Chadwick Boseman's death and faith: The power of purpose and the "two great days" of your life
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR AUGUST 31, 2020
Chadwick Boseman, one of our generation's greatest actors, died last Friday at the age of forty-three. Today's podcast tells the story of his death and his faith, then we focus on ways to use "social proof" to advance the gospel while finding and fulfilling God's purpose for our lives.
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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. |
| 0:19.7 | Chadwick Boseman, the actor who played the title character in the Oscar-winning film, |
| 0:24.6 | Black Panther, died last Friday at the age of 43. Bozeman drew accolades for his depictions of |
| 0:31.2 | Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson, and James Brown. He died on the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington, and the day baseball |
| 0:39.7 | honored Jackie Robinson. In his memory, ABC showed Black Panther commercial free last night. |
| 0:46.5 | I watched the marvelous film again, as well as the tribute show to Bozeman that followed. |
| 0:51.9 | One person said of him, he played icons, |
| 0:55.0 | and now has become an icon himself, |
| 0:57.7 | and his legacy is one for the ages. |
| 1:02.7 | The tweet announcing Bozeman's death |
| 1:05.2 | is now the most liked tweet of all time. |
| 1:08.2 | In it, his family reported, |
| 1:10.3 | Chadwick was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer |
| 1:13.3 | in 2016 and battled with it these last four years as it progressed to stage four. He filmed Black |
| 1:20.6 | Panther in 2018, reprising the role in Avengers Infinity War and Avengers Endgame. The latter became the highest |
| 1:29.4 | grossing movie of all time. He starred last year in 21 Bridges and then in the Netflix |
| 1:35.4 | war drama, Defive Bloods. We now know that he made each of these movies, as his family stated, |
| 1:41.8 | during and between countless surgeries in chemotherapy. |
| 1:46.0 | Chadwick Bozeman died of cancer, but he died in faith. |
| 1:50.0 | Reverend Samuel Neely, the pastor who baptized Bozeman as a child, said the arts were always |
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