Greg Card 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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[Greg Card 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @gregjcard]

@HaydenCard42 says “I didn’t say you could score!” Representing @BengalLifestyle well here @ AT&T #dreamallamerican

[Terri Green @TerriGreenUSA]

John Crist of all people, asked Sadie Huff what her thoughts were on women preaching. Sadie gives a nuanced answer by saying after Jesus encountered women He told them to go out and tell. She doesn’t have any scripture to back up her beliefs. She imposes an opinion that isn’t based on the truth in the Bible that prohibits women preaching.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On the morning of June 6, 1944, Lt. Dick Winters had already survived one disaster before the sun came up.

His C-47 roared over Normandy through a wall of flak, flying too fast and too low. He jumped anyway. The prop blast ripped his leg bag clean off, taking his rifle, his ammo, and most of his gear. He hit the ground in occupied France armed with a knife in his boot.

Most men in that situation hide. Winters started walking toward the sound of the war.

By dawn he had scavenged a rifle, collected a handful of scattered paratroopers, and learned that his company commander's plane had gone down with everyone aboard. Just like that, a quiet lieutenant from Pennsylvania who didn't drink, didn't curse, and wrote letters home about wanting to find a peaceful farm someday was in command of Easy Company.

A few hours later a battalion officer gave him one of the great understated orders in military history. German fire was coming from a farm called Brecourt Manor, hammering the troops coming off Utah Beach. The order was basically: there's fire along that hedgerow, take care of it.

What was actually there: four 105mm howitzers dug into a hedgerow network, connected by zigzag trenches, covered by machine guns, and defended by roughly 60 German troops. The guns were dropping shells directly on causeway exit 2, where thousands of Americans were trying to get off the beach. Every minute those guns fired, men died in the sand.

Winters had 12.

He did not charge. He crawled forward alone to study the position, then briefed his men like he had all the time in the world. Machine guns here to pin the defenders. Compton, Guarnere, and Malarkey crawling along the flank. Hit the first gun with grenades and speed from a direction the Germans never expected.

It worked almost exactly as drawn. The first gun fell in minutes. Then his men used the German trenches as a highway, rolling up the battery one gun at a time, beating back counterattacks, and dropping blocks of TNT down the barrels to destroy them for good.

In the middle of the firefight, Don Malarkey spotted what he thought was a Luger on a dead German and sprinted into open ground to grab it. The German machine gunners held their fire, apparently deciding that anyone that reckless had to be a medic. He made it back alive. It wasn't even a Luger.

At the second gun, Winters found something better than a pistol: a German map showing every artillery and machine gun position covering Utah Beach. He sent it up the chain immediately. On the most important morning of the war, a 26-year-old lieutenant had just handed the Allies the enemy's entire defensive layout for the sector.

When reinforcements under Lt. Ronald Speirs arrived, they stormed the fourth and final gun. About three hours after it started, the battery was silent and the exits off Utah Beach were open for thousands of men who will never know his name.

The cost: one American killed, a few wounded. The Germans lost around 15 dead and a dozen captured. Winters received the Distinguished Service Cross and later said the best decoration he ever got was a sergeant telling him years later that his men trusted him with their lives.

The assault on Brecourt Manor is still studied at West Point as a textbook example of a small unit destroying a fixed position.

Around 60 defenders. Four guns. Twelve paratroopers and a lieutenant who started D-Day with nothing but a knife.

If it sounds familiar, it should. This is the same Easy Company from Band of Brothers. The difference is that none of it was fiction.

And when Winters was asked decades later if he was a hero, he gave the answer that still gets quoted at his statue in Normandy: "No. But I served in a company of heroes."

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

I’ve never pastored a church. Couldn’t pay me a jillion dollars to. Never been ordained. Have no desire to. The only paid staff position I’ve ever held in a church was as an aerobics teacher in our church gym. But how in heaven’s name a woman discussing a sermon on a podcast could be objectionable to some is beyond me and what I believe to be beyond scripture. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, good. Stay sane. If you do, I’ve lived a long time and this has been my observation:

Extremism, whether in conservatism or liberalism, whether in politics or religion, is never satisfied. It will always inch a little bit further. It’s a constant test of the purists.

[Facts About Texas @FactsAboutTexas]

If you grew up in Dallas, this one is going to stop you cold.

Baby Doe’s Matchless Mine. Sitting on the highest point in Dallas — right on Harry Hines behind that famous waterfall billboard — overlooking I-35 and downtown. You walked through an entrance built like a real mineshaft, past rusting mining equipment and narrow gauge rail cars, into a dimly lit dining room that felt like you’d descended into the earth.

It was unlike anything else in Texas.

From 1976 until it closed in 2005, generations of Dallas families celebrated birthdays, anniversaries, prom nights, and special occasions in that old mine on Goat Hill. Then it was demolished. And just like that — it was gone.

Some places you don’t realize you’ll miss until they’re already gone. 🤠🪨

[Steve Skojec @SteveSkojec]

As an unusually large man, I can tell you that putting your mass into a shoulder check like this is one of the most satisfying things you can do.

Yellow shirt guy will be smiling every time he thinks about this for the rest of his life https://t.co/c0g98ndVUh

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

- John Stott

[679 Enthusiast @marionumber4]

Boomers after voting to send another trillion to Israel while their grandchildren can’t afford basic goods

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨This is so much worse than you think.

> Amazon laid off 30,000 engineers. Then told the ones who survived that their bonuses depend on how much they use AI to write code. So engineers started using AI to push changes faster, because their paycheck literally depends on it.

> And then the site went down. Multiple times. Amazon's own shopping app broke because AI-generated code got pushed to production.

> So what did management do? Did they take responsibility for forcing engineers to use AI they weren't ready for? Did they admit they created the problem?

No. They called a mandatory meeting and blamed the engineers.

> AI is powerful enough to replace engineers, we've been saying that all day. But it's not powerful enough to replace quality control AND common sense all at once.

Amazon proved that executives who don't understand AI are more dangerous than the AI itself.

And every company rushing to do the same thing is watching this and learning absolutely nothing.

[Barbell Financial 💪🏻💰 @BarbellFi]

The life of a millennial:

- Graduated into the Great Recession

- Entry level jobs required 3 years experience

- Pensions replaced by the 401k

- Promoted at work meant a 2% raise & 200% more responsibility

- Felt stability in life then a pandemic

- Highest inflation in 50 years deleted pay raises

- Home prices doubled overnight forcing permanent renters

- Childcare costs 1 month of rent

- Juggling aging parents, young kids, burnout from work & the cost to live

- AI causing mass layoffs during peak earning years

[Dating Dynamics @Dating_Dynamics]

My parents were married for 33 years.

I never once heard the word “Divorce” in our house.

Not during fights, money stress, hard seasons. Never.

Before my wedding, my father pulled me aside and said a few things that still live in my head to this day....

[Primeiro Front @PrimeiroFront]

🔴ÚLTIMA HORA: Doutora viraliza nas redes sociais após mostrar como é a visão de quem precisar usar óculos, deixando internautas impressionados.

"Eu sempre quis saber como era", diz internauta.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

A marriage counselor once told my wife the problem was “communication.”

$200 an hour.

12 sessions.

She learned to “use I statements.”

I learned to “validate her feelings.”

We were still miserable.

You know what fixed my marriage?

I stopped talking.

Started doing.

Woke up before her.

Made the coffee.

Didn’t announce it.

Handled the dishes.

Didn’t ask for credit.

Took the kids so she could rest.

Didn’t call it “babysitting.”

Three weeks.

No conversations about our problems.

No processing.

No therapy homework.

Just a man who finally acted like he gave a damn.

She didn’t say anything at first.

Then one morning she looked at me like she hadn’t looked at me in years.

Not with love.

With surprise.

She’d forgotten I could show up.

The counselor told us to talk more.

What we needed was for me to shut up and move.

Most marriages don’t die from lack of words.

They die from lack of action.

Your wife doesn’t need another conversation.

She needs to see you in the kitchen at 5 AM.
Not because she asked.

Because you finally woke up.

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

When someone is particularly gifted verbally, has a charismatic personality, and is adept with spiritual language, it is very easy for us to assume maturity. Spiritual maturity is measured by character and by the fruit of the Spirit of God in a life.

[Greg Card 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @gregjcard]

I’m in the “barely over 40” class of working professional. Let me just say that there is beauty in taking work emails off your personal phone. Do it if you haven’t.

[Ja Leto @_falsi1ke]

Now I understand why older people are calmer…, after you’ve died enough times inside, you learn to breathe, let go, and simply be.

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

Uncle Screwtape is so pleased

[pagemasta @AdamPage85]

I was 17 years old the first and only time I said the F word in front of my mother. Didn’t know my Dad had just walked in from a long day’s work and was behind the kitchen door listening to my rebellious wanna be alpha male address my mother in such a horrible way. I never knew he could run that fast. I never knew my body could leave an imprint in the drywall like that. I didn’t know I could levitate. My Dad was on me like white on rice. He told me “You will not speak to my bride like that ever again.”

After the immense fear had subsided (😂) and I was thanking God I was alive and well (my dad is no small man) I realized that she wasn’t first and foremost my mother, she was first and foremost his bride. I never stopped seeing her that way. And with that, as things are often caught not taught, I strive to make sure my kids know my wife is first my bride before she is their mother. There is absolutely no relationship on earth more sacred than the one between husband & wife. Cherish it, protect it, fight for it.

[Tim Amor @TimAAmor]

American Christianity has always been an Empire religion, backing the violence & oppression of Babylon while building its high towers.

What has changed is that now it’s not even pretending to hold any of its “Christian” values.

The way of Jesus is anti-American.

[Jesuit News @jesuitnews]

“The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.”
-Dorothy Day, born #OTD in 1897

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[Greg Card 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @gregjcard]

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