0:00

New Mexico's governor is trying

0:02

to abolish the Second Amendment and

0:04

on the other side of the country, Virginia

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Governor Glenn Yunkin has

0:09

granted a quote absolute pardon

0:11

to the Loudoun County dad who was arrested

0:14

at a school board meeting and a listener

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finally says, had enough with screens

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and teens. We're going to talk about the dangers

0:21

of the online world for your teenagers today.

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This is your chance to be informed and get off the

0:26

bench. Welcome to the Heidi St. John podcast.

0:37

Well, before I jump into the headlines today,

0:39

I want to just take a minute and

0:41

talk about the study that I'm teaching

0:44

in the book of Revelation. I've been getting quite

0:46

a few questions about it, which is great.

0:48

And I think the reason that

0:51

people are intrigued about the book of Revelation

0:53

right now is because it's very clear that

0:56

things are are are ramping

0:59

up in the world around us. And we're going to talk a little bit about

1:01

that

1:01

in the headlines today. I mean, I continue

1:04

to watch Joe Biden stumbling around

1:06

literally and figuratively on

1:08

the world stage. It's clear

1:10

that whoever's run in the country, it is

1:12

not Joe Biden and people

1:15

are starting to really

1:16

get nervous about where the

1:18

world is headed. But the Bible is very

1:21

clear that

1:21

God has a plan and that plan

1:24

is going to unfold. So the goal of studying

1:26

Revelation is not to scare you. It's

1:28

to prepare you

1:30

for what's to come. And as a Christian, the end

1:33

of days hold no fear.

1:35

We don't need to live in fear about

1:37

where the world is going. We don't need to live in fear

1:39

about where we're going because as men

1:42

and women who trust in the name

1:44

of the Lord, we know that God's

1:46

going to win this thing in the end. And

1:48

we know this because the Lord says it

1:51

in his word, his return is near. And

1:53

so our hearts should be ablaze

1:55

with hope because the truth is Jesus

1:58

is going to return for his church.

1:59

This is what he says in the Word

2:02

of God and I believe him. But the

2:04

question becomes what does near mean? Like we've

2:06

been hearing this for a long time, the return of the Lord

2:08

is near.

2:09

And in short, it means it could happen any

2:12

day. And this is as true today as it

2:14

has been since the resurrection of Jesus from the

2:16

dead. And as Christians, we are exhorted to

2:19

be ready. And so that's the

2:21

name of the study that I'm going to be doing

2:23

with you for the next couple of months. It's

2:25

called People Get Ready, a study through the book

2:27

of Revelation. I think you guys are going to love

2:30

it. I grew up under the biblical instruction

2:32

of my grandmother who was a Bible

2:35

teacher and she loved

2:37

studying Revelation. In fact, I

2:40

think it was probably one of her favorite things to

2:42

do to study that book. She was always

2:44

talking about it. I grew up listening

2:46

to her read from the book of Revelation

2:48

and listening to her teach it to her Bible study

2:51

group at the little evangelical free church

2:53

where my granddad was a pastor.

2:57

I watched her teach on the topic for years and as

2:59

she grew older, her heart

3:01

never wavered. She was always

3:04

looking forward to the return of the Lord. And

3:07

I know because I know Jesus, I'm

3:09

going to see my grandmother again one

3:11

day and I can't wait. She used to tell me that

3:13

while the book of Revelation could prove controversial

3:16

for some, the Bible teaches

3:18

us that it holds a special blessing

3:21

for those who will study it. So

3:24

remember you guys, we have an adversary to

3:26

kill who wants to kill and steal and

3:28

destroy. When we study the book of

3:30

Revelation, there will be things that good Christians

3:32

and really upright

3:36

and studied theologians can disagree

3:38

about. I'm not studying the book

3:40

of Revelation with you to draw any

3:42

hard and fast lines in the sand with

3:45

regard to my eschatological opinion

3:47

or what I believe we can learn

3:50

from the book of Revelation because we need

3:52

to remember it would be a prize and it

3:54

actually has been for the

3:56

enemy to divide God's

3:59

people. over the Bible itself.

4:01

The book of Revelation gives us no cause to

4:03

be divided, instead it's a cause to rejoice.

4:06

And so I hope you guys will dig into this

4:08

study with me with expectancy,

4:10

with excitement, and I

4:12

can't wait to read together with

4:14

you. Remember the Bible says that

4:16

there is a blessing that is

4:19

in store for those who read the Word

4:21

of God, particularly the book of Revelation.

4:24

Paul spoke to Timothy in 2nd Timothy chapter 2

4:27

verse 15 and said, Be diligent

4:29

to present yourself approved to

4:31

God as a worker who does not

4:33

need to be ashamed, rightly dividing

4:36

the word of truth. So we're going to spend the first

4:39

little bit of time studying Revelation, talking

4:41

about some preconceived ideas that we have

4:43

about the end times, what we hope to

4:45

gain from studying the book of Revelation,

4:48

and how confident we are in our understanding.

4:51

Most of the people that write in to me about

4:54

this topic say they're afraid

4:56

of what's to come, they're afraid even to

4:58

study the book of Revelation. But like I told

5:01

you, I mean, I think we could rename

5:05

the study, The King is Coming. He

5:08

is coming for his own one day. The Bible says

5:10

he will come on the clouds and

5:13

we can look forward to that and the dead in

5:15

Christ will rise first. So if you know the Lord,

5:17

you got nothing to fear because

5:19

the Bible says that you are sealed, safe,

5:22

and secure. And so we're going to study this book.

5:24

I hope you guys will join me. You can sign up right now at

5:27

faiththatspeaks.com or MomStrong

5:29

International. They both go to the same place. We

5:31

got a brand new website that we're getting ready to unveil.

5:34

But for right now, you got to deal with a little bit of an old website,

5:37

a little bit of an older picture of me. Sorry

5:39

about that. All right, let's jump into

5:42

the headlines today because I'm serious, you guys.

5:45

You cannot make this stuff

5:47

up. You just can't make it up. New

5:50

Mexico's Governor Michelle Grisham

5:53

has been shredding the Constitution while

5:56

trying to strip her constituents of

5:58

the ability to carry on. firearms

6:01

and she put this plan into motion

6:04

just a couple of days ago she announced a quote

6:06

public health order that prohibits

6:08

residents in so-called high-primaries

6:11

including New Mexico's biggest

6:13

city Albuquerque from

6:15

possessing firearms outside their home. So

6:17

when she made the announcement she admitted that criminals

6:20

wouldn't follow the law and she acknowledged

6:22

that she's it's probably gonna get overturned in the courts

6:24

but she simply doesn't care.

6:27

Listen or if you're watching this on

6:29

YouTube or Rumble watch as

6:32

this New Mexico governor literally tries

6:34

to shred the Constitution with

6:36

absolute disregard

6:37

for the rule of law.

6:39

The move angered many leaders including

6:42

the police union who say they feel strongly

6:44

that this is a violation of the Second Amendment

6:46

rights of citizens. A city councilor

6:49

worries it will make the city more dangerous. There

6:51

are a lot of questions tonight including if

6:53

the order is even legal and how it will

6:55

be enforced.

6:57

No one right now in New Mexico and particularly

6:59

now but he is safe in a movie theater at

7:02

a park at a school at a grocery

7:04

store

7:05

at an isotope

7:06

game. The governor's public health order

7:08

states gun violence and drug abuse

7:11

statewide has caused a health emergency.

7:13

It then lists orders including stating

7:16

no person other than law enforcement officers

7:18

or licensed security officers shall

7:21

possess a gun openly or concealed in

7:23

public and counties averaging more than 1,000 violent

7:25

crimes per 100,000 people meaning

7:28

this would only apply to Bernalillo County

7:31

which the governor also pointed out has a high number

7:33

of emergency room visits for gun

7:35

injuries and she says she's had enough

7:38

with children being killed.

7:39

But I have to take a tough direct stand

7:42

where basically I'm just ignoring the fact

7:44

that we lost an 11 year

7:45

old. The governor says she knows

7:47

criminals won't listen to this order but she hopes

7:49

the public will and start reporting

7:51

gun crimes. She says it will be enforced

7:54

by state police as a civil offense which

7:56

she acknowledges may be tough to

7:58

carry out the purpose.

7:59

is to try to create a

8:02

cooling off period while we

8:04

figure out how we can better

8:06

address public

8:09

safety and gun violence.

8:10

The controversial move was

8:13

met with anger tonight. So the

8:14

order that she has announced,

8:17

and again this is executive order, executive

8:20

fiat, absolutely goes against

8:22

our constitutional right which says that the right

8:24

of an American citizen to keep and bear arms

8:27

shall not be infringed. The

8:29

governor of New Mexico says that her

8:31

order sends a quote resounding

8:34

message. She's not even pretending

8:36

that she's got any legal standing to do what she's

8:39

doing. What she's trying to do is say

8:41

that the gun violence in America

8:44

has to have somebody do something and

8:47

she's going to be the one to do it. And so even

8:49

though she admits it's not going to help, it's not going

8:51

to keep a criminal from breaking

8:54

the law, it's not going to keep a criminal from carrying

8:56

firearms, she's trying to get the

8:58

people of New Mexico absolutely the mercy

9:01

basically of any criminal that

9:03

would have his way. And so it's

9:07

very, I mean these are really sad times. Interestingly

9:09

enough, according to the Daily Wire,

9:12

Grisham doesn't display any curiosity

9:15

about the assailant in the shooting

9:17

that triggered this unconstitutional

9:20

response from the governor of New Mexico.

9:22

At the moment, Grisham issued

9:24

the order ending the Second Amendment in New Mexico.

9:27

She did it because an 11-year-old was killed, authorities

9:29

didn't even know the identity of the suspect, they

9:32

didn't know a single thing about him. That's a

9:34

little more than strange. If you think about it, you have

9:36

to wonder what kind of person

9:38

shoots a moving vehicle 17 times

9:40

due to

9:42

quote road rage. Are we talking about someone with a criminal

9:44

history perhaps? Maybe somebody

9:46

out on probation? Could it be we're

9:48

not even talking about an American citizen

9:51

at all? None of these questions have been asked.

9:53

They don't matter to the governor of New

9:55

Mexico who is a tyrant and

9:57

anti-American from sun up to sun. sundown.

10:00

And listen, I got to think, as

10:03

we continue to see what's

10:05

happening in our nation right now, we are

10:07

not being, the people in the United

10:09

States of America, by and large, don't want this

10:11

garbage. We don't want this garbage. We're

10:14

not voting for this stuff. The people who

10:16

are in office, our political betters

10:18

and the political elites in this country are doing

10:21

things that they know the American people do

10:23

not want. Do you think for one

10:25

second the majority of Americans

10:28

like what's happening at

10:29

our southern border?

10:30

Hundreds of thousands of illegals

10:33

crossing our southern border every single day

10:35

while Joe Biden sits on his hands and

10:37

fumbles around to find a decent

10:40

word to say on 9-11. Nope,

10:43

they don't.

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11:17

And we know that the Democrats don't

11:20

care about what the people want because it's no longer

11:22

about what the people want. It's about an agenda that's

11:24

being pushed in this country. And we have

11:26

got to be aware of what's happening,

11:28

be in prayer for our country. This is not

11:30

to get you guys all, you know, riled

11:33

up and angry, because again, there are things

11:35

that we have no control over, right?

11:37

This is it goes back to jurisdiction.

11:40

You've heard me talk about this quite a bit at the show. But

11:42

at the same time, we need to be cognizant

11:44

of who's running for office, we need to be absolutely

11:47

committed to voting and getting

11:50

out the vote wherever we live. Because

11:52

I'm telling you what, these are nation

11:54

ending dictates that

11:57

people like the governor of New Mexico,

11:59

Governor, Grisham are putting

12:02

into practice, or at least she's trying. The

12:05

sheriff there, the highest police

12:08

officer in New Mexico has obviously

12:11

come out and said he won't enforce this

12:13

unconstitutional edict, but

12:15

this is a pivotal moment in the country. If

12:18

Grisham's order was a trial balloon,

12:21

the response from the right has been woefully

12:23

insufficient. Listen to what the Daily Wire said,

12:26

tyrants have always used emergencies, whether

12:28

real or imaginary, to justify their paragraphs.

12:31

A couple of weeks ago, you heard me talk about the crystal

12:33

knocked event that gave

12:35

Hitler the rise to power that

12:37

he was looking for. They looked for an emergency,

12:40

they took advantage of it. This is why they want

12:42

the COVID lockdowns to come back. This is why

12:44

the masks were such a big deal. This is why

12:46

the forced inoculation of people against

12:49

their will was such a big deal. I

12:51

believe that it is the testing of the will of the

12:53

American people. Are we going to put up

12:55

with these kind of tyrannical dictates or

12:58

not? We know that these are power grabs.

13:00

COVID in the United States was a pivotal

13:02

moment when most of the country, for

13:05

a virus with a 99.9% survival

13:08

rate, just laid down and allowed

13:10

the government to spend essentially all

13:12

of our rights in order to protect us

13:14

from a cold. And

13:17

that's the truth. Career bureaucrats like

13:19

the governor of New Mexico, Michelle Grisham, took

13:21

note of that. And now she is

13:23

trying to expand her authority under

13:25

the guise of a so-called emergency,

13:28

taking it to the next level. And unfortunately,

13:30

from the Republicans, she's only getting minimal

13:32

pushback. It's not hard to imagine where

13:34

this could go next. As

13:37

I pointed out before, Grisham

13:39

herself has outlined a plan from here.

13:42

The Daily Wire goes on to say that we can expect

13:44

a, quote, climate change emergency to justify

13:47

banning cars, a transphobia

13:49

emergency to shut down non-affirming

13:51

speech, a racism emergency

13:53

to ram through federal reparations plans,

13:56

a poverty emergency

13:57

to redistribute wealth.

14:00

The possibilities are endless and the endless

14:02

public health autocrats like

14:05

Michelle Grisham experience real consequences

14:07

for what they're doing, these nation-ending

14:10

possibilities will become a reality.

14:13

So the Daily Wire is saying what many

14:15

other conservatives and people on the right

14:17

who have been watching the country,

14:20

I told you guys the other day, we are losing

14:22

our freedom in this country one paper

14:24

cut at a time. And this wasn't a paper cut.

14:27

This was an actual stab to the heart of our

14:29

freedom. The right to defend ourselves, the

14:31

right to carry a weapon in this country is

14:33

under assault by the left. And don't think for one minute

14:35

that if Joe Biden got the opportunity to take

14:37

your guns away, he wouldn't take it. He absolutely

14:40

would. Meanwhile, some good

14:42

news out of the state of Virginia,

14:46

of course, the Democrats hate this. They're

14:48

screaming and yelling and throwing their fists up in

14:50

the air. But Governor Glenn Youngkin

14:52

on Sunday granted what he called an absolute

14:55

pardon to the father who was arrested

14:58

at a school board meeting after the superintendent

15:00

lied about his daughter's rape

15:03

by a skirt-wearing boy.

15:06

Now this goes back to the transgender argument.

15:08

It goes back to parents saying, I do not want

15:10

men in my daughter's locker

15:13

room. And of course, the woke left

15:15

and all of the sexual activists and the

15:17

CSE promoters in this country

15:20

screaming and yelling about how this is transphobic

15:22

and homophobic. And I can't believe what a fascist

15:24

you are because you don't want a boy in

15:26

the girls locker room. Well, Scott Smith

15:29

exercised his constitutional right to

15:31

attend a public meeting of the Loudoun County School

15:33

Board to observe the proceedings.

15:36

This happened back in June of 2021, during

15:38

which time a community member threatened to spread

15:42

malicious and false information about his business

15:45

with the intent to damage his reputation.

15:47

During an ensuing verbal confrontation, Scott

15:50

Smith was charged with obstruction of justice

15:54

and disorderly conduct. And he was

15:56

quickly convicted, even though an appeals

15:58

court later disqualified the prosecution.

16:00

due to quote concerns about the

16:02

integrity of the prosecution.

16:05

So the governor

16:08

of Virginia, Governor Yunkin, of

16:11

course you know, Winston Sears,

16:13

the lieutenant governor in Virginia, they got

16:15

some pretty cool things going on there. He

16:18

issued him a pardon and Scott

16:20

Smith was quoted as saying, I'm thankful that the Yunkin

16:22

administration gave me an off-ramp to these

16:24

charges. They never should have happened. It's

16:27

kind of bittersweet because I really look forward

16:29

to winning this in court, but unfortunately our

16:32

justice system is so screwed

16:34

up right now that I didn't feel I could

16:36

potentially get a fair shot.

16:38

And you guys that again, this

16:41

should scare Americans. Watch what the

16:43

Biden administration is doing, this weaponization

16:46

of our justice system against their political

16:48

opponents, the most obvious one being

16:50

President Trump. Why do they hate him so much? They

16:53

hate him for what he says. They can't control

16:55

what he says. Sometimes wish someone

16:57

could control what he says. The point

16:59

is the Democrats in this country

17:02

do not represent the Democrat

17:04

Party of the 50s, the 60s, the 70s

17:06

or even the 80s. These people are completely

17:09

out of control. They want to take away your

17:11

right to bear arms. They want to take your freedom

17:14

to protect you from a virus with a 99.9% survival rate. They

17:17

want to keep you from speaking at school board meetings

17:20

because heaven forbid someone should hear

17:22

the truth about biology. We've got major

17:24

issues in this country and we

17:27

need to be in prayer about what's going on. But

17:29

I was really encouraged by

17:32

Governor Yunkin stepping up and saying,

17:35

no dude, this isn't how it works. That

17:37

actually made me feel pretty good about something

17:40

in the news today. I'm going to

17:42

end today with a question from a listener,

17:44

an anonymous listener in Arizona. It's

17:46

asking about teens and screens. She

17:49

said, Heidi, I've noticed that since

17:51

the parents in our Christian homeschool group, including

17:53

myself, put phones in our

17:56

teens hands and let them socialize with each

17:58

other online, things have gone down. downhill

18:00

in their attitudes and behavior,

18:03

swearing, etc. I almost feel like

18:05

if you put the internet in the hands of your kids,

18:07

you might as well just send them to public school. It's

18:09

that bad. Do you have any

18:11

thoughts on the invasion of technology and

18:13

its negative effects and why the apathy

18:16

of so many Christians, even in

18:18

homeschooling toward this issue? Well,

18:21

you're absolutely right and this goes not

18:23

so much to the internet. It

18:25

goes to parental authority

18:27

in the home and whether or not the parents of

18:30

the chutzpah have

18:33

the respect of their children and

18:36

they've got the guts to say, hey,

18:38

here's a phone because you recognize how many of these kids need

18:40

food. What they don't need is access to the

18:43

internet. They don't need a social media.

18:45

What they don't need is TikTok. What they don't

18:47

need is the parents to give them a phone

18:50

and then just disengage and go, hey,

18:52

see you later. Glad that I can reach

18:54

you now so I know when to pick you up from

18:56

soccer practice. And yes, I mean,

18:59

this happens in the homeschool movement. It happens

19:01

in Christian circles just like it does in public

19:03

school and secular circles. The answer

19:06

I don't believe is just to take

19:08

away phones from your children. I think that the answer

19:11

is to have a relationship with your child and

19:13

consequences if they do not

19:15

abide by the rules that you put

19:18

in place when you give them a phone.

19:20

And so with our kids and honestly, I

19:22

mean, I'll tell you the truth. We

19:25

made some mistakes when our kids were very, were

19:28

much younger when

19:30

we didn't understand social media

19:32

at the time. I remember when we first got, I

19:35

think an upgrade, like the very first

19:37

upgrade and they said, hey, you got this extra phone and

19:39

we thought, oh, we'll give it to our kid, right?

19:42

We'll give it to our 14 year old kid. And

19:44

even though it didn't have cell service, she could

19:46

still access the internet with it. And

19:49

since then we have gotten a lot

19:51

more in tune and much

19:53

more vocal with our children

19:56

when they get a phone. So because

19:58

of the

19:59

way that I travel all

20:01

of our children

21:04

I think let's not blame the internet let's

21:06

not blame the phone let's blame the

21:08

parents for not keeping

21:10

their children's cell phone

21:13

use in check it really is

21:15

your responsibility don't shirk

21:17

the responsibility and give it to anyone else

21:19

the responsibility belongs to the

21:22

parents. Alright you guys that's all I've got time

21:24

for today I'm gonna link back to some

21:27

of these articles that I quoted from in

21:30

the show notes today and I'm gonna encourage

21:32

you watch keep a very close

21:35

eye on the situation that's

21:37

unfolding in New Mexico.

21:40

It's going to be interesting to see the response of the conservatives

21:43

it's going to be very very very interesting to see how

21:46

far this tyrannical governor gets

21:48

with her decision to try and remove

21:51

the Second Amendment from the constitutional

21:53

rights of the people in New

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Mexico and so I'm gonna keep an eye on that

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and I'll keep talking about it and keep

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going. praying for our country you guys.

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Listen,

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the world might be in chaos. I've said it again, I'm gonna

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say it now. The world might be in chaos,

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but God's people don't need to be. All right, we

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know how this thing's gonna wrap up. We know that things

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are gonna get harder before they get better, and that's

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the truth. That's what the Bible teaches us. You

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know, people keep talking about chips

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that are being implanted in people's hands that have your

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information on it, your credit card, your driver's license,

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and wow, what a great, awesome

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convenience it is, to not have to worry about

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taking your ID. Nevermind that the thing's been

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injected into your hand. Maybe

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there are certain circumstances when

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you don't want your ID on you or whatever. The

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Bible talks about a cache to society.

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We're absolutely moving that way. There

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is so much evidence, and

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we don't have time to go into it today, but I mean,

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prophecy after prophecy that has been fulfilled

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from God's Word, so much evidence

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for a creator

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in creation all around us. The

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Bible is the Word of God, the

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infallible, unchanging

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Word of God. It is the anchor that

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we hang onto in times like this. It's

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the lamp to our feet, the light to our path.

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Read God's Word today. Read

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it with your children, read it with your spouse. If

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you haven't read through the book of John, I'm doing it again

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with one of my daughters right now. Read through the

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book of John, and join me at

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Mom Strong International or Faith That Speaks

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for my study in the book of Revelation. People

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get ready. I think you're gonna love it, and I

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think you're gonna leave that study later

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on this fall, feeling excited

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about the Bible and not afraid of

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what the God says is coming in

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the days ahead. We appreciate you guys.

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Thank you so much for listening, and I will see you back here

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again tomorrow

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at the intersection of faith and culture.

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God bless.