Cocaine on corn flakes: Our moral crisis and our nation’s only hope
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 23 February 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A narcotic detector dog recently found cocaine on corn flakes being shipped into our country. Today's podcast tells this story and offers other examples of our need for moral revival, then we turn to the only hope we have and God's call to share that hope with passion today.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison with the Denison Forum. This podcast is narrated by Chris Nichter.
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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 |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.5 | U.S. Customs and Border Patrol recently seized a 44-pound shipment of corn flakes from |
| 0:25.6 | South America. |
| 0:26.6 | The reason, its flakes were covered in cocaine instead of sugar. |
| 0:31.6 | Biko, a narcotics detector dog, flagged the shipment in Cincinnati, Ohio. As long as there have been laws, humans have |
| 0:40.3 | attempted to break them. The first humans broke the first law in human history. The first child ever |
| 0:46.6 | born murdered the second child ever born. From then until now, our story is one of laws and lawbreakers. |
| 0:54.8 | Criminals are sometimes caught, as with the 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, |
| 1:01.4 | who was deported from Tennessee back to Germany last Saturday. |
| 1:05.6 | Many are not. |
| 1:07.0 | According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, fewer than half of crimes in the U.S. are reported. |
| 1:13.0 | According to the FBI, fewer than half of reported crimes are solved. |
| 1:17.9 | Every day's news brings further proof that our secular culture desperately needs a great spiritual |
| 1:24.1 | awakening. This is why, as I noted yesterday, you and I need to live in submission |
| 1:29.7 | to the Holy Spirit out of a passion for Christ-like character, and why we need to pray and work |
| 1:35.9 | with urgency to help everyone we influence do the same. The hour is later than we know, |
| 1:42.0 | but the hope we offer is the hope our nation needs today. |
| 1:49.5 | Britannica defines government as the political system by which a country or community is administered and regulated. |
| 1:57.5 | It lists monarchy, rule by a monarch, oligarchy, rule by a small group, and democracy, |
| 2:05.0 | rule by the people, as the main approaches across history. For most of Western history, |
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