Good day and welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article podcast for Tuesday, October the 21st, 2025.

I'm Chris Elkins' narrator, voicing today's daily article written by friend and cultural theologian, Dr. Jim Denison.

The Louvre Museum in Paris was closed again yesterday after four thieves broke into a gallery

containing the French crown jewels on Sunday morning, stealing eight pieces of Napoleonic jewelry.

Disguised as museum workers, they rode a truck-mounted basket lift up the famed museum's exterior and

forcibly entered through a window 30 minutes after the Louvre had opened for the day. After smashing

display cases, they fled the scene on motorbikes. One of the stolen pieces was an emerald

necklace containing 1,138 diamonds gifted by Napoleon to his second wife.

According to Art Detective Arthur Brand, the authorities have a week before the thieves will

likely melt the silver and gold down and dismantle the diamonds, causing the priceless item to

disappear forever. So far, no suspects have

been identified publicly. A manhunt for them is continuing at this writing. I remember standing in line

some years ago to see the British crown jewels at the Tower of London. I finally made it into the

jewel house and onto a moving sidewalk that carried me

past the St. Edward's crown, worn when the monarch is crowned, the imperial state crown, worn by

the monarch at the end of the coronation, and a variety of other regalia. I was permitted only a momentary

look at them through bomb-proof glass while surrounded

by armed guards. I have never felt more like a commoner and less like royalty. If life has you

feeling the same way today, I have some very good news for you. In John 11, Lazarus's sisters

sent word in verse three to Jesus regarding their sick

brother, Lord, he whom you love, is ill. But as John makes clear in verse 5, Jesus loved Martha and her sister as well.

Here's what's amazing. He loves you and me as much as he loved them because God is love,

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