Living according to a Christian sexual ethic today feels like an uphill battle, but this battle isn't new.

Love, marriage, and family, learning from the early Christians, is the Issues etc. book of the month for March.

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Find out how Christian sexual ethics still means light in the darkness with love, marriage,

and family, learning from the early Christians.

This week on the Word of the Lord indoors forever, we move further in Proverbs, working through

chapter 16 and just getting into 17, with everything for its purpose, the king, pride

goes before destruction, gray hair, and the Lord tests hearts.

Join me, Pastor Will Whedon, for the Word of the Lord Endores Forever, your daily 15-minute verse-by-verse Bible study on demand.

Listen at thewordendors.org or your favorite podcast provider.

Music The popularity, the viral popularity of this set of ideas, this set of lies, if we're being honest about it, seems to be waning.

We find people detransitioning.

We have fewer and fewer young people in particular who are identifying as LGBTQ or as transgender.

And slowly but surely, some of the institutions of our society are beginning to question the presuppositions behind gender ideology.

Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera.

I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about a Christian response to gender ideology, Dr. Mark Rockenbach.

He's professor of practical theology at Concordia Seminary St. Louis.

He's author of a column for the latest Concordia Journal titled Transgenderism,

the current state of gender identity, and godly ways to respond. Dr. Rockenbach, welcome

back.

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