You're listening to the Daily Article podcast Friday, April 22, 2022.

I'm Blake Atwood, narrating today's article by Dr. Jim Denison.

Romans 5-8 says, God shows his love for us in that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Let's begin this Friday article with some good news.

A 12-year-old wood craftsman recently launched a raffle for one of his handmade bowls,

edged with a blue and yellow ring, the colors of Ukraine's flag, to raise money for

Ukrainian children.

As of last Friday, he had raised more than $109,000 for Save the Children's Ukraine relief effort.

Some more good news.

A city in Tennessee rejected an atheist group's demand to remove crosses that had been in place since the 1950s.

And a Pennsylvania school board voted down a parents' request to launch an after-school Satan club.

A United Methodist Church High Court rejected an

attempt to allow the ordination of non-selibate homosexuals, and churches in Poland continue to generate

headlines over their sacrificial support for Ukrainian refugees. Yesterday, we discussed

Yuval Levin's profound article How to Curb the Culture War, noting that God is calling us to be

not culture warriors, but cultural missionaries. What does this mean in practical terms?

Our first step is to embrace the sovereignty of our king. As we have seen today, there is always

good news in the news. God's spirit is alive and at work in our culture. Early Christians lived in a world

far more immoral and opposed to their faith than our culture. Yet by Acts 176, they had turned

the world upside down. In fact, our latest book titled How to Bless God by Blessing Others,

looks to those early Christians as a blueprint for how we can respond to our culture today.

You can request that book on our website at dennisonforum.org slash store.

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