Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Thursday, June 9, 2022.

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

Actor Matthew McConaughey spoke from the podium of the White House Press briefing room this week,

encouraging lawmakers to take action on gun violence and citing

stories of young victims of the mass shooting in his hometown of Yuvalde, Texas.

In his speech, he told the story of 10-year-old Ellie Garcia who had been attending a Baptist

church with her uncle. According to McConaughey, Ellie had been preparing to read a Bible verse

in the next Wednesday night service.

The verse was from Deuteronomy 6.5, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,

with all thy soul, and with all thy might. That's who Ellie was becoming, but she never got to read

it. I invite you to read that verse for Ellie today slowly.

Now, let's see why it's so vital to the future of our broken culture. From the firebombing

of a pro-life pregnancy center to a man who told police he wanted to kill Supreme Court Justice

Brett Kavanaugh to divorce celebration parties, to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's so-called

age-appropriate drag queen show for children, ages three and up. Today's news reinforces the fact that we

desperately need God to heal our land. We've been discussing this week the path to such healing,

as stated in Second Chronicle 714,

if my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn

from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

If we do what God calls us to do, he will do what he promises to do. We have focused

on the humility that admits we need what only God can do and the prayer that intercedes continually

for our nation. Now let's turn to God's third imperative, seek my face. Seek means to search

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