Friday, February 9, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 09:35)
‘We See What We Want to See’: What Interest in ‘Bigfoot’ Teaches Us About Humanity
- What the hunt for Bigfoot teaches us about ourselves by The Washington Post (Carl Hoffman)
Part II (09:35 - 12:16)
Should Christians Attend the Wedding of Unbelievers? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
Part III (12:16 - 14:18)
When Do You Decide to Use the Name of a Person When Addressing a Public Controversy and When Do You Do So Without Mentioning a Name? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (14:18 - 16:53)
How Do Christians Decide What Significant Events to Attend for Friends and Family Members? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (16:53 - 17:44)
Should Protestant Christians Attend Roman Catholic Funerals? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
Part VI (17:44 - 18:27)
What About a Birthday Party? Coming to Terms Some New Questions
Part VII (18:27 - 22:26)
Does it Matter If Christians Were Really Martyred in the Roman Colosseum? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
Part VIII (22:26 - 24:20)
How Do Christian Parents Decide Which Portions of Scripture to Read to Young Children? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IX (24:20 - 26:48)
What Do You Really Think About Christian Counseling? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, February 9, 2024. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing. A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.6 | Well, what about Bigfoot? |
| 0:14.8 | Well, it's Friday. |
| 0:16.0 | Let's ask an urgent question on the briefing. |
| 0:18.8 | It comes down to the fact that there is some public attention |
| 0:22.0 | being given to Bigfoot, in part because of a book |
| 0:25.5 | that was recently published entitled The Secret History of Bigfoot Field Notes on a North American |
| 0:30.3 | monster. The author is John O'Connor. But that is one part of the story. The other part of the story is that |
| 0:36.7 | Carl Hoffman has written a column for the Washington Post entitled What the Hunt for |
| 0:40.6 | Bigfoot teaches us about ourselves. |
| 0:42.8 | So, you know, this tells us something by the way. |
| 0:45.2 | It tells us that we want to understand ourselves. |
| 0:48.0 | We want to know what this tells us about ourselves. |
| 0:50.2 | What does an interest or an obsession with say Bigfoot tell us about humanity? |
| 0:55.6 | Well, Carl Hoffman goes on to explain what it means, for example, to be out in a very |
| 1:00.4 | dark or foreboding place or to be out in a swamp. He mentions one in Indonesia. |
| 1:06.9 | And he simply says that there is the sense that, quote, other things were out there when the |
| 1:12.1 | sun dropped mysterious mythical |
| 1:14.4 | malignette mysterious that is shrouded in mystery mythical that is coming with an |
| 1:19.8 | elaborate narrative and understanding and mythical universal meaning and then |
| 1:25.0 | malignant evil dangerous deadly. |
| 1:30.0 | Hoffman cites O'Connor as writing quote we lose something profound if we look at wild places |
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