Three reasons going to church lowers "deaths of despair"
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Going to church lowers your risk of a “death of despair” related to suicide, drug overdose, or alcohol poisoning. That fact is related to why people are experiencing a revival at Asbury University and why the writer of Hebrews exhorts Christians not to neglect meeting together as a church.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | The season of Lent begins soon, and our current release was written to be started on the first day of Lent, February 22nd. |
| 0:10.0 | The devotional is entitled Empowered, and will take you on a 47-day journey into understanding and experiencing the power of the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:21.8 | Each day's reading is brief, biblical, and insightful, and includes a daily prayer. |
| 0:28.5 | Visit daily article.org today to request your copy of Empowered so that you may begin reading |
| 0:35.4 | it on the first day of Lent. |
| 0:42.5 | And may its words lead you to a more vibrant walk with God. |
| 0:49.1 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum. |
| 0:55.8 | Welcome to the Wednesday, February 15th episode of the Daily Article Podcast. Today's article is written by co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. Here's news for the day after Valentine's Day. |
| 1:02.9 | Crows mate for life, so do geese, hooping cranes, beavers, bald eagles, seahorses, coyotes, |
| 1:10.0 | and termites. |
| 1:11.6 | Did you know that termites, mate? Do you care? |
| 1:14.6 | Some evolutionists aren't surprised. |
| 1:16.8 | According to author Christopher Cook, |
| 1:18.9 | biologists from Charles Darwin to E.O. Wilson |
| 1:22.0 | believed that cooperation has been more important than competition |
| 1:26.4 | in humanity's evolutionary success. |
| 1:29.3 | Cook adds, compassion is the reason for both the human race's survival and its ability to continue to thrive as a species. |
| 1:38.3 | You don't have to be an evolutionist to agree that God made us for compassionate community. |
| 1:42.3 | This biblical exhortation in Hebrews 10, |
| 1:45.9 | verses 24 and 25, is just one example. Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and |
| 1:52.9 | good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another |
| 1:58.9 | and all the more as you see the day drawing near. |
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