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Piney Woods Football Clinic Registration is Open!
Sunday, 13th August 2023 - 6:40AM
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David Smoak's Week 5 Statewide HSFB Podcast (South Oak Cliff/Troup Featured)
Friday, 16th December 2022 - 6:19PM
Here is Week 5 with some historical date and a look back at the best wins in Week 4, best games coming up on Week 5.

Also, we feature defending state champion South Oak Cliff and the Troup head coach Sam Wells on the emotional roller coaster his program has experienced with the injury to junior linebacker Cooper Reid.

Week 5 Statewide H.S. Football Podcast.
Week 2 Smoaky's H.S. Football Podcast...
Friday, 16th December 2022 - 6:19PM
Here is our Week 2 Texas H.S. Football Podcast featuring Carthage, North Shore and one of the Godfathers of keeping the history of high school football in Texas intact, Joe Lee Smith.

Plus, an historical nugget or two, answering a question from a viewer of the show and member of Smoaky.com and finally, the "Elite Games of the Week" and the games we use each week here for Bubba's 33 Pick 'Em Contest.

Smoaky's Week 2 HSFB Podcast.
Smoaky's Week 10 Texas H.S. Football Podcast featuring DeSoto vs. Duncanville, best Week 9 wins, best Week 10 games and historical data.
Friday, 16th December 2022 - 6:18PM
Week 10 Podcast.

This week we feature the DeSoto vs. Duncanville showdown including interviews with Claude Mathis and Reggie Samples. Plus, the best wins from Week 9, additional great match-ups for Week 10 and some historical data of interest include discussion on mascots.

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Smoaky
***Dennis Alexander to be inducted into Texas H.S. Football Hall of Fame***
Friday, 16th December 2022 - 6:18PM
Dennis Alexander, who this past summer was inducted in the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor will also be inducted into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame on May 6, 2023.

Alexander told David Smoak, "A coach like anyone in their respective profession is always happy to be honored because it usually means you were successful and I'm extremely proud. But, this is about so much more than me, it's about the others who contributed during my career including all of my assistant coaches and players along the way and of course my family."

Alexander, who won two state championships at Daingerfield in 1983 and 1985 is one of eleven coaches in Texas high school football history to win 300 or more games during his career at Hughes Springs, Daingerfield, Henderson, Harleton and Troup. Alexander ended his career 340-140-11.

Daingerfield also played for the Class 3-A State Championship in 1984 but lost to Medina Valley. The 1983 Daingerfield state champions are regarded as perhaps the single-greatest team in state history with their 16-0 record and outscoring opponents 631-8, including fourteen shutouts and thirteen straight shutouts to end the season.

Alexander is a graduate of Kilgore High School and Rice University.
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Posted 2018-02-20 04:51:13, Post Count: 1819
Vol.XX No.VIII Pg.4
October 1983

No Works, No Law?

Robert F. Turner

I'm surprised that some brethren haven't started a "movement" in which they affirm their "freedom" from having to work; a "liberty" that allows them to do nothing. After all, didn't Christ himself say, "Work not for the food that perisheth..."? (Jo. 6:27).

And, how long will it be until we hear brethren questioning the need to be baptized and basing their contention upon 1 Cor. 1:17, "Christ sent me not to baptize..."?

Now most students would know how to answer anyone who seriously used these verses to teach such things. The emphasis in these texts isn't on the phrases after the word "not." Our Lord didn't teach "work not at all," but rather the need to be concerned about working for another type of "food" — "...but for the food which abideth unto eternal life." Nor did Paul say that baptism is unnecessary. He was emphasizing his work as an evangelist when he said, "...but to preach the gospel."

It is strange, therefore, to hear some brethren affirm their so-called "freedom" from law and works by citing "ye are not under law" (Rom. 6:14) and "not by works" (Tit. 3:5) in order to justify their claim. Why is it that some so easily see the misinterpretations of Jo. 6:27 and 1 Cor. 1:17 and then so badly misinterpret Paul's statements?

"Not under law" and "not by works" are not even the point of emphasis in these verses, much less a denial of law and works. The statements in both texts which follow the word "but" are what the writer is emphasizing: "...but under grace" and "...but according to his mercy." Just as working for food and being baptized were not being minimized, being "under law" and having "works" to do aren't being excluded either.

Under law? Certainly we are. But there is a difference between being under a system of law (and seeking justification by that law) and being "under law to Christ," (1 Cor. 9:21). It isn't law as such that Paul had in mind when he speaks of "the curse of the law," (Gal. 3:13), but a system requiring perfect obedience, (Gal. 3: 10-12). We are not under that kind of system but we are under law, for "...where there is no law, neither is there transgression" (Rom. 4:15).

Works to do? Yes. But there is a difference between works that are an attempt to earn salvation, and works that are an expression of faith and an attempt to do God's will. Rom. 4:45 illustrates this well. "Him that worketh" is not the man seeking to please God through obedience, but one seeking to work perfectly so that he can earn salvation, God owing it to him as a debt. "Him that worketh not" isn't one who does nothing, but one whose attempts at obeying God are imperfect.

Grace and mercy are needed as we submit ourselves to God's will or "law" for we imperfectly seek to do the "good works" we were "created in Christ Jesus" for (Eph. 2:10). It is this of which Paul speaks in Rom. 6:14 and Tit. 3:5.

David Smitherman

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Hughes Springs

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Posted 2023-12-23 05:25:12, Post Count: 38

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