Media Coverage of Youth Ministry – Terry Mattingly, 3/18/26 (0771)
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Terry Mattingly of Rational Sheep
Rational Sheep
Pop Goes Religion: Faith in Popular Culture
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| 0:00.0 | Living according to a Christian sexual ethic today feels like an uphill battle, but this battle isn't new. |
| 0:07.0 | Love, marriage, and family, learning from the early Christians, is the Issues et cetera book of the month for March. |
| 0:13.0 | This book is published by Concordia Publishing House. |
| 0:16.0 | Their phone number 1-800-325 3040. |
| 0:19.0 | Or learn more about love, marriage, and family at issue ZTC.org. |
| 0:24.4 | Find out how Christian sexual ethics still means light in the darkness with love, marriage, and family, learning from the early Christians. |
| 0:35.6 | Parents are the primary educators of their children. |
| 0:43.5 | And we work in collaboration and partnership with schools, with social service agencies, with the government, but they never take the role of the parent. |
| 0:52.0 | Israel in the New Testament has nothing to do with the modern, secular state of Israel that |
| 0:59.3 | was established in 1948. |
| 1:01.4 | There is nothing prophetically significant in the scriptures related to that nation. |
| 1:06.8 | People would say to me this nonsense, they would say, well, we believe in a risen Christ. |
| 1:16.0 | We don't believe Christ is on the cross. My standard answer to this is to ask, do you have a baby Jesus in your manger? And if so, why? In the scriptures, blindness versus sight is equated to |
| 1:24.3 | the contrast between unbelief versus faith, which is repentant and which is humble |
| 1:31.1 | and which turns away from self. Lutheran college students attending from the University of Kansas |
| 1:38.3 | well listening to itchers and Sarah Rock shock. Well my particular church body, the Lutheran Church, Missouri Senate has a long history of what's |
| 1:49.8 | called today Youth Ministry all the way back to 1882. There was a Lutheran Young Men's Association |
| 1:56.6 | at Trinity Lutheran Church in Buffalo, New York. They proposed a national organization for young men, |
| 2:02.6 | later all youth. Greetings, and welcome to issues et cetera live on this Wednesday afternoon, March the 18th. |
| 2:09.0 | I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in. Terry Mattingly joins us to talk about media coverage of |
| 2:13.7 | youth ministry. We'll spend some time with Roy Askins, executive editor of the Lutheran Witness |
| 2:18.9 | magazine, talking about God's hidden will in your life, and then we'll get into Philippians 4-8. |
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