Emmanuel Macron wins reelection as French president, but there's more to the story
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 25 April 2022
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Emmanuel Macron won reelection in France's presidential contest yesterday, defeating far-right rival Marine Le Pen. However, in this story and others recently in the news (like alligators "taking lonely strolls in Florida" and why Mike Tyson punched a man on a flight), there's more to the story. In The Daily Article for April 25, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison looks at the fact that "there is often something we don't know about people or events that puts them in a new light," then discusses how Christians can overcome their "besetting sins."
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Our latest book is now available. In How to Bless God by Blessing Others, Dr. Ryan Denison |
| 0:06.1 | offers words of wisdom from the early church that still hold valuable lessons for us today. |
| 0:12.0 | As he writes in the introduction, we are hardly the first generation of believers to face the prospect |
| 0:17.8 | of living out our faith and advancing God's kingdom |
| 0:20.9 | in the midst of a culture that has no interest in helping us do either. |
| 0:25.8 | Our faith began and experience of its greatest periods of growth under similar circumstances. |
| 0:32.9 | The book asks, what can we learn today from how they lived then? How should our attitude toward our |
| 0:40.0 | post-Christian culture mirror their stance toward Roman oppression? Request your copy of how to |
| 0:47.3 | bless God by blessing others at daily article.org today. |
| 1:01.9 | Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Monday, April 25th, 2022. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 1:08.1 | As expected, Emmanuel Macron won re-election in France's presidential contest yesterday, |
| 1:14.4 | defeating far-right rival Marine Le Pen. However, there's more to the story. Le Pen's party |
| 1:20.9 | received more support than ever before, and as Reuters reports, many only voted for Macron reluctantly to block the far right from winning. |
| 1:31.6 | As a result, protests that marred part of his first mandate could erupt again quite quickly. |
| 1:39.7 | Closer to home, this headline caught my eye. Hot, hungry alligators are taking lonely strolls in Florida. |
| 1:46.9 | Why is this story closer to home for someone who lives in Texas? |
| 1:51.4 | My brother lives in Florida, not far from where these alligators are roaming, which makes this news an existential concern for me. |
| 1:59.7 | Here's another story I found interesting. |
| 2:02.3 | A woman whose left leg was amputated below the knee due to cancer has completed 102 marathons |
| 2:09.7 | in 102 days on a prosthetic leg. |
| 2:14.1 | Why would she embark on such a staggering undertaking? She explained that running helped me |
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