Divine Strategies for Overcoming Cancel Culture

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The church of Jesus cannot be canceled and I got divine strategies for the word of God by which we can overcome canceled culture time for the light a fire with your hosts a biblical scholar and cultural commentator Dr. Michael Brown your voice for more said of you and spiritual clarity. Call 866-34-TRUTH to get on the line of fire and now there's your host Dr. Michael Brown get a daily dose by God's grace of moral sanity and of spiritual clarity, you will get stronger, healthier, more vibrant in the Lord you put into practice the biblical principles that we talk about in your life is touched others be touched around you. Here's number to call 866-34-TRUTH 866-34-TRUTH 87884. I'm going to be getting into this subject matter about how we overcome canceled culture.

This is leading up to the release of my newest book, the silencing of the lambs due out in early March will take a moment how you can still preorder your signed numbered copy of the book the silencing the lambs the ominous rise of canceled culture and how we can overcome it. While there quite a few books out coming out on canceled culture. I believe you'll find this one unique.

I'm sure the others have value, but I believe you'll find this unique because it is filled with typical strategies as to how we as God's people can overcome canceled culture. Now I imagine as I talk about some controversial issues today. Some of you may want to weigh in and agree with me or disagree with me or challenge me on something so full eyes are open, 866-34-TRUTH 7884 but I'm also opening the phone lines for all questions of all kinds on all subjects. We have my friend Dr. Mark Stenger on with me this past Friday and we we took your health related questions even get to call in with your random questions on Friday so today I will open phones a little later in the broadcast. But now's a great time to call and get on the lawn of her get ready to get on line.

The fire okay little later in the broadcast.

I also want to touch briefly on the Ukraine Russia situation. I I am absolutely not an expert on world politics things that affect Israel directly cultural issues within America and how that interfaces with politics religious freedoms those things I'm I'm much more familiar with and can focus on, but I am absolutely not expert. I'm not giving you my evaluation or opinion on the situation rather want you to hear from some others. Some experts who say the government to say and then at the very least we can, we can just pray intelligently because it's a critical situation but first canceled culture.

Some of you are still not intimately familiar with what were talking about obesity canceled culture. It's not that people disagree with each other forcefully. That's fine it it's not that they say why think your views are stupid that's not the issue. The issue is canceling the views of others so it in the pastorate. Up to this day you subscribe to something right you subscribe to certain certain magazine and you don't want to get it anymore. For whatever reason so you cancel your subscription right… You subscribe to Netflix but didn't like some of their program and say hey I gotta cut the ties with Netflix and cancel a subscription to to Netflix will now with its people were being canceled and people who are being censored to the point that you just try to remove them. You block their accounts. You disqualify them from having any voice you fire them from their position and you seek to demonize him.

People are cancel and it's happening in epidemic levels today and as we've said for years, the left and radical agendas in our society always overplay their hand in the certain point things go too far and people begin to push back now we as God's people as sons of Issachar, spiritually speaking, who should understand the times know what God's people should do. We who are called to be the salt and the light, we should not just be forever reacting to what's happening in the world around us. Rather, we should be moving forward we should be saying here is God's message here is God's truth. We are confronting the society the culture the world with that we are swimming against the tide.

We are going against the grain. That's our lifestyle, so right now, Christian conservatives, followers of Jesus who hold to biblical values. They are at. At the top of the list of those being canceled or they're the ones with the biggest target on their backs, so I wanted to clear to you from the word of God truth from the word about these exact words but these truths the church of Jesus cannot be cancel. We cannot be canceled. We cannot be blotted out.

We cannot be ultimately silenced. The more you kill us, the more we rise up with a message. The more you cancel us. The more we shout out the word. What is meant to be an obstacle becomes an opportunity if we walk with the Lord. And if we fight spiritual battles spiritually, rather than in the natural because this is ultimately for us a spiritual battle and Paul says in second Corinthians 10 that we live in this world or in the flesh meaning in these physical bodies in this physical we don't fight the way the world fights or with fleshly weapons.

Rather, the weapons we have have divine power to demolish strongholds. So we come with a message that is better than the message of the world we come with a message that is different than the message of the world and our message is filled with divine truth, so we as God's people overcome evil with good. We overcome hatred with love.

We overcome the intimidation of the flesh with the power of the spirit we overcome lies with truth that so we fight our weapons friends and again the silencing of the lambs filled with divine strategies with your parent with your professor. Whether it's someone that's that's come out of home six row Euronext gay with your student on campus your strategies for you whether your preacher of the gospel through divine strategies so good asked Dr. Brown.org preorder. It's a beautiful hardcover with a striking cover, silencing the lambs, Esther to Brown's Argosy right on the homepage and regular sign each one of us is will we see we ought I will of guts about help you meet him in the book sets twice a week so I could sign them and go.

This is will have stacks to do it's it's a joint privilege to Scripture verse.

Some still think about was the right first to put in their and okay quick confession that I do some drawing quotes for you in a little longer to go to to the phones to focus on one particular strategy that I really open up in in the silencing of the lambs. Okay, first I got a confession to make. Decades ago, as we were selling one house moving into another house you doing it. New York your lawyers freezer way way way higher than in some other parts of the country and it seems you have even more stacks forms the sides of the law more I sign in sign in sign in sign it's like my signature is just getting more room of your lesson. Brown was so sick of being just a wide then as I was doing more more book signings in the years that followed, and you could be sitting there enough for want of signing books. My signature began to degenerate more and then just became something just as it was re-signing in the way I signed but didn't look at that look like Michael L. Browder Michael brothers like one, but that's when I sign.

That's just how it comes out, and I've done it like that for many many years and sign thousands and thousands and thousands of books like that when I try to write my goal it like it doesn't come out right.

It's like a child right so I was teaching in Dallas of Christ for the Nations last week and the one of the leaders of the school held up the book revival redye that student's rest read as I was teaching on revival and is the book that I had signed for him and what I saw in my signature. The front looks not sunny when after the almost look like a character of her face like he just drove face from the side, almost look like a drawing of something rather than signature software see how it goes. Bunker practice getting a semi-normal signature back to get ready for the next book, but we shall see. Okay Barry Weiss was New York Times columnist. She has been characterized as a liberal feminist and she is quote married to her female partner shows but I will leave the New York Times because the atmosphere was so toxic and if she would challenge the status quo as a liberal feminist lesbian millennial believe if you challenge the status quo. That's it.

Your big your Haiti race asserts little Barry Weiss said my own forays into the wrong signals. When you think differently than the group have may be the subject of constant bullying by colleagues meeting at the liberal New York Times who disagrees my views.

They have called me a Nazi antiracist. We used to criticism.

She said criticism is kosher and the work that we do.

Criticism is great with cancel cultures about is not criticism.

It is about punishment is about making a person radioactive is about taking with her job. Of course, this court and many others are in the silencing of the lambs.

She said this is not just about punishing the center. It is not just about punishing the person for being insufficiently pure.

Obviously, in the eyes of the others.

It's about this sort of secondary boycott of people who would deign to speak to that person or appear in a platform with that person and we see just very obviously were that kind of politics gets us of conversation with people that we disagree with becomes impossible. What is the way that we solve conflict. It's violence in here, a societal violence, a social violence achieving: social murder in a and and it's what I see with with hyper critics in the church that is guilt by association.

What will you you were in a conference with an is and at the conference are 20 speakers among the speakers was this person and this person three years ago put out something we consider heretical. Therefore, your heretical aliskiren where they come from, but this is even more extreme as the world is doing.

So what they considered to be pure and right and and a lot of the social boldness count comes from white intellectual elites and their fended for the black community where the black community as an offender defendant for the Native American community with Native American communities offenders. This this woke ideology. If you don't play by their rulebook.

Your canceled okay we come back in touch but had overcome that and then were going to your calls, 86634878 together. This is how else to light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get on the line of fire by calling 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown, new edition of the very first book and you find it super relevant compassion. Father were consuming fire, engaging the God of the Old Testament is the God of the Old Testament the same as the God of the New Testament. When we do all the verses were God's light a fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get on the line of fire by calling 866343 here again is Dr. Michael Brown effective every level little bit more about cancel culture and then we go there, Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter have all his quotes as well is relevant quotes in silencing the lambs listen to what he said she's not coming from a Christian perspective. As far as I know he said as far as I can see cancel culture is mercies antithesis. In other words, the exact opposite of of mercy political correctness is grown to become the unhappiest religion in the world.

It's once honorable attempt to reimagine our society in a more equitable way in which you don't want to insult and put style you will have things equal, was the goal now embodies all the worst aspects that religion has to offer, but which are taken to be you can to this you can't do this.

This is wrong. This is wrong silence.

Your silence there and none of the beauty is moral certainty and self-righteousness sure and even the cut of the capacity for redemption. It has become quite literally bad religion run amok, and he says this cancel cultures refusal to engage with uncomfortable ideas has in a fixed seating effect on the creative soul of a side of Canada and that quote there and go to what Dr. Martin Luther King said Dr. King said this here then is the Christian weapon against social evil, we are to go out with the spirit of forgiveness heal the hurts right the wrongs and change society with or forgiveness. All the courtly caves and friends cancel culture is mercies antithesis is the exact opposite of mercy. So what we offer and how we overcome, cancel culture, remember we overcome evil with good will become hatred with love. We overcome cancel culture with a message of redemption and forgiveness that we offer with the PC woke culture is not offering now, we offer something new and different, which is based on the way Jesus forgave us to think of this Colossians 3, Paul writes to the believers there and says that we are to forgive others the way Jesus forgave us not just meaning that he forgave us we forgive but how did he forgive and how did he love. He said this is my command.

You love one another as I have loved you not ago to be told we can. If you look at our social media pages, as believers, especially during the last election cycle. We were as nasty as any bug we were as angry as anybody wearies on redemptive is anybody.

We were in our own camps as much, as any.

But maybe you have the all the profanity and stuff on another social media pages, but we were going after each other not just an honest, candid conversation with friends having differences which became enemies attacking different size whatever side you're on. This got so volatile, one that is just weeping talking and that's a decent sum of our friends and so politicized junk being repeated, slandered is so contrary to to who God wants us to be so contrary to the way that God made us so contrary to what he called the street to represent and we must be known as the community of redemption. We must be known as the people who show mercy, we must be known as the people who demonstrate of the love people we hold to our standards, we have our views were always going to be slandered and called haters. Rose can have people speaking against us and attacking us in different ways, but if you caught us. We believe love. I remember I remember that a fellow came to our church fire church, my home congregation, we help plant met many years ago with her school and omissions organization so it would go small congregation in in Concorde North Carolina and a fellow came in one Sunday he was dressed all in black.

He had black nail polish, black eye makeup so he was really overdoing. He told us. Afterwards he was overdoing and he claimed to be a Satanist if I recall, and he was a young person may be an older teenager, summer, and there may be 20 for something but started talking to our young people. Students in our ministry school grads from our school and people from the church started talking with them.

They befriended him and started coming regularly and after a few weeks on the what ultimately happened to mom, I'm not at our services lot would ultimately happen to them, but but at a certain point. He said I want you to know what what happened here. He said I I go to different churches to see how they react towards me and I, overdid it coming in here. You know the be is like dark looking again strange looking as possible and people just showed love and just reached out to us revenue when I got saved my friends and hippies, radicals, rebels, full of salmon. Just stupid, angry, and drug using an living foul lives and these older people in church, you know, a 16 some of them in their 40s. Some of them in their 60s and really all dry that's Outlook to me is love done me in the middle of the my friends and everyone I bloom as a new believer to stupidly blue in certain ways got angry with threatened, whatever. Just stupid stuff about temper.

They discover love me when I want to apologize got the smiled at me like a driving a brand-new and and that was life transforming. If if I had been met with something else on the where I'd be today so this is how it's a defined strategy is powerful and back to what Dr. King said another talk really candidly to the phone so if you differ with me have added through most of American history, at least in parts of America. We have had institutionalized racism from most of our history is was slavery with the dehumanizing of African-Americans were segregation or laws put in place that most of us don't even know about that would give a disadvantage to African-Americans and advantaged white Americans or others. So this is through most of our history and at least some parts of America. Now, even though so much was done and in Civil Rights Act and 60 foreign ongoing efforts to level the playing field is much as possible.

You can't guarantee equal results. Equal outcomes trial level the playing field to give equal opportunities as much as we Canada systemic level on a societal level.

Obviously the stability inequalities and inequities. So I'm all for addressing these no, I don't believe there systemic racism in America the way many would put it, but certainly there is the residue of the past and the residue of pass laws and things that affect over generations right where were one group had it worse over generations and other groups had better at an end. Because of that, it still not level equal also understand that what one might one of my friends African-American friend said to me once he said this a racist bone in your body, but there's a lot you don't know great. There's a lot each of us don't know in different areas so we educate each other right like my book or hands were stained with blood, which tells the tragic story of the church and the Jewish people talks, but anti-Semitism in church history. Most Christians are unaware of the history the read the book. It's eye-opening. It's painful but it's true so others in likeness to other things. We may not be fully aware of right but like I didn't know. Years and years and years back that the Southern Baptists were formed to break away from the northern Baptist because they wanted to keep their slaves but I didn't know that the founders of of Southern Baptist seminary.

Most of the slaveowners reproving of slavery, etc. so I know that's when you hear it okay will what the results of that today if this is been announced.

If this is an apologist for, or the remnants which I'm all for having that discussion, but in less there is a spirit of forgiveness. There will be no no real lasting progress. That's what Dr. King said here that is the Christian weapon against social evil would go out with the spirit of forgiveness healed hurts right the wrongs and change society with forgiveness. So were people said we blew it. We messed up were truly sorry and we will work with you to make things right. We extend forgiveness and if your own heart is caught up with bitterness, even if someone has an asking for forgiveness. You forgive from the heart there.

They're not right with God and in right relationship with you, and until they receive forgiveness from God and until they turn away from sin.

But you clear your own heart. You've been hurt personally in injury to get that person Bracco want vengeance which is different than Lord I forgiven them. But I do believe there should be justice. I believe this person is dangerous and should be in jail, that's that that's separate from want, get them water.

I want to see them suffer. That spirit eats away at us. So if there's unforgiveness in your heart talking brother. The brother sister sister family relationships larger things having to do with American history if in fact friends. There's unforgiveness. It's deadly, it hurts you is as much as it hurts anyone else. In fact, it hurts you worse. So let's be the people of forgiveness of mercy of redemption. Let the church be known by that.

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There's a call from from Barry and Whiting, New York, and I'm just going to answer her question. As we explained without bringing her on the air now so she asked what's the difference between charismatics and hyper charismatics will. This is something that is being put on on people externally. In other words, no one identifies that I know of as I am a hyper charismatics right just like some in an occult doesn't identify that there an occult soul. This is the way others are characterizing that. So the question would be when I use the terms how my using like all all talk about constructive critics and hyper critics loser was in my terms of using them a certain way right so what we mean when we say hyper charismatics.

Those would be people that are in our view or extreme cultivate flaky practices and flaky beliefs, they would still be believers, but they would have some fringe beliefs that are off some practices that are off things that are out of balance and some dangerously so. Now I just want to remind you something. When Paul wrote to the church in Corinth, there were all kinds of problems. There right, but he wrote to them as brothers and sisters in Jesus and commanded them for not falling behind in any spiritual gift yet they abused tongues. This public messages in tongues without interpretation, they were full of division carnality they were taking each other to court and bring reproach to the name of Jesus before secular judges as we can't work this out ourselves. We can't work it out you mother church leaders so we go to court. Neither of us are willing to humble ourselves. The sale just let it go.

They were tolerating and even celebrating sexual sin as if it was a proof of liberty Mama sleeping with his father's wife.

The they abuse the Lord's supper, to the point that many were sick and some had died never the Cardiff McCarthy in those days was only between 50 and 75 people.

According to many scholars, yet many were sick and some had died.

That's abusive. It was and they denied the future resurrection of the body. Yeah explosive you that I that's like denying the resurrection of Jesus.

If he rose others will rise so it this. If this church is around today what would we say if it okay. They were new but that these were Paul's spiritual sons and daughters. What we say about Paul, judgment will be bring on Paul so there are those that today have practices in my view, or are are there not one biblical to the point of heresy, but they can be dangerous or they can just be foolish or or they can give way to carnality or they could celebrate so-called revelatory teaching on the schedule this revelation and that doesn't line up with Scripture that that think that the true test of spirituality is 70 hours you pray in tongues a day in your whole life can be a wreck but no, these would be different things were people go to unhealthy extremes.

When I teach on revival and and I do believe that that I have authority to teach on it. Not just because of what Scripture says, but because of God's allowed me to experience over the decades terms of being in the midst of genuine revival movement sought so I can speak to this with some degree of experience and not just its theoretical to me. But when were right. Revival comes up often said you can have controversy without revival, but you can have revival without controversy and Arthur Wallace, in his classic book in the day of thy power said something claims to be revival is not spoken against. Check again to see it's really revival with reference back to Simon's prophecy over the baby issue in Luke two verses 34 and 35 Duncan Campbell, who is the leader used by God in the Hebrides revival 1949 to 1952, seconded that opinion that revival will always have controversy so the challenge is to keep your focus and to keep biblical limits the controversies you have.

You have two ditches on either side of the road. You have the ditch of traditional religion which basically says we never saw it like this before. This can't be God because it's different than our traditions.

Therefore, we rejected then the other ditch on the other side of the road is manifestation mania, superficial sensationalism, for example, Pentecost, feaster shoveled feast of weeks asked to the Holy Spirit comes in every dramatic way with the sound of a blowing violent wind that the Holy Spirit comes with with tongues of fire sitting on each of the hundred 20, they begin to speak new languages and some see the phenomenon and in the Cedar drought. These guys are drunk. Others hear the praises of God in the language because there were Jews therefrom over the world. These places were being spoken in different languages. Peter gets up and explains what happens is what Joel prophesied about in this outpouring the spirit in this supernatural speech prophecy. S. That's for the last days suits from here until Jesus returns is a very definite statement there but notice this, he explains it.

But then he doesn't preach tongues.

He doesn't preach tongues of fire. He doesn't preach blowing violent wind preaches Jesus and any preaches Jesus crucified and risen any calls restrict listeners to repent for rejecting the Messiah and then he says repent, be immersed in water which there were very familiar with the concept being immersed for forgiveness, cleansing for new beginning their very familiar with that repent and be baptized, be immersed for the forgiveness of your sins through Jesus, and you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

So God wants to give you a spirit that that's the final word there, but that's not the central message, so hyper charismatics will will focus on the secondary things. The tertiary things they will focus on the things that are not as foundational and essential and therefore can get into all kinds of weirdness there and then on the flip side, you have those who become so cynical who become so questioning of the things of the spirit that they think they have the right to mock other believers. They think they have the right to slander.

They think that they are now the judge of everything. So that's danger. This ditches on either side of the road. They're both very dangerous. You say what's standing the middle-of-the-road ground everything ground everything in a Jesus centered way so that he is highly exalted Jesus of the Bible.

Focus on holiness and harvest: the lost to be saved, calling believers to turn from sin and compromise ground everything on the on the major themes of Scripture major on the majors with the Holy Spirit moving your midst you do that Stan track a thank you Barry for the question. Much appreciated. Let's go over to Justin in White Lake Michigan. Thanks for calling the line of fire. Dark brown. I don't do very well thank you good or could hear the dark. He again thanks a bill, I was calling about alchemy, unity, culture, how do we not get the biblically because it all at arguing with the culture of arguing with people who radically don't want nothing to do Christian and among other people at Fort but had a white Russell with that. My old valve that every Christian.

But like I white light wrestled with the think and grow stronger more firmly you are grounded in the faith, because you know I watched luckily a little bit of your content you're very very loving and very kind and I want to be. Now I know you like to glorify you like bright yellow Buick right in the image of Christ through unity yellow that's in the art that should be your goal right where Paul wrote to the Corinthians for Sprint's 11 one and said follow me as I follow Jesus and we do want to be his representatives to go say hey on the Jesus but he's changed me in ways that that have made me a person that that is loving and gracious and and and I want to introduce you to him or lives should should draw people to him rather than repulse them and turn them away. So select a couple things Dustin one is for everybody. We got a put down deep roots. There's no substitute for deep personal relationship with God where you know him in a certain way that that faith is unshakable and that takes quality time alone with God reading the word meditating on the word, studying the word, applying the word seeking to live it out and quality time and fellowship with God in prayer and you should be encountering God in worship, prayer, and situate. We we you know him where there is a relationship with him. It's not just intellectual affirmation but but a relationship with him. Are you living with heart, soul, mind, strength also be in solid fellowship with other solid believers, especially those were more mature than you lose her more wisdom than you learn from them to be accountability that friends can speak at your life. If they see something wrong and then when you see a subject and it raises questions and issues then go to those who have expertise rather than try fight this battle for yourself. Learn get built up and then take in the things that are challenging and difficult rather think I just have to be bold and tackle everything and you get hit with 100 questions at once.

Get ready to compare then we go say something so you have questions as I had a decade dog study and learn from others come back with some say Douglas is strong line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get on the line of fire by calling 866342 here again is Dr. Michael Brown joy is to add.com in partnership with one if I remember, today, tomorrow, you can use the code health capital HEALTH get a double discount 20% so take advantage of that. If you heard the ad with normal code. Use this one.

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Okay before I go back to the phones just a little bit about Ukraine and Russia again to be clear, I am absolutely not focused and expert on world politics in general certain things within that I focused on certain situations like Israel and the Middle East, or religious freedoms in China or many moral and cultural issues in American how the intersection of politics, but to be clear is not my area if I was going to have a major discussion and really try to dig about I bring a guest on that had expertise on the soul. The question why is Russia threatening an invasion of Ukraine what's behind it. While there different things. One is just Vladimir Putin and wanting to have a great legacy and and you know he's in the expansionist Soviet Union that still in his blood kind of thing but some other areas that tie in with at least that's how many feel so here is a report on NBC few days back explaining some of the backgrounds can be referenced from map, which I'll explain to those who are listening rather than watch. Okay, let's let's listen to this for years Vladimir Putin has complained to the US and West have lied to Russia, have forced to take action. You promised us in the 1990s that NATO would not move an inch to the East just weeks ago you cheated us shamelessly. Michael McFall is a former US ambassador to Russia. Putin has said the West. The United States is provoking us provoking me that's ridiculous speak clear notice provoking Putin. This was how Europe was aligned at the peak of the Cold War split between willing NATO allies in blue to the West and in red countries that the Soviet Union used brutal force to keep in line with them, but when the Soviet Union fell these Eastern European countries now free aligned with the US and NATO. Russia's sphere of influence and its geographic buffer against NATO now shrunk considerably. Five. NATO countries even border Russia and many now host US military bases and Ukraine. It sits here almost alone between Russia and the West. Too many people are believing that this is somehow about NATO expansion. What it's really about an unprovoked military invasion should decide to go in.

Many are wondering why Ukraine and and why now, why now I think because Pres. Putin has been obsessed with bringing Ukraine back into subjugation to Russia. Putin believes that the Slavic nation of which he considers Russians and Ukrainians to be part of a single nation was unfairly and incorrectly broken during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, while a full-scale invasion conflict to her since World War II, and it could likely destabilize international markets on Friday. As tensions rose.

The S&P 500 plunged nearly 2% at the drop of $2500 for the average American's 401(k) and with Russia huge provider of oil to the world. Gas prices are likely to go higher. They've already hit their highest level in eight years.

The mistake we make in the last sometimes we think some kind of rational actor calculating the cost benefit analysis of invasion went back he's thinking about his place in the history books. 50 years from now, or so that's that's this expert perspective against one perspective on food.

Many would agree with it. By the way Philip, fill my tank with gas today use economy can be hard economy was but premium of over four dollars wall, look at this at some of this is some bad policies in place, inflation, etc. here in America but some of it's also due to the potential crisis with Russia and Ukraine in the butt. That's complex in terms of gas and where Europe is getting gas from, etc. but anyway it if you look at the map you see that these countries that border. Other European countries that are part of NATO were formally part of the Soviet Union and now are part of NATO so so Ukraine is the one that's left and is larger. We've got missionaries that have been living in Ukraine, probably 20 years and working with orphans and other underprivileged kids and and helping churches there and there that they're not going anywhere there displaying Americans that are there, but the situation is very tense so take Sullivan national security advisor to the president was on Jake Tapper this about a minute long. Listen to their conversation, we cannot perfectly predict the day, but we have now been saying for some time that we are in the window and an invasion could begin a major military action could begin by Russia in Ukraine any day now. That includes this coming week before the end of the Olympics. Of course, could take place after the end of the Olympics or it is still possible. We believe that Russia could choose the diplomatic path, but the way they have built up their forces the way they have been different things in place makes it a distinct possibility that there will be major military action very soon and we are prepared to continue to work on diplomacy, but we are also prepared to respond in a united and decisive way with our allies and partners should Russia proceed. I do think the world should be prepared for Russia staging a pretext and then launching a potential military action. Alright, so those concerns are shared by many there I believe the hundred 30,000 Russian troops that have amassed on the border. There is a picture that went viral of her great-grandmother and she is laying lay on the ground shooting position with an AK-47 training and said that you would do it to a for your children. You would do it. Also so tensions are rising, things could get volatile just got a note from Joel Rosenberg and Christians and Jews actually praying together in Estonia and and or or praying for it for God's mercy and Ukraine. So just pray Lord, your will be done. Your will be done with Russia and Ukraine.

Your very best for the peoples of these countries and for the world.

It's affected Lord your best your plan, bring it to pass and give Pres. Biden courage and wisdom to do the right thing is try to grab one more call a Michael Michael Ventura, California, is gone. Let's go over to Laura up not quite ready to talk to Laura okay let's let's do this Laura in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Welcome to the line of fire and act around you. Thank you. Then-canceled I'm grandma and my thing anymore.

I will hold today what what range in ages. They are seven and right and the reason your family canceled you because our billing mainly part of the gay lifestyle because you know we can agree with them. They say that it's okay yeah it's a very common thing you get excluded over that if you just hold to the church and most of society is how to for thousands of years. Maybe that marriage is the man and the woman God made man for women and women for men. So let me ask you this is her either. Either it is your daughter, your son like that I sent blank.

Okay so so it's it's a heterosexual couple. So it's not that one of them is come out as gay or it's it's a gay couple.

Alright so wrecked. Have you simply said, look, we don't have to talk about this and I'm not going to bring it up to the kids when they're with me. Let's agree yeah that we just don't talk about this and yeah you propose that to them. Think about that because I would bring a Bible story stop and they did that and then mild came home from school on that now. What is the DBT do whatever he wanted man and now I laying it about.

Thanks for the and at that now that have a better plan on really not not the way to go so so do you think so, did they not want you reading the Bible to them and all yeah they don't want me to talk about religion that thickly part that without that before but I didn't talk about it felt like years ago and right in their eyes out by it. I know, but I didn't talk about X yeah so Lord you feel that it's more important to be involved with your grandkids to be there. Have fun. You don't keep developing the relationships and stay out of this. For now, and then either hope that your your son and his wife will will have a change of heart or that the will be a little older and you can just before food you feel it's it's best to say okay I am just trying to think about it with our grandkids affect look at the clock on the you my opinion this just give you my input.

Okay, I apologize for not being able to get your feedback on this if if it was my grandkids when they were younger and it was a matter of continue to build relationship with them and and continue to just be who we are and they know who we are mere fun. We love them so that the relationship is there and as they get older. Then there can be more openness and less restriction things like that. I would keep that door open. There was that's what your your son Darla asked for it. Say okay we just won't talk about that if it comes up say.

Actually your mommy and daddy rather talk.

Even though I could be here, which want to hear to have that relationship. Jesus, that would be my pray about it. So that's how I would approach it tomorrow's broadcast photo is relevant to the subject listed another program powered by the Truth Network