Ann Pearcy

[Ann Pearcy @apearc22]

We need you! click on the link for an update. Help Kozefò Build a School in Haiti https://t.co/nekO1bM1e5

[Division 1 Rejects @D1_Rejects]

This @BethelRoyalsFB setup is 𝐓𝐨𝐩-𝐓𝐢𝐞𝐫

Royal Stadium is buzzing for this @MIACathletics matchup with @SJUFootball 🔥

#D1R | #D3FB

[Michael Russo @RussoHockey]

All #mnwild players and goalies wearing mismatched socks and pads for World Down Syndrome Day

[Bethel Royals @BethelRoyals]

Back to the quarterfinals for the third time since 2018! #RoarWithUs x #d3fb

[Rob Smith @robsmithonline]

If you don’t know who @JDVance1 is, there’s a bestselling book and an Academy Award-nominated movie that tells his story of overcoming a drug-addicted mother and deep poverty to make a life for himself via Marine Corps service.

Highly recommended.

[BethelMensGolf @MensBethelGolf]

Congratulations to @BethelRoyals Head Coach Nick Cocalis, named the @golfpridegrips @GolfCoachesAssn Region Coach of the Year!

[PGA Tour @PGATour]

A statement below from Grayson's parents, Eric and Terry Murray.

If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please call the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the United States at 988 or visit their website at https://t.co/j0traBx8ia.

[Bethel University @BethelU]

Royal Repost! Thanks to our generous alumni, each time this post is shared, $10 is donated. View real-time giving totals and more at https://t.co/Oz7l3PvG9A

[Bethel Royals @BethelRoyals]

*𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐧𝐞* the ONLY school in the MIAC with all winter sports in the playoffs! #WeAreBU #RoarWithUs #d3hky #d3hoops

[NSPN - Minnesota @NSPNminnesota]

⚽️@HMPioneers take the 1-0 lead over the @OronoSpartans in the @MSHSL AA Boys Soccer Championship Game.
Subscribe to watch it LIVE now on https://t.co/AZs9cp879k
🎙️ @TheMikePeden @alanmerrick

[Minnesota State High School League @MSHSL]

Meet the Class AA Boys Soccer All-Tournament Team for 2023.

[Minnesota State High School League @MSHSL]

Meet Hill-Murray, the Class AA Boys Soccer State Champion for 2023.

[John Millea @MinnesotaMillea]

Hill-Murray boys soccer coach Jeff Zupfer recorded his 100th career win as the Pioneers defeated Orono 3-0 in today's Class 2A state championship game @usbankstadium

[Hill-Murray Pioneers @HMPioneers]

Congrats boys! Hill-Murray wins 3-0 over Orono!

[Bethel Royals @BethelRoyals]

🏆𝐌𝐈𝐀𝐂 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒🏆

@MensBethelGolf logs a program-best 858 (-6), second lowest in recorded #MIAC men's golf history, to win the program's second MIAC Championship title. #RoarWithUs x #d3golf

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[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

26 years ago today.

On September 19,1997 -- musical legend Rich Mullins died in a tragic car accident.

Here's a little tribute I wrote to Rich...

I know many of you don't know his name -- he died before you were born... he lived before the internet was much of a thing... before Facebook, way before Twitter, etc. I know it's hard to imagine that ancient world back in the 1900s.
But Rich Mullins is a name I want us to pass on to our kids and grandkids.

He had Quaker roots, and you could hear his disdain for violence in his songs, with lyrics like: "Why do the nations rage? Why do they plot and scheme? The bullets can't stop the prayers we pray in the name of the Prince of Peace."

He often joked about how surprising it was that so many evangelicals took him seriously. He said things that--even though they came straight from the Gospels-- were at odds with what had come to characterize much of evangelicalism in the 1980s and 1990s.

Here's one of my favorite quotes:
“Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken... This, I know, will go against the teachings of all the popular evangelical preachers. But they're wrong. They are not bad, they're just wrong.” -- Rich Mullins (he said that in the 1990s)

I can remember when I was at Wheaton College. Rich spoke in chapel and told this very evangelical audience essentially this: "You're all into the 'born-again' thing. And that's great -- Jesus said that to a man named Nicodemus, to enter the Kingdom of God you need to be born again... But if you tell me that I've got to be born again, I can tell you that you need to sell everything you have and give it to the poor. Because Jesus said that to one guy too. But I guess that's why God invented highlighters... so we can highlight the parts we like."

That's what I love about Rich -- he spoke truth, and laughed as he did it. He had the winsomeness of a kid, and the wisdom of an elder.

There's an old story about Rich and his buddy riding on a train. As they travelled, they began to share some of their deepest struggles, pouring out their souls, including some of the not-so-pretty stuff. As they arrived at the station, one of the passengers in front of them recognized Rich, and said, "Excuse me, are you Rich Mullins?" Rich said that he immediately began to rehearse in his mind all of the things she might have heard him say... and he had to decide whether or not he was Rich Mullins. And of course, he looked her in the face, smiling, and said, "Yes... I am Rich Mullins." He owned his funk, and he gave us permission to own ours.

He struggled with his own darkness, loneliness, sexuality. And because of that, he is an inspiration to all ragamuffins. He's a reminder that the world out there is not looking for Christians who are perfect, but they are looking for Christians who are honest.

When people remind me that the church is full of hypocrites I often say -- inspired by Rich-- "No we aren't full of hypocrites... we always have room for more." Rich Mullins reminds us that this whole Christian thing is not about how good we are, but how good God is. The Church is a bunch of imperfect people falling in love with a perfect God, and hopefully becoming more like the one we Love.

[BethelMensGolf @MensBethelGolf]

Time to vote for our Coaches in the sweet 16!! @DIIIHockeyNews

[Ann Pearcy @apearc22]

@Keith10Newman @treyfortrey @CoachNewmanMC Who won tho?

[Hill-Murray Hockey @HMBoysHockey]

Heck of a run boys! #RollPios ⚽️

[Bethel Gameday @BethelGameday]

Next stop the semifinals!!!! #BURoyals top Carleton 1-0!

[Bethel Gameday @BethelGameday]

🏈: And that's a WIN!
#RoarWithUs
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