Caleb

Christ is King. Country Music Patriotism 🇺🇸 OU '18 ✈️💣 Buckeyes

[Caleb @cc_55_]

@nickwatts It’s tough cause I love the game of football, but so tired of seeing the liberal slogans on the fields and backs of helmets.. I might back off next year. Don’t want to give in and let the libs “win” but I’ve also got a family I can do more productive things for than watch TV tbh

[Caleb @cc_55_]

@BBRUTALAMERICAN How did I miss that.. low SA. Thanks!

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So blessed and thankful that we went today. May I not take a single week for granted.

[Southern Accents @AccentsSouthern]

GM.

Take your family to worship this morning.

[Caleb @cc_55_]

THE SHOE

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

If the Euros are impressed with Raymond James stadium their heads would implode seeing one of the cathedrals of college football.

[Caleb @cc_55_]

@PresbyInn Hope you enjoy a summer for the ages.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

Eighty-two years ago today, freedom stood on the edge of extinction, and Allied forces stormed into hell to help save the world.

We will never forget the courage, the sacrifice, and the blood spilled on that fateful day.

[Caleb @cc_55_]

“I was born by God’s dear Grace
In an extraordinary place
Where the Stars and Stripes, and the eagle fly”

@TippinAaron

Country Music Patriotism 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Happy Saturday

[Caleb @cc_55_]

@AccentsSouthern 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 we are winning.

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“We believe in God, we believe in justice, we believe in liberty” - @CharlieDaniels

Country Music Nationalism 🇺🇸

[Caleb @cc_55_]

@WBS_Meme_King @RichardHanania People will call us “mean Christian Nationalists” but we’re the only ones willing to confront this Evil. Lord willing we will defeat it in our land, and that I am a man that can be included in that “we.” Please strengthen us, Lord.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

ONE MONTH UNTIL AMERICA’S 250TH! 🇺🇸🦅

250 years of freedom.
250 years of American greatness.

A patriotic summer has just begun as we gear up for the greatest birthday celebration in our nation’s history. The countdown to 250 starts NOW. 🔥

[Caleb @cc_55_]

Taking note Sir. Timely along with the daily blade today “Faithful right now”

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

A few years ago I looked around and realized I had caught most of what I had been chasing.

I had set goals that felt ambitious when I set them. I wanted to build the church and rise at work and write a meaninful book. One by one those things came. Opportunities opened up that a nobody from Lawrenceburg, Indiana had no business expecting. Larger platforms were circling, and people who could make things happen were asking for meetings.

You probably follow men like me because of things like that. You see the results and you want them, and I understand that because I wanted them too. But what I need you to understand is what happened after I got them.

I caught the cars, and I was not satisfied. My first instinct was to go looking for another one.

There is an old image of a dog chasing a car. He runs after it day after day and never really believes he will catch it. But suppose one day he does. He would not know what to do with it, so he would lose interest and start chasing the next one. That dog is the thing I want to warn you about, because that dog was me.

Like many men, I loved the chase more than the prize. And here is what no one tells you while you are still running. The prize does not do what you think it will do. You tell yourself a story about it. You say you will be satisfied when you make VP. You will be satisfied when the church reaches a certain size. You will be satisfied when you finish the degree or publish the book. Then you get there, and life keeps going.

Movies end at the climax, but real life does not, except for death itself. You reach the summit and take a breath, and then you discover that tomorrow is Tuesday and the alarm still goes off at the same time. The accomplishment becomes ordinary much faster than you expected. The possession loses its shine and the promotion becomes yesterday's news.

Augustine had the diagnosis right when he said our heart is restless until it rests in God. No car on the road will quiet it. You can catch every one of them and still lie awake at night, already scanning for the next.

This is the part that younger men do not believe until it is too late. You think the problem is that you have not caught enough yet, and that one more will finally do it. It will not. The chase is not broken because you are after the wrong things. The chase is broken because you have asked it to do something it was never able to do.

What saved me was not catching more. It was learning where my wings actually work.

I keep returning to the story of Icarus and his father Daedalus. I have heard it preached as a warning against ambition, but I do not think that is what it means. It is about flying at the proper height. Icarus did not die because he flew. He died because he flew too high and ignored the boundaries that were built into his own design. His father flew the middle course and reached Sicily alive. A wise man knows there are heights he can reach and heights he should not pursue.

For me those boundaries did not arrive as wisdom. They arrived as difficulty. I was a bivocational pastor with a large family, and I had to pass on much of what was opening up in front of me. Then our family entered a long season of death. Over several years we buried family members and close friends, and some of them died in tragic ways. Between the losses and the demands of ministry and the weight of work and family, I did not have the capacity to chase what was circling.

At the time it felt like loss. Looking back, I can see that it was instruction. God sent difficulty into my life to teach me something I would not have learned any other way. I have enough. To keep climbing past that point would cost me things worth far more than influence.

This is not a call to abandon ambition. God made men to build and to extend, and there is a real and honest satisfaction in doing hard things well. So keep building. But build at the altitude where your wings actually work. Learn that faithfulness matters more than endless expansion, and learn that some of God's best gifts are not new opportunities but boundaries.

At some point a man has to be able to look at his life and say that this will do.

I decided to stay at this altitude. If I climb much higher it may cost me my soul. Here, my wings will not melt.

Painting: Thomas Smythe

[Caleb @cc_55_]

“Some say this country’s just out lookin for a fight
Well after 9/11 I’d have to say that’s right” - @darrylworley

Country Music Patriotism

[Caleb @cc_55_]

Ice cream nationalism 🇺🇸

[Blue Bell Ice Cream @ILoveBlueBell]

Celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with Blue Bell!

Red, White & Blue Bell Ice Cream returns to stores beginning today. The festive flavor is our Strawberry Ice Cream loaded with succulent strawberries, a creamy vanilla flavored ice cream, and a smooth blueberry flavored ice cream with real blueberries packaged side by side in one carton.

Available in the half gallon size for a limited time.

Proud sponsor of Folds of Honor.

[Caleb @cc_55_]

@bowtiedmeathead @barbarianfitco I’ve had sleeves on the list! Might try these

[Caleb @cc_55_]

@BenjaminYeezus @bowtiedmeathead Do you like the cycling model of 5 lower carb days a week and 2 higher days

[Southern Accents @AccentsSouthern]

Live your life so that the 350th Anniversary looks like this again.

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”

-Thomas Paine

Our duty today is to plant the seeds of trees whose shade we will not rest under.

[Caleb @cc_55_]

Month of the Family June gameplan: read from the Book of Proverbs the chapter that corresponds with the day of the month, listen to the daily blade @KyleOKC each morning, re-listen to 2 over the weekend. Who’s with me?