How a local pastor became a “lifeline” after the Kentucky floods
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Brad Stevens is pastor of Church of God Worship Center in Clay County, in eastern Kentucky. Following floods that have devastated his region, he has helped lead his community to unite and to rebuild. Dr. Jim Denison shares his inspiring story and then turns to the life and faith of Dominic, who founded the Dominicans, before concluding with six steps to transformational truth. For more on opportunities to explain the Gospel, see my article, “Why Jesus?”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a bonus edition of the Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:06.6 | Written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins, the title of today's bonus episode is |
| 0:11.7 | How a Local Pastor became a Lifeline after the Kentucky Floods. |
| 0:16.7 | This is the best headline for the gospel I have seen in a long time. |
| 0:20.8 | After the Kentucky floods, a local pastor becomes a lifeline. |
| 0:24.6 | The article is in the Washington Post, an outlet not known for supporting evangelical Christianity, |
| 0:30.6 | but its subject is so compelling that even the Post had to tell his story in a very compelling way. Brad Stevens is pastor of |
| 0:40.0 | Church of God Worship Center in Clay County in eastern Kentucky. Following floods that have devastated |
| 0:46.4 | his region, he has helped lead his community to unite and to rebuild. He and a group of |
| 0:51.9 | volunteers have traveled from hollow to hollow delivering food and water to families trapped in their homes. |
| 0:58.0 | His church has become a hub for food, water, and other donations. |
| 1:02.0 | Stevens has been working with the government officials to navigate the logistics of road and bridge building. |
| 1:08.0 | He recently helped rebuild a bridge that reconnected a family with their |
| 1:12.5 | only access road. When the bridge was completed, the homeowner wept. Even the harshest skeptic |
| 1:18.9 | who reads this story would have to be impressed with Pastor Stevens' compassion, generosity, |
| 1:24.3 | and servant spirit. He is Exhibit A of the old saying, your life is the only Bible |
| 1:30.1 | many people will ever read. Dominic was born on August 8, 1170 in Castile, Spain. He entered the |
| 1:38.4 | priesthood, but the turning point of his life came in 1206 when he was chosen to accompany his bishop on a visit to southern France. |
| 1:47.0 | This area was held by the Alba Jones, a heretical sect, who held that there are two gods, |
| 1:53.3 | one, the God of Light, Goodness, Truth, and Spirit, and the other, the God of evil, error, darkness, and matter. In their view, the material |
| 2:03.6 | universe is the creation of the bad God, while the good God made the souls of men. The bad God |
| 2:10.5 | then kidnapped these souls and imprisoned them in bodies of flesh. On their first night in |
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