Brian Phillip

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[Brian Phillip @brianmphillip]

There’s a private place reserved for the lovers of God, where they sit near Him and receive the revelation-secrets of His promises. - Psalm 25:14 TPT

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

When Jadarian Price was 12 years old, his mother sat him down for the conversation neither of them wanted to have.

Jessica Butler was 31. She had just been diagnosed with breast cancer. And what she told her son was that she didn't know how long she was going to be here.

She also told him what she was most upset about. She didn't want to miss any more of his games.

Butler had Jadarian as a teenager, before she'd even started nursing school. She raised him and his two younger sisters, Kzaria and Lyricah, on one income in Denison, Texas. She worked full-time in hospice care, then cleaned toilets, drove Uber and delivered DoorDash on the side to close the gap.

Then came the diagnosis, and 16 rounds of chemotherapy. Her parents and her brother drove her to every one.

While that was happening, her 12-year-old son cooked for his sisters, who were 10 and 6. He took care of them. He went to middle school. He played football.

She thought she was going to die.

In 2017, two years after doctors handed her what felt like a death sentence, Jessica Butler was declared cancer free. She has been in remission ever since.

Her son went on a tear.

At Denison High School, Price ran for 4,990 all-purpose yards and 55 touchdowns in 39 games. As a senior he rushed for 1,803 yards and averaged more than nine yards a carry. He was his district's offensive player of the year twice.

He picked Notre Dame over Ohio State, Texas and USC.

Then it got hard again. He missed his entire freshman season to a serious injury. When he got healthy, he spent three years as the backup behind Jeremiyah Love, widely considered one of the best players in college football.

Second string. Three straight years.

Programs came at him with millions in NIL money to transfer. Real, life-changing money for a family that had never had any.

He told them no.

"It's bad when you don't come from much and then your mom hears the offer they're giving you up front," Price said. "I felt some type of way when I had to tell her I have a plan and I want to stay at Notre Dame, even though I'm going to be making half of what this life-changing money is."

He stayed. His mother cried when she heard what he was turning down.

In April, Jeremiyah Love went third overall to Arizona. About two and a half hours later, the Seattle Seahawks used the 32nd pick on Jadarian Price, to replace Kenneth Walker III, who had just won Super Bowl MVP and left for Kansas City.

The pick came with an $8.7 million signing bonus.

He knew exactly what he was doing with it. Price went back to Denison and bought his family a house.

"That was the biggest goal of mine since I made it to the NFL."

Then last week, he made his NFL debut at Lumen Field. He started. He ran for 52 yards on 10 carries as Seattle beat New England 13-10.

Jessica Butler was in the stands.

Eleven years after she sat her 12-year-old down and told him she might not be around much longer, she watched her son start his first game in the National Football League, from a seat he paid for with the same check that bought her a home.

Price has said the whole thing pretty simply.

"I truly believe that in order to grow, you have to go through pain and adversity. Watching my mom go through that, it made me believe there's nothing that could stop me. She went through the worst. So what's one more bad day of adversity for me?"

She didn't miss the game.

Hat tip to Andrew Destin and @TheAthletic, who told this story first.

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[Graham Bensinger @GrahamBensinger]

Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald says his faith grew as his responsibility grew. When he became responsible for other people’s futures and families, he realized how much was outside his control and learned to trust God in a deeper way.

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

We mourn the passing of Seahawks Legend Fredd Young.

A Pro Bowler in each of his four seasons with the Seahawks, Fredd's legacy will forever be part of our franchise. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones.

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[Elizabeth @Elizabeth10354]

Mark Cuban's assessment of Donald Trump: “I've known him for 25 years. He is the most unethical, most lacking in character, and most dishonest person I've ever encountered in my career.”

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

The tradition surrounding Constantine’s vision presents the sign of the Cross as a promise of victory amid a concrete military crisis. Yet the Church cannot receive that claim uncritically. It must be discerned in the light of the Crucified and Risen Lord, whose victory does not baptize the world’s familiar patterns of power, domination, and violence, but exposes and overturns them.

We cannot revise the historical sources concerning Constantine’s vision or ignore the military significance they assign to it. Nor need we dismiss the possibility that Constantine experienced a genuine awakening to Christ. Even so, imperial triumph cannot be allowed to interpret itself as divine revelation. The meaning of the Cross must finally be governed by the witness of the Gospels and the apostles, not by the claims of empire or the rhetoric of imperial power.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

In Martin Luther's Sermon on Cross and Suffering, preached at Coburg in 1530 (Luther's Works, vol. 51), he says the cross must be suffering that we have not chosen ourselves, unlike the fanatics who choose their own; the kind we would gladly be rid of if we could, visited upon us by the devil or the world. His point is that a self-selected cross is not a cross at all, since the mark of the real one is that we would escape it if we were able.

[Brian Phillip @brianmphillip]

@markchironna I’ve been working to just sit with the grief, not dwell or bypass, but rather sit with it. Been challenging but beneficial.

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

White Throwback Uniforms return in 2027.

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[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Seahawks QB Sam Darnold underwent an MRI on his hip this morning that team doctors still are reviewing to determine how much time he will miss. It is expected to be some, but for now the team believes it, as one source described, “dodged a bullet.”

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

Tomorrow 🔊 @LumenField @12s

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

The Passion is not a sequence the Church outgrows. Crucifixion, burial, resurrection, ascension, and Pentecost are not rungs on a ladder where each is left behind once the next is reached. They are the single Christological act of God by which the world is redeemed, and the Cross stands at the center of the whole of it.

The One who ascended is the One who was crucified, and the body now seated at the right hand of the Father still bears the wounds. When John is granted sight of the throne room, what he sees in the midst of the throne is a Lamb standing as though slain. Glory does not erase the marks of the Passion; it displays them.

There is no reign that is not the reign of the Crucified, and there is no throne that is not occupied by the Lamb. God has reigned from the tree, and the tree is not behind Him.

Any teaching that treats Calvary as a finished transaction now superseded by higher revelation, greater glory, or more advanced spiritual experience has not moved beyond the Cross but away from it. The hunger for what lies past the Cross is most often a hunger for a Christianity without loss, without shame, and without dying, which is a Christianity without Christ. The Cross is not the entrance into our life in God. It is the shape of that life from beginning to end.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

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[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

The memories will last forever.

Thank you to the Allen family for the moments on the field, the investments in our community, and the legacy that will continue to shape the Pacific Northwest for years to come.

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

Our new Newf puppy named HAWK says "Win, Win, Win!"

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

We are eternally grateful to the Allen family for their incredible leadership and impact on our franchise, the 12s, and our greater community for the past nearly 30 years.

[Seahawks PR @seahawksPR]

The @Seahawks signed 17 players to the practice squad this afternoon. #GoHawks https://t.co/ZM04SD9CI0

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

The gravest blasphemy among those who claim “thus says the Lord” is not cursing God. It is speaking in His Name what He never said. Jeremiah watched prophets lift words from each other, stamp them “thus says the Lord,” and hand them to the people as revelation. He called it theft.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

Taking the Name in vain has little to do with profanity. It has everything to do with fastening God’s Name onto one’s own ambition and asking others to call the result revelation.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

When a prophetic claim functions mainly to shield the one making it from correction, the Name is no longer being honored. It is being spent.

[Mark Chironna @markchironna]

Jeremiah watched prophets borrow words from each other, stamp them with “thus says the Lord,” and hand them to the people. He called it theft. He didn’t call is sincerity gone sideways. He called it theft.