Jon Tyner

Pure Cinema 🤩

I’m looking forward to a day when everybody stops being ridiculous online all the time. Too much to ask for?

A 2-star QB scrambling for potentially the national-championship-winning touchdown on 4th down in his hometown against his hometown team after winning the Heisman for the most losing program of all time while his mother with MS screams for joy from her seat is possibly the limit of how good sports can get

It was an amazing weekend as we added a new Tyner! So happy for Jack and Carmen and proud of the life they are building together. Looking forward to seeing where God leads them!

@BenSasse I have always thought of you as one of the best of us. God bless you and your family as you walk through these difficult days.

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

Been dealing with some mild foot pain for a couple of weeks. Decided I should probably take a little running break for a few days. Thankful to have other options.

It’s weird how different your body can feel on a run from one day to the next.

@UltraRunner26 11 easy. It was warm in Florida today!

Weekend long run time! How many miles/km are you doing?

My Pastor and friend celebrated a huge milestone yesterday. Grateful to God for @tedtraylor and the privilege of serving with him.

On behalf of #BravesCountry, thank you Snit 💙

New food item at Air Force games this year are “B2 Bomber Nachos” and they didn’t just go with a black box in the shape of the stealth jet either.

@PaceHSfootball Let’s go!

“What the heart loves, the will chooses, and then the mind justifies.” - Thomas Cranmer Be careful what you love.

@BrooksWashing10 @KyleWSteinhoff @CoachWesleyJ @bo_gator15 @deontesheff9 @CoachSWalters @CoachTyPitts @PaceHSfootball @CoachHerb_ Looking great, Brooks!

Having to take on a new role at the Quarterback position this year!! Had a great spring, summer and fall camp cant wait for the Kickoff classic this week!! @KyleWSteinhoff @CoachWesleyJ @bo_gator15 @deontesheff9 @CoachSWalters @CoachTyPitts @PaceHSfootball @CoachHerb_ @NickValente_FB @ARCHIECOLLINS_ @KadePelton @BLester1993 @dowork_sports @CoastalFootball

Father, what we know not, teach us; What we have not, give us; What we are not, make us; for the sake of your Son our Savior. Amen. - Old Anglican prayer

Lights, camera, action 🎥 The @MountainWest media days cut ⚡️

This might be the most impressive throw I've seen.

𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞 🇺🇸𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘🇺🇸

Your NL Player of the Week: @ronaldacunajr24!

Man, the Rockies really are terrible!