9/11 and the six-month anniversary of the pandemic: How to find the help and hope we need today
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
This is both the nineteenth anniversary of 9/11 and the six-month anniversary of the WHO's declaration of the coronavirus pandemic. Today's podcast reviews these tragic events, then we focus on God's promise of hope in hardship and his call to share such hope as "wounded healers."
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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 thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.8 | This day will always be marked by the same image. |
| 0:22.6 | The twin towers are burning, smoke spiraling into the clear blue sky over Manhattan, |
| 0:28.6 | and the world as we know it is about to change forever. |
| 0:31.6 | Two months after that horrific morning in 2001, President George W. Bush stated, time is passing. Yet for the United |
| 0:40.4 | States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer |
| 0:46.4 | who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and |
| 0:53.1 | ash. The last phone calls, the funerals of the |
| 0:56.6 | children. His words are just as relevant today as they were 19 years ago. |
| 1:04.5 | Today is painfully significant for another reason as well. It was six months ago today that |
| 1:10.4 | the World Health Organization |
| 1:11.8 | officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. On March 11th, there were over 118,000 cases of coronavirus |
| 1:20.1 | around the world. As of this morning, that number stands at more than 28 million, with global |
| 1:26.7 | deaths succeeding 900,000. On days like this, |
| 1:31.1 | it is good to remember that the Lord is near to the broken-hearted and saves the crushed in spirit. |
| 1:37.7 | As Psalm 147 reminds us, the God who determines the number of stars and gives to all of them their names is the same God |
| 1:47.9 | who heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds. His word assures us in Romans 8 that |
| 1:55.5 | the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. This is |
| 2:02.9 | because this light momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all |
| 2:09.8 | comparison. In the meantime, we can, with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may |
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