When sharks attack and storms threaten: What good is biblical faith in perilous times?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 28 January 2022
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From shark attacks to an Omicron variant to a wild stock market, the news constantly reminds us how susceptible we are to forces outside of our control. In The Daily Article for January 28, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison asks how the Christian faith is relevant to the challenges our world faces and each one of us face within that world.
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article, written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:12.6 | Shark attacks increased by 50% last year. A new Omicron variant has been reported in at least four states and on three other continents. The stock |
| 0:22.4 | market continues to swing wildly in response to inflation, the surge in Omicron cases, supply chain |
| 0:28.8 | woes, and the fear of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. An earthquake struck Tonga yesterday |
| 0:35.6 | following the tsunami that devastated the region on January 15th. |
| 0:41.0 | The northeastern U.S. faces heavy snow and blizzard conditions this weekend, bringing back |
| 0:46.6 | memories for those of us in Dallas of the winter storm that decimated our city last February. |
| 0:52.9 | The midterm elections may be especially challenging for Democrats. |
| 0:57.2 | However, the announced retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is a setback for Republicans |
| 1:02.8 | who had hoped to take the White House in 2024 and then nominate his replacement. Here's what |
| 1:09.7 | these stories have in common. They illustrate the degree to which |
| 1:13.8 | you and I are susceptible to forces beyond our control. How is the Christian faith relevant to such |
| 1:21.0 | challenges? We claim that God is all knowing, all loving, and all powerful. However, he has not stopped the pandemic, |
| 1:30.0 | ended aggression by nations against nations, |
| 1:32.9 | or healed our partisan divides and animosity. |
| 1:37.3 | What good, then, is our faith in perilous times? |
| 1:41.6 | Let's begin with three biblical answers. First, God shares our suffering. |
| 1:48.9 | He promises in Isaiah 43, 2, when you pass through the waters, I will be with you. |
| 1:56.1 | He's holding us in his hand right now, according to John 1029, feeling everything we feel as stated in |
| 2:03.4 | Hebrews 415, and as John 1135 reveals, weeping as we weep. The second benefit of faith |
| 2:12.6 | in perilous times, the worst that can happen to us, leads to the best that can happen to us. |
| 2:20.2 | Jesus was clear in John 1126. |
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