The surprising cause of California wildfire
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 8 August 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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The tragic wildfires in California remind us that an inferno starts with a spark. This podcast exposes the fallacy of "small" sins and shows us ways to find victory in Christ. For more news discerned differently, or to receive the Daily Article via email, please visit denisonforum.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily Article for Wednesday, August 8th, 2018. |
| 0:07.9 | The Mendocino Complex fire in California is now the largest in the state's history. As of this morning, |
| 0:13.7 | it's burned more than 292,000 acres. For comparison, the fire is nearly double the size of Chicago |
| 0:20.0 | and more than triple the size of Philadelphia, Detroit, Portland, and Atlanta. |
| 0:24.8 | Officials are still investigating the cause of the fire, which started on July 27th. |
| 0:29.7 | There is no such uncertainty with the car fire, which has destroyed nearly 2,000 structures and claimed seven lives. |
| 0:36.6 | That fire started when a tire failed on a trailer, |
| 0:40.3 | causing its rim to scrape the asphalt. With the heat and extreme drought in the area, |
| 0:45.0 | that's all it took to start a tragic inferno. James 3-5 notes, how great a forest has set a blaze |
| 0:51.9 | by such a small fire. We're seeing this principle at work |
| 0:55.2 | across today's news. Rick Gates was an intern when he first met Paul Manafort. Now Mr. Gates, |
| 1:01.5 | as the prosecution's star witness in its case against Mr. Manafort on tax and bank fraud charges. |
| 1:08.0 | Two drones rigged with explosives detonated near Venezuela's president Nicholas Maduro last |
| 1:13.4 | Saturday. Security experts warned that such attacks are difficult for conventional armies to defend against |
| 1:19.6 | and are likely to increase. In more trivial news, Prince Harry's making headlines for the wrong |
| 1:25.3 | reason. He and Megan Markle attended a wedding over the |
| 1:28.4 | weekend where he was spotted wearing a shoe with a hole in its soul. The story made Time magazine. |
| 1:35.4 | There's a principle at work here, one our culture typically devalues. According to Gallup, |
| 1:41.4 | more Americans than ever before consider divorce, sex between unmarried men and women, gay or lesbian relations, having a baby outside of marriage, doctor-assisted suicide, and pornography to be acceptable. |
| 1:54.7 | What do these issues have in common? They're all considered personal decisions with little relevance to the larger culture. |
| 2:01.5 | We seem to believe that private behavior stays private, that we can make unbiblical, |
| 2:06.3 | moral decisions with little consequence. |
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