Headline hot takes: stories the show will not cover
- Is it okay to use Jesus's example to back my own cause?
The host rapid-fires rejected headlines with one-line verdicts: Ralph Warnock on MLK (political blowhardiness), a Christian MP on homosexuality prosecution claims (not persecution), MLK controversies (read on your own time), Pastor Taverner Smith's affair leave (repent and leave ministry), celebrity afterlife bandwagoning around Bob Saget, Norm Macdonald, and Betty White (wrong sermon-illustration instinct), the Supreme Court coach-prayer case (genuine religious-freedom question), and Craig Morgan's anti-trafficking work — which prompts a warning not to stretch Jesus's life out of context to back your cause or virtue-signal others into it.
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