Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast.

Today is Thursday, September 14, 2023, and today's article was written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO Dr. Jim Denison.

Hurricane Lee is prompting hurricane and tropical storm watches for much of coastal New England this morning,

with winds from the massive storm expected as early

as tomorrow. 6,000 miles away, a massive flash flood in Libya has killed at least 5,100 people.

Thousands are still missing, and tens of thousands are homeless. In the first 11 days of September,

eight devastating flood events unfolded on four continents.

The U.S. has already set a record for a billion-dollar weather disasters in a year,

with four months still to go.

Meanwhile, Apple's latest product launch event unveiled even more sophisticated innovations

from the world's most valuable company.

But all that the high-tech on my desk in my pocket and on my wrist can do about the weather

is to report the present and attempt to predict the future.

Nothing we have invented can deter nature's unbridled power and ferocity,

proving every day the finitude and frailty of humans

in our urgent need for power and protection beyond ourselves.

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the death in AD 407 of St. J. G. Crosostum, considered by some historians to be, quote, the greatest preacher ever heard in a Christian pulpit, end quote.

In one of his messages, he reminded his congregation, quote, The waters have risen and severe storms are upon us, but we do not fear drowning,

for we stand firmly upon a rock.

Let the sea rage, he cannot break the rock.

Let the waves rise they cannot sink the boat of Jesus.

What are we to fear? Death?

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