Christa Stamper

Wife, mom of four, retired homeschool teacher, MAC student @WestminsterTS, halfway through my marathon and running on grace alone, Soli deo gloria

[Christa Stamper @ChristaStamper]

@newgrowthpress @BradHambrick I’ve read Navigating Destructive Relationships and I look forward to reading Growing after Trauma

[Chelsea Patterson Sobolik @ChelsPat]

"Some lines from Augustine that I first read my freshman year of college have come to mind almost every time I’ve seen Sasse in the media since his diagnosis.

The lines repeatedly cross my mind throughout our conversation—when Sasse tells me his scalp “itches like hell” from his chemotherapy; when he tells me how doctors described in detail how his body will shut down before he dies; when he tells me about his love for his wife and his children.

But I can’t bring myself to say them to Sasse.

I don’t want to tempt a dying man to respond with some self-effacing, untrue rebuttal, and I don’t want to cry in front of him.

“The same fire that makes gold shine makes chaff smoke,” Augustine wrote in City of God. “

What matters is the nature of the sufferer, not the nature of the sufferings.”

This piece by @McCormackJohn is well-worth you time.

I continue to be amazed at how @BenSasse is redeeming his time -- what an example to us all.

https://t.co/ugLzWGufZT

[John McCormack @McCormackJohn]

New: @BenSasse sits down for an interview with me at a bar in Manhattan.

We talked about many topics—from his childhood to politics to Heaven—and why his message about “redeeming the time” after his terminal cancer diagnosis is resonating with so many.

https://t.co/qTBhOjcnHv

[Christ and Counseling @ChristnCounsel]

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[Jason Kovacs @jasonkovacs]

The Christian life is a life of continual repentance:

"I am always going into the far country,
and always returning home as a prodigal,
always saying, “Father, forgive me,”
and you are always bringing forth the best robe."

- The Valley of Vision

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"There are no maverick molecules in the universe," says Ben Sasse. https://t.co/Tem7ihHlik

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[Christa Stamper @ChristaStamper]

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[CCEF @ccef]

Our upcoming teaching series on domestic abuse is now available for preorder at 10% off! For churches, that's $200 off. It’s our prayer that this teaching series equips local churches to see rightly, name precisely, and act wisely in situations of domestic abuse.

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[Sola Media @solamediaorg]

Ben Sasse:

“...and all of that dross will be gone. We are going to be around the table with our Lord, and he's going to be the center, and we're going to be sinless, and we're not going to be trying to put ourselves on the throne, because there'll be so much more joy for us in him being on the throne. And us, who would have been willing to be servants or slaves at that feast, we're going to be sons and daughters.”

@BenSasse

[Sola Media @solamediaorg]

Former Executive Editor of Modern Reformation @BenSasse sits down with his close friend @MichaelHorton_ to discuss his cancer diagnosis, the early years at Sola, and the hope of the gospel.

https://t.co/2X9mFs23hh

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

A standing ovation —in Europe!— for @SecRubio. Deserved. Very deserved. It is a wonderful speech, summoning our 250th birthday as the spine on which it is built. Listen to all 18 minutes and send to your families and friends. Every American can celebrate this.

[R. Scott Clark @RScottClark]

Jesus is the center of the story. He was prefigured by types and shadows but he was literally God and man, he literally obeyed in our place, he literally died on a literal cross, he was literally raised on the third day. He literally ascended on the third day. He's literally at the right hand of the Father and he's literally, bodily. returning to judge the living and the dead.

Figures? Matthew literally called Jesus the Israel who went to Egypt and came back up. Hebrews literally says that he died as our Melchizedekian high priest once for all, ending the Levitical system. John the Baptist literally called him the Lamb of God.

Reformed covenant theology is satisfied with Christ and his once for all death. We've nothing for which to apologize.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Reminder that after Charlie was viciously murdered, conservatives also formed large groups across the country… to pray

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Picture of one rugged individualist standing against the warmth of collectivism on June 5, 1989.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

How does he not know that “collectivism” killed more people than any idea in human history?

The Soviets murdered millions of “kulaks” (small land owning farmers) through starvation in 1932/33 to eradicate opposition to collectivism.

Mao’s 1958 Great Leap Forward killed up to 60 million people for the same reason: to eliminate small landowners and implement collectivism.

The Black Book on Communism (Harvard University Press, 1997) details the murder of ~100 million people in the last century by regimes pursuing “the warmth of collectivism.”

I can only assume that he is a product of an education system that does not teach history, and he has no idea that “collectivism” is a concept as discredited and terrible as fascism.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

There was a line from Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address yesterday that took my breath away. He said he intended to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Collectivism in its various forms is responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred million people in the last century. Socialist and Communist forms of government around the world today—Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc.—are disastrous. Catholic social teaching has consistently condemned socialism and has embraced the market economy, which people like Mayor Mamdani caricature as “rugged individualism.” In fact, it is the economic system that is based upon the rights, freedom, and dignity of the human person. For God’s sake, spare me the “warmth of collectivism.”

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

When God planted the trees in Eden, he was making sure there would be wood for both a manger and a cross.

When God poured out oceans and rivers, he was preparing for our baptism into Christ in the waters of the Jordan.

When he sowed the fields with wheat, he was readying the world for bread that would clothe Christ’s body in the meal of meals.

When he made the heavenly lights, he ensured there’d be a star to guide wise men from the East, and a sun to darken when fools affixed his Son to a tree.

And when the Lord made Adam and Eve in his own image, he was prophetically winking at his Incarnation, when he would make our nature his own everlastingly.

From the beginning of the world, God so loved the world that he prepared it for the day when he would remake it—remake us!—in his Son.

We might even say the week of creation didn’t really end until the Creator stepped out of the tomb after his Sabbath rest.
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[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

This year to come:
- Keep a weekly sabbath
- Stay within your limits
- Don’t try to control what only God can.
- Pursue gospel community.
- Let your Bible be your daily guide.
- Count your blessings not your complaints.
- Rest in God’s grace,
- Celebrate Jesus everyday.

[Ari Hoffman @thehoffather]

Why were child and adult care centers in Minnesota maxing out donations to a Somali candidate in Washington?