Why baseball’s highest paid player hasn’t played in four years: Four reasons to trust God’s providence with patience
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 15 May 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR MAY 15, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting far more people than it is infecting. Today's podcast tells two stories that illustrate this fact, then we identify four biblical reasons to wait on God in 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. |
| 0:19.9 | Prince Fielder is owed $24 million in the final year of his contract with the Texas Rangers. |
| 0:26.5 | This would put him nowhere near the top 10 current salaries in the sport. |
| 0:30.8 | But it's not bad for a player who has not appeared in a game since 2016, when injuries |
| 0:36.0 | forced his early retirement. Here's why Fers' salary is noteworthy. |
| 0:40.8 | As Major League Baseball works on a plan to play a shortened season, current players could receive |
| 0:46.1 | less than their salaries dictate. But because the sports' collective bargaining agreement |
| 0:50.9 | seems to protect guarantees in contracts such as fielders, he will probably |
| 0:55.7 | receive the full amount. This is just one illustration of the fact that COVID-19 is affecting far |
| 1:01.7 | more people than it is infecting. Here's a tragic example. An American missionary pilot named |
| 1:08.2 | Joyce Lynn died in a plane crash Tuesday. She was transporting |
| 1:12.5 | coronavirus rapid test kits and school supplies to a village in Papua, the easternmost |
| 1:18.5 | province in Indonesia, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Gordon-Conwell |
| 1:24.9 | Theological Seminary. she was 40 years old. |
| 1:30.5 | A 55-year-old person from the Hubei province in China may have been the first person to contract COVID-19. |
| 1:38.6 | The case dates back to November 17, 2019, nearly six months ago, |
| 1:43.5 | as mortality from this horrible disease passes 302,000 deaths as of this |
| 1:48.9 | morning, why is it taking so long to develop effective therapies? George Friedman is one of the most |
| 1:54.7 | astute geopolitical analysts of our day. In a recent article, he discussed the medical system in the context of risk. He noted |
| 2:03.3 | that the moral foundation of sciences is that it must, first of all, do no harm. As a result, |
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