Ω Despotic Dynamo Ω

Burn the ships.

[Ω Despotic Dynamo Ω @DespotDynamo]

@Jump_Rope_Dad @BowTiedYukon Thanks, brother 😁

The Lord has blessed me!

[Lee Strobel @LeeStrobel]

The video of Nabeel Qureshi being baptized was lost for 20 years but finally found. I watched this friend & ex-Muslim being baptized just before I entered Two Cities Church in North Carolina to preach the gospel. Lord, may many more people find redemption through Christ today.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

There are abortion videos of babies screaming in pain and pulling away from the forceps as their skull is crushed

[Ω Despotic Dynamo Ω @DespotDynamo]

@dieworkwear I have six sons and my wife is a stay at home mother who likes to bake and cook.

She enjoys being able to be in the kitchen doing what she loves while also being able to be with our boys and watch them play.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The reason many of our leaders hate people like Nayib Bukele in El Salvador is because he has quickly proven that crime and societal decline are not inevitable or beyond control…

It’s a deliberate choice allowed by weak leaders, terrible policies and suicidal empathy.

[Chris Fizer @ChrisKindaReads]

hurrah

[Ω Despotic Dynamo Ω @DespotDynamo]

@AntiDoc Man, so close to going for it.

37, trained for so many years. Considering making the jump.

[Bugman Hegel @FedPoasting]

Christ was tortured and died on my behalf and I still wake up every day and choose to be evil and retarded. Lord Jesus Christ son of God, have mercy on me.

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.

I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.

There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.

Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.

A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.

Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.

Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”

I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).

With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses

[Patrick Neve @catholicpat]

Christmas is not pagan

But every year people claim that it is

So, here's a thread debunking all of that nonsense...🧵

[Ω Despotic Dynamo Ω @DespotDynamo]

@fairyhere_ You’re not alone.

[Ω Despotic Dynamo Ω @DespotDynamo]

@0hour1 @Ilhan Yes

[Forrest Frank For Jesus @forestfrank]

I don’t care if you follow me, but I do care if you follow Jesus. I have nothing else to share but this one message & I repent for ways i’ve allowed my platform to be a lukewarm highlight real. I’m using as much energy as I can to let people know about the only thing that matters

[Ω Despotic Dynamo Ω @DespotDynamo]

@SarAllyce This is my problem

[Ω Despotic Dynamo Ω @DespotDynamo]

@cb_doge Christ

[Ω Despotic Dynamo Ω @DespotDynamo]

@GigaBasedDad 5 sons and my wife is due in a month with number 6.

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

Jesus is King.
Jesus is Lord.
Jesus is God.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Good morning friends, Christ is King

[Trad West @trad_west_]

"And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me." - Isaiah 6,8