Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Form, and this is the Daily Article for Wednesday, September 5th, 2018.

I've covered five other Supreme Court confirmation hearings. None of them included anything like the chaos in the opening minutes of the Kavanaugh hearings this morning.

This was New York Times legal reporter Adam Liptack's response to the beginning of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's hearings yesterday.

Today's Washington Post reports that dozens of protesters were arrested.

One senator complained of mob rule as the hearings began.

In other controversial news, Nike announced that former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be featured

in its new advertising campaign. The company's stock fell more than 3% on the news, and some

burned their Nike apparel in protest. Others applauded the company for its decision. Some

recalling Kaepernick, quote, the face of the new civil rights movement, end quote.

As our society becomes more divided and divisive,

Christians are tempted to withdraw from the acrimonious culture wars.

The more secular our culture becomes, the more absent God seems, but this is a self-fulfilling prophecy,

like a horoscope that predicts the bad day its reader then expects and thus

experiences. The less we look for God, the less we see Him, and the less we see Him, the less

we look for Him. This cycle extends to our prayers as well. The Book of Lamentations describes

its author's grief over the fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the

temple in 586 BC. By chapter 3, the author's mourning for his nation has affected his intercession.

He complains in verses 8 and 9 that God shuts out my prayer. He has blocked my ways with

blocks of stones he has made my path crooked.

He says to the Lord in verse 44,

You have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

When we measure our prayers by their circumstantial results,

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