Why did this high school wrestler’s video go viral?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Adversity finds us daily, but our Father has a purpose behind our pain. Today's podcast explores one way God redeems suffering he does not prevent.
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| 0:00.0 | Why did this high school wrestler's video go viral? |
| 0:06.1 | This is Jim Denison's The Daily Article Podcast for Monday, March 11th, 2019. |
| 0:11.2 | Hunter Wallace is a wrestler at Northwest High School in Justin, a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas. |
| 0:16.7 | He didn't win a single match this year, but he is the captain of his team. |
| 0:20.4 | His coach explains why. |
| 0:22.4 | Hunter's one of those kids that leads by example. |
| 0:24.5 | He's always positive. |
| 0:25.9 | I've never heard the kid complain. |
| 0:27.6 | Hunter also has cerebral palsy. |
| 0:30.2 | As the reporter who told his story says, Hunter has an upper body built like an ox, but wobbly legs. |
| 0:36.2 | Nonetheless, he wanted to do squats to get stronger. |
| 0:39.3 | A video of his workout went viral. Hunter explains, |
| 0:43.3 | You got the right mentality, heart, and God in front of you, nothing will stop you. You just |
| 0:47.5 | got to push through it. He adds, I'm just like a normal person. God made me who I am. |
| 0:52.8 | Affliction finds us all. World leaders and citizens from more |
| 0:56.1 | than 30 countries are mourning the loss of 157 people who died when their Ethiopian Airlines jet |
| 1:02.1 | crashed yesterday morning. The victims included at least 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, nine each from |
| 1:08.4 | Ethiopia and France, eight each from the U.S., China, and Italy, and seven |
| 1:12.9 | from the U.K. Meanwhile, the Islamic State is losing its last territorial foothold, but terrorism |
| 1:18.7 | experts believe that jihadis will continue their activities around the world. |
| 1:22.8 | In related news, the Wall Street Journal reports that Osama bin Laden's son, Hamza, is an emerging leader in |
| 1:28.0 | al-Qaeda. According to the State Department, he has been calling on followers to carry out attacks |
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