Nathan Nipper

Christian, husband, father, soccer enthusiast.

Author of AMERICAN INHERITANCE, a novel, now available from Post Hill Press.

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

I’ve never felt more validated. It’s all for science, kids! 🥸

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

Do I have World Cup fever? Perhaps. I’m literally reading a book titled “World Cup Fever.” 🤷🏼‍♂️🇺🇸🏆

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

I’m amazed by the level of scam artistry aimed at authors. Offers to market your book, get you on interview shows, etc. Tons of flattering email and phone calls. Surely preying on small-time authors isn’t that big a business. Or maybe it is. But it’s pathetic.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

“What would you say to a young Christian who is nervous about the future?”

I love @TimKellerNYC’s answer. I think about it every Easter.

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

@BenSasse was my write-in vote for President in 2020. His class, candor, intelligence, and authentic Christian faith are far too rare in politics. Sincerely praying for he and his family.

[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

[Wonder Project @watchonwonder]

Before Mount Vernon and the revolution, a young soldier fights for a place in history.

Young Washington storms into theaters July 3, 2026, just in time for America's 250th anniversary.

🎟️: Link in bio!

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

“Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.”
-Psalm 90:12 (NLT)

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

I'll be discussing my latest novel "American Inheritance" at the Trinity River Bookfest in Fort Worth on Saturday, September 13th. Stop by and say hi!

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

Big thanks to @NRHLibrary for hosting me at their Local Author event last week! Great experience – met a ton of people, got to discuss my books, and learned a lot.

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

I loathe how @FIFAcom is rolling out ticketing for the '26 @FIFAWorldCup. First the grift of their "right-to-buy" scheme for first dibs on tix. Now single match tix starting at $1350/person!?!? Over-the-top greed, absolutely pricing out average fans. Just gross.

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

Hope you all have enjoyed a big cup of freedom today.
Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

Was cynical about the #FIFAClubWorldCup money grab going in and now I’m totally sucked in to the tournament. 😅

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

Jon Guerra’s new album “Jesus” is the best beginning to end album I’ve heard in a long time. Thank you for this project @iamjonguerra !

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

Now this is some great soccer club marketing by @hearts_sc...
https://t.co/GOyuXdmJ8o

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

Finally got around to reading "Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West" by Andrew Wilson and wow, what a book! Smart and full of vital perspective for today. Highly recommend. Thank you for writing this, @AJWTheology !

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

Trump's golden dome map looks like he's trying to give all of America his ridiculous hair.

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

Wise words here from @DavidBahnsen
https://t.co/C41wqAfVEW

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

Wrote a bit about the great work @JonErwin13, Andrew Erwin, @JGunn12, and others are doing through @KingdomStoryCo & @watchonwonder and why I’m rooting hard for their success…
https://t.co/O5pDcTZO14

[ComingSoon.net @comingsoonnet]

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Giveaway: 3 Signed Posters

RT to Enter to win a @BCPEMovie poster signed by Judy Greer, Pete Holmes, Kevin Downes, and Andrew Erwin.

#TheBestChristmasPageantEver is out now on digital.

[Nathan Nipper @nathannipper96]

Thank you @CTmagazine for giving such unconventional faith-fiction a chance and honoring “American Inheritance” as a Finalist in your 2024 Book Awards!