Monday, January 19, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 06:11)
It Happened in Minnesota: ICE Protestors Invaded an Evangelical Church and Interrupted Worship Yesterday
- Activists interrupt Sunday church service, say pastor works for ICE by The Star Tribune (Kim Hyatt and Kyeland Jackson)
The Worldview Issues of the ICE Protests: The History of ICE, the Protests Against ICE, and the Leftist Capture of Urban Minnesota
Part III (15:23 – 22:27)
Minnesota’s Fault Lines: The Growing Divide Between Minnesota’s Big City Liberals and Rural Conservatives
Part IV (22:27 – 25:59)
A Parable From St. Paul: We are Watching a Battle Between Two Different Visions of Christianity
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, January 19, 2006. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.7 | Tension had been building in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, for a matter of weeks. And yesterday, what can only be described as the |
| 0:22.3 | unthinkable happened. An evangelical church was interrupted in worship by protesters who burst |
| 0:28.3 | through the doors, very loudly, scaring children, shouting, blowing whistles, interrupting and |
| 0:34.6 | bringing to an end to worship service. The church was City's Church there in St. Paul, |
| 0:38.7 | Minnesota, and the accusation being made by the protesters was that one of the pastors of the church |
| 0:45.0 | is connected to ICE. Indeed, one of the pastors of the church is the acting director of the ICE |
| 0:52.1 | field office there in St. Paul, Minnesota. I'm not going to |
| 0:55.9 | mention this name, just simply for security reasons at this point, but let's remind ourselves that |
| 1:00.4 | this is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service of the United States. It is an official |
| 1:05.5 | branch of the United States. It is a law enforcement agency, just like any other federal law enforcement agency. Ice agents |
| 1:12.9 | are federal law enforcement agents, period. So let's just get this straight. Yesterday, protesters, |
| 1:19.6 | leftist agitators, and by the way, that's exactly what they are, in this case, aided and abetted |
| 1:25.0 | by former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who was videoing the entire thing, |
| 1:29.5 | offering his own commentary. They interrupted the worship service, basically bringing it to an end, |
| 1:34.5 | and you can see the video for yourself. You can understand how so many people in that |
| 1:39.8 | evangelical congregation were scared, and you had children and teenagers clearly traumatized by the entire event. |
| 1:47.0 | It's a scandal. It's a scandal that something like this could happen in the United States of America. |
| 1:51.7 | It is a scandal that so many in American politics and in popular culture, entertainment, all the rest, |
| 1:57.8 | are on the side of the protesters who just broke into an evangelical church |
| 2:01.9 | gathered for Christian worship on the Lord's Day. |
| 2:05.7 | The major newspaper there in the Twin Cities area is the Star Tribune, and in its coverage, |
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