One-armed player dominates basketball tournament: Courageous service that changes the world
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A one-armed player recently dominated a high school basketball tournament. Today's podcast tells his story and others of courage in recent days, then we focus on the need for courage in following Jesus, the power of such sacrificial service, and a prayer that leads to the strength of God.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.2 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit the daily |
| 0:13.0 | article.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:18.6 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison, a Denison forum, and this is the daily article for Friday, |
| 0:22.5 | March 26, 2021. The title is, one-armed player dominates basketball tournament, |
| 0:28.5 | courageous service that changes the world. March Madness, otherwise known as the NCAA |
| 0:34.0 | basketball playoffs, continues to dominate sports headlines. |
| 0:41.3 | Meanwhile, another basketball story deserves our attention today. |
| 0:46.4 | Hansel Emanuel plays for Life Christian Academy in Kissimmee, Florida. |
| 0:53.1 | Over a recent weekend tournament, the 16-year-old average 25 points and 11 rebounds per game. |
| 0:56.7 | He can dunk and otherwise dominate a game. He also has only one arm, having lost his left arm when a wall accidentally fell on him at the age of six. |
| 1:03.8 | Living in a fallen world requires courage. For instance, a rare daytime fireball meteor created a massive sonic boom over the UK last weekend. |
| 1:14.0 | It may have landed in the sea since there were no reports of a meteorite on land. |
| 1:18.6 | But since several thousand fireball meteors burned through our atmosphere every day, |
| 1:23.7 | one may be falling near you or even on you. |
| 1:27.0 | In addition to acts of nature, acts of humans can be |
| 1:29.7 | horrendous, as with a suspected gunman in the Boulder supermarket shooting who made his first court |
| 1:35.1 | appearance yesterday. A lawyer told the court that the suspect has an unspecified mental illness. |
| 1:41.7 | Prosecutors vow to file more charges against him. The day before several |
| 1:46.0 | memorials were held for Officer Eric Talley, the hero who responded to the shooting on Monday, and was killed. |
| 1:53.3 | Acts in the present can lead to the need for courage in the future. For example, Egyptian president |
| 1:58.5 | Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Monaco Begin signed their historic peace agreement on this day in 1979, |
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