Why Luke Bryan is on the cover of People magazine: The best way to prepare for the future
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 2 August 2021
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Country superstar Luke Bryan is on the cover of People magazine, but not for reasons we might expect. In The Daily Article for August 2, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison explains this story, then he focuses on the fact of mortality, describes the best way to prepare for the future, and points to Jesus' invitation to wear his "yoke" of purpose and significance.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.7 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.4 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:18.6 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the daily article for Monday, |
| 0:22.5 | August 2, 2021. The title is, why Luke Bryan is on the cover of People magazine, |
| 0:28.4 | the best way to prepare for the future. Country superstar, an American Idol judge, |
| 0:34.0 | Luke Bryan, is on the cover of People magazine, but not for the reasons we might guess. |
| 0:39.8 | Brian has endured a series of horrific tragedies over the last 25 years. In 1996, his older brother |
| 0:46.7 | was killed in a car accident at the age of 26. In 2007, his older sister died suddenly of |
| 0:53.0 | natural causes at the age of 39. |
| 0:56.5 | Seven years later, her husband died of a heart attack, leaving three children whom Luke and his wife have helped raise. |
| 1:03.3 | As a result, Brian knows that, quote, were not promised another day. |
| 1:08.0 | He's right. |
| 1:09.5 | On this day in 1985, strong and sudden wind gust caused Delta Flight |
| 1:14.5 | 191 to crash at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, killing 135 people. A subsequent investigation |
| 1:21.2 | showed that the weather had changed drastically in the eight minutes prior to the crash. On this day of 1923, President Warren G. |
| 1:30.3 | Harding died of a stroke at the age of 58. Famed gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok was murdered on this day |
| 1:37.9 | in 1876. King Henry III of France died on this day in 1589, a day after he was stabbed by a friar. |
| 1:47.4 | Adolf Hitler became dictator of Germany on this day in 1934, leading a regime that would |
| 1:52.6 | murder six million Jews. We can find evidence of our mortality in the past, but also in the future. |
| 2:00.7 | Astrophysicists are warning that while there |
| 2:02.4 | are no known asteroids classified as Earth killers, this could change on any given day. Either an |
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