Student raises funds to help him adopt baby he found in trash can
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 30 August 2022
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A university student has raised more than $159,000 in donations to help him adopt a baby he found abandoned in a trash can while visiting his family in Haiti. Other headlines, like Serena Williams’ first-round US Open victory last night after having announced her retirement earlier this month, encourage us. But when people act in hurtful ways, we feel worse about human nature. In The Daily Article for August 30, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers how we measure God by the evidence, then looks at the time Jesus literally fell asleep during a storm in Matthew 8—and what Jesus’ response tells us about God’s power and willingness to save.
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 episode of the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:14.3 | Tennis superstar Serena Williams announced earlier this month that she would retire sometime after the U.S. Open, |
| 0:20.7 | so her first round victory |
| 0:21.8 | last night captured headlines. However, a tennis event last week deserves attention as well. |
| 0:27.7 | The U.S. Open held a tennis plays for peace exhibition to raise funds for Ukraine relief. |
| 0:35.0 | Tennis luminaries, such as Rafael Nadal, John McEnroe, and Cocoa Golf participated. |
| 0:42.0 | The event raised $1.2 million. In other recent news, a firefighter playing a semi-pro basketball game |
| 0:49.8 | used his knowledge of CPR to save a referee who had collapsed from a heart attack. |
| 0:55.3 | A stranger searched for days using a metal detector until he found a woman's engagement ring |
| 1:01.3 | lost in the ocean. A British mother, who lost her teenage son to cardiac arrest, |
| 1:07.1 | has installed 20 defibrillators in their town. And a university student has raised more than $159,000 in donations as of this morning to help him adopt a baby he found abandoned in a trash can while visiting his family in Haiti. |
| 1:23.6 | When people act in benevolent ways, we feel better about human nature. When people act in |
| 1:30.0 | hurtful ways, we feel worse about human nature. This is especially true when religious leaders make |
| 1:36.0 | the news for the wrong reasons, as with Matt Chandler's leave of absence from his Dallas area, |
| 1:41.2 | mega-church, an announcement that is still echoing in my community and across |
| 1:45.7 | the evangelical world. We tend to measure not just the people of God, but God himself by the |
| 1:51.5 | evidence. When he answers our prayers and otherwise acts in gracious ways toward us, we respond with |
| 1:58.2 | worship and Thanksgiving. But when he does not answer our prayers in the way we ask |
| 2:03.7 | and acts in other ways we do not understand, we are prone to question his power, his love, |
| 2:09.8 | and even his existence. The skeptic Sam Harris claimed that the existence of a suffering child |
| 2:16.4 | anywhere in the universe negates belief in an all-knowing, |
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