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The Daily Article

Virginia restaurant cancels group’s reservation because of their biblical beliefs

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

News, Daily News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

As a sign of things to come, a restaurant in Virginia canceled a Christian group’s reservation because of the group’s biblical beliefs. Protesters disrupted a pro-life banquet for a pregnancy resource center that had been vandalized over the summer. And the University of Idaho agreed to pay ninety thousand dollars to settle a lawsuit filed by three Christian students who had been censored for their biblical beliefs regarding marriage. However, every obstacle is also an opportunity.

Author: Jim Denison, PhD

Narrator: Chris Elkins

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Tuesday, December the 13th, 2022. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

0:16.2

In Isaiah 7.9, we read, if you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.

0:22.2

The Department of Energy plans to announce today that scientists have taken a major step

0:27.2

in developing fusion energy technology that could provide unlimited, cheap, clean power someday.

0:34.4

Now, if someone could create the power we need for our lives today, U.S. adults are dealing

0:40.4

with what one researcher called a stunning level of stress. A recent poll identified financial fears,

0:48.4

the war in Ukraine, and ongoing coexistence with pandemic stressors as contributing to unprecedented levels of anxiety.

0:56.6

The New York Times reports that winters with COVID-19, the flu, and RSV may be our new normal.

1:04.8

And Christians especially have cause for concern these days.

1:08.9

As a sign of things to come, a restaurant in Virginia

1:11.6

canceled a Christian group's reservation because of the group's biblical beliefs. Protesters

1:17.6

disrupted a pro-life banquet for a pregnancy resource center that had been vandalized over the summer,

1:23.6

and the University of Idaho agreed to pay $90,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by three

1:31.4

Christian students who had been censored for their biblical beliefs regarding marriage.

1:36.7

However, every obstacle is also an opportunity.

1:40.4

Humans are born and eventually die if the Lord Terry's.

1:50.6

For Jesus, it was different. He was the baby who was born to die. In against heresies,

1:59.1

Aranaeus, who lived from 8120 to 8020, wrote that Jesus's obedience on the tree of the cross reversed the disobedience at the tree in Eden.

2:03.2

The good news of the truth announced by the angel to marry, a virgin subject to her husband,

2:09.3

undid the evil lie that seduced Eve, a virgin espoused to a husband.

2:15.1

Now, our Savior calls us to love him as he loves us, not for his sake,

2:20.4

but for ours. William of Saint Theory prayed, you first loved us so that we might love you,

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