Wednesday, February 11, 2026

About this sermon

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Corruption Across the Sports Waterfront (00:00) We are Looking at a Moral Crisis in Sports - Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling Simon and Schuster (Danny Funt) - Basketball’s Game-Fixing Scandal Now Includes 17 U.S. Colleges—and China’s Pro League The Wall Street Journal (Jared Diamond and Louise Radnofsky) ‘This is Gambling’ (13:21) The Prediction Markets is Now Just Another Form of Gambling - All bets are on Deseret News (Ethan Bauer) The Gambling Market is Getting Younger and Younger (16:37) This is Intentional, and It is Particularly Attractive to Men and Young Men - Super Bowl is betting bonanza. Behind the scenes apps are busting kids USA Today (Nick Penzenstadler and Carlie Procell) Even Secularists Know We Have a Sports Gambling Problem (19:47) Christians Cannot Continue to Fall Behind on This Issue - On Tilt: America’s new gambling epidemic Harper’s Magazine (Jasper Craven) Do Sports Spectators Even Care About Gambling? (22:41) There is a Dangerous Allure of Evil Here - Sports-Betting Scandals Are Ubiquitous. Whether Fans Will Care Is an Open Question. The New York Times (Tania Ganguli) Follow Dr. Mohler: Twitter: https://twitter.com/albertmohler Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/albertmohler/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlbertMohler For more information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to https://www.sbts.edu/ For more information on Boyce College, just go to https://boycecollege.com/. To write Dr. Mohler or submit a question for The Mailbox, go to https://albertmohler.com/contact