Friday, February 16, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 08:56)
Good News: Young Adults Are Close to Their Parents. Bad News: Those Same Young Adults Are Way Behind in Getting Married and Having Children of Their Own
- Parents Are Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives, and Fine With It by The New York Times (Claire Cain Miller)
Part II (08:56 - 14:34)
What About Neurodiversity? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
Part III (14:34 - 18:33)
Should Christians Watch Sports? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (18:33 - 20:42)
What is Virtue? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (20:42 - 27:06)
How Do We Think Biblically About Distractions During Worship Services? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, February 16, 2024. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.4 | As we get ready to go into the weekend, we tend to look at some things that we think are culturally |
| 0:19.5 | important and perhaps hit fairly close to home for Christians and the listeners of the briefing. |
| 0:26.2 | Here's a headline article in the New York Times. |
| 0:27.8 | It's just important that it happened. |
| 0:29.4 | Just days ago, quote, yes, parents are more involved, subhead, and kids are just fine with it. |
| 0:36.5 | The reporter is Claire Kane Miller, and the bottom line in the article is that given social |
| 0:41.6 | media and given changes in parenting you have older |
| 0:46.0 | teenagers college students and even young adults whose parents are far |
| 0:49.8 | more involved in their lives day by day, sometimes several times a day, then would have been the case in the past. |
| 0:57.0 | Now let me just say that part of this is simply due to technology, but there is a bigger issue than technology at work here. Let's just talk about the technology. I went to college in the late 1970s. |
| 1:10.0 | I said goodbye to my parents and family. I got into my Mustang and I drove several |
| 1:14.4 | hundred miles to go to a college far far away. I did not really have the opportunity |
| 1:20.0 | to stop and call I really did not have the opportunity to stay in touch. No one had my GPS. |
| 1:26.0 | No one could use find my phone. I didn't have a phone for anyone to find. I did have a CB radio, which at least in theory was going to allow me to call for help if I got into any trouble and a friendly trucker might come along and be of assistance. |
| 1:40.0 | But quite frankly I got into my Mustang I headed out went to college and one of the big issues was and I had such a close relationship with my parents |
| 1:49.1 | But what are the big issues was that we had a weekly phone call and back then the rates went down on |
| 1:54.7 | Sunday night and so guess when we had the phone calls after church on Sunday night I |
| 1:58.5 | would call my parents we had a wonderful phone conversation when the rates were low and then it was another week before we had a conversation |
| 2:07.6 | unless something major happened and as I remember my college experience, |
| 2:12.5 | I don't remember anything major happening |
| 2:15.0 | that required a phone call other than on Sunday night. |
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