Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Wednesday, March the 9th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim

Denison.

Anatoly was a 26-year-old member of Erpen Bible Church northwest of Kiev, Ukraine. Note that he was.

An IT professional in a local company, he also served in his church's media ministry.

When the Russian invasion began on February 24th, Anatoli evacuated his wife and other family members to safety.

Then, he courageously returned last Friday to join his church's skeleton crew.

As a young mother and her two children fled Russian shelling,

Anatoly volunteered to carry her suitcase across Erpen's collapsed bridge.

All four died when a Russian bombshell landed in the middle of their would-be humanitarian corridor. As with Abel of old, through his faith, though he died,

he still speaks. Hebrews 11-4. What is he saying to us? Anatole is just one of the hundreds, if not thousands,

of Ukrainians killed so far in Vladimir Putin's illegal and immoral invasion of their country.

Why then did I want to tell his story this morning? Why did you choose to listen to it?

Here's some good news. A three-year-old boy was

dropped from the window of a burning apartment building in New Jersey Monday morning and caught

by first responders. And some tragic news. A New Jersey man was swept out to sea while

swimming off a beach in Hawaii last Saturday. And some more

tragic news, an 11-year-old girl died after falling under a moving school bus in Colorado last Thursday.

How did these stories make you feel? I told each of them to make the same point. Romans 12-5 teaches us that there is something in us

that rejoices with those who rejoice and weeps with those who weep. This is part of our identity

as being made in the image of a God who loves each of us as if there were only one of us,

according to St. Augustine.

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