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2020-12-16T05:30:49-06:00

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Homeless man now feeds hundreds a day: Finding our empowering purpose through service

Last updated on: December 16, 2020 at 5:30 am By Jim Denison

Anthony Delgado lived on the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, panhandling to feed his drug addiction. One day, a man and woman told him he should go to the VA hospital. No one around him saw the couple, however. He started panhandling again but developed chest pain. A man stopped to help and gave him a token for a train ride to the hospital. When Delgado stepped onto the train, the man had vanished. Delgado made it to the hospital, joined... Read more

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2020-12-15T05:30:22-06:00

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Responding to ongoing election conflict: Three biblical steps to our “upward call”

Last updated on: December 15, 2020 at 5:30 am By Jim Denison

My father died on this day in 1979. When America became involved in World War II, he enlisted in the US Army. Because he could type, he was made a radio operator and stationed with three hundred other soldiers on an island in the South Pacific. Only seventeen survived. My father gave up his aspirations for a medical career to serve his country. While stationed on that island, he contracted a skin disease that he battled for the rest of... Read more

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2020-12-14T05:30:12-06:00

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Is the COVID-19 vaccine ethical? Abortion, loving our neighbor, and the priority of biblical wisdom

Last updated on: December 14, 2020 at 5:30 am By Jim Denison

In 1956, too few teenagers and young adults were getting the new polio vaccine, so officials turned to Elvis Presley. The entertainer got a polio vaccine on the Ed Sullivan Show, an endorsement that helped vaccination rates go up and eliminate the disease from the country. Six decades later, history seems to be repeating itself. The death of Charley Pride The first batches of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine began distribution yesterday. Vaccinations will begin at 145 sites this morning, with... Read more

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2020-12-11T05:30:03-06:00

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Is the US in contact with aliens? The empowering key to a life of transforming grace

Last updated on: December 11, 2020 at 5:30 am By Jim Denison

Haim Eshed is the former head of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s space directorate. A respected professor and retired general, he made headlines recently with his claim that “there is an agreement between the US government and the aliens. They signed a contract with us to do experiments here.” He states that extraterrestrials from a “galactic federation” are working with American astronauts in an “underground base in the depths of Mars.” The reason they have not made their existence public before... Read more

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2020-12-10T05:30:00-06:00

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Young cancer patient designs sweatshirt to raise money for fellow patients: Good news in the news and an invitation to joy

Last updated on: December 10, 2020 at 5:30 am By Jim Denison

With all the bad news in the news lately, I thought we could use some good news. A ten-year-old leukemia patient has designed a sweatshirt to raise money for families impacted by pediatric cancer. Her design includes the words, “Be strong and courageous,” taken from Joshua 1:9. A nightclub closed by COVID-19 restrictions in Lausanne, Switzerland, has been converted into a temporary blood donation center. Gen Z Americans (currently between eight and twenty-three years old) have relied on faith more... Read more

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2020-12-09T05:38:48-06:00

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How should you respond if you consider the election to be illegitimate? Four options and a biblical path forward

Last updated on: December 9, 2020 at 5:38 am By Jim Denison

Republican state officials in Texas sued Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania in the US Supreme Court yesterday. Their suit alleges that the four states acted unconstitutionally by changing their voting rules to expand access amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Forbes cites experts, however, who claim that the lawsuit is “nearly certain to fail.” Meanwhile, the results of the 2020 US presidential election were finalized yesterday under what is called the “safe harbor deadline.” This law declares that any completed and certified... Read more

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2020-12-08T05:38:21-06:00

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Turning PPE into bricks: The most read Bible verse of 2020 and the hidden danger on the path to God’s best

Last updated on: December 8, 2020 at 5:38 am By Jim Denison

The coronavirus pandemic is generating tons of discarded PPE. This gear is often made of polypropylene plastic, which can take hundreds of years to degrade in landfills and oceans. Enter Binish Desai, a recycling prodigy in India who at the age of sixteen founded a company that has turned textile waste into furniture and coffee grounds into plates and bowls. Now he has found a way to convert PPE into bricks. Body coverings, masks, and head caps are isolated for... Read more

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2020-12-07T05:30:00-06:00

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Grandmother shoots buck from the kitchen window: The courage to respond biblically to “the worst event this country will face”

Last updated on: December 7, 2020 at 5:30 am By Jim Denison

“My kitchen is my deer stand. We take the screen off one of the windows every fall. I can see a pretty good ways from there.” So says Virginia Luce, an eighty-year-old grandmother in East Texas who recently shot an eleven-point buck from her kitchen window. The four-time cancer survivor retired just two months ago from a twenty-five-year career as a registered nurse. She was making lunch around noon on November 8 when she spotted the buck 175 yards away.... Read more

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2020-12-04T05:30:00-06:00

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Couple cancels their big wedding and gives Thanksgiving dinners to the needy: The paradoxical path to transforming grace

Last updated on: December 4, 2020 at 5:30 am By Jim Denison

Listen to The Daily Article Podcast, then subscribe. Emily Bugg and Billy Lewis had to change their wedding plans in Chicago due to the pandemic, getting married at city hall last month instead. There was this piece of unfinished business, however: What should they do with their $5,000 nonrefundable catering deposit? They decided to turn it into two hundred Thanksgiving dinners for people with severe mental illnesses. Emily is an outreach worker at a nonprofit that helps people with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia,... Read more

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2020-12-03T05:39:35-06:00

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A sight that hasn’t occurred in eight centuries: The key to experiencing the power of the King

Last updated on: December 3, 2020 at 5:39 am By Jim Denison

An event is coming on the evening of December 21 that last occurred on March 4, 1226. According to Rice University astronomer Patrick Hartigan, that was the last time Jupiter and Saturn were as closely aligned in the night sky as they will be later this month. In eighteen days, the two will appear to us like a double planet separated by only one-fifth the diameter of the full moon. This won’t happen again until March 15, 2080, and then... Read more

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