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President Trump took a secret flight amid Iranian threat · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast from Denison Forum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's Wednesday, August 12, 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is an automated reading of today's Daily Article authored by Dr. Jim Denison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today's article is titled, President Trump took a secret flight amid Iranian threat.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: President Trump confirmed Tuesday night that he secretly switched planes when traveling back from Turkey in July.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As the Washington Post first reported, when the President left a NATO summit on July 8th, he climbed the stairs into the old Air Force One jumbo jet, not the former Qatari jet the President has begun using, in view of television cameras.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He then secretly shuddled minutes later to a smaller Air Force C32A plane via an airport catering truck usually used to load meals and other supplies pre-flight.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This was because of a credible Iranian assassination threat against the President that set
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The U.S. President is not the only person facing aviation concerns.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: An American Airlines plane made an emergency landing in South Carolina on Monday after the aircraft reportedly struck a bird, and flames were seen shooting from an engine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Further from home, a baby was rescued from the rubble of a destroyed building in Columbia after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the country Monday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At least 181 people have died, and 2,595 were injured, nearly 4,000 are still
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At this writing, 15 bodies have been recovered from a lake in Zimbabwe, where a passenger boat capsized Tuesday, at least 27, are still missing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the World Health Organization is reporting that the fastest growing Ebola epidemic on records started in February, months before it was officially declared in mid-May.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: None of this is good news you were perhaps hoping I would discuss.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like fish fleeing a shark, we instinctively avoid death as well as thinking about death.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: but there's very good news about bad news we can embrace today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I recently commented on a landmark study focusing on religious participation and mental health.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's very positive findings are mirrored by the same study's conclusions regarding physical health.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Researchers examined 1,067 high-quality studies across 15 physical health domains, finding that positive correlations between religious involvement and physical health outnumbered negative correlations
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The ratios were 90 to 1 for cigarette smoking, 43 to 1 for substance abuse and addiction, and 15 to 1 for mortality and longevity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even for chronic pain and cancer, positive correlations with religious involvement outnumbered negative by roughly a 4 to 1 ratio.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Researchers explain these positive outcomes in three ways.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Religious communities shape accountability and behavior, discouraging habits that damage
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Religious practices involve actions such as prayer, worship, and the study of sacred texts, as well as abstinence from addictive and damaging substances and behaviors.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Religious beliefs can shape attitudes regarding the body, emphasizing the importance of caring for it as a sacred vessel or temple for the spirit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, as with our conversation regarding mental health, there is a threshold effect.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The benefits of religion are concentrated among those with sustained, high-religious engagement.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Consistent weekly religious attendance is powerfully associated with significantly lower rates of cigarette smoking, heart disease, hypertension, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, physical disability, and chronic pain, along with markedly lower rates of substance abuse and addiction.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: An intimate relationship with Jesus is not only a proven pathway to increased health outcomes, it is also essential for the days when a health crisis strikes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not if, but when.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I spoke the other day with a friend for many years ago who told me he had recently been diagnosed with ALS.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He has only a few years older than me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He and his wife had the rest of their lives before them to enjoy the results of their many years of hard work and faithfulness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And yet, my friend has not lost his joy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I would not have known of his devastating diagnosis if he had not told me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was just as vibrant, positive, and encouraging as I remembered him from years earlier.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I told him that one of the ways God is redeeming his illness is by using his joyous faith to show others the reality of Jesus in his life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When times were good, skeptics could dismiss his faith and faithfulness as the obvious
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now that he is up against this terrible disease, the faithfulness he and his wife continue to demonstrate is marking more lives than they can know.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In heaven, they will meet people who will thank them for the impact of their courage on earth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God is using their pain to demonstrate the power of his presence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One day, the time of our departure from these fallen bodies will come.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The word means to loosen or unloose, as when oxen are unyoked from a plow or a prisoner is set free from the chains that we're binding him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On that day, death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For the former things have passed away.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In the meantime, the closer we walk with the living Lord Jesus, the more we experience his abundant life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Henrietta C. Mears was right, a man who walks with God always gets to his destination.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How close to Jesus would he say you are today?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to the Daily Article Podcast.
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