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How a mother prevented an attack on our nation’s capital · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good day, it's Thursday, June the 18th, 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for joining us for this edition of Denison Forums' Daily article podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Chris Elkins, narrator, giving voice to today's Daily article written by Fred Friend and mentor Dr. Jim Denison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It is a tale of two women that could have ended in a drastically different way.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The mother of a 19-year-old man, he came concerned about his stockpile of guns and his online chat or phone conversations and recent actions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She called authorities who came to her home in Ohio and found spent ammunition and tactical clothing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Her son admitted to planning a coordinated attack on last Sunday's UFC event at the White House.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: were thousands of people were in attendance.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He also identified others involved in the alleged plot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When the FBI searched the home of another alleged co-conspirator, they found the man's firearms and tactical equipment that his wife said he'd purchased in recent months.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She also said her husband told her that he was a recruiter for the group.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, she had said nothing to the authorities prior to the FBI's arrival.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What if the mother of the first suspect had acted with no more urgency in the wife of the second?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: President Trump and Iranian President Masood Pazeskin signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday that laid out terms for ending the war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Trump could be seen signing the memorandum late Wednesday at the Palace of Versailles in a video published by Fridge President Emmanuel Macron.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Pazeskin signed the memorandum separately according to Iranian state media.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While experts and pundits have focused on the contents of the agreement, I ask us yesterday to intercede for the millions of lost people in Iran with compassion for their eternal souls.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As I did so, however, a question occurred to me that I think many people would ask, what if they're not truly lost?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Many, if not most, Americans would say that there are many roads up the same mountain, meaning that Iranian Muslims are no more right or wrong in their religion than American Christians.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Many would add that if Iranian Muslims are sincere in their faith, that's all God requires.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Some would go even further, insisting that tolerance of all viewpoints is the only acceptable way to respond to a world in which all truth is, allegedly, personal and subjective.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know that many World Cup fans are passionate about loving their team and hating all others, but is this really the way we should treat those of other faiths and of none?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm confident that you would vote for the proposition that lost people in Jesus.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But permit me to ask, when was the last time you shared Jesus with a lost person?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When last did you take a mission trip to share the gospel with those who had not heard it?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: when last did you pray for Iranians and millions of others who fit into both categories?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If it's been a while, may I hazard a guess as to why?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If we can quote John 316, we know all a lost person needs to know to be saved.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If we invest our time, money, and other resources and possessions and activities, we're willing to pay a price to do something worth its cost.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, many are not absolutely certain that evangelism qualifies.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How can a just God consigned the billions who have not heard the gospel to hell for rejecting a message they've never heard?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Similarly, how can a loving God reject the multitude who have heard the gospel without accepting it, but who love their families, serve their communities, and otherwise live as Christians should?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I understand these questions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus clearly said of Himself in John 3 verse 18, whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because He has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In this light, let's ask what of good people who have not believed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Their first sin was enough to separate them eternally from the sinless God and his perfect heaven referenced by Romans 6 verse 23.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What of those who sincerely believe in other religions?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Only Jesus was the sinless Savior who died for our sins, affirmed in Hebrews 4 verse 15 verse Peter 2 verse 24 and verse John 2 verse 2.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Only faith in him is sufficient to receive the salvation he alone can give, citing John 4 of our 16 and Acts 4 of our 13.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What of those who have not heard the gospel?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If they do not need to trust Christ, why are we commanded and commissioned in Matthew 28 verse 19 and Acts 1 8 to tell them?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The first Christians had even more right to ask such questions than we do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: by Acts 4, verse 4, the number of men who had believed came to about 5,000.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Including families, this would constitute a church of around 20,000, charged with teaching a global population of around 180 million at the time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: With a life expectancy of around 30 years, clearly the vast majority would die without hearing the gospel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Included in that number was a population of 4 million Jews who sincerely believed in a religion apart from Christianity, the vast majority would likewise die without hearing the gospel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And yet the first Christians risked, and many gave, their lives to share Christ with the Jews and Gentiles of their day, according to Romans 10 verses 1 through 4.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It comes to this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We can risk the eternal destiny of the eternal souls we know by allowing our questions to hinder our evangelism.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or we can do what we are clearly commissioned to do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Share Christ with everyone we can in every way we can.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Evangelist and author Paul Little believed, quote, witnessing is the deep seated conviction that the greatest favor I can do for others is to introduce them to Jesus Christ, in quote.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: or home, will you do this greatest favor today?