Stephen Nilsen

pastor // husband of @LeahNilsen96 // 319 native // alum: @WartburgSem @LutherCollege @LinnMarHSIowa

[Stephen Nilsen @stephennilsen]

First the Knicks and now #USMNT

Huge week for OGs!

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

The NFL: Race norming, exiling Colin Kaepernick, never had a majority Black owner, not one Black coach hired when there was a record 10 head coaching jobs open, majority of NFL owners are Trump donors.

Conservatives: THE NFL CHOSE BAD BUNNY TO PERFORM FOR POLITICAL REASONS AND BECAUSE THEY’RE WOKE.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Jared Holt @jaredlholt]

Trying to imagine what conservatives would have said if an Obama administration official said that legally carrying a gun near cops was a free pass for them to execute you in the street

[Spectre @spectre0799]

All Of The Lights but the beat is Feliz Navidad

[Stephen Nilsen @stephennilsen]

Did UCLA fans storm the field? I legitimately couldn't tell.

[Stephen Nilsen @stephennilsen]

Ok. So Xavier isn't coming to the wedding. Point taken.

[Warren Sharp @SharpFootball]

Travis Kelce killed Xavier Worthy

[Russillo @ryenarussillo]

Over the years I haven’t loved some of the WNBA arguments for higher pay but now it’s pretty simple. If the Vegas Aces sell for $2m in 2021 and are supposedly worth $290-$310m now, why would you expect the players to receive just 9% of the revenue? The Valkyries expansion fee was $50m two years ago. Today expansion cost is $250m.

In what other profession would someone as valuable as Caitlin Clark make only $78k?

[Stephen Nilsen @stephennilsen]

@KristinSkaar Ugh. Jealous down here in your home state. Win or lose, we still have Kim.

[Emmanuel Acho @EmmanuelAcho]

BREAKING: The Tyreek Hill body cam footage has been released. And it is about as disgusting as you would expect:

[Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez]

For decades, conservative evangelical power brokers defined "truth" in terms of what advanced their idea of Truth--which neatly aligned w/ their own agenda.
They founded institutions, organizations, publishers, & media platforms to advance, defend, and perpetuate this Truth. 🧵

[Stephen Nilsen @stephennilsen]

@JenLellig @harvilla Thanks! I needed this today

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Just like we drew it up.

[Stephen Nilsen @stephennilsen]

@tatefrazier @oneshiningpod @eamonnbrennan @ringer @TomShady300 @sydney_sweeney Catching up on some of the pod and just wanted to let you and @TomShady300 know that KHAK is pronounced like K-Hawk. I grew up pronouncing it the way you guys did though because I hated country music and thought that's what they sounded like, but this is just an Iowan correction

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

My God. Stop what you're doing and watch this.

[Stephen Nilsen @stephennilsen]

@monkeypantz But four ends of the pieces of chalk!

[Stephen Nilsen @stephennilsen]

@KristinSkaar In seminary, some of my closest friends were from Duluth, and they said they grew up with Goose, and that Grey Duck is a "southern Minnesota thing." The first I had ever heard of Grey Duck was when I went to Luther, and I still think it's silly at best.

[Stephen Nilsen @stephennilsen]

@JenLellig Pasta, Crabs, Fame? I'm... getting famous for a crag pasta eating contest?

[Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne]

I just keep thinking about that time Jesus wept over Jerusalem because they “didn’t know the things that would lead to peace.”

For decades, the state of Israel has been crushing the people of Gaza and the West Bank, doing things that do not lead to peace. In response, Hamas has chosen to terrorize and kill people, doing things that also do not lead to peace. Now Israel is returning the harm, dropping bombs and killing women and children, which certainly does not lead to peace.

I’m pretty sure Jesus is weeping over Jerusalem… and Gaza… right now. Maybe we should be weeping with him.

Let us each take a moment to pause and pray…

Let’s ask ourselves and our God, what are the things that lead to peace?

What does love require of us at such a time as this?

What does it look like to resist injustice without mirroring injustice?

What does it look like to stand against terror without becoming terrible?

What does it look like to choose the way of the cross rather than the sword, and to follow the enemy-loving Jesus, the Prince of Peace?