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Israel and Iran trade attacks for the first time since April · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good day and welcome to Dinnison Forum's Daily Article podcast for Monday, June 8th, 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I am Chris Elkins, narrating today's Daily Article, authored by Cultural Theologian Dr. Jim Dinnison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm riding today to offer hope where you might not expect it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: First, the news.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Iran fired missiles at Israel this morning in several waves of attacks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Siren sounded in Tel Aviv and explosions from missile intercepts could be heard over the city.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Explosions were also heard in Tehran shortly before noon, local time, hours after Israel said it had struck military targets in central and western Iran.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This was the first exchange of strikes between the two nations since a shaky ceasefire was called an April.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As the New York Times reports, quote, the fighting has propelled the Middle East back to the precipice of the full-scale war that began in February.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quote, early Monday,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: President Trump posted on truth social, Israel and Iran must immediately stop shooting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: closer to home, five people were stabbed at New York City's Penn Station last night, the suspect is now in police custody.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And a search continued yesterday for two men who appeared to fire guns at each other at a popular street festival in Toledo, Ohio, shooting at least 12 other people in the process.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Victims ranged in ages from 14 to 61.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: to are reported to be in critical condition.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're shaking your head at all of this and thinking, here we go again, you're right, of course.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And therein lies my paradoxical point.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My wife and I celebrated our 46th wedding anniversary yesterday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Friends who have known Janet over these years have consistently and correctly noted that I significantly overmarried.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A member of one of the churches we pastor heard her speak and told me afterward that I had, quote, out kicked my coverage.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I suspect that every church that called me as their pastor did so that Janet would join their church.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One pastor search committee confirmed my suspicions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Upon meeting us the first time, they remarked that they had found their pastor's wife and now needed to find their pastor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The reasons are obvious to anyone who knows my wife.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Janet is beautiful, brilliant, wise, hearing, and gifted.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She's the best Bible teacher I know and one of the funniest people I have ever met.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She is also the godliest person I have ever known.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How she combines all of that is a constant mystery to me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She has taught me so much over these years, among the words of wisdom for which she is known is this, of a life God is able to bless.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As she explains, our father loves his children and wants to bless us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, he harms us if he blesses that which harms us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If we live according to his word and will, we live a life he is able to bless.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the key to the abundant life he wants for us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Janet strives to live such a life in every way, which explains the consistency of her character and the vibrancy of her ministry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When she and I married in 1980, Iran was in the headlines with a hostage crisis that began the previous November.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The day we were married, the prime minister of Lebanon announced his resignation, along with his cabinet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Two years later, the first Lebanon war broke out between Israel and Palestinian terrorists and southern Lebanon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: closer to home, 1980 was the worst year of crime in New York City's history, according to its police department.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I say that to say this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Conflict in the Middle East and violence at home is not new, but our hope was never to be found in the headlines.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus famously stated in John 14 verse 6, I am the way and the truth and the life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: St. Thomas Aquinas noted that humans desire above all things the truth by which to live and the life by which to live eternally.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As he explained, Christ is the way to such truth or He is Himself the truth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And He is the way to such life or He is Himself the life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is why Paul explained his ministry succinctly in 1 Corinthians 2 verse 2, I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Paul's greatest passion was knowing Christ Jesus my Lord noted in Philippians 3 verse 8.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He Scottish theologian James Stewart, therefore titled His marvelous biography of the Apostle, a man in Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The former persecutor of Christians changed the world for Christ because Christ changed his world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He is exibidate of Jesus' strong declaration from John 15, verse 5, whoever abides in me and I in him, he is that bears much fruit, or apart from me, you can do nothing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now it remains for us to choose, will we abide in Christ today?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Will we seek a deeper, more intimate relationship with the living Lord Jesus and we have ever known?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He alone can impart the meaning our souls hunger to experience and share, knowing Him and making Him known give us purpose found nowhere else.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In yesterday's reading, in my utmost for his highest, Oswell Chambers observed, what ought to exert the greatest power over me is Jesus Christ?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I must decide to be limited in my affinities to choose carefully where I place my attention.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If Jesus Christ is more and more my dominating interest, every phase of my life will bear fruit for him."
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quote,