It's Friday, October 10, 2025.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

We're going to continue, of course, to track developments in the Middle East.

And as these events are unfolding day by day and even hour by hour, we're going to be

watching them very carefully. Clearly, this will be a very strategic weekend. So we're going to be

watching to see how this happens. And of course, we are praying for peace there in Gaza, a peace

that will protect Israel and a peace that will disarm Hamas and lead to the result that the

hostages will be released. So we're going to continue to observe these events, we're going to pray

for peace, and then we'll see what happens just in the coming weekend. But I want us to look at

a problem right here in the United States today on this Friday. I want us to look at a problem right here in the United States today

on this Friday. I want us to consider a problem that is really big at the state government

level. It's big at the federal level. It's big in the large culture, the entire cultural

picture around us. It's also a problem for a lot of young people and for their families. I'm talking about

gambling. And what we have right now is a very sinister situation. Since the Supreme Court ruling in

2018, that led to the legalization of so much betting, sports betting, and all the rest in all 50 states.

And by the way, the Supreme Court of the United States did not reach a decision that gambling

should be legal everywhere. The precise question presented to the Supreme Court is whether

it was legal, constitutional, for Congress to recognize two states, in particular, the states of Nevada

and New Jersey as being special cases when it came to forms of legalized betting.

And that was clearly an imbalance that could not stand constitutional muster. What we have here is a failure of

Congress to legislate in order to bring much of this under control. Now, of course, Christians have

longstanding deep moral concerns about gambling, and I think it's a big problem that a lot of

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