This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.Part I (00:13 – 12:10) ‘In Short, People are Exhausting’: The Relationship Deficit of the Digital AgeThe Price We Pay for Being Less Social by Wall Street Journal (Jeffrey A. Hall)Part II (12:10 – 16:17) Research on Social Media Use Among Teens Reveals the Seemingly Impossible: They Are Spending Even More Time On Apps — With Perilous ResultsDoes Gen Z Spend Too Much Time on Social Media? by The Economist TikTok Isn’t Just a Threat to Our National Security – It’s Endangering Our Children’s Health by The Telegraph (Stephen Armstrong)Part III (16:17 – 24:49) Is Natural Law Theory Useful to Christians? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The BriefingPart IV (24:49 – 27:28) I’m Getting Married Today. Can You Give Me Advice For Our Future Together? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The BriefingSign up to receive The Briefing in your inbox every weekday morning.Follow Dr. Mohler:Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | YouTubeFor more information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to sbts.edu.For more information on Boyce College, just go to BoyceCollege.com.To write Dr. Mohler or submit a question for The Mailbox, go here.

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.Part I (00:13 – 09:37)Did Pope Francis Really Give Blessing to Same-Sex Couples? The Complicated Disaster of the News Coming Out of the VaticanWhat ‘Fiducia supplicans’ declares about papal power by The Pillar (Edward Condon)Part II (09:37 – 16:56)Progressing the Sexual Revolution By a Wink: The Strategy of Pope Francis to Blur the Lines of “Union” Ceremonies with WeddingsVatican Issues Guidelines for Same-Sex Blessings by Wall Street Journal (Francis X. Rocca)Pope Francis Allows Priests to Bless Same-Sex Couples by New York Times (Jason Horowitz)Part III (16:56 – 20:40)The Bottom Line of the Roman Catholic Church’s Blessing of Same-Sex UnionsPart IV (20:40 – 26:15)The Cultural Context and Political Effects: How the Vatican’s Blessing of Same-Sex Couples Will Impact Faithful Protestant Christians Across the GlobeSign up to receive The Briefing in your inbox every weekday morning.Follow Dr. Mohler:X | Instagram | Facebook | YouTubeFor more information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to sbts.edu.For more information on Boyce College, just go to BoyceCollege.com.To write Dr. Mohler or submit a question for The Mailbox, go here.

This week we are presenting a special episode to you. Several years ago Andrew Davies, a long-time friend of Media Gratiae and contributor to our Behold Your God studies, visited New Albany, MS. While he was here we asked him to read select sermons preached during the Great Awakening. One of those sermons was originally preached by William Chalmer Burns.
Burns was a contemporary of Andrew Bonar and Robert Murray M’Cheyne in Scotland. Because of his godliness, he was offered a number of offices in large churches but turned each one down because he had on his heart to preach the gospel in China. He saw very little fruit there, but took the opportunity to mentor a young missionary by the name of Hudson Taylor. If you are unfamiliar with the work of Taylor, you can search through our archives as we have mentioned him multiple times throughout our podcasts. We also highly recommend his two-volume biography and will put a link to it below.
We pray this sermon is a blessing to you.

Show Notes:
Hudson Taylor Biography – https://www.davidsonpublishing.org/hudson-taylor.html
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