In a world obsessed with personal freedom, we're witnessing a generation of believers walk away from the church.

Many are abandoning their Christian heritage altogether.

Years ago, we called it backslining.

The modern term is deconstruction. Whatever label we assign falls short of reflecting our sadness

when a Christian retreats. Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall continues his biographical study of Solomon.

In this message we observe a tragic pattern of compromise that fueled Solomon's spiritual demise.

Chuck titled this message,

When the Heart is is turned away.

I want to read for you a brief biography of a failure and I would like for you to think

with me about who this person might be. It will perhaps surprise you to know the identity.

He began his life with all the classic handicaps and disadvantages.

His mother was a powerfully built dominating woman who found it difficult to love anyone.

She had been married three times and her second husband divorced her because she beat him up regularly.

The father of the child I'm describing was her third husband. He died of a heart

attack a few months before the child's birth. As a consequence, the mother had to work long

hours from his earliest childhood.

She gave him no affection, no love, no discipline, and no training during those early years.

She even forbade him to call her at work.

Other children had little to do with him, so he was alone most of the time.

He was absolutely rejected from his earliest childhood.

He was ugly and poor and untrained and unlovable.

When he was 13 years old, a school psychologist commented that he probably didn't even know the meaning of the word love.

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