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The Daily Article Podcast offers news discerned differently every Monday through Friday morning. With biblical insight into the day’s latest news and current events, this narrated edition of Dr. Jim Denison’s email newsletter presents a nonpartisan perspective on what’s happening now and how Christians can respond biblically to the culture at large.
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses Congress and President Biden addresses the nation: How to win the most critical battle of our time
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint meeting of Congress yesterday afternoon. Thousands of protesters against the war in Gaza converged on Washington to condemn his visit, while roughly half of House and Senate Democrats skipped his address. In an Oval Office address last night, President Biden explained his candidacy dropout…
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Why has President Biden not spoken to the public since last week?: Conspiracy theories and the path to transforming truth
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Why has President Joe Biden not spoken publicly since it was announced last Wednesday that he had contracted COVID-19? Conspiracy theories range from hospice care to stroke to cover ups. When all truth is personal and subjective, as postmodernists have claimed for decades, we are left with a “post-truth” society in which “your truth” is as valid as…
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Secret Service director admits the “most significant operational failure” in decades
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Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told lawmakers yesterday that the shooting was her agency’s “most significant operational failure” in decades. On the other side of the aisle, the Biden campaign has officially renamed itself “Harris for President.” In our divided political landscape, the key to finding peace and unity is to love others as C…
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Joe Biden withdraws from the presidential race, endorses Kamala Harris
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President Biden announced yesterday that he is withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Harris. The chaos of our day is God’s invitation to trust and experience his providence so fully that we become catalysts for the moral and spiritual renewal our culture needs so desperately. Today, we discuss how we can do this mo…
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Former president Donald Trump officially accepted the Republican nomination last night to cap off a four-day convention in Milwaukee. Toward the beginning of his address, Trump recounted the shooting in greater detail than many expected, then throughout the rest of his address, he would periodically speak of his gratitude to the Lord and of the nat…
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President Biden tests positive for COVID-19 amid renewed calls for him to leave the presidential race
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President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, forcing him to cancel a campaign event in Las Vegas. In a new poll, nearly two-thirds of Democrats agree that Mr. Biden should withdraw, including party leaders. Today we discuss Israel’s response to times when things seemed to be spiraling out of control and the wisdom we find in Jeremiah for…
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Is J. D. Vance’s story “an only-in-America tale”?
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J. D. Vance’s nomination for vice president is being called an “only-in-America tale.” Our national ethos, as expressed in our founding declaration that “all men are created equal,” especially encourages the rise of individuals from obscurity to the highest levels of power. But recent decades have seen our nation transform from one of community val…
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Remembering Corey Comperatore: A “real life superhero” and the pathway to sacrificial courage
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When shots rang out last Saturday at a rally for former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, Corey Comperatore shielded his wife and daughters with his body, giving his life for his family. He was an engineer and volunteer firefighter. While none of us can know the hour of our death, we can prepare for it. Today we discuss how to choose to live…
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“It’s nothing short of miraculous.” Reflections on the attempted assassination of former President Trump
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Donald Trump wrote on his social medial platform TruthSocial yesterday that it was “God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” allowing him to survive Saturday’s assassination attempt. The Wall Street Journal editorial board similarly wrote, “It’s nothing short of miraculous that Mr. Trump avoided death by a literal inch.” According t…
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Shooting at Donald Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania
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Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign rally this afternoon in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a series of pops that sounded like gunshots rang out. Mr. Trump’s face and ear were bloodied as he was rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents and escorted into his motorcade. The shooting is being investigated as an attempted assassination of the forme…
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Did the Republican party abandon the pro-life movement?
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The Republican Party recently released its 2024 platform, outlining its goals and priorities should the November elections go its way. While the document comprises a list of twenty promises and ten chapters that go in depth on a variety of subjects, the changes to the party’s official stance on abortion have received the most attention. Many have s…
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A new study demonstrates the amazing power of gratitude
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Amidst all the bad news in the news this week, let’s focus today on some good news. A new study of gratitude and mortality among older adults found that those who more frequently noticed and felt grateful for positive experiences tended to live longer. As you will hear, this report is by no means an outlier. And, Scripture similarly commands us to …
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As NATO meets, President Biden “has absolutely no room for any sort of mistakes”
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The thirty-two member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are observing its seventy-fifty anniversary this week in Washington, DC. Support for Ukraine will be an especially high priority escalated by Russia’s missile attack Monday that hit a children’s hospital and killed at least forty-one civilians. Many are focusing on Presid…
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Hurricane Beryl’s destruction and President Biden’s future: The power of Mother Nature and Father Time
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Hurricane Beryl, the earliest Category 4 and Category 5 hurricane on record killed at least three people and knocked out power to nearly three million homes and businesses in Texas after devastating islands in the Caribbean. President Biden wrote a letter yesterday to his “fellow Democrats” stating, “I am firmly committed to staying in this race, t…
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President Biden faces a “credibility crisis” as more Democrats say he should leave the race
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A growing chorus is calling on President Biden to end his candidacy, and some even say he should resign from office. In normal times, I would probably be writing on Hurricane Beryl after it made landfall this morning in Matagorda, Texas; the storm is expected to cause significant flooding in the Houston area and beyond. Or I would focus on the surp…
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President Biden has told allies he has only days to salvage his candidacy
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ABC News has shifted President Biden’s interview tonight with George Stephanopoulos to primetime. According to the New York Times, he has told key allies that he knows he has only days to salvage his presidential candidacy. At the end of a week spent exploring the greatness of our nation, we see that our best and most patriotic service to our natio…
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Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan explain the uniqueness of America
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This Fourth of July marks the 248th anniversary of the day America’s Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. Today, we look at statements from Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan about the uniqueness of our nation. “Liberty to all,” as Mr. Lincoln so perceptively observed, was the beating heart of the American expe…
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First Democrat in Congress calls for President Biden to withdraw from 2024 race
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President Biden will meet with Democratic governors later today as he attempts to solidify support among his party’s top leaders after last week’s debate. This as Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas has become the first Democrat in Congress to publicly call for Mr. Biden to step down as his party’s nominee for president. While you and I can do very little …
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US Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity: How to “keep” our republic
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The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Donald Trump is entitled to “a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts.” However, it added that a president “enjoys no immunity for unofficial acts, and not everything the president does is official.” However, here’s the foundational issue no court or law can resolve unilaterally: wheth…
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Should Joe Biden leave the presidential race? Why I’m grateful for the turmoil of our politics
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A poll released yesterday indicated that 72 percent of registered voters do not believe Joe Biden has the mental and cognitive health to serve as president; 49 percent said the same of Donald Trump. However, Americans can take heart that no matter who ends up winning the election this November, the only king of our nation is the law, which subjects…
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A presidential debate and four Supreme Court rulings: Why trust in our leaders is crucial to our future
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President Biden and former President Trump held a ninety-minute debate last night at CNN’s Atlanta studios. Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court issued four significant rulings. Approval of the Court has sunk to historic lows, as has public opinion regarding the presidency. Why is this issue so critical to our future? To wrap up our week-long expl…
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Anticipating a presidential debate unlike any other
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Tonight’s televised presidential debate between Trump and Biden is the earliest such event in US history. Since roughly 10 percent of US voters are still undecided, tonight’s event could prove especially pivotal. In continuing this week’s discussion on how God could allow the innocent to suffer, we look at the subjective correlation between voters’…
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Will tomorrow night’s presidential debate be fair?
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A spokesperson for Donald Trump said Mr. Trump is “knowingly going into a hostile environment” for tomorrow night’s presidential debate. Mr. Trump’s campaign is warning of a “three against one” ambush that can only favor President Biden. Of course, if the debate were being hosted on a network and by moderators known for conservative bias, Mr. Biden…
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Callie Weems, 23, died last Friday helping to save the life of another victim after a gunman opened fire at a store in Fordyce, AR. She had a ten-month-old daughter. Today’s article continues our discussion on why an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful Father sometimes allows innocent victims to suffer. If believers must account for the evil perp…
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Gateway leaders face congregation, first time since Morris resignation
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Yesterday morning, a Gateway Church elder asked the congregation to pray for Morris’s accuser and her family, the entire Morris family, and Gateway Church staff members. There have been many recent examples of the “clergy abuse scandal” that are reaching across our secularized culture. Today we start by asking ourselves the hard question, “If God i…
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