‘Things like this happen all over planet Earth all the time’: The key to optimism in hard times
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
The news reminds us daily that we can neither predict nor control the future. Today's podcast discusses the relationship between understanding and faith and invites us into a transforming encounter with the love of God.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.9 | This is Odessa, Texas. Things like this don't happen here. This is small-town Texas. This |
| 0:26.4 | is what senior pastor Dale Trefenstett told his congregation Sunday morning after a shooter |
| 0:31.5 | killed seven people and injured 22 in his community. His church is within sight of the movie |
| 0:37.2 | theater where the violent |
| 0:38.3 | chase ended. Then the pastor added, the reality is, things like this happen all over planet |
| 0:44.1 | earth all the time. The apparent randomness of the attack in West Texas underscores the threat |
| 0:49.5 | it represents. It seems that anyone, anywhere, can be a victim of violence. The same is true of natural disasters. |
| 0:56.0 | As of this morning, Hurricane Dorian has killed at least five people in the Bahamas |
| 1:01.0 | and left countless people homeless. |
| 1:03.0 | The National Hurricane Center warns that the storm will get dangerously close to the Florida coast |
| 1:09.0 | late today through Wednesday and will threaten Georgia, |
| 1:12.1 | South Carolina, and North Carolina by Thursday. In other news, a dive boat caught fire off the |
| 1:17.9 | California coast Monday evening, leaving at least 25 people dead and nine others missing. A 27-year-old |
| 1:24.9 | minor league catcher from the Detroit Tigers died yesterday from injuries sustained in a skateboarding crash. A five-year-old minor league catcher from the Detroit Tigers died yesterday from injuries sustained in a skateboarding crash. |
| 1:31.1 | A five-year-old girl was killed in Brooklyn when a decorative stone fence fell on her. |
| 1:36.1 | Earlier this summer, a 15-year-old Tennessee girl was killed on a church mission trip in Mexico when a tree fell on her group's van. |
| 1:46.6 | You and I can neither predict nor control the future, but we can control how we respond to |
| 1:52.4 | its unpredictability. Our response, in turn, plays a pivotal role in our personal future. |
| 1:58.4 | A new study suggests that people who tend to be optimistic are likelyer than others to live |
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