Volunteer veterans save hundreds from the Taliban: Four ways to win the spiritual war every Christian is fighting
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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A group of military volunteers in Afghanistan risked their lives to save hundreds from the Taliban. In The Daily Article for August 31, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison tells their story, reports on Harvard University's atheist chief chaplain, identifies the true enemy every Christian faces, and defines four steps to spiritual victory every believer should take today.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter.
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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. |
| 0:19.5 | Who are your heroes? |
| 0:22.0 | Let me nominate a few more today. |
| 0:24.4 | An all-volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghanistan War launched a mission last |
| 0:29.9 | Wednesday to shepherd hundreds of at-risk Afghan elite forces in their families to safety. |
| 0:36.1 | ABC News reports that the group, dubbed the Pineapple Express, |
| 0:40.5 | launched their rescue after nightfall in near pitch-black darkness and extremely dangerous conditions. |
| 0:47.6 | Working unofficially in tandem with the U.S. military and American embassy, they moved people |
| 0:53.0 | inside the wire of the U.S. military-controlled |
| 0:56.0 | side of Hamid Kersai International Airport. As of Thursday morning, the group said it had brought |
| 1:02.4 | as many as 500 Afghan special operators, assets, and enablers, along with their families, into the |
| 1:09.2 | Kabul airport, handing each of them over to U.S. |
| 1:12.1 | military protective custody. Their operation was an element of Task Force Pineapple, an informal |
| 1:18.7 | group whose mission began August 15th as a frantic effort to rescue a former Afghan commando |
| 1:25.0 | who had served with them and was being hunted by the Taliban. |
| 1:29.3 | These current and former U.S. special operators, aid workers, intelligence officers, |
| 1:34.4 | and others with experience in Afghanistan, ended up smuggling more than 130 people over 10 days |
| 1:41.2 | into the airport. When we face an enemy more powerful than ourselves, we need |
| 1:46.6 | the help of someone more powerful than our enemy. This fact is true not only in Afghanistan, |
| 1:53.1 | but where we live as well. By now, you've probably seen reports that Harvard University's new chief chaplain is an atheist. |
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