Today is Wednesday, October 5th, 2022, and this is the Daily Article podcast.

Today's article was written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison

Forum.

Legendary country singer and songwriter Loretta Lynn passed away yesterday at the age of 90. The Washington Post calls her

a trailblazer for other female country performers and notes that she was the first woman to win the

Country Music Association's award for entertainer of the year. Speaking of historic deaths, Apple co-founder

Steve Jobs passed away on this day in 2011.

In a 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, he offered this now-famous advice, and I quote,

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

He added, don't let the noise of others' opinions drown your own inner voice,

and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know

what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. End quote. By following his

heart and intuition, Jobs reinvented the music industry with the

iPod and iTunes. Apple Music now has over 100 million songs. He reinvented personal communication

with the iPhone, changed the way we consume media with the iPad, made computers accessible to non-technical people

with Macintosh, changed the way hardware and software are sold, and built Apple from nothing

into what is today the world's most valuable company with a market cap of $2,347 billion.

I thought about the courage of Steve Jobs and Loretta Lynn in light of an article by evangelical

cultural commentator Dr. Michael Brown titled, If you're a Christian, you should have a target on your back.

He offers specific examples. If you speak up for the unborn,

you will be targeted. If you uphold marriage and family as God intended, you will be targeted. If you claim

salvation is only through Jesus, you will be targeted. If you resist LBGT activism in the schools, you will be

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