What makes 'The Voice' winner so special: The joy of loving God with 'all your soul'
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR MAY 21, 2020
Todd Tilghman is in the news for a very special reason. Today's podcast tells his story, then we explore two ways to experience God's empowering presence as we love him with all our "soul."
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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 thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.6 | Todd Tillman grew up in Meridian, Mississippi. He and Brooke, his high school sweetheart, |
| 0:24.6 | were married in 1998. He eventually became pastor of his home church. Todd and Brooke had three |
| 0:31.3 | children, then adopted a daughter from South Korea and her biological sister. The couple then had three more children for a total of |
| 0:39.5 | eight. Todd never sang outside of his church services. However, his wife urged him to wait in line for |
| 0:45.9 | hours at an open audition for the singing competition, The Voice. I am really thankful that she |
| 0:51.6 | believed in me, in a place in my life where I didn't even realize |
| 0:55.3 | that I had sort of stopped believing in myself, he said later. |
| 0:59.0 | As the competition progressed, whether viewers were Christian or not, they could tell that |
| 1:03.8 | there was something different about him. |
| 1:05.9 | His peace, serenity, humility, and humor came through all season long. |
| 1:12.1 | This week, he sang, I can only imagine, during the show's final competition. The next night, he became the oldest |
| 1:17.8 | person ever to win the voice. This week, we're discussing ways to love our neighbor during this |
| 1:26.6 | pandemic by loving God |
| 1:28.3 | with our heart, soul, mind, and strength. |
| 1:31.3 | We've seen that when we love God with our strength through practical commitment, we will |
| 1:35.8 | love others in the same way. |
| 1:37.8 | If we love Him with our minds through biblical study and submission to His Spirit, |
| 1:42.3 | we will love Him with our strength and our neighbors as well. |
| 1:45.9 | Today, let's think about what it means to love the Lord with all our soul. |
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