Donald Trump named Time’s “Person of the Year”
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🗓️ 13 December 2024
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Donald Trump is Time’s Person of the Year. Of course, you didn’t get a vote. In nearly every dimension of your life, you are living with the consequences of decisions you didn’t make. But God is different, in ways that can change our lives and our world. Living biblically and acting redemptively may not earn you recognition by Time magazine or the secular authorities of our culture. However, living for God in this world will lead to his declaration in the next: “Well done, good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:21).
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. It's Friday, December the 13th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today's |
| 0:10.0 | daily article is written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison, and narrated by Chris Elkins. |
| 0:19.3 | President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange yesterday |
| 0:24.7 | morning not long after Time magazine announced that it has selected him as the |
| 0:30.8 | 2024 person of the year. |
| 0:33.5 | This is the second time he has been so named. |
| 0:36.4 | He was also chosen in 2016 after winning the White House the first time. |
| 0:41.3 | The first person to receive this honor was Charles Lindbergh in 1927. |
| 0:47.3 | In those days, the magazine called the award Man of the Year. |
| 0:51.3 | Every serving president of the United States has been man or person of the year |
| 0:56.9 | at least once, with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge, who was in office at the first issue of Time |
| 1:03.6 | magazine, Herbert Hoover, the subsequent president, and Gerald Ford, the only president |
| 1:10.2 | never elected to that office or to the |
| 1:13.1 | vice presidency. Would you have chosen Mr. Trump this year? Of course, you didn't get a vote. It's that |
| 1:19.3 | way with nearly every dimension of your life, though, you are living with the consequences of |
| 1:24.5 | decisions you didn't make. We say we live in a democracy where the people |
| 1:28.8 | choose their leaders, but that's not really true. In the latest election, 77,285,106 Americans |
| 1:38.7 | voted for Donald Trump out of the 334.9 million less than a fourth of us. It was the same with Joe Biden in |
| 1:48.3 | 2020. While he won 51% of the votes cast and the electoral college, the large majority of |
| 1:55.7 | Americans did not vote for him. This is partly because roughly 72 million Americans are too young to vote, |
| 2:03.3 | and partly because close to 90 million Americans of voting age didn't vote. Americans are led |
| 2:10.4 | by leaders. None of us individually had the power to choose from presidents to governors, |
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