Daniel Gardner

English 🇺🇸 Português 🇧🇷 Husband to Sabrina, dad to Arthur, Thomas, Peter, Oliver Following Jesus

[Daniel Gardner @Daniel_Gardner]

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[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.

This one quote sounded familiar.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho are two of the most violent criminal organizations in Brazil. Their reach extends throughout our region and into our country. 

Today, I designated these organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. 

The Trump Administration will continue using every available tool to protect our national security interests and deny funding and resources to narco-terrorists.

https://t.co/x3cPYjelwZ

[Erick Widman @erickwidman]

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working".

—Pablo Picasso

Via @CloudCult newsletter this week.

[Art Guide @ArtGuide_db]

Jules Breton
The Song of the Lark, 1884

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

Among people who were raised Protestant:
73% are still Protestant.
20% became nones.
3% became Catholics.

Among people raised Catholic:
63% are still Catholic.
21% became nones.
12% became Protestant.

Among those raised without religion:
71% still have no religion.

[Leopoldina 🇧🇷 @PunkyBolsonaro]

O fim da beleza.

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

Yes.

[Daniel Gardner @Daniel_Gardner]

“A hipocrisia é a homenagem que o vício presta à virtude”, disse La Rochefoucauld.

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source: https://t.co/riT0Mi70QQ

[Daniel Gardner @Daniel_Gardner]

"The key to a good sermon, said George Burns, is to have a good beginning and a good end and then try to keep the two of them as close together as you can."

- Alister Begg @TruthForLife

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

Brian Chesky shares why the saddest day of his life happened the day after Airbnb went public at $100B:

"We go public, we have a hundred billion dollar valuation. It's one of the best days of my life. The next day, I go on a Zoom meeting, and it was like it never happened."

"It became like the saddest day of my life. Because I realized, I got all this adulation, and I don't feel any different."

"Adulation is like a cup with a hole at the bottom. You keep filling it in, thinking it's love, except it just keeps coming out the bottom."

"That made me reevaluate what I'm doing this for. I want to do things for pure intrinsic reasons. Do the work like you used to do, like when you were a kid. It was light. Just make stuff. Make it for yourself."

"So many entrepreneurs focus on what they want to be. "I want to be a giant tech founder. I want to run a billion-dollar company." Instead of focusing on, "What do I want to make."

There's no way to fail if you're making what you love."

[Garrett Kell ن @pastorjgkell]

"Compare yourself only with Jesus." - A.W. Tozer

This will help you remain humble before God and gracious toward others.

[Caleb Lenard @CT_Lenard]

I’ve spent a few years tweaking my sermon prep process to be more balanced, efficient, clear, and replicable. The images below show the sermon prep template I’ve been using for the past year ( which has been really enjoyable and helpful to me).

I use the same 7 questions from the @simeontrust worksheets, but have added helpful insights I’ve gained from:

1️⃣ @jasonderouchie & @AndyNaselli’s helpful books “How to Understand and Apply the OT/NT: Twelve Steps from Exegesis to Theology.”

2️⃣Steve Wellum and @TrentHunter’s “Christ from Beginning to End”

3️⃣ @dandoriani’s excellent book on application “Putting the Truth to Work.” My chart is a summary of his main ideas.

4️⃣ @jeremypierre’s excellent work “The Dynamic Heart in Daily Life.” The heart image comes from his book.

5️⃣As for sermon outline and delivery, @tonymerida’s “Christ-Centered Expositor” has shaped me most.

[Daniel Gardner @Daniel_Gardner]

David Guzik re: Eph 4.31:

Aristotle defined bitterness as “the resentful spirit that refuses reconciliation.”

@EnduringWordCom

[The Gospel Coalition @TGC]

In a new interview on The Everyday Pastor, @GlenScrivener talks about one of the big problems for evangelism in the West.

[Daniel Gardner @Daniel_Gardner]

*Garden

[Daniel Gardner @Daniel_Gardner]

When John Hooper , was at the stake, and the officers came to fasten him to it, he cried, 'Let me alone; God that hath called me hither will keep me from stirring;’ upon second thought: 'because I am but flesh and blood, I am willing. Bind me fast, lest I stir.'"

[Daniel Gardner @Daniel_Gardner]

- Flowers from a Puritan’s Gardner, Spurgeon