Summit Ministries

Greetings from the Player's Lounge at Wimbledon! I just arrived in London today to prepare for the Wimbledon Invitational Doubles which starts Tuesday, July 1st and concludes on Finals Sunday, June 6th. My doubles partner is T.J. Middleton, a highly successful doubles player on Tour in the 90's. (The Invitational Doubles is an eight-team doubles event comprised of former Wimbledon players.)

Our matches (minimum of three matches, maximum of four) will most likely not be shown on television but you can watch them online in real time on "Wimbledon Live". For draws, match times, court assignments, live scores, results, and more, go to Wimbledon.org.

And, yes!, The Christian Worldview will be LIVE and remote this weekend from Wimbledon (which is a southwestern suburb of London). I had quite a travel week which should give us plenty to discuss: After last weekend's program, I spoke at Summit Ministries' student conference in Manitou Springs, CO on Monday and then to the Broadcast Department of Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, CO on Wednesday. I came home to Minnesota for one day to pick up my tennis racquets and now I'm in England staying with a Christian family getting ready for the "Big W".

In addition to some LIVE content regarding the church and culture in England, you will hear some interesting interviews I conducted during the week with Summit students and faculty.

Get your strawberries and cream ready--The Christian Worldview will be coming to you LIVE from Wimbledon this weekend!

Albert Mohler is arguably the leading articulator of the biblical worldview in America today. Appointed the leader of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in his early thirties and credited with turning around the liberal-heading body, Dr. Mohler is a prodigious defender of truth through his nationally syndicated radio program, appearances on national programs like Larry King Live, keynote addresses at major conferences, and now his first book, Culture Shift: Engaging Current Issues with Timeless Truth (our Book Club selection for March-May).

In Culture Shift, Dr. Mohler touches on the many issues we face in 2008 America: Christian engagement in the public square, the public educational system, the Supreme Court, the softening of our culture, terrorism, torture, poverty, racism, abortion, same-sex marriage, and much more.

A book that is meant to inform and educate Christians of the biblical worldview on current issues in an election year is a worthy and necessary undertaking; that Evangelicals in significant number, according to polls, will be enthusiastically voting for a religious humanist in Barack Obama makes one ask the question: Why are Evangelicals so easily deceived? (And that is NOT meant to be an endorsement of John McCain or Republican politics.)

You won't want to miss a minute of Dr. Al Mohler this weekend on The Christian Worldview.

He'll be 77 years old this year; he's been married to my mom for 54 years; he's the father of four children and six grandchildren. He was born during the Depression, grew up during World War 2, married and served in the Army at age 22, became a follower of Christ at 26, and was a mechanical engineer by trade.

He's my father, Bruce Wheaton, and he'll be joining me this weekend on The Christian Worldview for our annual "Father's Day Special."

I'll ask him what advice he has for younger fathers, what he wishes he had done differently as a father, how to have a close and lasting marriage, and how things have changed in the country and the church in the last 60 years. I think you'll find hearing the wisdom and life experience of my father very interesting.

The annual Father's Day and Mother's Day programs with my dad and mom are always listener favorites. And on Saturday, you will have the opportunity to make a comment or ask a question after hearing this special one-on-one interview.

Is it just me or are things becoming crazier in the world?

A 78-year-old man gets run over by a car and passersby ignore him for a minute and a half as he lies paralyzed in the street. Gas prices are sky high and we sit on untapped oil reserves in America. Global warming alarmists don't want us to have bonfires and scientists are seeking a "flatulence inoculation" for cows and sheep to stem methane emissions (I'm not kidding--click here).

Natural disasters are killing and destroying all over the world. A politician with the most humanistic of values, whose spiritual advisor is a racist, whose financial supporter is a criminal, and who has been endorsed by the terrorist organization Hamas could very well be our next president. People of the same sex are going to be able to marry soon in California. And on and on the stories go.

Are you concerned about the direction things are going? In times like these, how can one have peace in the midst of great turmoil? Could this actually be a time for spiritual revival and how would that happen?

Tune in Saturday to The Christian Worldview for an interactive program about the direction of the world and what should be a Christian's response.