Friday, September 26, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the crisis of adults waiting until after certain milestones to get married, and he answers questions about the death penalty for Charlie Kirk’s killer, the doctrine of election, and the death of Voddie Baucham, Jr.
Part I (00:14 – 15:18)
Marriage Comes After Adult Milestones? It’s No Wonder We Face a Delay of Marriage Crisis
- Why Marriage Is Increasingly for the Affluent by The Wall Street Journal (Rachel Wolfe)
If Charlie Kirk’s Shooter Repents and Turns to Christ, Would the Death Penalty Still Be Needed? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 9-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part III (18:08 – 23:20)
What About The Doctrine of Election? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (23:20 – 24:38)
The Loss of a Bold and Faithful Brother in the Lord: The Death of Voddie Baucham, Jr.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, September 26, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.5 | We know intuitively that there have been huge shifts in the cultural, moral landscape around us, and especially when it comes to |
| 0:21.6 | the central institution of human society, which is marriage and the family. And we know there |
| 0:27.3 | have been massive transformations, and not only that, but ideological subversion in recent years. |
| 0:32.5 | Every once in a while, a piece comes along that kind of crystallizes where we stand and |
| 0:37.0 | frankly how Christians need to |
| 0:38.7 | lean in very differently than the secular world on the question of marriage and the family, |
| 0:44.1 | adulthood and expectations. So just recently, the Wall Street Journal ran an article. The headline |
| 0:49.4 | was financial shift delays marriage age. Rachel Wolfe is the reporter. The subhead, more young people are now |
| 0:56.3 | looking for financial stability before the wedding. All right. Very interesting analysis here. |
| 1:03.6 | I think for one thing, we just need to face what we are looking at when it comes to the delay of |
| 1:08.4 | marriage or the displacement of marriage in our society. So just |
| 1:12.0 | to state the matter bluntly, throughout virtually all of human history and Western civilization, |
| 1:17.9 | marriage has come relatively early as a defining issue of adulthood. And so adulthood equals |
| 1:24.3 | married has been a basic formula. Now, there are always some persons who weren't married, |
| 1:29.2 | clearly were adults, but those were exceptions to the rule. And in general, the expectation is |
| 1:35.5 | that the life cycle would come to a relatively short adolescence. Adolescence throughout |
| 1:41.6 | most of human history, if recognized at all, and someone had to recognize that period of older childhood transitioning into adulthood, and of course physical changes that bring on reproductive capacity, all of that coming together. |
| 1:54.5 | But the fact is that most societies felt it absolutely necessary to keep that period of life relatively short, not to elongate it. |
| 2:02.4 | Well, it has certainly been elongated now the extension of adolescence throughout most of the 20s, |
| 2:08.8 | at least when it comes to issues of, well, say, marriage and family. |
| 2:13.2 | That's come with devastating results. |
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