Kanye West’s new album and free Christmas meals: Experiencing the hope of Christmas
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 26 December 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR DECEMBER 26, 2019
Kanye West's Christmas album is one example of hope in the news. Today's podcast tells three Christmas stories and invites us to find the hope of Jesus in Christmas.
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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 |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.5 | Yesterday was filled with hopeful Christmas news. For example, Kanye West released his |
| 0:25.3 | latest album, Jesus is Born. Whether you like his music or not, it is encouraging to note the |
| 0:31.1 | popularity of his gospel recordings. Here's another hopeful Christmas story. Anyone who visited |
| 0:36.9 | O'Brien's Southern Diner in Ashland City, Tennessee |
| 0:39.8 | yesterday, received a free meal. Owner Candice O'Brien Beasley has now given away free meals |
| 0:46.4 | and Christmas for seven straight years. She is especially concerned about those who would |
| 0:51.4 | otherwise be alone on Christmas. And for those who ate too much |
| 0:55.2 | at O'Brien's Southern Diner or anywhere else, a new study reports that drinking four cups of coffee |
| 1:01.0 | daily could reduce weight gain from a diet high in fat and sugar. This Christmas week, we've been |
| 1:07.5 | asking what Christmas can teach our post-Christian culture about Christ. On Monday, we focused on the power of Christmas. On Tuesday, we considered the humility of Christmas. Yesterday, we explored the grace of Christmas for our past. Today, we'll celebrate the hope of Christmas for our future. What about tomorrow worries you today? |
| 1:29.3 | Where do you most need the hope of Christmas? |
| 1:35.3 | Why was Jesus born when he was? |
| 1:37.3 | Why not when the Jews were fighting to escape Egyptian slavery, |
| 1:41.3 | or the Babylonians were destroying the temple in Jerusalem. Why did |
| 1:46.0 | he come when he did? Jesus was born during one of the darkest periods in human history. |
| 1:52.0 | The Roman Empire brought moral depravity on an unprecedented scale. All manner of sexual |
| 1:57.7 | perversion was rampant. Pagan gods were venerated, and emperors were worshipped. |
| 2:03.6 | Those perceived to be a threat to the empire were eliminated. |
| 2:07.3 | In fact, more than a million Christians were martyred by Rome in the first centuries of the faith. |
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