I went up to the person leading it and said, I must have, my attention in those five minutes must have gone a thousand different directions. And the person leading it said, what grace, that's a thousand opportunities to turn your heart back to God, which I loved that sense of it. And I feel like whatever tool we're using, there's so many different ways to be able to do this. And the reality is that God is

so pleased just for us to sit with him, even if our mind wanders. That's the voice of Craig Denison

from our latest episode of the Denison Forum podcast. We spoke to him about having a personal

relationship with Jesus, how to lead a thriving devotional life, and how he wrote First 15. To hear more,

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Today is Monday, December the 12th, 2022. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins

with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. From John 1412, we read,

Whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do.

Last Friday, a federal appeals court handed down a significant victory for religious freedom. In Sisters of Mercy v. Bacira, a coalition of Catholic hospitals and other institutions

successfully challenged the Biden administration's attempt to invoke the Affordable Care Act

by requiring doctors and hospitals to perform gender reassignment procedures,

even when doing so would violate the doctor's conscience and could harm the patient.

The story raises frightening questions. Will religious doctors face similar pressure to perform abortions in the future?

What about euthanasia or eugenic genetic modifications? If you're like me, you're growing weary of the culture war issues.

It is discouraging that our government would attempt such coercion as we saw in the Sisters of Mercy

case and frustrating that Christians must continue defending our First Amendment religious freedoms

on behalf of all Americans. If you're not an attorney like the experts at Beckett who won the

Sisters of Mercy case, you may wonder what difference you can make in a secularized

culture like ours. The answer is more encouraging and transformative than you may know.

Brenda Gomez Hernandez, a 28-year-old housekeeper in North Carolina, recently had a day she'll

never forget. She delivered a baby girl on November the 9th,

then learned later the same day that she had won $100,000 in the lottery.

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