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🗓️ 18 April 2025
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John and Maria look ahead to Easter Sunday and remember the anniversary of the passing of Charles Colson. The highest court in the UK rules there are only two genders. And are there biblical guidelines for when we should we help the poor?
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian perspective. |
0:07.5 | Today we're going to remember Chuck Polson on the anniversary of his death, and we're going to look forward to Easter. |
0:12.8 | We're also going to talk about a new ruling from the highest court in the United Kingdom about who can legally be referred to as a woman. |
0:20.3 | We have a lot to get to today. |
0:21.6 | We're so glad you're with us on this Holy Week. |
0:23.7 | Stick around. |
0:26.5 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week from the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
0:30.3 | I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center. |
0:34.6 | John, we're recording this on Mondi Thursday, but as you mentioned, just |
0:38.9 | offline before we got started here, this weekend, of course, is Easter. It is also, we're coming |
0:44.2 | up on an anniversary that's really personal to the Colson Center. So Chuck Colson passed away |
0:49.9 | now 13 years ago on Monday of next week. I wanted to kind of give you the floor here if you wanted to |
0:56.1 | say something about Chuck and you know, you got to meet him. I never got to meet him. But he's had, |
1:01.9 | of course, a big impact on my life. But yeah, I know this is a big anniversary around the |
1:06.4 | Colson Center. That's always something we try to remember, you know, being in Colorado Springs, |
1:10.6 | there's an awful lot of organizations that spend a lot of time apologizing for their founder |
1:14.5 | or talking about it being a new day from their founder. And we don't really do that. We |
1:18.4 | love what God did in Chuck's life and really believe in the work and ministry that he started |
1:24.3 | that we carry on, as well as, you know, the larger story of prison |
1:28.5 | fellowship. But there's just something about this year because it all aligns. And what I mean by |
1:33.2 | that is Easter and the day that Chuck went to be with the Lord. The day that Chuck went to be |
1:40.1 | with the Lord, I was in Cincinnati, Ohio, and I had a connecting flight home, knew he was |
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