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The Welcome to the Sword and the Trowel, a podcast of Founders Ministries.

Founders Ministries exists for the recovery of the gospel and the reformation of churches.

I'm Jared Longshore. And I'm Tom Askell. Thank you all for listening to us. If this is your

first time, we're especially grateful to you if you've been listening to us from the very beginning.

Hey, then you're longtime friends and you know how this goes.

We like to take time in the first segment of our podcast to talk about things that are going on in the world around us and try to think about them biblically.

And there are a lot of crazy things going on around us that need biblical clarity, certainly in the realm of human sexuality.

And we could spend a lot of time talking about this, things that are being promoted in the public

school systems and public libraries now, things that are going on and being celebrated.

And Jared, you recently gave a wonderful message on this whole issue at the Southeast Regional

Founders Conference on human sexuality.

Would you just kind of give us your take on how we are to think about some of these things that are taking place in society?

Well, you know, it's easy to be a fearmonger. It's easy to say, oh, look, here's something new,

when it's really not something new. But there's also a danger of saying, hey, you know,

the world's always been bad and there is nothing new going on here.

And as I look at some of the things you've already cited, some of the things going on sexually in our culture,

I think it's undeniable now that we've reached new levels of craziness.

Drag Queen Story Hour in the libraries.

There is a man who recently joined an all-woman's football league.

Once discovered that he was a he, the football team let him go, only to have a jury

fine that he deserves $20,000 for having been discriminated against.

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