Runner wins marathon when leaders led off the course: Seeking transforming joy that transcends circumstances
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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A runner won a marathon recently when the leaders were inadvertently led off the course by a volunteer. In The Daily Article for September 30, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison tells this and other unusual stories that illustrate the transitory nature of temporal circumstances, then he focuses on the joy of the Lord available to us despite our circumstances and invites us to experience this joy as a compelling witness to our secular culture.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.9 | Let's begin today with some unusual news you might have missed. |
| 0:24.6 | An Illinois man won a marathon last weekend when two Kenyan runners who had far outpaced him |
| 0:30.6 | were diverted by a race volunteer who mistakenly led them off the course. |
| 0:35.6 | A herd of goats brought to my former neighborhood in Atlanta |
| 0:39.3 | to eat weeds behind a Kroger store got loose and wandered the area before they were eventually |
| 0:45.3 | caught and removed. In other animal news, wild boars rummaging for trash have invaded Rome, |
| 0:52.3 | prompting officials to allow selective hunting of boars in some |
| 0:56.2 | parks. In still more animal news, an Australian wildlife tour operator says his hand is a bit |
| 1:03.4 | sore after it was bitten by a seven-foot-long crocodile. Closer to home, yesterday was National |
| 1:10.0 | Coffee Day. If you missed it, don't fear. Tomorrow is |
| 1:14.1 | International Coffee Day and Pumpkin Spice Day. Here's what these stories have in common. |
| 1:20.5 | They illustrate the transitory nature of the present. You're winning a marathon until you're off course. |
| 1:27.5 | Goats, wild boars, and crocodiles can disrupt your familiar surroundings and routines. |
| 1:33.8 | Annual celebrations come and then they go, which is why they're called annual. |
| 1:38.9 | And yet, the present is all that is available to us. |
| 1:43.0 | Neuroscientist Abhijit Naskar writes, |
| 1:46.0 | Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence |
| 1:52.0 | in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons, to create a virtual perception of the past and the future, |
| 2:00.0 | based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future, based on all our experiences, there is no |
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