Winter break after freshman year, my dad put a gun to his heart and pulled the trigger and suicide just crashed into our story.

It just catapulted me, again, excellent at faking fine on the surface, but I'm going back to college, you know, a couple weeks after seeing his body on a morgue table.

And I continue to fake fine, but I'm depressed, anxious, anxiety attacks sitting outside the student union.

I am wrestling with a spirit of suicide myself, just resentful, angry, hurt, fill in the blank.

We'd go on the soccer field and sort of be able to forget about my

problems for a little bit. So people kept applauding, you're doing so well, you're healing. I was not.

There are powerful voices making an enormous effort to sexualize our children at very young

ages. We have pornography in our schools, and we're reluctant

to remove it. So the question on the table is, why should we be talking about sex and purity in the

church? Because if we don't help establish a biblical perspective, a Judeo-Christian perspective,

and help our parents understand the appropriateness of that, we're abandoning our children to people who have motives

that I think at best are nefarious.

At worst, they're evil.

It's time for us to find our voice,

to care enough about our kids,

to pay attention to what's happening,

and be able to articulate a way to help them maintain

the purity that's appropriate for children so that they can grow up and have healthy lives.

Folks, that's the church's assignment, far beyond preaching sermons and convening classes.

Well, I'm excited about today's podcast.

I think it'll help on that topic.

We are watchmen on the walls, and if we see evil and we don't use our voice, it says it's on us.

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