Jon Gruden resigns, Matt Amodio loses, and Mark Harmon retires: How to finish the race well
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 13 October 2021
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Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden resigned Monday night. Matt Amodio's winning streak on Jeopardy! ended after thirty-eight games and NCIS’s Mark Harmon retired after eighteen seasons. In The Daily Article for October 13, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison explains how the enemy uses our past sins against us, then emboldens us to finish the race well by relying on the Spirit’s power.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.6 | Las Vegas Raiders head coach John Gruden resigned Monday night after the New York Times |
| 0:25.3 | detailed emails in which he made what the article called homophobic and misogynistic remarks. |
| 0:32.2 | The Wall Street Journal earlier reported on a 2011 email in which Gruden used a racial trope to describe an African-American. |
| 0:41.1 | Gruden's resignation was applauded by columnists who wrote that he had to go, |
| 0:46.1 | and that his emails painted him as a relic of what professional football can't be anymore. |
| 0:52.3 | On the opposite side of the cultural spectrum, Jeopardy Champion Matt |
| 0:56.3 | Amodio's epic winning streak ended Monday night at $38 games and $1.5 million. In a Washington Post interview, |
| 1:05.7 | he expressed gratitude for the kindness of the show's staff and the support of the fans, and even wished his |
| 1:12.1 | online hecklers well. |
| 1:14.4 | Not long after Amodio's winning streak came to an end Monday evening, NCIS lead actor Mark |
| 1:20.2 | Harmon ended his run in the show after 18 seasons. |
| 1:24.5 | He had reportedly wanted to retire after last season, but learned that doing so would |
| 1:29.4 | cause the show to be cancelled, so he agreed for a handful of episodes if the show returned for |
| 1:35.3 | season 19. The show warned after Monday's episode that we should never count him out, but Harmon ended |
| 1:42.4 | well. What is true of athletics is also true of life. |
| 1:47.0 | We are remembered less for how we start the race than how we finish. |
| 1:53.0 | This week we've discussed the relationship between private character and public service, |
| 2:00.0 | noting that private sin keeps us from |
| 2:03.0 | being used and rewarded by God, while personal character positions us to be used publicly in ways |
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