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“In his acceptance speech last night (22 Feb) at the Academy Awards, actor Sean Penn told supporters of California’s Proposition 8 that their opposition to gay marriage was a cause of “great shame” and would lead to “shame in their grandchildren’s eyes.” – Al Mohler

On his 23 Feb program, Dr. Mohler asks whether or not Penn’s assessment is realistic and what it tells us of the debate over gay marriage. Definitely worth the listen. Will Americans eventually accept same sex marriage in order not to be an embarrassment to ‘prevailing culture’? Will Christians abandon the biblical view of homosexuality or face “shame in their grandchildren’s eyes” ?

To say that this is an important sermon for our times is an understatement. If your normal Sunday morning fare is a short self-help sermonette, you might need to consume it in small bites.If you attend a more conservative church with ‘real’ sermons, there are portions you might not like.

Watch it anyway. I have no idea what in this sermon will speak to you, but you cannot walk from it unchanged.

This is the logical result of atheistic evolution.

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Recovering the Christian Mind

“We cannot afford to carry into adult life a Christian consciousness so under-nourished and anemic that we slide into accepting faddish convenience recipes for worldly well being as our daily diet. The evidence is that when the time comes for getting to grips with the Christian faith as adults and not as children, many of our contemporaries abandon their faith. They were spoon-fed on the milk of the word, but in adulthood they discard the nourishment as babyish, and assume that there is no more to be said. Meanwhile, professing believers, men and women who perhaps make great steps forward in other spheres of life, all too often succumb to the epidemic of “anorexoria religiosa” which destroys all appetite for progress in Christian understanding and commitment.

. . .full-blooded Christian teaching will bring under judgment much that is taken for granted by people reared on protein-free Gospel or no Gospel at all. We have to learn to set life’s manifestations of evil and suffering, as well as of goodness and joy, in the context of the divine and human drama which is Christianity’s account of what we men and women are here involved in. The Christian worldview is the only integrative counterpoise to a secularism that is decomposing our civilization. No thoughtful Christian can contemplate and analyze the tensions all about us in both public and private life without sensing the eternal momentousness of the current struggle for the human mind between Christian teaching and materialistic secularism. – Harry Blamires, Recovering the Christian Mind, 1988, InterVarsity Press, Introductory material.”

One might rightly suppose that the above is a defense of studying the great doctrines of Scripture. I would agree with that supposition, and can only add that I find it nearly unfathomable that so many of us who profess to believe in Christ choose NOT to do so.

Steve Camp

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If this does not speak to heart of the President, as a father – not to his position, I wonder what/who could? John Piper speaks to that also.

Classic Russ Taff

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