Erling Targaryen

I have bad taste in music.

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

Unlimited chips and salsa is the soul of the nation

[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.

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

@GrahamCoffeyDC If anyone from Texas knows anything about Tech fans it’s that they’re not the sharpest bunch.

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

@Scott7651358812 @DanWolken One thing is for sure, you’re definitely a Tech fan

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

@Scott7651358812 @DanWolken Some crack reporting there, Scott. Not a Baylor fan.

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

@Scott7651358812 @DanWolken Which words were too big for you to understand?

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

@Scott7651358812 @DanWolken Tech literally wins one conference championship in their existence and have gotten high on their own farts for months now. String a couple ten win seasons together or try looking competitive in a playoff game before anointing yourselves king of anything.

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

@ShaneClaiborne The comment section makes it clear that many people have not read the prophets. Singing in a room ≠ worshiping God.

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

The number of people who blindly distrust the government yet blindly trust a billionaire is dizzying.

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

@drantbradley I’m in as long as we don’t have to put everything in jello. Some of those recipes from the 50s-70s were WILD

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

@thelegendratman Nope. Incompetent, short-sighted management is the issue.

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

@drantbradley American churches aren’t built with state funds to glorify their military either. The iconography here is…something

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

@drantbradley Adults can mentor more than one student. The ideal is that an adult can mentor 5-6 students throughout their time in the group.

Youth groups provide an intentional pathway to accomplish this. Sure, you don’t NEED a youth group for this, but few if any seek this out on their own.

[Gretchen Ronnevik @garonnevik]

Influencer ≠ Pastor
They are 2 different vocations. They can overlap. But they're 2 different vocations.

Both can share the gospel.
We're all called to share the gospel.

But Influencers don't do your funerals. They don't give you the sacraments. They may call out your sin for clicks, but they can't be there to do the hard, small, consistent work of shepherding you.

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

@markingramII Yep. They deserved to be there. They won their games.

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

@drantbradley @CFBPlayoff SMU is just a fraud this year. Super easy schedule. Best win was Georgia Tech. SMU deserved to be there. The reality is there are never 12 deserving teams in any given year.

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

@StatmasterSteve @ChrisVannini No, it’s the 12 most deserving teams. There is no way to correctly judge the 12 best teams. Win your games or get left out.

[Chad Brooks 🚢 | #ProductivePastor @revchadbrooks]

Ministry in my 20's > Do cool things
Ministry in my 30's > Do big things
Ministry in my 40's > Do good things

[Erling Targaryen @davebrower]

30. Surprised even myself there

[PoloMan @polo_man404]

The Avg been to 8 of these places. What's your number?
Me 21

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

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