What is humanity's oldest lie and how is it freshly emerging to steal the hearts and minds of a new generation?

Our guest today by old professor Thad Williams has a fascinating new book with a very provocative title called Don't Follow Your Heart,

subtitle boldly breaking the Ten Commandments of Self Worship.

We're going to dissect his Ten Commandments and talk about how to be what he calls a cultural heretic today.

I'm your host Scott Ray and this is Think Biblical, a podcast from Talbot School of Theology

at Biola University.

Thad welcome, great to have you with us.

Congrats on your new book.

It's a home run.

But I suspect the first question our listeners have

is, what on earth do you mean?

Don't follow your heart?

Why not?

And what's wrong with that?

Sure.

I wish I could take credit for it, but it's actually

the wisdom of a nine-year-old.

So in the Williams household, we play a little game of

Spot the Lie a game we picked up from the great Christian thinker, culture

commentator Os Guinness. And the idea is your kids are watching something instead of just passively consuming information.

Teach your kids some discernment so they don't just become chameleons taking on the colors of whatever's around them.

So this was a few years ago, my now 13 year old, which is scary to say,

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