Mega Millions tops $1 billion and the so-called Respect for Marriage Act: Two ways to deal with discouragement
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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The grand prize for Friday's Mega Millions lottery is now at $1.02 billion, but your odds of winning it are much less than even having identical quadruplets. In The Daily Article for July 27, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers the discouragement such odds could create, the discouragement of the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA) and how its passing could negatively reshape and redefine marriage, before concluding with two biblical ways to respond to discouragement. For more on the transformative power of God: Where to see a $43 million copy of the US Constitution.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Wednesday, July the 27th, 2022, and this is the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris |
| 0:09.8 | Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. No-one won last |
| 0:15.7 | night's Megamillion's drawing, which had a jackpot of $830 million, the fourth largest in U.S. history. |
| 0:22.6 | As a result, the grand prize in Friday Night's drawing is now an estimated $1.02 billion, |
| 0:29.6 | though that number is certain to grow as more tickets are bought ahead of the drawing. |
| 0:35.6 | If you bought a ticket but didn't win last night, consider this. |
| 0:39.6 | Your odds of winning were one in 302 million. |
| 0:44.1 | By contrast, consider your odds of experiencing the following. |
| 0:47.9 | Having identical quadruplets, one in 15 million. |
| 0:51.7 | Becoming an astronaut. |
| 0:53.3 | One in 12 million. Being struck by lightning. One in 15 million. Becoming an astronaut. One in 12 million. |
| 0:55.0 | Being struck by lightning. |
| 0:57.0 | One in 10 million. |
| 0:59.0 | Being crushed by a meteor. |
| 1:01.0 | One in 700,000. |
| 1:03.0 | Becoming an Olympic athlete. |
| 1:05.0 | One in 500,000. |
| 1:07.0 | Some discouragements are just part of life, but others reframe life. Consider the so-called |
| 1:12.9 | Respect for Marriage Act, which is past the House and now is before the Senate. It would repeal |
| 1:19.2 | the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and require the federal government to recognize any marriage |
| 1:25.4 | if it's legally performed in any of the 50 states. |
| 1:29.2 | Why is this bill so discouraging? First, if a single state recognizes polygamy as legal |
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