Why the founder of Raising Cane’s bought $100,000 in lottery tickets
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Todd Graves, the founder of Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, purchased fifty thousand Mega Millions tickets at a cost of $100,000 for Tuesday’s drawing. If any of Todd Graves’s tickets had been a winner, he would have split the jackpot among his fifty thousand employees. In The Daily Article for July 28, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison describes Graves’s other philanthropic pursuits via Raising Cane’s, offers two reasons why discouragement is especially challenging for Christians, and concludes with four practical principles for responding to discouragement with triumphant faith. For more biblical help with finding the courage to go on, please see my latest article: “Jimmy Hoffa is still missing: The power of persistence and privilege of kingdom service.”
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
Subscribe: http://www.denisonforum.org/subscribe
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I'll be blunt. We're seeking to raise nearly $500,000 by July 31st. Why? |
| 0:07.0 | Because Denison Forum is a 100% donor-funded nonprofit. We rely on God's grace and the generosity of our donors to keep our ministry running. |
| 0:19.0 | And we fully understand that you have scores of ministries |
| 0:22.7 | and other worthy causes you could donate to. |
| 0:25.6 | So why choose to support Denison Forum? |
| 0:28.6 | Well, we have our financial goal, |
| 0:31.0 | but that goal supports our spiritual goal |
| 0:33.5 | to change the culture for Christ. |
| 0:36.3 | We staunchly believe that biblically grounded content delivered through digital platforms |
| 0:42.3 | like this podcast you're listening to right now can change Christians who then work to change |
| 0:48.3 | the culture around them. |
| 0:50.3 | If you agree, please consider donating today. |
| 0:53.3 | Visit daily article.org today to help change our culture. |
| 1:01.4 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Thursday, July 28, 2022. |
| 1:06.6 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 1:11.9 | One of the problems with writing a daily article of a certain length is that I must sometimes leave out stories I wish I could tell. |
| 1:18.8 | For example, in my reporting on the Mega Millions Lottery yesterday, I had no space to tell you one of the great stories related to Tuesday night's drawing, |
| 1:29.0 | the founder of Raising Kane's Chicken Fingers, purchased 50,000 mega-million tickets at a cost of |
| 1:36.8 | $100,000. The reason, if any of Todd Graves' tickets had been a winner, he would have split |
| 1:44.1 | the jackpot among his 50,000 |
| 1:46.8 | employees. I have seen no word yet on whether Graves has purchased more tickets for tomorrow |
| 1:52.6 | night's $1 billion mega millions drawing, but it wouldn't surprise me if he did, and for the same |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Denison Forum, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Denison Forum and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.