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This week, we’ve discussed the power of Scripture to change hearts and lives when we submit to its truth in accountable community. Let’s apply this discussion to the most crucial moral issue of our time: abortion. Our society is convinced that illegality should be defined by harm done to others (as with LGBTQ behavior). But in such a culture where sons and daughters are sacrificed, it is especially critical that God’s people embrace and advance biblical morality, whatever the cost to ourselves. The sicker the patient, the more urgent the cure.

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“Just do the right thing.” As the “America Reads the Bible” continues in Washington, DC, this week, we explore the power of Scripture to change hearts and lives when we submit to its truth in the power of the Spirit. Public figures’ moral failures highlight the challenge of putting our beliefs into practice and point to a principle evangelicals overlook to our peril. The world might be tougher than we are, but let’s be smart enough to try to learn from those smarter than we are. God’s word is most transformative in our lives when we choose to obey it in accountable community with others.

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For more on the congressmen's resignations, see Mark Legg’s excellent article on the Denison Forum website.

Reading the Scriptures can be a powerful encounter with the voice of the living God. But the Bible must be applied if its truths are to be transforming. Our nation was founded on the declaration that “all men are created equal” and it should be possible for us to live with holistic holiness, completely obedient to every dictate of Scripture. However, our founding declaration does not prescribe such biblical thinking and living. As a result, morality is under constant tension, litigation, and jurisprudence in our secularized society.

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“America Reads the Bible” began Saturday at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. Over seven days, nearly five hundred participants will read the Bible aloud from Genesis to Revelation. Daily readings are scheduled from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. If you wonder whether America needs a spiritual and moral awakening, you need only read the news. In such a broken world, how does reading the words of an ancient book out loud help? Is this merely a performative gesture, perhaps with political motives? The answer is more relevant to our souls and national future than one might think.

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The feud between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV continued on Thursday, when the pope decried that “The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants,” in what many took to be a thinly veiled shot at the president. Even if at least parts of the pope’s critiques may be valid, that does not mean his statements were wise. There’s a lot more to Christian teaching than just the gospel, but it’s crucial that we keep a clear view of where we should draw that line. The gospel pertains to matters essential to salvation, and whether the war in Iran is just does not come anywhere close to clearing that bar. Unfortunately, the pope is far from the only person to have ever erred in that regard.

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Today's Daily Article was written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins. You can read this article on our website. You may also receive it in your inbox by subscribing to our newsletter.

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Dr. Ryan Denison explored the criteria for how Christians have historically understood a war to be just in a recent article.

Testimony in the Camp Mystic evidential hearing concluded yesterday in an Austin courtroom. The lawsuit was brought by the family of eight-year-old Cile Steward, who died in the July 4, 2025, flood and whose body has not been recovered. Her family is fighting attempts to reopen the camp until her remains are found. So many of the families involved in this horrific tragedy are still grieving. When God chooses not to intervene in our suffering, we can be tempted to doubt his character—and some doubts are more visceral than others, as we’ll explore today.

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“Tax Freedom Day” will soon be here. As the Tax Project website explains, this is the day when you have earned enough to pay your combined federal, state, and local tax contributions for the year. For the rest of the year, you can finally begin working for and paying yourself. On one hand, I’m grateful for the benefits of the taxes I pay. On the other hand, it feels liberating to think that everything I earn from this point forward is mine to do with as I wish. These two “hands” go together. We have the freedoms we experience in America in significant part because we pay for them by supporting the governmental agencies who do for us what we would otherwise have to do for ourselves. I believe this capitalistic mindset to be the greatest single impediment to spiritual awakening in the Western world.

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For more on awakenings in Western history, see our book, The Fifth Great Awakening and the Future of America.

President Trump posted an image Sunday evening on Truth Social depicting himself that many across the political spectrum protested as sacrilegious. One writer called the post “blasphemous” and “reprehensible.” Conservative pundit Carmine Sabia stated, “As a Christian, I’m offended by this, and I don’t know how any Christian would not be offended by this. There is only one Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Mocking him is not OK.” Though the post has now been deleted, its caption claimed, “America has been sick for a long time. President Trump is healing this nation.” No, he’s not. But not for the reasons you might think.

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US stock futures fell and oil prices rose this morning after President Trump announced a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. His statement came after marathon talks with Iran failed to reach an agreement that would end the war. In better news, Russia and Ukraine observed a truce in their war across the Orthodox Easter weekend, but only for the weekend. Did you know that April is Stress Awareness Month? You won’t be surprised to learn that apparently unsolvable problems like war not only cause significant stress, but worrying about them also impairs cognitive functioning and makes things worse. But when we choose the opposite of control, we discover the transforming hope available to every anxious heart today, including yours.

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New information continues to emerge in the remarkable story of how the American pilot shot down in Iran was rescued on Easter. In the press conference announcing the operation’s success, President Trump alluded to a top-secret device called the “Ghost Murmur” and, depending on who you talk to, it is either a quantum leap in our ability to detect electromagnetic signals like a human heartbeat or a gross exaggeration based more in science fiction than in real science. Most of us understand all too well how difficult it can be to filter out the noise in our lives today.

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Today's Daily Article was written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins. You can read this article on our website. You may also receive it in your inbox by subscribing to our newsletter.

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