Hurricane Milton intensifies to Category 5 on direct path for Florida: Hard questions that lead to empowering hope
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🗓️ 8 October 2024
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Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm yesterday. The center of the monster storm could come ashore Wednesday in the Tampa Bay region, which has not seen a direct hit by a major hurricane in more than a century. Ahead of the devastation that is likely tomorrow, I want to think with you about some faith questions as we seek empowering hope in these hard days.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day and welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Tuesday, October 8th, 2024. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:15.4 | Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm yesterday. |
| 0:21.5 | The center of the monster storm could come ashore Wednesday in the Tampa Bay region, |
| 0:26.4 | which is not seen a direct hit by a major hurricane in more than a century. |
| 0:31.8 | Forecasters are warning of the highest storm surge ever predicted for the region. |
| 0:36.6 | Ahead of the devastation that is likely tomorrow, |
| 0:39.2 | I want to think with you about some faith questions as we seek hope in these hard days. |
| 0:44.9 | The English poet John Keats called our fallen planet a veil of soulmaking. |
| 0:50.5 | Yesterday, I suggested that God uses natural disasters to show us our need to seek the Lord and his strength from Psalm 105, verse 4, and to grow in holiness as a result. |
| 1:02.3 | Inherent in this worldview is the claim that some suffering is necessary for spiritual maturity, such as a kite needs wind to climb higher. |
| 1:11.8 | When Paul was afflicted with a thorn in the flesh in 2 Corinthians 12, verse 9, for example, |
| 1:17.6 | he chose to boast all the more gladly of my weakness so that the power of Christ may rest |
| 1:23.4 | upon me. |
| 1:24.2 | It is also true, though not in the case of innocent suffering, that much evil in the |
| 1:29.5 | world is the consequence of misused free will. As C.S. Lewis notes in The Problem of Pain, |
| 1:36.2 | quote, the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet. |
| 1:42.7 | When souls become wicked, they will certainly use |
| 1:45.6 | this possibility to hurt one another. And this, perhaps, accounts for four-fifths of the suffering |
| 1:51.5 | of men. In quote, God must allow the consequences of freedom, or we're not free. If every wrong |
| 1:58.3 | chess move can be replayed, we have no game. |
| 2:01.6 | The law of gravity cannot function if it is countermanded every time someone falls. |
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