Deadly weather left more than a million without power: Four options when storms strike your soul
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Yesterday, a massive storm system killed at least two people and knocked out power to more than one million utility customers from Pennsylvania to Georgia. When the storms of life strike us, we have four spiritual options: deism, skepticism, self-reliant Christianity, or holistic Christianity. You may know the “right” answer, but does your life bear its truth?
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Wednesday, August 9th, 2023. Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. |
| 0:14.7 | From Ephesians 320 in the New Living Translation, All glory to God, who is able through his mighty power at work within us |
| 0:23.6 | to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Let us start with good luck in the news. |
| 0:30.5 | A ticket in Florida won last night's estimated $1.58 billion mega-million's jackpot, which is expected to be the largest in lottery's history. |
| 0:42.0 | Now to the bad luck. A massive storm killed at least two people and knocked out power to more than |
| 0:47.7 | one million utility customers from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Hundreds of U.S. flights were canceled or |
| 0:54.1 | delayed yesterday. |
| 0:55.0 | Monday saw more than 1,700 cancellations and 8,800 delays as well. |
| 1:01.0 | Few stories capture so well the power and impotence of humans at the same time. |
| 1:07.0 | We have invented machines that can take everyday people more than 30,000 feet into the air and astronauts to the moon and back. |
| 1:14.6 | And yet, storms we cannot control and often cannot predict can defeat our most sophisticated technology. |
| 1:22.6 | Personal example. |
| 1:23.6 | Yesterday, my smartphone weather app told me there was a 0% chance of rain, so I went out on my usual morning walk and got rained on. |
| 1:32.3 | Tomorrow, those who know where to look will find the annual Perseid meteor shower in the night sky, along with the planet Uranus, and what astronomers call the waning gibbous moon. |
| 1:43.8 | But be careful, what is in the night sky can fall |
| 1:46.8 | to Earth as a woman in France who was struck by an apparent meteorite can attest. And the shockwaves |
| 1:53.6 | caused by large meteorites, most of which scientists cannot predict, can do far more damage than the |
| 2:00.4 | meteorites themselves. When the storms of life |
| 2:03.5 | strike us, we have four spiritual options. One, the deist says God created the universe, but has no |
| 2:11.1 | more dealings with it. In their view, the creator is like a clockmaker who makes the world |
| 2:16.9 | and then sits it on the mantel and watches |
| 2:19.1 | it run down. Thus, the deist does not credit God for good weather, blame him for bad, or appeal for |
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