Who won the debate? Remembering how God measures success
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Last night's presidential debate was heated and contentious throughout. Today's podcast discusses the significance of presidential debates in our history, then we focus on two facts that lead us to trust our fears to our Father by faith.
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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. |
| 0:19.6 | Have you found it increasingly difficult to have civil conversations with those who |
| 0:24.6 | disagree with your beliefs? Have you wrestled with how to discuss politics in this politically |
| 0:29.8 | charged atmosphere? Do you wonder if we've lost the art of civility? As I survey the news every |
| 0:35.4 | day to prepare the daily article podcast, I've long wondered the same |
| 0:39.0 | thing. Every day, I strive to write what is biblical, timely, and nonpartisan. And I can think of nothing |
| 0:46.0 | more biblical, timely, and nonpartisan today than our need to be civil people in an uncivil time, |
| 0:52.3 | especially in this political season. That's why I wrote my newest book. |
| 0:56.3 | Respectfully, I disagree how to be a civil person in an uncivil time, which is now available. |
| 1:02.2 | Please request your copy today at the daily article.org. |
| 1:08.4 | The first of three scheduled presidential debates took place last night at Case Western Reserve |
| 1:14.0 | University in Cleveland, Ohio. Chris Wallace of Fox News moderated the event, which took place |
| 1:20.2 | over 90 minutes in six 15-minute blocks. President Trump and Vice President Biden were asked about |
| 1:26.7 | their records, the Supreme Court, COVID-19, the economy, race and violence in our cities, and the integrity of the election. |
| 1:35.4 | The debate was contentious from the beginning, with each candidate contradicting the other repeatedly throughout. |
| 1:41.8 | Fox News is calling the debate fiery. |
| 1:46.2 | CNN describes it as rancorous and chaotic. According to USA Today, it was one of the most chaotic, insult-laden |
| 1:52.9 | presidential debates in modern history. Before last night, more than 70% of Americans said the debate wouldn't matter much to them. |
| 2:04.2 | Fewer people than at any time since 2000 consider debates important to deciding how they will vote. |
| 2:11.0 | However, televised presidential debates have been changing history since 1960, when Richard Nixon's light gray suit blended into the background |
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