Television is filled with dysfunction, and the world is drowning in it. Negativity has saturated people of all ages, fed by competition to the bottom on social media. What if someone new came along with a fresh operating principle? A person who has travelled the world, seen the worst of it but deals strictly with how to move forward. An honest and inspiring leader who has lived the full Christian life as a pastor and uses his wisdom to inspire others. Meet Allen Jackson.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: August 27, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | August 27, 2025
- Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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- I'm alan jackson.
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- When the u.s.
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- Was close to ending the vietnam war.
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- Henry kissinger famously declared that peace is at hand.
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- The war had gone on for years, and in the end, kissinger
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- And his vietnamese counterpart
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- Were jointly awarded the nobel peace prize.
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- We'll roll forward to 2025, and a lot of people are talking
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- About a peace prize for all the wars
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- That president trump has settled this year,
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- But now he's taking on the war at home,
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- Where he's activated the reserves
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- And brought the crime rate in washington to a near halt.
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- A lot of our cities aren't safe.
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- People of faith are being targeted,
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- Not just globally, but here as well.
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- So president trump decided to do something about it.
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- But like everything else
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- These days, politics has replaced even personal safety.
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- Democratic leader chuck schumer may well have been sleepwalking
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- When he made this comment.
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- I walk around all the time.
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- I wake up early in the morning sometimes and take a nice walk
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- As the sun is rising around
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- Some of the capitol and the other monuments
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- And things, and i feel perfectly safe.
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- But what he left out is the fact that he has a full time
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- Security guard, so he should feel safe with that.
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- I want to bring in our guest tonight, ali beth stuckey,
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- A longtime friend of the show.
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- Welcome back.
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- Thank you so much.
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- How can anyone be criticized for trying to suppress crime
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- And keeping people safe,
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- Whether they're shopping at a church service
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- Or just home with their family?
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- Seems like common sense to me.
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- It does seem like common sense, but as you know,
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- Common sense is no longer common.
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- And you made such a good point of politics taking the place
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- Of so many things today, including personal safety.
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- I think the reasons here are twofold.
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- Number one, anything trump does.
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- Democrats are going to reflexively oppose
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- Simply because they don't want to give him credit for anything.
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- They're thinking about the next election.
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- They've got to demonize trump in order to do that.
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- And then also, there's something more
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- Deeply ideological and probably spiritual here.
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- There is the belief
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- That stopping crime is bad and is inherently oppressive.
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- And really,
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- In order to, quote unquote, fight crime,
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- We just need to be really nice to people.
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- We need to pump more money
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- Into programs that haven't proven themselves
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- To be successful.
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- And then maybe one day someone will wake up and decide
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- They no longer want to be violent.
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- It's very backwards, and it can really only
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- Be explained by spiritual blindness.
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- But the thing about progressivism
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- Is that it doesn't understand
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- Human nature, because it doesn't understand
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- The god who created human beings,
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- And therefore all of its policy prescriptions
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- End up being very destructive.
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- All the president is cleaning up the mess,
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- And he says chicago and new york may be next.
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- I did see a glimmer of hope in new york
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- That showed, despite the crime there, more young
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- People are attending church services.
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- Cardinal dolan
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- Says they're looking for answers in this messy world.
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- What are you seeing?
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- Yes. you know what?
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- I think that you're absolutely right about that.
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- And, you know, i'm just.
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- I'm grateful.
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- I'm grateful
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- That people are kind of waking up to the reality of good
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- And evil here.
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- Obviously,
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- We still have a lot of people
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- Who are still asleep, and there's a lot of work
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- That still needs to be done, but it does seem like more
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- People are realizing, okay, i need something more
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- Than what the world is offering, and i'm grateful for that.
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- Now here's another encouraging sign.
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- For the first time in a while, several
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- Christian musicians are rising in the billboard charts
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- And the pew research center says christianity in this country
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- Is rising for the first time in many years.
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- What are you seeing in your corner of the country?
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- You know, i am so grateful.
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- There are a few artists right now
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- Who are christian artists, and they're young people,
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- And they have a very widespread, even mainstream appeal for us.
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- Frank is one of those people.
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- Josiah queen has a lot of good music out.
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- I'm sure there are many others.
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- But what i'm hearing from moms in particular, moms of preteens
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- And teenagers who may be would be susceptible.
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- These kids would be susceptible
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- To, you know, degenerate music of all different genres.
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- They're now listening to these christian artists
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- Not just because of the message, but because
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- They're actually good.
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- They want to listen to them. they're catchy songs.
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- And i'm
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- Just very thankful that we seem to have this new generation
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- Of artists who are willing to use
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- All of their talents for the glory of god.
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- And music is very powerful, for better and for worse.
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- So i just pray that god continues to use
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- This segment of his kingdom to bring more people to himself.
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- Amen.
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- Well, i know you've got a big conference coming up soon.
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- It's called share the arrows conference.
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- Tell us what that's about and where and when it's happening.
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- Yes. share the arrows is a one day christian
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- Women's conference in dallas, texas on october 11th.
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- As you know, there are many women's ministries out there.
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- Not the women's ministry at your church,
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- Not the women's ministry at my church,
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- But many women's ministries out there that honestly don't
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- Talk to women about the important
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- Hard truths of the bible.
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- They won't tell them the truth about sin,
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- The need for repentance, the need for salvation.
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- They won't bring them difficult theological truths.
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- They won't train them in apologetics.
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- Basically, what they'll offer
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- Women is a form of secular self-help.
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- You're perfect the way you are. you're beautiful.
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- They might say some true things like jesus loves you,
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- But the truth is, is that that's not enough.
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- Women need the gospel. we need hard truths.
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- We need to be trained in theology.
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- Whether you're a stay at home mom,
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- Whether you are a student at a university,
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- You need to be equipped to be bold
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- About the truth of god's word.
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- And that's what share the arrows is about.
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- It's about courage.
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- It is about biblical teaching.
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- It's about coming together in fellowship, in corporate
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- Worship, and for women to walk out of their feeling
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- That they have no fear of man, and that they're going to honor
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- God in every sphere of life that god has placed them in.
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- You know, allie
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- Beth, i appreciate your courageous voice for truth.
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- You are really unflinching in your willingness
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- To talk about what's happening in our culture.
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- A lot of people are afraid to do that,
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- But it seems your influence seems to be expanding.
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- What would you say to the people that are reluctant
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- To speak the truth about what they see?
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- Well, thank you for that.
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- I say clarity is kindness.
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- There are a lot of people
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- In this chaotic and confusing and cowardly world
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- That are searching for something more.
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- They want to know what is true.
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- The world is telling me one thing
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- And it's leaving me feeling confused and lost and empty.
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- Is there anything else out there?
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- And we just have this gracious privilege as christians
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- To have so much clarity
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- And so many answers in the very word of god.
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- In fact, in the first chapter
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- Of the first book of the bible, god answers
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- A lot of the questions that people have
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- About the culture war issues, like the dignity of life.
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- He says that we are made in his image,
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- The reality of two genders.
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- He says that he made us, male and female.
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- The definition of holy sexuality and marriage.
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- The first chapter of the first book of the bible
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- Says that he brought together man and woman in marriage.
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- And so we have so much clarity on all of the questions
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- That the culture has in the word of god.
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- And the only thing that we have to do
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- As christians is live and represent that truth.
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- So it's not always easy, but it is simple.
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- We've got some other items we'd like to go through.
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- Could you stay with us for another segment?
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- Yes, please.
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- Okay.
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- Well, for those of you watching, you can jump in
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- With your thoughts through aj now.com.
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- We'll work through them in future shows.
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- I'll be right back.
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- I'll be right back.
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- We're back now with allie beth stuckey,
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- The host of the relatable podcast,
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- Which you can find anywhere you go for your other podcast.
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- You've got some competition in the podcast space now
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- With the california governor,
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- Who seems to spend every day taking shots at president trump.
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- Yet he's the same guy who's failed miserably
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- At almost
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- Everything he's tried to do,
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- And now he thinks he ought to be in the white house.
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- Do you have any idea
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- Of democratic voters see, through his pr efforts?
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- You know, unfortunately, i think most democrats will vote
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- For anyone who is running against donald trump.
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- But it takes a whole lot
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- Of arrogance to be someone like gavin newsom
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- With such an obvious, tangible recent
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- Background of devastation in his state,
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- Whether it is the mismanagement of wildfires, whether it is
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- Driving amazing businesses out of his state,
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- Whether it's
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- Rampant crime, taking a state that used to have a surplus
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- Into a deficit, i mean, by every tangible measure.
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- Gavin newsom has been a failure and, of course, a wicked one.
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- I encourage people to remember just a few years ago,
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- After god graciously allowed the overturning of roe v wade,
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- That gavin newsom decided that california was going to be
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- A sanctuary state for abortions, that women could travel from
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- Pro-life states to pro-abortion states like california
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- Get abortions and have abortions covered by the taxpayer.
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- And if that weren't evil enough, the billboards that he used
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- And the southern red states included a bible
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- Verse that said, love your neighbor as yourself.
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- So he blasphemous used the word of god
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- To tell women that they can come in for free.
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- Murder their children in the state of california.
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- The fact that we have someone
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- That has the audacity to run for president
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- After that, every christian needs
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- To speak up in a loud voice and say, no, that is,
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- It's an,
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- You know, an understatement to say,
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- But that is the bridge too far for our country.
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- Well, there's another
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- Politically confusing event in the new york mayor's
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- Race, the socialist versus the republican.
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- Curtis lee
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- Was the former governor, andrew cuomo,
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- And the current mayor, eric adams.
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- The socialist is getting the majority of the media attention.
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- Do you have any idea
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- If the city will vote for him and if they do?
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- Do you think they understand
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- That he wouldn't have the authority to do
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- Most of what he claims he would do if he's elected?
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- I don't think most people
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- Vote based on logic.
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- They vote based on what feels good.
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- Not everyone, but a lot of people vote
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- Based on what they want to hear.
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- And what we know about this
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- Country in general is that a lot of
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- People are attracted to the disruptor.
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- Now, that can either be good
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- When you've got someone like donald trump
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- Who disrupts in a great way, like stopping crime in dc,
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- Or you have a disruptor who claims to be an outsider
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- And is going to disrupt a system with socialism.
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- And of course, that is a destructive thing.
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- But i think, like all socialists and like all progressives,
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- They are judging policy proposals based
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- On their stated intentions, not based on their outcomes.
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- And the great thomas sowell encourages us
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- To judge policies by their outcomes,
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- Not by on their stated intentions.
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- Something might sound good,
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- Might sound compassionate,
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- But actually end up being really dangerous
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- And really devastating.
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- That is true of every progressive
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- And especially every socialist policy.
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- That's the wisdom.
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- Well, candidate
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- Cuomo was looking for voters on fox news recently,
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- But he handled it pretty awkwardly
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- Because from one side of his mouth,
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- He was quite positive about president trump.
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- But he was asked about the president's
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- Anti-crime plan for new york city.
- 00:11:53.004 --> 00:11:55.139
- Cuomo said all is well and the city doesn't need his help.
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- Listen to his comment.
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- You don't need the national guard in new york city.
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- If we thought we needed
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- The national guard in new york city, then,
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- The governor can call out the national guard, or
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- The mayor can ask the governor to call out the national guard.
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- But no, we don't need federal intervention
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- In the day to day management of new york city.
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- Well, young mothers and single women in new york
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- Are particularly worried about the rising crime there.
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- Shouldn't cuomo know that?
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- And wouldn't that be a good way
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- To get them out to vote for him rather than a socialist?
- 00:12:29.340 --> 00:12:32.109
- So he's just not paying attention?
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- You know what?
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- It's one thing for him to say we don't need the national guard,
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- But for him not to follow up and acknowledge that there's
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- A very real crime problem and to say,
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- This is how i'm going
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- To solve this on the local and state level.
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- That is the delusion. okay.
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- Prove it.
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- Prove that you don't need the national guard
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- By coming up with a solution
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- To stop people from getting murdered.
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- Until then,
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- I would say that it is donald trump's responsibility
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- To serve the well-being of the american people.
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- To do whatever it takes to stop crime.
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- Well, ali, i know you spend a lot of time
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- With young women, young mothers, and the issues that face them.
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- What are the most
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- Hopeful things you see in that segment of the country?
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- Look, i think a lot of people do feel really hopeful right now,
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- And they're thankful that, you know,
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- We have better leadership in washington, d.c..
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- I think the immigration issue
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- Is something that a lot of people care about,
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- Because we're seeing it affect our communities.
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- Illegal immigration and the crime and the chaos
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- And the economic devastation that it causes
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- Has a very real effect on young families
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- Trying to buy homes, trying to raise their kids
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- In a safe community. it affects education.
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- It affects so much.
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- And so i think they want to see even more of that seriousness,
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- Policy wise from president trump.
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- I think they're hopeful about what they see.
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- And then, of course, when it comes to
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- What seems like a resurgence in interest in christianity,
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- Like there is a big reason
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- For christians to be excited about that.
- 00:14:03.968 --> 00:14:06.103
- Most moms are focused
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- On discipling their kids
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- In the lord, no matter what's going on in the political realm.
- 00:14:08.873 --> 00:14:12.677
- And so i think women are balancing that caring about
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- What's going on in politics and culture
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- While focusing on their responsibility
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- Of raising their kids.
- 00:14:20.651 --> 00:14:22.019
- And we know that no matter what's going on in the world,
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- That the lord is very faithful to equip moms
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- And dads to raise their kids in a way that glorifies him.
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- Well, beth, thank you for your voice, for biblical values,
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- And i pray your conference is an overwhelming success.
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- Thank you so much.
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- Thank you, pastor, i appreciate that.
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- Anytime.
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- Well, in a moment. signs of hope that we can see.
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- Trust me, they're there when you know where to look.
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- Trust me, they're there when you know where to look.
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- You know, our major
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- Cities have become increasingly violent.
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- The crisis can be addressed if we would
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- Begin to enforce the laws that already exist.
- 00:15:03.195 --> 00:15:06.498
- You know, i've been to d.c. many times.
- 00:15:06.498 --> 00:15:08.500
- It's a city that's been steeped in chaos and violence.
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- They've acknowledged that they've reclassified crimes
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- To make them seem less violent,
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- Pretending that the city was safe.
- 00:15:17.142 --> 00:15:19.511
- So the administration took action,
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- And they sent in the national guard reinforcements
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- To combat the lawlessness in d.c..
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- Well, predictably, crime rates have declined.
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- Carjackings have decreased by 83%.
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- Robberies are down by 46%.
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- They've gone days without a murder.
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- The. rather than celebrate the restoration of order.
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- Many influential voices are complaining
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- That the president is trying to take over,
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- And that the use
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- Of the national guard threatens individual freedoms.
- 00:15:43.769 --> 00:15:46.571
- Well, i don't hear that from the citizens of the city,
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- But i hear it from the politicians
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- And those same people.
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- They're not complaining after january 6th.
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- They put a fence around the capitol,
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- Deployed the national guard to protect lawmakers, not people.
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- And now they're offended when the national guard's
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- Been brought in to protect the people of the city.
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- Well, think about this.
- 00:16:05.190 --> 00:16:06.324
- We literally have mayors and
- 00:16:06.324 --> 00:16:07.692
- Governors that are speaking out against law and order.
- 00:16:07.692 --> 00:16:11.196
- It's absurd.
- 00:16:11.530 --> 00:16:13.098
- And unfortunately, as the church,
- 00:16:13.098 --> 00:16:15.200
- We have some complicity in this.
- 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:17.269
- We have witnessed
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- And tolerated murky messages of compassion and inclusivity
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- Emerging from pulpits in many christian circles.
- 00:16:22.174 --> 00:16:25.710
- Absent the truth of scripture.
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- Many have fallen under the spell of this cultural good.
- 00:16:27.179 --> 00:16:30.882
- Well, i'd submit to you that the church has to stand up
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- And champion law and order.
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- We have to make a distinction between legal and illegal
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- And stop accommodating a secular culture.
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- We have to bring
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- Our biblical values back into the public square.
- 00:16:41.426 --> 00:16:44.196
- If our nation is ever going to really regain its strength,
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- It'll be because the church has the courage
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- To bring back a biblical worldview and live it out.
- 00:16:49.334 --> 00:16:53.038
- If we'll speak the truth with the courage
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- To live it before the world, we can redeem a culture
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- And our nation will experience better outcomes.
- 00:16:58.777 --> 00:17:01.680
- And that gives us more reasons for hope than despair.
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- I promise we'll be right back with your emails.
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- I promise we'll be right back with your emails.
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- Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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- If you ever miss a live episode,
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- Just a reminder, you can go to aj now.com.
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- Your emails are always a highlight of the program.
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- Judy bui from california wrote,
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- I began fasting usually once a week after following you.
- 00:17:42.255 --> 00:17:46.259
- I often wonder how jesus did it for 40 days.
- 00:17:46.259 --> 00:17:49.028
- I'm not certain. you mean you saw me
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- And you thought you needed to be thinner?
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- I don't know.
- 00:17:52.532 --> 00:17:54.300
- I don't know how jesus did it for 40 days.
- 00:17:54.300 --> 00:17:56.235
- I know he's god, but he was also human after about half a day.
- 00:17:56.235 --> 00:18:00.573
- I'm praying for 4:00.
- 00:18:00.573 --> 00:18:02.041
- God truly blessed me when he led me to you.
- 00:18:02.041 --> 00:18:03.976
- God bless you and thank you more times than i can count.
- 00:18:03.976 --> 00:18:07.580
- Well, judy, it's an important point.
- 00:18:07.580 --> 00:18:08.948
- Fasting is a significant spiritual discipline
- 00:18:08.948 --> 00:18:12.652
- For those of you may be new to the idea.
- 00:18:12.652 --> 00:18:14.487
- It's simply abstaining from food for spiritual purposes.
- 00:18:14.487 --> 00:18:17.957
- You take the time when you normally enjoy a meal,
- 00:18:17.957 --> 00:18:19.859
- And you take that time
- 00:18:19.859 --> 00:18:20.860
- You read your bible, pray, seek the lord a bit.
- 00:18:20.860 --> 00:18:23.296
- Fasting is a discipline, and like any discipline,
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- You gain momentum in it the more you practice.
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- I think if you're beginning to learn too fast
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- And you're fasting before a clock,
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- That's a huge accomplishment. god honored in your life.
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- Austin in question.
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- In the states that don't require a voter id,
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- What is stopping people from other states
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- From voting there as well?
- 00:18:41.781 --> 00:18:43.349
- Maybe that's part of the problem.
- 00:18:43.349 --> 00:18:45.685
- I think there's a lot of questions
- 00:18:45.685 --> 00:18:47.019
- And problems around our voting practices across the nation.
- 00:18:47.019 --> 00:18:50.056
- I pray they're able to sort that out.
- 00:18:50.056 --> 00:18:52.892
- Dorothy ann wrote on facebook, thank you for
- 00:18:52.892 --> 00:18:55.528
- Having this program to inform us on the truth.
- 00:18:55.528 --> 00:18:57.763
- Truth is hard to find today.
- 00:18:57.763 --> 00:18:59.565
- It's in short supply.
- 00:18:59.565 --> 00:19:00.700
- Very few places to find it.
- 00:19:00.700 --> 00:19:02.535
- Thankful for this one.
- 00:19:02.535 --> 00:19:03.636
- God bless you.
- 00:19:03.636 --> 00:19:05.271
- You know, dorothy, and for me, one of the challenges
- 00:19:05.271 --> 00:19:07.073
- Is just simply knowing what sources of truth to trust.
- 00:19:07.073 --> 00:19:10.343
- You know, once upon a time, we trusted the legacy media
- 00:19:10.343 --> 00:19:12.745
- To give us the news we needed to know.
- 00:19:12.745 --> 00:19:14.947
- Unfortunately, we're not in that place any longer.
- 00:19:14.947 --> 00:19:17.383
- So i think it begins with knowing god's truth
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- That becomes the filter
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- Through which we understand the information we're receiving.
- 00:19:20.586 --> 00:19:23.556
- And with that, that's a good momentum to those next steps.
- 00:19:23.556 --> 00:19:28.327
- And finally, a.j.
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- Mccormick emailed, i'm a 93 year old bible believing christian.
- 00:19:29.996 --> 00:19:34.133
- I don't get out as much as i used to.
- 00:19:34.133 --> 00:19:36.168
- How are your sermons and your personality
- 00:19:36.168 --> 00:19:38.104
- Presenting our lord's message or special?
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- Thank you for making.
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- Thank you for your great and honest way of preaching.
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- It makes being at home a blessing.
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- Well, you are very kind.
- 00:19:47.246 --> 00:19:49.081
- You know, one of the great honors of our lives
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- Is having the freedom
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- To talk about our faith in the public square.
- 00:19:51.917 --> 00:19:53.953
- It's a part of our nation that is protected
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- By our constitution. but it is unique.
- 00:19:56.789 --> 00:19:59.392
- And i think
- 00:19:59.392 --> 00:20:00.626
- An important part of our way forward is having the courage
- 00:20:00.626 --> 00:20:02.695
- To simply share the good news of our faith
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- With our friends and our families.
- 00:20:05.131 --> 00:20:06.632
- We take it to work with
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- Us, to the schools where our children go.
- 00:20:07.533 --> 00:20:09.702
- We're not leaving it in the church building.
- 00:20:09.702 --> 00:20:11.237
- We're going to live that out every day.
- 00:20:11.237 --> 00:20:13.105
- If we'll do that, it presents a hopeful future
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- For our children and our grandchildren.
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- And i believe we'll see.
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- God bless america again.
- 00:20:18.711 --> 00:20:21.213
- Well, i appreciate you taking
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- A few minutes of your day and spending it with us.
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- I'm alan jackson, and you have a wonderful evening.
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