Monday, February 24, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 12:38)
A Classic Case of Theological Collapse: How A Pastor-Father’s Acceptance of His Son’s Homosexual Lifestyle Led to the Eventual Abandonment of Biblical Christianity

How My Dad Reconciled His God and His Gay Son by The New York Times (Timothy White)

Part II (12:39 - 18:50)
The Bible is a Major Problem for the LGBTQ Revolution – And the Left Knows It

Losing My Religion, Finding Jesus (Does that sound like heresy to you?) by City Church Long Beach (Bill White)

Part III (18:50 - 00:06)
Hamas Offers Most Depraved Spectacle Thus Far: The Horrifying and Tragic Return of the Bibas Family

Ponder How the Bibas Boys Died by The Wall Street Journal (Bernard-Henri Lévy)
Hamas’s latest stunt is its most despicable yet by The Telegraph (Jake Wallis Simons)

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0:00.0	It's Monday, February 24, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:14.6	How's this for a headline story in the opinion page of the New York Times? My father is an evangelical pastor who struggled mightily when I came
0:23.0	out to him. This is how he changed his mind. Well, here you have the New York Times, one of the most
0:28.6	influential media sources on the planet, perhaps the most influential single newspaper in the
0:33.7	United States. And just days ago, it ran this on the front page of a Sunday edition.
0:39.5	It is declaring how an evangelical pastor changed his mind on the issue of sexuality and gender,
0:47.8	the entire LGBTQ array, when his son came out to him. Now, let me just give you a word of prophecy here. This is not going to be
0:57.6	an evangelical pastor who turned to a more biblical position. This is going to be an evangelical
1:02.9	pastor by identification who has abdicated biblical fidelity. I know that because otherwise the New York Times would not be giving us the story.
1:13.7	The substance of the article is based at least largely on a series of diary entries offered by
1:19.7	the father. The father is a pastor of a church in Long Beach, California named Bill White,
1:25.9	and beginning when his son was a newborn baby, he began
1:29.5	praying for him. His diary reflects some of those prayers. And one of the earliest prayers that is
1:35.2	published here in this New York Times article is a prayer for his son's prospective wife. Of course,
1:41.5	the irony there is thick. The son is not going to have a wife. In this case, the son
1:47.6	will instead openly come out as gay. This is going to require a reevaluation, we are told, of the
1:54.8	father's theology. In the New York Times article setting this up, the son declares, quote,
2:00.1	My dad was a self-proclaimed Jesus freak of the 1990s, who became an evangelical pastor at a church
2:06.1	on the modest end of mega.
2:08.6	He believed homosexuality to be a grave sin and had no idea what to do when his brother came out.
2:15.4	And then I came out to him and my mother, Katie. It upended their lives and the life of
2:20.8	our neighborhood church in Southern California. It sent my father on a winding high stakes,
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