Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, the president's address to a joint session of Congress was, to say the least, eventful.

One of the highlights, to be sure, was when President Donald Trump appointed 13-year-old brain cancer survivor DJ Daniel to be an honorary secret service agent.

He was immediately then sworn in by director Sean Curran.

Six years ago, doctors gave Daniel just five months to live.

Since then, he's undergone 13 brain surgeries.

Throughout the ordeal, Daniel has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. In fact,

over 100 different law enforcement agencies have sworn him into their ranks since then.

Just recently, a video surfaced on social media where DJ was being bullied and ridiculed for

wearing his police uniform. And the reason that so many found how he's

treated in the video so abhorrent is because of an idea, an idea that's only found in the Bible.

That idea is that every individual bears the image of God and includes the old and the young,

the healthy, the sick, the disabled, and the fully abled. While the Bible doesn't provide a

single systematic policy on disability, the biblical, and the fully abled. While the Bible doesn't provide a single systematic

policy on disability, the biblical idea of Amagoday introduced to the whole world, a different

way to think about all people. Among the vast fruit that's born of this idea over the centuries

is seeing those who have disabilities as of equal value and of equal purpose,

regardless of physical or intellectual limitations. It's an idea that countered the prevalent

tendency across so many cultures to see certain people as being less human, as burdensome,

as unworthy of life. And of course, Jesus consistently showed that contrast and how he

approached people with compassion to the marginalized, including those who have disabilities.

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