Major League Baseball star fills in as PE teacher
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 21 January 2022
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Harrison Bader, a Gold Glove Award-winning centerfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, learned that Meramec Elementary School in Clayton, Missouri, was dealing with staff shortages and needed some help, so he volunteered to cover a Physical Education class. In The Daily Article for January 21, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison discusses fascinating news stories before delving into the “good story” of the gospel and the calling of Christians to share Jesus with others.
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Christianity isn't just marginalized in our culture today. It's not just viewed as irrelevant. |
| 0:09.0 | Our faith is now seen as dangerous in the eyes of many and as an aberration that must be |
| 0:14.8 | opposed and even eradicated. This stark reality is what caused Dr. Jim Denison to write what he believes is his |
| 0:24.2 | most pivotal book to date, The Coming Sonami. It releases on January 25th, but you can pre-order |
| 0:32.0 | your copy today at thecomingsunami.com. That's thecoming tsunami.com. Based on Dr. Denison's over 40 years |
| 0:43.6 | of cultural observation, study, and research, the coming tsunami sounds the alarm about the |
| 0:49.9 | impending tidal wave of threat and opposition that Christians will face for our faith. But it isn't |
| 0:57.4 | doom and gloom. No. The coming tsunami equips Christians like you to understand where we are, |
| 1:05.7 | how we got here, and most importantly, how we can respond redemptively. |
| 1:12.3 | So please, pre-order your copy of the coming tsunami today at thecomingsunami.com. |
| 1:19.4 | That's thecoming tsunami.com. |
| 1:23.4 | With God's help and by His grace, may we turn the tide of this tsunami before it overtakes us. |
| 1:38.9 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 1:41.8 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article |
| 1:45.9 | written by Dr. Jim Denison. Harrison Bader, a gold glove award-winning center fielder for the |
| 1:53.7 | St. Louis Cardinals, learned that Merrimack Elementary School in Clayton, Missouri, was dealing |
| 1:59.5 | with staff shortages and needed some help, |
| 2:02.7 | so he volunteered to cover a physical education class. |
| 2:07.3 | However, he told reporters later, |
| 2:10.5 | being a substitute science or math teacher, even at that level, would be above my pay grade. |
| 2:18.3 | In other news, drivers on a Tennessee highway recently encountered a cast iron skillet, said to be the world's largest. |
| 2:28.3 | It was being hauled on the back of a flatbed truck to the Lodge iron store, which is building a lodge cast iron |
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