 competition. "His confidence in his quarterback wasn't misguided, but he took one of our best players out of the game with his own stubbornness."

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By the time New York iced the game with a blocked field goal returned for a touchdown in the closing moments, Smith had dropped back to throw 47 times while Walker had a total of five carries for 19 yards and Seattle had ran the ball a total of seven times with running backs. Completely abandoning the run game in a close contest, Grubb called pass plays on a stunning 87 percent of the team's snaps, leading to Smith being sacked seven times.

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Sounds very much like what you posted above.

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Well let me tell you about the team DeBoer inherited at Washington and what he did with it. He even embarrassed a team that blew Saban out at home...

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Honest question then — if that’s the standard, explain what’s happened at Alabama:

Lost to Vanderbilt.

Lost to Oklahoma twice when it actually mattered.

Lost to Florida State after a full offseason to prepare.

Lost to a Michigan team missing a huge chunk of its roster in the bowl game.

People love pointing out that he’s 2–0 vs Lanning, 2–0 vs Sark, and 2–1 vs Kirby. Fine. But that doesn’t change the reality that he has underperformed in his first two seasons at Alabama relative to expectations and the talent on hand.

And anyone who watched Washington in 2023 knows they weren’t some flawless juggernaut. They struggled with Arizona, Oregon State, and Washington State, among others. That’s not slander — it’s just saying fans should expect closer games than they’re used to, because that’s how his teams have played historically.

I never said Washington’s 2023 offense wasn’t elite overall. It was. But they were also the 106th-ranked rushing attack, averaging just 118 yards per game — and that was across 15 games to get to those 1,700+ total rushing yards. That’s the definition of a pass-first offense. The run game was clearly secondary, and when your offense leans that heavily on the quarterback, it’s absolutely fair to call the rushing attack sub-par.

None of this means DeBoer is a bad coach. It just means the pattern is real, and Alabama fans shouldn’t be shocked when the run game struggles — and the game margins are close and some don't go the way we expect.

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At least let the dude get his players in first

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That's such an excuse... he inherited a more talented team than Curt Cignetti did at IU. And IU just won the Big 10 in year 2 and will be the #1 ranked team tomorrow. Instead we are relying on a committee to let us in the back door again this year.

Go look at CKD and Grubbs historical rushing stats at Washington and Fresno St. They are pass first. And their offense is what you see. They are usually towards the bottom of the NCAA in yards per game and yards per carry. This isn't just we don't have a good OL or group of RBs. And yes, I know this is probably the weakest RB room since the days of Ken Darby. And the OL is as bad as anything Bucket Step Bob put on the field.

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Excuses dude thata all this is

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The same thing(s) win, that always won... And we just have a different bunch of excuses if we lose.

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Was the bomb threat in the studio that Glenn Beck was broadcasting from? Yes or No?

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Yes, he was broadcasting were the bomb threat was, i.e. Charlie Kirk's studio.

That video is from 2020. So a little old.

Evil and sick… what a perverse world we live in. When you think you couldn't dislike the media any more. This kind of reporting normalizes violence and is utterly perverse. Touching, loving and intimate. :yack: :yack: :yack:

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God say that there is none who are good. Sin permeates all, and while not everyone is as bad as they could be, there are no "good" people according to God's perfect standard.

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While I agree that none are good. I believe most of these individuals are closer to the reprobates that are defined in Romans 1. These individuals take pleasure in evil and celebrate their deviance.

Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

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Light can can’t dwell with darkness - separation has to happen or we won’t survive

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Scripture clearly states that we have to seperate from the evil that celebrates the death of someone like Charlie Kirk, or those who believe men can become women, or we can kill the unborn. They are the agents of evil. Our only hope in seeing a change in their beliefs is to offer them the Gospel and hope that they repent. Unfortunately Charlie Kirk tried to offer them the Gospel and they murdered him.

2 Corinthians 6
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

It’s not just the last three years. If you go back to Fresno State in 2021, the pattern continues. In fact, some programs actually showed better discipline both before and after CKD's tenure, which makes questioning the emphasis on discipline entirely fair.

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Washington:
2024: 73th - 5.8 penalties - 51.8 yards per game
*2023: 127th - 7.5 penalties - 68.6 yards per game
*2022: 100th - 6.8 penalties - 60.5 yards per game
2021: 11th - 4.3 penalties - 39.5 yards per game
2020: 18th - 5.3 penalties - 40.5 yards per game

Fresno St
2022: 16th - 4.5 penalties - 40.1 yards per game
*2021: 122th - 7.6 penalties - 71.2 yards per game
*2020: 34th - 5.3 penalties - 45.3 yards per game
2019: 67th - 6.3 penalties - 52.8 yards per game

Alabama:
*2025: 113th - 8.0 penalties - 70.0 yards per game
*2024: 123th - 7.3 penalties - 69.1 yards per game
2023: 50th - 5.6 penalties - 46.8 yards per game
2022: 123th - 7.9 penalties - 68.7 yards per game


“There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.” - Coach Saban.

“There is only one kind of discipline, and that is the perfect discipline. As a leader, you must enforce and maintain that discipline; otherwise, you will fail.” -- Vince Lombardi