Ryan Rippee

Pastor, Trinity Church of Benicia

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Ryan Rippee @RyanRippee]

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[Ryan Rippee @RyanRippee]

I enjoyed being on the Bay Area Theology Podcast podcast and talking about God the Father. https://t.co/mPk60IYUkV. It gets a bit deep in theology at some points and I hope you enjoy it!

[Dustin Benge @DustinBenge]

You will never be more loved by the Father than you already are in Christ.

[Ryan Rippee @RyanRippee]

This is going to be excellent. I hope you can join us!

[Gateway Seminary @GatewaySeminary]

Scholars from across the nation will share their insights into Fuller's work at the Andrew Fuller Conference parallel sessions May 28-30. Come listen as the different facets to this remarkable pastor, theologian, and missions sender are explored.
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[Jeffrey Perry® @JeffreyPerry09]

You have, perhaps, dear reader, long been in want of the assurance that you are saved. But you have sought it in yourself, and not in Christ.

You have been searching for evidence amid the shadows and the taint of your own heart, the imperfect traces of your own doings, the varied exercises of your mind, and have sought them in vain. But now try the experiment―an experiment that has never failed one poor soul―of finding the evidence of your present salvation in a believing looking to a present Savior.

Rest in Jesus from the burden and the guilt of sin;
rest in Jesus from the conflict with doubt and fear;
rest in Jesus from the fear of death and the dread of condemnation; rest in Jesus from your entire self;
rest in His finished work, in His accepted sacrifice, in His boundless grace, in His unchanging love, and present intercession and your assurance will be built upon a rock, against which no force of Satan or unbelief shall ever prevail.

Octavius Winslow (From Grace to Glory, p. 89)

[Ryan Rippee @RyanRippee]

@JustinBuzzard I’m grateful for your faithful ministry in the Bay. All glory to Christ!

[Jared C. Wilson @jaredcwilson]

Don’t preach the gospel like you’re angry about it.

[Send Network @sendnetwork]

God prepared Joe for ministry even as he ran from his calling.

Now, as he plants in San Francisco, Pastor Joe has a renewed passion to see his church reach the lost in his city.

We also want to shout out Joe’s wonderful sending church, Resonate Church!

[Ryan Rippee @RyanRippee]

@chancefaulkner Thanks! I would love to visit South Wales! Not on my immediate plans😁

[Ryan Rippee @RyanRippee]

I have a forthcoming book chapter on Jonathan Edwards’s Paterology. I thought I would share a bit of what I learned on my substack today. "Jonathan Edwards on the Father's Delight in the Son” Enjoy! https://t.co/O3mdVEXAxb

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For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.  (1 Peter 2:19, ESV)

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https://t.co/DFUHdjmOg1 Join me in reflecting on Psalm 110, the most quoted Psalm in the New Testament

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The Father’s Plan for Your Day https://t.co/WBvuxN3kCr

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Big news for Trinity Church Benicia!
We’ve been awarded a matching grant from Stratum Foundation, dollar-for-dollar up to $21,500!

Your generosity will go twice as far in supporting our ministry and mission here in California. https://t.co/0kJPCiSxcs

[Ryan Rippee @RyanRippee]

Sharing what I’m learning about God the Father, theology, Scripture, and ministry. Latest post up at https://t.co/BKQFPrm4q1

[Ryan Rippee @RyanRippee]

@jaredcwilson Looking forward to it

[Ryan Rippee @RyanRippee]

@SBTS He is one of the saintliest men I know and I was incredibly privileged to do my doctoral work under his supervision.

[Southern Seminary @SBTS]

For Dr. Bruce Ware, Christian theology begins with knowing God and delighting in him. He teaches students that obedience and joy belong together, and that faithful theology shapes how we think, love, and live.

In the classroom, Dr. Ware calls students to hold fast to the clarity of Scripture, uniting head, heart, and hands in lives shaped by God’s revealed truth. His teaching emphasizes faithfulness to God’s Word, pursued with conviction, humility, and grace.

Get to know Dr. Ware, whose work forms pastors and theologians to treasure the glory of God and live in obedient devotion to him.