Dan White

Leader. Communicator. I work with teams to develop people, content, and systems.

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

Just write the bad sentence.

Pixar's Andrew Stanton on why it's more important to do the work, even if it sucks, than to talk about the great work you'll make (and never do it):

"There's a term for it: whistling on the steps of Carnegie Hall. Most people spend more time telling you the symphony they're going to write than the symphony is written.

Finish the sentence. I don't care if it doesn't have an ending, or a middle. Just freaking write the sentence. It's gonna be bad. You don't get to the nice sentence until you've written the bad sentence. Writing is rewriting."

"It's chipping away at the marble. Every time you decide not to, you're not practicing. So you're just going to be that much less practiced."

[Tim Elmore @TimElmore]

"You can lose yourself one small compromise at a time. You can transform yourself one small win at a time." - James Clear

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

How the Bible is often presented
vs.
How the Bible presents itself

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Christianity afforded women much greater security and equality than had previously existed in the ancient classical world for them. https://t.co/i7lcAWEfEC

[Michael Reeves @mike_reeves]

Happy Birthday, Charles Spurgeon! Here are his last ever words in the pulpit:

[Dan White @daniveus]

"Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,
Which my God feels as blood, but I as wine." (George Herbert, The Agony)

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

Shame and condemnation aren’t from God.

Ask for God’s forgiveness. Receive His forgiveness. And then walk in His freedom. You can live the greatest testimony of truth there is … redemption.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

What good news.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

63,779 cross-references.

A stunning depiction of the Bible’s internal coherence and connectedness.

[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[Thomas S. Kidd @ThomasSKidd]

New research from the University of Chicago found that marriage is the “the most important differentiator” of who is happy in America, and that falling marriage rates are a chief reason why happiness has declined nationally. @BradWilcoxIFS @unherd @davidnbass @FamStudies

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

— Don Carson

[R/GA @RGA]

The clients have signed off on the idea. Now add a new stakeholder who hasn't seen anything but holds all the power.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

So much of the Christian life can be boiled down to two simple truths.

1. You are no longer your own. You belong to Christ.

2. You are no longer 𝘰𝘯 your own. He gave you the church.

[Brandon Hilgemann @BrandonHilg]

5 Reasons Belief in God Is Reasonable:

1. The Cosmological Argument: The universe had a beginning

2. The Teleological Argument: The universe is orderly

3. The Moral Argument: We all live like morality is objective

4. The Presuppositional Argument: Atheism assumes theism

5. The Historical Argument: History proves His story

I explain the arguments in this video: https://t.co/p034bIZz8p

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody; 40 learning he was nobody; and 40 discovering what God can do with a nobody.

— D. L. Moody

[Caleb Lenard @CT_Lenard]

I love this definition of theology from Herman Bavinck:

“Theology is the science which derives the knowledge of God from His revelation, which studies and thinks into it under the guidance of His Spirit, and then tries to describe it so that it ministers to His honor.” (p.14)