A farmer who died for a stranger: How to find good news in bad news
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 18 March 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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TODAY'S DAILY ARTICLE
When tragedies make the news, we are reminded of our finitude and God's omnipotence. Today's podcast invites us to turn fear to faith, testifying to our fearful culture that God is Lord.
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| 0:00.0 | A Farmer Who Died for a Stranger. |
| 0:04.7 | How to Find Good News and Bad News. |
| 0:07.1 | This is Jim Denison's The Daily Article podcast for Monday, March 18th, 2019. |
| 0:12.2 | There is good news in the bad news making news today. |
| 0:15.7 | First, the bad news. |
| 0:17.5 | Large parts of Nebraska and the U.S. Central Plains were underwater over the weekend after |
| 0:21.3 | a late winter bomb cyclone storm triggered historic flooding. Forecasters warn that more |
| 0:26.6 | rain is coming tomorrow. A farmer named James Wilkie got a call to assist a stranger during |
| 0:31.6 | the storm and drove his tractor over a bridge that collapsed. Wilkie and his tractor went to |
| 0:36.5 | the floodwater. He did not survive. |
| 0:38.9 | Meanwhile, last week's shooting in New Zealand continues to dominate headlines as authorities |
| 0:43.4 | rushed to identify the 50 victims and the Prime Minister promises changes to gun laws. |
| 0:48.4 | And ceremonies were held in Kenya and Ethiopia for the 157 victims of last week's Ethiopian Airlines plane crash. While man-made |
| 0:57.0 | tragedies deservedly generate headlines and global sympathy, natural disasters affect millions |
| 1:02.3 | across the country. The global annual death rate from natural disasters has fallen significantly |
| 1:07.2 | over the years, but such tragedies affect 218 million people each year and claim 68,000 |
| 1:13.2 | lives. However, there is a principle here that promises to liberate us with hope that transcends |
| 1:18.3 | all hardships. The book of Job is not usually considered an uplifting work of literature. |
| 1:24.2 | Much of it is dominated by Job's understandable complaints to God about the horrific suffering he endured. |
| 1:29.3 | Toward the end of the book the Lord answers him, not by explaining Job's pain, but by declaring his own omnipotence and omniscience. |
| 1:36.3 | For instance, in Job 41, God asked Job, can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook or press down his tongue with a cord? Most scholars believe that Leviathan in this context is a giant crocodile. The creature's creator warns Job in verse 8. Lay your hands on him. Remember the battle. You will not do it again. By comparison to this mighty beast, the hope of a man is false. He is laid low even at the sight of him, as verse 9 says. |
| 2:01.4 | This is just one illustration of our frailty and finitude in the face of God's creation. |
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