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thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

An apartment building in Surfside, Florida, collapsed yesterday.

The death toll has risen to three as of this writing.

Nearly 100 people remain unaccounted for.

President Biden approved an emergency declaration early this morning and ordered federal

assistance to supplement the state and local response

efforts. Viewing the pictures makes the tragedy even more real. When I first heard the news,

I was shocked by such a horrible tragedy. It's difficult to imagine what it would be like,

for the building where you live, suddenly to collapse around you. However, I was not surprised.

We live in a fallen world, where pandemic strike and heat waves are a reality. We know that bad things

often happen to good people. By contrast, when our oldest son was diagnosed with cancer several

years ago, I will confess to you my first reaction.

It's not fair. I've prayed for his safety every day since the day we discovered Janet was pregnant with him.

The conscious part of me knew that such prayers were no guarantee, of course. Bad things are likely to happen to him, as they

happened to us all. But my reaction nonetheless betrayed my unstated expectation that while bad

things happen to good people, they're not supposed to happen to God's people. The opposite,

however, is actually the case. Yesterday, we discussed the courage

that is needed in a post-truth culture to tell people truth they don't want to hear. Today, let's

close our week-long conversation about truth by focusing on the courage God's people have always

needed to follow him fully in a fallen world. Jesus told his followers in Luke 622,

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