Allen Jackson: December 6, 2024 | Allen Jackson Now

December 6, 2024 | S24:E1206

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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.
  • 00:14:28.796 --> 00:14:30.531
  • 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.
  • 00:14:48.115 --> 00:14:50.017
  • 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
  • 00:15:06.167 --> 00:15:08.069
  • If just not outright reprimanded for talking about issues
  • 00:15:08.069 --> 00:15:11.373
  • That are part of our current political discussion.
  • 00:15:11.373 --> 00:15:14.476
  • There are many discussion topics that are shaping
  • 00:15:14.476 --> 00:15:16.678
  • Culture these days that aren't really political issues.
  • 00:15:16.678 --> 00:15:20.081
  • 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.
  • 00:15:36.197 --> 00:15:37.599
  • 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.
  • 00:15:59.554 --> 00:16:04.192
  • It's absolutely necessary that people of faith engage
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  • In these conversations around these broader cultural issues.
  • 00:16:07.228 --> 00:16:11.199
  • If we fail to do that,
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  • We fail in our assignment as salt and light.
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  • 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.
  • 00:16:18.907 --> 00:16:22.043
  • And i believe by hearing to that we have arrived in this fine
  • 00:16:22.043 --> 00:16:25.380
  • 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,
  • 00:16:31.586 --> 00:16:35.356
  • 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.
  • 00:16:39.294 --> 00:16:40.862
  • But when it comes to talking
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  • About matters of our faith or scripture,
  • 00:16:41.996 --> 00:16:44.399
  • 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,
  • 00:16:48.503 --> 00:16:51.973
  • 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.
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  • Thank you for taking the time to send us an email.
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  • We enjoy reading them so much.
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  • Jeff from arkansas wrote i'm not always able
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  • To catch your show when you are on tbn.
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  • How can i watch your show after it airs?
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  • We started a youtube channel for alan jackson.
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  • 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.
  • 00:17:51.364 --> 00:17:53.032
  • I had an abortion in 1967,
  • 00:17:53.032 --> 00:17:55.601
  • 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.
  • 00:17:59.138 --> 00:18:02.909
  • If we're giving god. i didn't know him then.
  • 00:18:02.909 --> 00:18:05.178
  • 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
  • 00:18:08.214 --> 00:18:10.583
  • 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
  • 00:18:21.961 --> 00:18:25.831
  • Our rebellion against god, asking for his forgiveness,
  • 00:18:25.831 --> 00:18:29.268
  • 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,
  • 00:18:37.743 --> 00:18:39.912
  • I was able to have a let's pray moment
  • 00:18:39.912 --> 00:18:41.314
  • 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.
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  • I'm looking forward to the next opportunity.
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  • Thank you for encouraging us on how to pray for others.
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  • You know we are social creatures and we interact
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  • With one another.
  • 00:18:55.895 --> 00:18:57.096
  • 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.
  • 00:19:05.338 --> 00:19:08.207
  • 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
  • 00:19:22.588 --> 00:19:24.390
  • Majority of the cases, people are grateful.
  • 00:19:24.390 --> 00:19:27.126
  • It's not about us.
  • 00:19:27.126 --> 00:19:27.927
  • 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.
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  • Well, if you haven't yet, take a moment
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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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