Brian @3mphfollower

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This interview with Ben Sasse is outstanding. Scott Pelley asks him about reformed theology and the belief that God ordains everything. Sasse responds: “I hate cancer. But I'm also grateful for it, I tell a lot more truth to myself than I used to do it when I thought I was super omni-competent and interesting.”

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Kim R. Holmes @kimsmithholmes

4 months ago

A lot of people are asking why more politicians are not like Ben Sasse. Because voters will not elect them, that’s why. They may say they care about character, but most don’t vote that way. Instead they vote party line, ideology, self-interest, or out of pique against a perceived enemy. How can we expect our leaders to embody higher levels of virtue if a majority of voters don’t make personal character a red line? It looks like we get the leaders we deserve.

Judge Stephen Dillard @JudgeDillard

4 months ago

Every American should watch every second of this video. Thank you, @BenSasse.

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Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst

4 months ago

“My cancer diagnosis is a touch of grace, because it forces me to tell the truth.” —@BenSasse on @60Minutes

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Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty

7 months ago

Joni Eareckson Tada in 2004 explaining to Larry King how she went from wanting to die to asking God to show her how to live…

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Collin Hansen @collinhansen

8 months ago

Thank you @BenSasse for being a role model in public and private. I've learned as much from you as anyone else during some dark days during the last decade. May the Lord bless you and keep you. thegospelcoalition.org/video/ben-sass…

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Ben Sasse @BenSasse

8 months ago

Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do. I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet. Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective: “When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.” I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9). With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices, Ben — and the Sasses

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Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments

a year ago

This is absolute CHAOS. This is why you should thank the coach’s and volunteers…

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The Culturist @the_culturist_

a year ago

Reminder: Tolkien hated Disney. He called them "hopelessly corrupted" and knew they'd ruin any story they touched. Why? Tolkien's storytelling philosophy was profoundly different… (thread) 🧵

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TigerNet.com @ClemsonTigerNet

2 years ago

77-yard rushing TD for the Longhorns to answer and it's 38-24 Texas with 10:48 to go. tigernet.com/clemson-forum/…

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Mark Richt @MarkRicht

5 years ago

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Cut4 @Cut4

5 years ago

you can't stop the Sho, but Nestor Cortes found a way to contain him. 🤣

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Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc

5 years ago

This long tweet 🧵 is mainly for my PCA colleagues who are meeting at our denominational assembly. As we gather, I believe it is wrong to dismiss the concerns of “conservatives” in the PCA [quote marks because the whole PCA is very conservative] who want to be vigilant 1/7

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RUFI Clemson @RUFI_Clemson

6 years ago

PICASSO and PIZZA event a week away! Just a hand full of spots left and you will be sad to miss this one! If you are able to sign up don't wait. When: Saturday Night 7:00pm Where: Jitter's Coffee Shop in Central Sign up at the link below! forms.gle/Dp7ag3pLPmcFET…

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Brian @3mphfollower

6 years ago

RUF-I CLEMSON UPDATE - mailchi.mp/6dfda0ffc78c/r…

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Brian @3mphfollower

6 years ago

@blake_spannn Assuming you are in the RV--You should swing by Clemson on your way back to the M!

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Brian @3mphfollower

6 years ago

@Team_Penske It was 2013 and @bkrweb had the honor of being in a commercial with our @WKUBigRed. We need your help putting him back up on top! Can we get some retreats and votes!