The deaths of B. J. Thomas and Gavin MacLeod: Four ways to honor our military heroes
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Singer B. J. Thomas and actor Gavin MacLeod died over the weekend. In The Daily Article for May 31, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison tells their faith stories, then he connects their legacy to today's Memorial Day commemoration and invites us to take four biblical steps in response.
Mentioned article: https://www.denisonforum.org/columns/america/why-i-wish-memorial-day-were-not-today-three-biblical-ways-to-honor-our-heroes/
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.7 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.4 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:18.3 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison, a Denisonformed. And this is the daily article from Monday, |
| 0:21.9 | May 31, 2021. The title is The Deaths of B.J. Thomas and Gavin B.J. Thomas, |
| 0:27.5 | four ways to honor our military heroes. B.J. Thomas died Saturday of complications from lung |
| 0:33.6 | cancer. He became famous with country and pop crossover hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including |
| 0:39.6 | hooked on a feeling and raindrops keep falling on my head. However, he fell into a spiral of |
| 0:44.9 | substance abuse that nearly ended his marriage. On January the 28th, 1976, he gave his life to Jesus |
| 0:52.2 | less than a month after his wife came to faith. He and his wife |
| 0:55.9 | reconciled and he was sober to the end of his life. After his conversion, he wrote an autobiography |
| 1:01.4 | about his new faith titled Home Where I Belong and released his first Christian album by the same name. |
| 1:07.4 | He went on to release at least 14 other Christian albums. In other celebrity news, |
| 1:13.0 | actor Gavin McLeod died Saturday at the age of 90, best known for playing Murray on the Mary |
| 1:18.7 | Tyler Moore Show and Captain Stubing on the Love Boat. His acting and musical career spanned |
| 1:23.9 | six decades. When I learned on McLeod's death, I read his 2013 autobiography. This is your |
| 1:29.6 | captain speaking, my fantastic voyage through Hollywood, faith, and life. It tells us how McLeod suffered |
| 1:35.6 | childhood adversity. He was overweight and self-conscious. His father was an alcoholic who died of cancer |
| 1:41.2 | when McLeod was 13. He found himself as an actor, graduating from |
| 1:45.9 | Ithaca College with a degree in trauma and working as an usher and elevator operator at Radio |
| 1:51.5 | City Music Hall where he met his first wife. They had four children before divorcing in 1972. |
| 1:58.5 | McLeod then married Patty, his second wife, but divorced her as well. While he was |
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