A political leader whose faith is deeply encouraging: Preparing for a threat that seeks to replace Christianity
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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As the American media continues its response to President Biden's address to Congress, another political leader is making news for the depth of his personal faith. In The Daily Article for April 30, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison tells his story, then focuses on an unprecedented threat to the Christian faith and the pathway to transforming spiritual power.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.7 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.4 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:18.5 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily Article for Friday, April 30th, 2021. |
| 0:24.3 | The title is, a political leader whose faith is deeply encouraging, preparing for a threat |
| 0:30.0 | that seeks to replace Christianity. Let me begin with this note. I'm back in the office and |
| 0:36.0 | want to express my deep gratitude to Ryan Denison for writing the daily article in my note. I'm back in the office and want to express my deep gratitude to Ryan |
| 0:38.3 | Denison for writing the daily article in my absence. I found his insights on challenging issues |
| 0:44.1 | to be profoundly biblical and practical. I'm so grateful to the readers who express their support of his |
| 0:50.1 | work. It is a great honor to share this ministry with him. The American media continues to cover |
| 0:56.6 | President Biden's Wednesday night addressed to Congress and the reactions to him. Meanwhile, |
| 1:01.3 | another politician is making news in ways that are deeply encouraging. Scott Morrison is the |
| 1:07.5 | Prime Minister of Australia and a very public Christian. |
| 1:11.4 | He spoke recently to the Australian Christian Church's National Conference, where he shared |
| 1:16.3 | his personal faith and sense of call to his position. |
| 1:20.2 | The newspaper The Guardian reports that, quote, Morrison is far from alone among Australian |
| 1:25.3 | prime ministers, either in holding religious beliefs or in talking |
| 1:28.9 | publicly about them, but he is unusual in modern times in expressing such a direct sense of |
| 1:35.0 | divine calling to the office of Prime Minister. The article takes a decidedly skeptical view of this |
| 1:41.7 | divine calling. This is unsurprising since the prime minister's holistic |
| 1:46.5 | faith conflicts directly with a narrative that now dominates our culture. One of the transformative |
| 1:53.7 | consequences of stepping away from our daily lives is an enlarged perspective when we return. |
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