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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: December 6, 2024 | Allen Jackson Now | December 6, 2024
- Good evening, and welcome to nashville.
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- I'm alan jackson,
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- And we have a very special guest with us tonight.
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- Someone who can help everyone try to heal from the rough
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- And tumble long election fight of the past few months.
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- For all the disagreements, it's
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- Clear that a whole lot of people came out to vote.
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- The largest number chose donald trump over kamala harris,
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- And while they may not agree on much,
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- When you ask most voters
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- If their goal is to have a better country,
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- They all say yes, of course they do.
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- But is that realistic or is it just a dream?
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- Well, listen to one man's expressed desire
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- From 60 years ago.
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- I have a dream that one day
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- Every valley shall be exalted,
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- And every healing mountain shall be made low.
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- The rough places will be made plain,
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- And the crooked places will be made straight.
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- And the day of the lord shall be revealed, and all flesh
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- Shall see it together.
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- Well, martin luther king junior didn't live to see that day
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- As he imagined it, but his family did, including his niece.
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- I'm talking about alveda king, the daughter of addie king
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- And naomi barber king, who joins us tonight.
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- Welcome to nashville, alveda.
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- Hello, alan.
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- Hello, nashville. hi, everybody.
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- And it's so wonderful to join you at this time.
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- Every time i hear my uncle's voice, i'm still moved as i was
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- As a girl at 13 years old when he did that speech in 1963.
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- And so, there's still a dream, the american dream.
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- And all around the world.
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- I just want to encourage people
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- To keep that dream alive.
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- Absolutely.
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- Well, you know what
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- It's like to serve in government since you were a member
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- Of the georgia house of representatives.
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- I think things may have gotten even more difficult
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- Since that time.
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- But looking
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- At the election results and the huge amount
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- Of voters on both sides,
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- How do you think everyone can work together
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- In a way that would reflect your uncle's dream?
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- As a state legislator
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- In georgia in the 1970s and 1980s?
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- I was a democrat, actually.
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- I worked across the aisle constantly
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- With republicans who were like minded
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- And people says, how can you do that?
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- You're a democrat. you can't work with republicans.
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- I said, we are human beings. what blood?
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- One human race.
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- And many times we all desire the same things.
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- I was also a george w bush appointee
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- At the turn of the century,
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- And i was still able to work across parties.
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- Then something happened to america, and all of a sudden
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- You had to be in a camp and hate the other side.
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- That was very strange to me.
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- So with this new election
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- That we have just had in 2024, going into 2025,
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- I'm seeing people vote across the aisles again.
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- And i'm so very encouraged by that
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- Because and interestingly enough,
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- Right at the top of the list that affected the vote, people
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- Were concerned about the economy, about safety.
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- Life was in that number.
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- And so there were so many things that we agree on that
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- I believe that there's hope for the future because of that.
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- Alveda i'd like to borrow a little bit of your wisdom.
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- If you were in the trump cabinet,
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- Where would you tell them to start?
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- I believe if i were in the cabinet,
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- And this is a little bit of
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- History, right around 2000, at the turn of the century,
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- George w bush initiated what was called faith
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- Based offices throughout every department.
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- And for a while, that was all the thing.
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- Faith based. do this with faith and do that.
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- We forgot about it about halfway through.
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- And now moving back, i would say in every cabinet
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- To every head of every department,
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- Look to your faith based department
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- And hear the people
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- Where the people are still going to be concerned
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- About religious freedom, about life and issues like that.
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- So every cabinet member and every appointee
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- In every department does have a faith based office.
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- And i would say get to know the people in that office.
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- That is so good.
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- With the media as split as it is these days, do
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- We need to create more news outlets that deal in solutions,
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- Rather than just driving wedges between the two sides?
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- Well, you know you're doing a good job right where you are at.
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- Faith based tv and media and news is very important.
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- I put out a meme this week, i think i did, and it just says
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- God will not inhabit the praises of i.
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- God will inhabit the praises of his people.
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- So enhanced with ai, but use human power
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- So much as somewhat connected to god.
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- Human beings that still hear from god and report accordingly.
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- And so i don't know if we need more outlets,
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- But we need to overhaul the outlets.
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- I would suggest that, and people need to stop
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- Publishing opinion and publish truth.
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- So i thank
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- God for the opportunity to be on a podcast like this.
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- And it's just so important.
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- Tbn is strong, silent, telling the truth.
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- And i think if you keep growing and telling the truth,
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- They're going to either have to tell the
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- Truth or shut their doors.
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- Well, so many people try to divide the country
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- Based on race.
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- Others try to divide us on income or where we live.
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- Where do you see
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- The common ground for starting this conversation?
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- At 1726 of one blood, god
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- Made all people to live together on the face of the earth.
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- My daddy, reverend eddie king, taught that my granddaddy,
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- Martin luther king senior, their preachers,
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- Martin luther king jr.
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- That is still very true today and is from the womb to the tomb
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- And beyond.
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- And so the common truth is we are human
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- Beings, regardless of age, skin color.
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- There's only one blood in one race.
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- And so if we continue to look at that and when we get all the
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- Other questions lgbtq, for example,
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- Or do we have a border wall or not,
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- All of that is going to be important,
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- But we're going to have to
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- Look at people as spirit, soul and body.
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- We're going to have to look for areas
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- That people can come together and have hope.
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- I prefer to quote the bible every once in a while.
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- I do quote my uncle martin, the king. do.
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- You said we may have come over
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- On different ships, but we're all in the same boat now.
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- I agree with that.
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- And we have to see ourselves as human beings.
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- I did mention that i would prefer
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- To quote the bible even over my uncle.
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- Famous man love the lord.
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- Imperfect.
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- Like all human beings, moses and david
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- And the woman at the well, the woman cotton.
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- And we know how human beings can be without christ.
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- But reverend doctor martin luther king jr loved god.
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- And because of that,
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- In my family legacy, the king family legacy,
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- We see human dignity, we see humanity,
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- We see one race, even though we have ethnicity,
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- These are other distinctions, but we can come together.
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- He also said we must learn to live together.
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- And i'll add to this and not perish together as fools.
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- I'll say this in real quickly.
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- It's kind of a little joke, but when i was a little girl,
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- I would say, daddy,
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- I don't have to do everything the bible says.
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- He says, why, honey?
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- I says, man should always pray.
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- Man should repent.
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- I said, i'm a little negro girl.
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- I don't have to pray.
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- I repent because i'm not a man.
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- And he said that in the spirit there is no male
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- Or female, the slave or free, only christ all in all.
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- So i was brought up to believe the bible
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- As a human being and do my best to live it.
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- Well, that's training we would all benefit from.
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- I want to ask one more question before we take a break.
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- You and i are both old enough to remember
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- When people of both parties
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- Could sit down and iron out differences,
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- But there's a whole new generation now that only knows.
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- Politics is a team sport where you only play to win.
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- Can they be taught a new way
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- To do business for the sake of our country?
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- I believe the new generations because there's more than one.
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- You had the boomers, that's me.
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- And you went through every period of every 10
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- To 20 years, every generation, every decade, every platform,
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- But this time in america, over 50% aren't
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- Coalesced and believed the same thing.
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- And that's how we have a new administration.
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- So there is hope.
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- However, we have to do it with hope, with healing,
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- With faith, hope and love.
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- And some of us are happy and static.
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- Some are not about it.
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- My mother passed in march 2024.
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- I miss her during the holidays, but somehow
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- We're going to come together with faith, hope and love.
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- And god can accomplish much through us.
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- Amen.
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- My mother passed this summer too,
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- But it reminds us that there is life beyond time.
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- It's something to have hope for.
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- Yeah, let's take a break.
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- You can write me an email
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- If you want to get in on this conversation by email.
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- Address is comments at allen jackson now.com.
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- I'll be right back.
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- I'll be right back.
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- One. we're back now with alveda king, and we're talking
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- About how to try to put america together again.
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- And whether it can be we've had an invasion of foreigners
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- In the past four years.
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- Many of them are here illegally, but the left and right
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- Can't even agree on what should be done now.
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- So here's the question should they be sent home?
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- Should they be allowed to stay?
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- And if so, who pays to feed and housed them
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- Since it's been coming out of taxpayer funds up till now?
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- In many cases, those taxpayer funds
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- Could be used for our veterans
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- Or others who still struggled to get ahead,
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- All of whom are already u.s.
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- Citizens.
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- Give us your perspective.
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- You have a lot of life wisdom alveda how do we deal with this?
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- I'm so grateful for that question.
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- Of course.
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- That was the credo that came out with the statue of liberty.
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- During that time.
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- Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
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- Yearning to be free.
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- Bring these the homeless tempest tossed to me.
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- That has been a motto in america for many, many years.
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- What changed was when the borders became unsafe
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- And people who were murderous are with disturbed psyches.
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- And various conditions were coming across the border
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- In droves.
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- And it was discovered
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- That sometimes even the governors
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- Or the heads of those states and the kings and the rulers
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- Were sending their words across the seas to our borders.
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- This gave us great trouble.
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- This was not people who wanted to say, send me to america.
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- It's better.
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- I'll make a better life.
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- I would love to be an american.
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- That is not the people who bomb rushed our borders.
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- I'd hate to use that type of language.
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- However, those folks need to go back
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- And that should be huge terrorists
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- That would remind their leaders.
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- If you're going to send all this to us,
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- It's going to cost you a lot
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- Because you're causing us our peace and our lives.
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- So i do believe in immigration.
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- America still believes in immigration,
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- But it must be done properly.
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- And i believe that administration finally did
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- A very good job.
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- President trump himself explaining who needed to go back
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- Across the seas to where they came from.
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- So now the more that we understand that,
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- We understand that we are still a very compassionate nation,
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- But we must take care of america first
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- So that we can extend this assistance to others.
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- Well, alveda, you spent
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- Many years fighting for the lives of the unborn.
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- The voters who still approve of abortion
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- Thought they'd be able to prevent trump from taking office
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- Just by holding him accountable
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- For the dobbs decision that ended roe v wade.
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- Why can't saving lives be an issue to rally around?
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- Seems like a better future.
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- President
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- Trump did a good job of explaining
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- That life is important, life is sacred,
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- That there should be alternatives.
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- So that women, men, families would not have to choose
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- Abortion.
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- America made enough noise for president trump
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- To hear them doing.
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- Hear us during the first administration,
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- He says, let's send this back to the state so we,
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- The people, can reexamine the issue of lives
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- And see if we cannot come up with better solutions.
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- And that actually did happen.
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- And we are very grateful that that happened.
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- We can depend on in the next two years that he's here,
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- That he will do more and more to help women and men,
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- Moms and dads, grandparents, communities and families
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- To make decisions for life so that we can all have a more
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- Abundant life and a safer life and a more blessed life.
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- I know that that will happen.
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- Alveda king, i want to thank you for joining us tonight.
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- I hope you'll come soon to be on set with us here in nashville.
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- I look forward to it.
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- Can i do a little tiny bit of a song?
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- We are in the holiday season and it's time
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- For the light of the world to be really, really celebrated.
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- That's jesus christ.
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- So this little light of mine, i'm gonna let it shine,
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- Let it shine, let it shine,
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- Let it shine i would say merry christmas.
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- Happy new year to everyone.
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- If you're like me, i misses mom.
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- I miss my mommy a little bit.
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- So give that beautiful, sweet tribute to those we miss
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- And try to love somebody.
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- Well, i won't sing, but i will join you in praying
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- That what you're asking for comes true.
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- Take care of yourself and you keep pressing on
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- You too.
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- Thank you.
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- In a moment, your emails, the good,
- 00:14:50.017 --> 00:14:52.353
- The bad, the poetry and even the slang.
- 00:14:52.353 --> 00:14:54.755
- All here in just a moment.
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- Stay right where you are.
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- Stay right where you are.
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- You know, i am often ask
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- If just not outright reprimanded for talking about issues
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- That are part of our current political discussion.
- 00:15:11.373 --> 00:15:14.476
- There are many discussion topics that are shaping
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- Culture these days that aren't really political issues.
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- Their biblical worldview issues
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- Doesn't seem very long ago that the nature of marriage,
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- And who should be engaged in marriage,
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- Really didn't have a place in a political discussion.
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- That was a biblical discussion.
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- Or the sanctity of human life.
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- Life both inside the woman, outside the womb.
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- That's not a political discussion.
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- Primarily, it's a biblical discussion.
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- Isaiah 44 two, if you'll allow me, says,
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- This is what the lord says.
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- He who made you, who formed you in the womb,
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- And who will help you.
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- Don't be afraid of jacob, my servant jeshua, in whom i
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- Have chosen.
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- This notion of our lives and our mothers wombs
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- Being something of which god is conscious and aware of, engaged
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- In, is a very significant fundamental theme of scripture.
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- It's absolutely necessary that people of faith engage
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- In these conversations around these broader cultural issues.
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- If we fail to do that,
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- We fail in our assignment as salt and light.
- 00:16:12.267 --> 00:16:15.570
- Now, i understand
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- We've all heard the statement that implied company.
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- We don't talk about faith or politics.
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- And i believe by hearing to that we have arrived in this fine
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- Mess that we find ourselves in.
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- I want to suggest that we actually have to lead
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- With our faith.
- 00:16:30.085 --> 00:16:31.586
- Many of you are world class leaders in business,
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- In some hobby that you've chosen,
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- With some expertise you've developed.
- 00:16:37.392 --> 00:16:39.294
- You have tremendous confidence.
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- But when it comes to talking
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- About matters of our faith or scripture,
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- That confidence evaporates.
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- We've got to change.
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- We've got to be willing to lead with our faith in every arena,
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- Whether we're a butcher, a baker, or a candlestick maker.
- 00:16:51.973 --> 00:16:55.110
- The world needs the voices of the people of faith.
- 00:16:55.110 --> 00:16:58.513
- It stabilizes our society and the world in which we live.
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- If we'll do that,
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- I promise there's more reasons for hope than despair.
- 00:17:03.518 --> 00:17:07.455
- Well, i'll be back in a moment.
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- We'll start looking at your emails.
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- We've got emails. as they said in the movie.
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- We've got emails. as they said in the movie.
- 00:17:18.005 --> 00:17:20.233
- Thank you for taking the time to send us an email.
- 00:17:21.267 --> 00:17:23.936
- We enjoy reading them so much.
- 00:17:23.936 --> 00:17:26.339
- Jeff from arkansas wrote i'm not always able
- 00:17:26.339 --> 00:17:28.407
- To catch your show when you are on tbn.
- 00:17:28.407 --> 00:17:30.610
- How can i watch your show after it airs?
- 00:17:30.610 --> 00:17:33.346
- We started a youtube channel for alan jackson.
- 00:17:33.346 --> 00:17:36.482
- Now you just go to youtube alan jackson now
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- And each evening we will post the
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- Latest broadcast from that day at 8 p.m.
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- It'll be there whenever you want to see it,
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- But they'll posted at 8 p.m.
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- So nobody has to miss out.
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- Judy from palmdale, california.
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- This. thanks for having mr. aiden on.
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- I had an abortion in 1967,
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- Before 1973, and the roe v wade decision was seldom talked
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- About is the lasting emotional aftermath i'm very thankful for.
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- If we're giving god. i didn't know him then.
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- He knew me. god bless you, pastor.
- 00:18:05.178 --> 00:18:08.214
- You know, when we talk about abortion, we've also got to talk
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- About the healing and forgiveness
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- For those individuals and families
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- Who have been touched by that reality.
- 00:18:14.153 --> 00:18:16.889
- Every family's been touched by it directly or indirectly.
- 00:18:16.889 --> 00:18:20.259
- And we need to know the power
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- Of forgiveness and the freedom that comes from acknowledging
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- Our rebellion against god, asking for his forgiveness,
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- And forgiving whoever is involved in that.
- 00:18:29.268 --> 00:18:31.537
- It brings tremendous freedom to our lives,
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- And it makes a much better future.
- 00:18:34.373 --> 00:18:36.809
- Mark from georgia wrote, this thanksgiving,
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- I was able to have a let's pray moment
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- With a cousin who was preparing for an upcoming surgery.
- 00:18:41.314 --> 00:18:44.383
- It was intimidating at first,
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- But she really appreciated the prayer.
- 00:18:45.651 --> 00:18:47.787
- I'm looking forward to the next opportunity.
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- Thank you for encouraging us on how to pray for others.
- 00:18:49.722 --> 00:18:53.593
- You know we are social creatures and we interact
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- With one another.
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- We often express the challenges that we face in our lives.
- 00:18:57.096 --> 00:19:00.066
- When you hear that, somebody else say,
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- You know, i didn't sleep well last night.
- 00:19:01.234 --> 00:19:02.468
- One of the kids were sick.
- 00:19:02.468 --> 00:19:03.903
- You've got a wonderful opportunity
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- Just to say, let's pray. don't ask for permission.
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- Let's just say let's pray. close your eyes.
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- You just get one sentence.
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- Lord, i pray that kids will feel better today.
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- In jesus name, amen.
- 00:19:13.045 --> 00:19:14.847
- And then move on.
- 00:19:14.847 --> 00:19:16.415
- It's an invitation to god into the midst of our lives
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- And our circumstances.
- 00:19:19.318 --> 00:19:20.953
- I have done that hundreds of times,
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- And i find that in the overwhelming
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- Majority of the cases, people are grateful.
- 00:19:24.390 --> 00:19:27.126
- It's not about us.
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- It's just an invitation to god.
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- Let's take up.
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- Let's pray as an assignment this holiday season
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- And we'll make a difference in our world.
- 00:19:33.266 --> 00:19:35.668
- Well, if you haven't yet, take a moment
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- To send your emails to comments at allen jackson now.com.
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- Your feedback and your questions.
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- They do a great deal to shape this show.
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- I'm allen jackson and from all of us here in nashville.
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- Our prayer is that you have a wonderful evening.
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