A massacre in New Zealand, fighting in Israel, and a redemptive lesson from an unlikely source
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 15 March 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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TODAY'S DAILY ARTICLE
The Ides of March are more significant to our culture than many people know. Today's podcast tells the story of this important day and discusses its relevance to our churches and our souls.
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| 0:00.0 | A massacre in New Zealand, fighting in Israel, and a redemptive lesson from an unlikely source. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Jim Denison's The Daily Article podcast for Friday, March 15, 2019. |
| 0:13.8 | 49 people were killed in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand this morning. |
| 0:19.1 | 20 more were seriously wounded. |
| 0:20.8 | Four people, including three men and one woman, have been taken into custody. in Christchurch, New Zealand this morning. Twenty more were seriously wounded. |
| 0:25.2 | Four people, including three men and one woman, have been taken into custody. |
| 0:28.5 | One man in his late 20s has been charged with murder. |
| 0:32.1 | He reportedly posted a white nationalist manifesto on Twitter. |
| 0:35.9 | This tragedy was the largest massacre in New Zealand history. |
| 0:38.3 | Reminds us that Satan comes to steal and kill and destroy. God is weeping with those who weep today and calls us to join him. |
| 0:44.5 | In other news, Israeli warplanes struck some 100 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight, |
| 0:49.8 | responding to a rocket attack on the Israeli metropolis of Tel Aviv. The fighting broke out as Egyptian mediators were in Gaza, |
| 0:56.9 | working to broker and expanded ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. |
| 1:01.0 | In a world filled with violence and chaos, |
| 1:03.3 | we can learn a redemptive lesson from an unlikely source. |
| 1:06.4 | Today is known as the Ides of March. |
| 1:08.3 | In the Roman world, the Ides was the midpoint of their months. |
| 1:11.6 | The date we know is March 15th was marked by several religious ceremonies and was a Roman |
| 1:15.6 | deadline for settling debts. This day is especially known to history as the day Julius Caesar |
| 1:20.4 | was assassinated in 44 BC. The backstory is remarkable. According to the Roman biographer |
| 1:26.1 | Plutarch, a certain seer warned Caesar |
| 1:28.4 | to be on his guard against a great peril on the day of the month of March, which the Romans |
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