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Okay, friends, great vocal here. Stand a reason. Last broadcast of the year. Is that right? Yeah, that's right because we are taking Christmas to New Year's off and

a little rest for everybody. Is that right?

Oh, yes, we have STRS, of course. Amos and I, famous Avents, I put those things up for the future. We did a lot of these extra ones. So that will be coming to you during that week.

Those are easier for us to do 25 minutes roughly per question. I'm chuckley now because we just did a bunch of shows this morning. It was like one question per show, but they were great questions. And this is characteristic of the STRS.

And so in many times are things that are nuanced in a number of different ways. We want to be careful to be clear. So people understand the points that we're making and the reason we're making them and hopefully expand your understanding. We don't want to just give simplistic answers unless simplistic or simple answers are adequate.

And sometimes that's the case is, you know, tithing in New Testament practice. No, next. Of course, we have to give our reasons why that's the case. But some have a lot of different elements to them.

And part of what we do, Amy and I, together as we take this issue and then we parse out the elements and put them in proper perspective and then kind of it's like we take it as a part and then we put it back together and reassemble it in a way that is so so much more robust in your understanding that the answer becomes obvious or apparent.

Anyway, how did I get off on that? So that's STRS. So if you don't listen to that, you want to. And in fact, I think in January, we have a show schedule where we'll be doing some STRS for our regular broadcast just for those of you who have not listened to STRS will, you know, be able to benefit from it and say, hey, not bad.

We get Amy along with that. So that's a big benefit. So now I have a question here that was raised to me by someone who I know who is an ER nurse and has been for quite a while. And of course, if you're in the medical profession, you have to face the last 10, 15 years, especially, and especially the last three or four years.

They face all kinds of new challenges as a Christian. Now it used to be the case 10, 15 years ago that the abortion issue, of course, still an issue now, but it was, it was, this was a, this was the watershed issue for doctors, sometimes the euthanasia issue or the de facto euthanasia and doctor assisted suicide was a factor.

No one was forced to kill another human being in doctor assisted suicide. That was a choice that doctors made to participate in that. But that's not the case with abortion.

And so there were more and more occasions where people who were Christians and pro life, but in the medical profession did not want to participate in abortion.

And let somebody else do that. If it's legal and they want it, but I'm not going to participate. I'm not going to be a doctor who does. I'm not going to be a nurse who does this. I'm not going to be anybody who participates in taking the life of another innocent human being.

And, but things have gotten a little bit more complicated. That issue is still on the table, obviously. And, but now we have gender dysphoria. Now we have transsexuals.

And now this become a medical issue because more and more younger people, especially are getting, are getting medical treatment for sex change.

Now I'm using the phrase because that's the phrase that you use, but that's thing is not possible. It is not possible to change your sex. You are born with a sex. And every cell in your body dictates it. Are there some exceptions? Almost none.

That's the best way to think about intersex almost none. Now some people have redefined intersex to include so many things that there's many intersex people as have red hair. I mean, this is nonsense. This is a distortion of the concepts.

You go back to the kind of like the intersex organizations that deal with that and the numbers like 0.002% really small. Okay.

Characteristically, normally human beings are binary in their sexuality and that binary sexuality is expressed physiologically in their bodies in unambiguous ways.

Even those who are genuinely intersex, their real sex is usually pretty obvious. It just takes a little bit more time to find it a little closer look so to speak. I don't mean to make fun of that. I'm just saying that when people make this ambiguous, they're they're stretching things.

Characteristically human beings are male and female. And even if they characteristically is to understated human beings are male and female just because they're also bipedal.

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