Americans are more optimistic than we have been in fifteen years: The danger of "untethered sympathy" and the power of God's love
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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A recent poll indicates that Americans are more optimistic than we have been in fifteen years. In The Daily Article for May 5, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison reports on this and other stories that show the good news and the bad news of our fallen nature, then he discusses the danger of "untethered sympathy" and calls us to trust God's word and his transforming love.
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| 1:05.8 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily Article for Wednesday, May the 5th, |
| 1:10.2 | 2021. The title is |
| 1:12.0 | Americans are more optimistic than we have been in 15 years, the danger of untethered sympathy, |
| 1:18.4 | and the power of God's love. According to a poll taken last weekend, Americans are more |
| 1:23.9 | optimistic about the nation's direction than we have been since December of 2006. |
| 1:29.2 | However, our partisan divide remains. |
| 1:32.1 | 78% of Republicans think keeping taxes the same is important, while 80% of Democrats say it's |
| 1:38.9 | important that the government spend money to help the economy. |
| 1:42.0 | The next generation of COVID-19 vaccines could come as a pill or a nasal |
| 1:46.6 | spray and be easier to store and transport. They have the potential to provide longer-lasting |
| 1:52.3 | immune responses and could be more potent against newer and multiple viral variants, possibly |
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