Luke Perstrope

Husband // Believer // Musician // Reader // Student Pastor @fbcwentzville

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[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

@JonathanESwan Another Memorial Day classic!

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

@Eric_Schmitt Senator, do you support the Cardinals bringing back the navy caps for all road games?

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

Once again, we need navy caps full time on the road

[EL @elonmskin]

Chaim Bloom, if you see this -

We want the Navy caps back on the road for all road games. This is what we call “low hanging fruit”

Thank you for your consideration.

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

Church ruined #33’s day 😂

[MLB @MLB]

NATHAN CHURCH ROBS A WOULD-BE WALK-OFF HOMER 🤯

@CARDINALS WIN!

[Jonathan Akin @Jonathanakin]

“of whom the world was not worthy...”
Hebrews 11:38

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” 2 Corinthians 5:21

A glorious exchange. Our sin placed on Christ. His perfect righteousness placed on us. Thank you, Jesus!

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

Sadly, the distracted camera switching and unenthusiastic commentating make the clip a waste of time.

[Adam Akbani @AdamAkbani]

Jordan Walker has his MLB-leading 3rd OF assist of the season

A 92.9 MPH laser to nail speedster Xavier Edwards at 3rd base

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

Bring back the navy caps as our regular road cap! They are way too good to wear so infrequently @Cardinals

[Jeff Jones @jmjones]

Bad news for the blue hat crew: Cardinals will wear red in DC, I was told today. Down to just Cincinnati and Philadelphia for blue.

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

“Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence—”
Isaiah 64:1 ESV
https://t.co/QIVc8dTXOO

[TreVeyon Henderson @TreVeyonH4]

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 5:10

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

I remember watching us lose the gold medal in 2010 when Sidney Crosby put it past Ryan Miller in OT.

This is sweet. Thank you, @usahockey men and women!
🇺🇸🦅🏒🥇

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

No greater message than the gospel.
No greater Savior than Jesus.
No greater hope than the resurrection.

Thank you, @bensasse, for redeeming the time. Your courage and faith are an inspiration to us all.

[Sola Media @solamediaorg]

“There's this big crossbar over the entrance to the cemetery, and it just says in all capital letters, AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED.”

— @BenSasse

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

@JonathanESwan Amen and amen. I’m still a STL Rams fan, just like I’m still an ATL Thrashers fan. Remember them, @sweetdcb ?

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

Disrupting a church worship service in this manner is unacceptable and shameful. They have desecrated the gathering of the saints. God will not be mocked.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

BREAKING: Anti-ICE mob storms church in St. Paul, MN and shuts service down

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

Pray for the Sasses!

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

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

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

@BenSasse I’m so sad to hear this update. I’ve admired you and how you live out our shared values. You and your family are in my prayers.

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

“O Lord, I am astonished at the difference between my receivings and my deservings, between the state I am now in and my past gracelessness, between the heaven I am bound for and the hell I merit.”

— The Valley of Vision @banneroftruth

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

“I have a King with dominion over death. He holds the keys in His holy nail-scarred hands. He is the heel that has crushed the serpent's head, our resurrected Great I Am. I call You, JESUS!” 👑🔑 ✝️ @elevation_wrshp

[Luke Perstrope @Luke19_Ten]

@JonathanESwan He’s too smart! 😂