Greetings. It's Tuesday, July 8th, 2025. Welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article authored by co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Shortly after I published yesterday's daily article, Camp Mystic confirmed that at least

27 campers and counselors were killed in flash floods last Friday with 10 children and one counselor

still missing. As of this morning, the death toll across the area has now climbed to at least 104 people.

The massive search continues for survivors and victims.

We are continuing to see tragic stories of those lost, such as Chloe Childress, a recent high school graduate who was set to attend the University of Texas at Austin this fall.

She was co-president of her high school's honor council, ran varsity cross-country,

and founded a club devoted to helping senior citizens.

Her death is a devastating loss to all who knew her and to the world she would have served so well.

In other heartbreaking news, the bodies of two

sisters from Dallas, ages 13 and 11, were found 15 miles from where their cabin was swept into the

river. Their hands were locked together. They are just two of so many stories so grievous that our minds and hearts feel overwhelmed with

unspeakable sorrow. At the same time, heroic stories are emerging as well. Emma Foltz of

Alexandria, Louisiana, has been a counselor at Camp Mystic for three years and helped evacuate

14 of her campers to safety. Jonathan McComb, who lost his wife and children in a 2015 flood in Wemberley, Texas,

is one of hundreds of volunteers helping search for victims.

Petty Officer Scott Ruskin, a Coast Guard swimmer, rescued 165 people at Camp Mystic. So here's the question. If they did all they could

do to rescue victims, why didn't our omnipotent God do all his power enables him to do to

prevent this tragedy from happening? The Bible says of our Lord in Psalm 104 verse 10,

you make springs gush forth in the valleys.

They flow between the hills.

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