Denzel Washington explains why we need a "spiritual anchor" today
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Denzel Washington recently explained why we all need “spiritual anchors” amidst spiritual warfare. A nine-year-old girl was photographed minutes before a tornado killed her. The COVID-19 omicron variant has been reported in seventy-seven countries. In The Daily Article for December 15, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison shares how God redeems tragedy in a world afflicted by suffering.
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| 1:07.3 | Denzel Washington stars in the tragedy of Macbeth, which opens widely on Christmas Day. |
| 1:13.8 | In an interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, this son of a Pentecostal minister |
| 1:19.6 | said he asks himself this question, what I do, what I make, what I made, all of that, |
| 1:27.0 | is that going to help me on the last day of my life? |
| 1:30.0 | It's about, who have you lifted up? Who have you made better? He explained, this is spiritual warfare, |
| 1:37.9 | so I'm not looking at it from an earthly perspective. If you don't have a spiritual anchor, |
| 1:43.9 | you'll be easily blown by the wind, and you'll |
| 1:46.6 | be led to depression. He's right on both counts. Last Friday night, nine-year-old |
| 1:55.4 | Aniston Rackley was sheltering in the bathtub, with her two sisters as storms raged near their southeast Missouri home. |
| 2:03.8 | She was photographed clutching her favorite doll, just minutes before a tornado ripped her home |
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