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There is something about the gambling psychology that convinces you that if you just keep gambling for long enough, you will come out ahead.

That is just not true.

Hello, this is Russell Moore, and this is the Russell Moore Show, brought to you by Christianity Today.

Here, we look for signposts in a strange time by standing fast to what really matters. Kingdom over

culture wars, truth over tribalism, pilgrimage over partisanship, sanity over cynicism, witness over winning,

and Christ over everything. Today we have a conversation to do just that.

There's a certain kind of old Baptist deacon I knew when I was growing up who firmly believed

that one should not drink alcohol under almost any circumstances, but found that there

was a kind of loophole in his church for medicine.

And so this deacon would find a doctor who would say, yeah, I think you've got a cough.

And he would have that cough for the next 40 years being medicinally treated all along.

I think there's often often though, sometimes a situation

where someone says, I'm going to do something that I don't really think is right. And my church

doesn't really think is right, but I'm going to do it because nobody's paying attention to what's actually

happening there. And that's what happened with my next guest who wrote this fascinating piece,

really. You should read this piece. I actually kind of hope that it's the beginnings of a book

because I think it easily could be.

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