Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Monday, February the 27th, 2023.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

The Tim Tebow Foundation sponsored its annual Night to Shine last Friday evening.

The event was designed to give a prom experience centered on

God's love to people with special needs. Daniel Ritchie, one of the presenters, was born without arms.

At his birth, when he was not breathing, the doctor asked his father, You you want us to let him go?

He grew up to become a speaker and author who earned two college degrees and is married with two children.

He eats, drives, and writes with his feet.

Richie notes, these people with special needs are just that,

incredibly special in both the

eyes of God and in our eyes. Tim Tebow has a similar story. Because his mother's placenta

was not attached at the time of his birth, doctors urged his mother to abort him. The doctor

who delivered him described his survival as the greatest miracle he had ever seen.

Richie and Tebow survived our culture's instrumentalist worldview. People have value to the degree to

which they function in and contribute to society. You are what you earn and possess, how you look, and how well you perform.

By contrast, as St. Augustine noted, God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

In recent days, God has been making this fact clear in surprising ways.

The continuous revival services that began at

Asbury University on February 8th have come to a close. A Fox News article reports that

the revival brought over 50,000 visitors to the services, including students from over 200

schools. When the daily services concluded, one student said,

We don't want to stop this.

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