President to announce $8 billion for border wall
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🗓️ 15 February 2019
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The conflict over border security is making headlines again. Today's podcast focuses on a vital but often-overlooked reason for our divisive culture and offers us a way forward in Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | President to announce $8 billion for border wall. This is Jim Denison's daily article for Friday, February 15th, 2019. |
| 0:09.0 | News broke yesterday afternoon that President Trump will sign a border security compromise package that avert another government shutdown. |
| 0:16.0 | However, this package does not include all the funds Mr. Trump has requested for continued |
| 0:21.4 | construction of a barrier along our southern border. |
| 0:24.4 | ABC News reports that the President plans to announce today his intentions to spend about $8 |
| 0:28.8 | billion on the border wall, with a mix of spending from Congressional Allocations, |
| 0:32.9 | Executive Action, and an emergency declaration. |
| 0:36.1 | As a nonpartisan ministry, my purpose is not to offer a personal opinion on the political |
| 0:39.9 | issues involved here, nor is it to focus on the border wall itself, a subject I addressed |
| 0:44.2 | recently. |
| 0:45.7 | Rather, my goal today is to consider the divisive response to these developments. |
| 0:49.7 | White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said, the President is once again delivering on his |
| 0:53.7 | promise to build the wall, protect the border, and secure our great country. |
| 0:58.2 | Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer responded, declaring a national emergency |
| 1:02.6 | would be a lawless act, a gross abuse of the power of the presidency, and a desperate |
| 1:06.9 | attempt to distract from the fact that President Trump broke his core promise to have Mexico pay for his wall. |
| 1:12.5 | There are clearly significant debates dividing Americans today. Many of us are fundamentally opposed on foundational issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and euthanasia. |
| 1:22.5 | As I wrote recently, media bias also plays a part in the escalating divisions of our day. And the deterioration of |
| 1:28.7 | traditional religious and institutional affiliations has dissolved valuable chords of community. |
| 1:34.0 | There was a time when people spent their lives being Baptist or Catholic and working for IBM or |
| 1:38.9 | General Motors. As denominational commitment and corporate loyalty have declined, a larger sense of community has decayed with them. |
| 1:46.8 | But there's another foundational issue at work, one we don't recognize as easily, but which affects us all. |
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