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Person detained in Nancy Guthrie search, then released · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Greetings on this Wednesday, February 11th, 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm narrator Chris Elkins, and welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today's Daily Article is written by co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A man was released from custody early this morning after being detained for questioning in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He said he had been in his card last night when police officers asked him for his name and then detained him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was held for several hours, he said, before he was released with risks swollen from handcuffs.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The news came after the FBI released video Tuesday, showing a mask person with a handgun holster outside Mrs. Guthrie's front door the night she disappeared.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In other Tuesday headlines, seven people were found dead in a shooting at a high school in Tumblr Ridge, a remote community in British Columbia.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Among them was a person believed to be the shooter who died apparently from a self-inflicted injury.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Another person died while being transported to the hospital from the school, 25 people suffered injuries that were not life threatening.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Two other people were found dead in a local residence that police believe is connected to the shooting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Since the fall, Vice has been a feature rather than a bug of human nature, Romans 3, 23 reveals that from came to today, all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The two phrases and experiences are connected and causal established by Psalm 10 versus 3 and 4, the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and the one greedy for gain, curses, and renounces the Lord in the pride of his face, the wicked does not seek him, all his thoughts are, there is no God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In reading Joseph J. Ellis' American dialogue, the founders and us, I found two examples that make the Salmas point.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The first concerns Thomas Jefferson, without question one of the most brilliant of our
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yet, according to Ellis, Jefferson, quote, regarded it as self-evident that blacks are inferior to whites in the endowments of both mind and body.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As a result, he could not see an indeslavery.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was convinced that any mixing of blacks and whites would produce an inferior American race.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So freed slaves would have to be deported from the US, but Jefferson could not identify a plausible way to do so.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The second concerns Abraham Lincoln usually ranked by historians as the greatest of our presidents, yet Ellis reports that he also considered a deportation scheme for freed slaves to be enacted after the Civil War, even dispatching a presidential commission to Panama to explore the viability of a black homeland there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: both presidents illustrate the perennial fact referencing Genesis 3 verse 5 that the will to power inflames and empowers fall in human nature, but Jefferson was right to write, I Trimble for my country when I reflect that God is just that His justice cannot sleep forever.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quote, Is there a way forward?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In a perceptive new Wall Street Journal article, former Senator Ben Sass reminds us, quote, America works only if we remember that government is the source neither of our rights nor the meaning in our lives, in quote, given that Mr. Sass is dying of pancreatic cancer, his wisdom resonates with particular urgency.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He is right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If our hope lies within us, we have no real hope.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But if we will use the discouragement of the news and our culture to turn from ourselves to our redeeming Lord, he will do in us what we cannot do in ourselves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our Maker will give us a spiritual heart transplant, promised in Ezekiel 36 verse 26, I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When we trust Christ as our Lord, John 1 verse 12 reveals that we become children of God and a new creation as the old has passed away, the hold the new has come announced in 2 Corinthians 5 verse 17.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, if you're like Paul and me, you still struggle with temptation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep doing, limited by Paul in Romans 7, verse 19.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The good news is that there is no sin that we must commit according to 1 Corinthians 10, verse 13.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And there is a practical way we can experience first Corinthians 15, verse 57's, victory through our Lord Jesus Christ every day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In a recent wisdom for each day devotional, Billy Graham likened our minds to computers that are programmed at the factory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, much of what programs us comes from our fallen culture and corrupts us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Graham therefore
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We need to reprogram our mind and heart.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We need to replace the bad things that have taken root there with good and true things, in quote.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The key is the word replace.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Years ago, New York Times column nest David Brooks wrote an important article titled, How People Change.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He cited a quote, Trove of research suggesting that it is best to tackle negative behaviors obliquely by redirecting attention towards different positive ones.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quote, Arasmus of the late 15th and early 16th centuries had similar advice, encouraging us to use temptation as an opportunity to trust more fully in God's power to defeat it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He noted that Satan hates nothing so much as for evil to be used for good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In practical terms, when we see something in the news that discourages us, pray for those involved, ask Jesus to make himself real to them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Pray for God to use His people to make a difference where they have influence, ask the Spirit to replace our fear with the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Knowing that it will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus quoting Philippians 4.7.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And secondly, when we face temptation, pray for the strength and wisdom to replace sin with godliness, identify a positive action that would benefit us and others.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then ask Jesus to make himself real to us as he empowers us to be more than conquerors through him who loved us, announced in Romans 8 verse 37.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The key is both simple and profound, stated in 2 Corinthians 3 verse 18, beholding the glory of the Lord, we are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How fully will you be transformed into