Why the Rams' Super Bowl loss matters today
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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The NFL crowned the New England Patriots as Super Bowl winners again last night. Today's podcast invites us to reframe success and failure in biblical terms and choose the only path to success that truly matters. For more news discerned differently, or to receive the Daily Article via email, please visit denisonforum.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Why the Rams Super Bowl loss matters today. |
| 0:03.5 | This is Jim Denison's daily article for Monday, February 4th, 2019. |
| 0:07.7 | As everyone who doesn't live on Mars must know, the New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams to win Super Bowl 53 yesterday. |
| 0:15.5 | The game set 18 records. It was the lowest scoring Super Bowl in history. |
| 0:20.1 | Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are now the oldest starting quarterback and head coach to win a Super Bowl. |
| 0:24.6 | It featured the longest punt ever, though the ball rolled much of the way, the fewest touchdowns, and the fewest kickoff returns. |
| 0:31.6 | Critics are condemning the Rams and their quarterback today, but they did make it to the game's biggest stage, |
| 0:42.9 | albeit after a blown call against the Saints. However, the NFL gives out no trophies for second place. Legendary driver Dale Earnhardt spoke for our culture. Second place is just the first |
| 0:48.7 | place loser. Do you remember who lost the Super Bowl last year? The Patriots. |
| 0:54.2 | Two years ago? |
| 0:55.4 | The Falcons. |
| 0:56.4 | The year before? |
| 0:57.6 | The Panthers. |
| 0:58.6 | I had to look it up. |
| 1:00.5 | In our culture, you're a winner if you win and a loser if you lose. |
| 1:04.1 | That's because a secular culture, by definition, cannot consider spiritual truth. |
| 1:08.3 | It can see only what it can see. |
| 1:10.4 | A materialistic society measures success |
| 1:12.3 | by materialistic means. Philosopher Martin Heidegger claimed that you are an actor on a stage. |
| 1:19.1 | You have no audience, script, or director. There is no past or future, only now. Courage is to face |
| 1:25.0 | life as it is. Works by Jackson Pollock look like paint dripped on a canvas because that's what they are. |
| 1:31.3 | Before you say a first grader could have painted that, know that one of his pieces sold a few years ago for more than $32 million. |
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