Man who saved toddler honored by Thunderbirds: "The crucible of our formation is the monotony of our routines"
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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A man who jumped into an Ocean City, Maryland, bay last May to save a toddler was honored by the Air Force's Thunderbirds last Friday. In The Daily Article for June 29, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison tells this story, then he focuses on ways God prepares us in advance for the opportunities we meet each day and calls us to join our Lord in making an eternal difference in the lives we meet today.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.0 | Let's begin today with a great story. |
| 0:21.6 | A man who jumped into an Ocean City, Maryland Bay last May to save a toddler, was honored |
| 0:27.6 | Friday by the Air Force's Thunderbirds. |
| 0:30.6 | Jonathan Bauer was involved in a multi-vehicle crash on the Route 90 bridge over Asa Woman Bay. |
| 0:36.6 | A 23-month-old girl fell out of another car in the |
| 0:40.5 | crash and into the water. Bauer saw the baby in the bay and jumped more than 25 feet into the |
| 0:46.9 | water to save her. For his heroics, he was selected to ride in the back seat of an F-16 as part of the Thunderbird's hometown hero program. |
| 0:57.2 | If he had waited for professionals to rescue the girl, it might have been too late. |
| 1:04.3 | Yesterday, we focused on the fact that God has given us what we need to do what he intends us to do. Today, let's add this fact. To experience |
| 1:14.7 | his best, we must give our best to him every moment of every day. There can be no separation |
| 1:21.2 | between our time and his time, no division of life into sacred and secular, or people into clergy and laity. |
| 1:31.1 | We must each be available and yielded in every moment of every day to experience God's |
| 1:37.2 | providential and empowered best every moment of every day. |
| 1:41.7 | I am convinced that the dividing of our lives into religion and the real world |
| 1:46.5 | is one of Satan's most insidious and effective strategies for strangling the power and witness of |
| 1:52.9 | the church in these perilous days for the gospel. In recent days, we have begun hearing reports |
| 1:59.1 | of major structural damage discovered at the Champlain |
| 2:02.8 | Tower's south condominium complex three years before the deadly collapse. In response, |
| 2:09.0 | a multi-million dollar repair project was set to get underway soon. Now it is too late for the |
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