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Speaker 1: Welcome to Real America's Voice News. This is Sunday the

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Speaker 1: Road Forward. We have a lot to talk about as

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Speaker 1: we wrap up the Thanksgiving holiday, had full speed into Christmas.

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Speaker 1: There's always a word of hope and encouragement for you

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Speaker 1: and those you love. I'm doctor Tim Clinton. I'll be

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Speaker 1: your host our special guest joining us this week. He's

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Speaker 1: the lead pastor of Pathways Church of Mobile, Alabama. Travis

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Speaker 1: Johnson is with us and he is vice president of

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Speaker 1: government relations for City Serve International. Todd lam Fear is

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Speaker 1: back with us. President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

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Speaker 1: Sam Rodriguez is with us. She is a licensed professional

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Speaker 1: counselor and director of Counseling for the American Association of

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Speaker 1: Christian Counselors. Doctor Mercy Connors is with us. Thanks for watching.

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Speaker 1: This week, multiple chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood was designated

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Speaker 1: as a foreign terrorist organization by President Trump. He signed

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Speaker 1: an executive order directing Secretary Rubio to do this very thing,

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Speaker 1: which includes the Egyptian branch. The progenitor of all modern

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Speaker 1: jihadis al Qaeda, ISIS and Hamas. Remember last week, Texas

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Speaker 1: Governor Greg Abbott designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council

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Speaker 1: on American Islamic Relations as a forced terrorist and transnational

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Speaker 1: criminal organization. This bans them from buying or acquiring land

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Speaker 1: in Texas and authorizes the Attorney General to sue in

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Speaker 1: order to shut them down. This infiltration across the country.

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Speaker 1: It's serious. Six Congressional Democrats are also feeling a heat

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Speaker 1: this week for their video urging members of the military

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Speaker 1: to reject quote what they said were illegal orders from

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Speaker 1: President Trump. President Trump posted the traders that told the

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Speaker 1: military to disobey my orders should be in jail right now,

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Speaker 1: not roaming the fake news networks trying to explain that

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Speaker 1: what they did was okay. It wasn't and it never

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Speaker 1: will be. It was sedition at the highest level, and

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Speaker 1: sedition is a major crime. Many are calling for their arrest.

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Speaker 1: Lawlessness and violence continued in Chicago. You heard about that

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Speaker 1: Christmas tree lighting event getting shot up and crime stats

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Speaker 1: are growing there. And in Charlotte, we continue to watch

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Speaker 1: what's happening there is Operation Charlotte Webb continues, a number

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Speaker 1: of arrests of bad dudes and a lot of quote

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Speaker 1: anti ice protesting continue there and this week a man won.

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Speaker 1: If you can believe this, the World's Strongest Woman contest,

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Speaker 1: Andrea Thompson, the female runner up, had her title taken

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Speaker 1: away from a man. Some conservatives are pushing a different narrative.

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Speaker 1: Also on Israel, Eric Matax has pushed back on Tucker

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Speaker 1: Carlson and said, has Tucker read Psalm one O five,

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Speaker 1: written a thousand years before Christ that says God remembers

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Speaker 1: his covenant forever for a thousand generations, which he confirmed

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Speaker 1: to Israel as an everlasting covenant, saying to you, I

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Speaker 1: will give this land of Canaan. That's pretty plain and simple. Hey.

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Speaker 1: With Thanksgiving now behind this, Christmas is just a few

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Speaker 1: weeks away, it's time to dial in and begin to

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Speaker 1: enjoy the Christmas holiday season. Here's some thoughts from the

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Speaker 1: Bible to anchor are week. It comes from Philippians Chapter two,

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Speaker 1: verses six through eleven. The Bible says, who, being in

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Speaker 1: the form of God, thought it not robbery to be

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Speaker 1: equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, took

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Speaker 1: upon himself the form of a servant, was made in

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Speaker 1: the likeness of men, and being found in fashion as

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Speaker 1: a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death,

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Speaker 1: even the death of the cross. We're talking about Jesus here.

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Speaker 1: Wherefore God highly exalted him and given him a name

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Speaker 1: which is above every name. That at the name of Jesus,

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Speaker 1: every knee would bow of things in heaven, things in earth,

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Speaker 1: confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of

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Speaker 1: the Father. There's a key thought. Jesus was born in

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Speaker 1: the shadow of a cross. Hey, we're going to pray

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Speaker 1: and then we're going to get started. God, thank you

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Speaker 1: for this privilege. Pray your special blessing over our program today.

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Speaker 1: Use it for your glory. Thank you for the miracle

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Speaker 1: of Christmas. We love you and Lord, we want to

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Speaker 1: this in the strong name of Jesus. Amen. Let's get started.

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Speaker 3: For more encouragement and to stay connected, follow doctor Tim

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Speaker 1: Joyce Now is Travis Johnson. He's the lead pastor of

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Speaker 4: Hey, thank you, doctor Tim. I've always built up when

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Speaker 1: Well, hey, Travis, let's go straight to breaking news this week.

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Speaker 1: It looks like Ukraine has agreed to the peace proposal

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Speaker 1: end of incredible. Yes, President Trump's team getting the job done.

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Speaker 1: People are calling him the peace President. Travis. Just your thoughts,

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Speaker 1: your reflections on what the President's been up to lately.

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Speaker 4: It's true, you know, when President Trump was running for

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Speaker 4: his second term, third time, he won election, but second term,

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Speaker 4: people were saying he was going to start a world war.

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Speaker 4: But what we've actually seen is a strong America leads

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Speaker 4: to a more peaceful world, and especially when President Trump

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Speaker 4: I'm excited. I'm thankful for Russia, Ukraine, and I pray

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Speaker 4: God just continues to do an incredible work. You know,

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Speaker 1: Chavis, youer a big vocal advocate on religious liberty around

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Speaker 1: the globe. You mentioned Nigeria. President's very serious about what's

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Speaker 1: happening over there. It's like a Christian genocide. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're taking Christians out left and right. Also, you're really

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Speaker 1: serious and concerned about the Congo. Explain that to us.

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Speaker 4: Well, in Nigeria, you have sixty people a day, sixty

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Speaker 4: So that's happening. President Trump is speaking now. Congo is

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Speaker 4: you know, we're praying for peace, and actually we're praying

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Speaker 4: he's saving lives. I'm watching it and we're very close

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Speaker 4: thankful for President Trump's work. He's literally saved hundreds of thousands,

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Speaker 1: Work, Travis, in our nation, we all know that we've

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Speaker 4: You know, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, it is a really

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Speaker 4: a lot of introspection. And so you've seen people, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's the will of the Father concerning you. You are right, Travis.

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Speaker 1: It does change everything for some people. They struggle stepping

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Speaker 4: he loves us. He loves you for anyone that's watching

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Speaker 1: Tells we started. Hey, happy Thanksgiving week. I know you've

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Speaker 1: Todd, You've spent a lot of time at the border.

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 6: Does their government make mistakes, yes? But are they God's

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Speaker 6: chosen people? You better believe it. And if you're go

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Speaker 6: land on any side, land on the side of God's people.

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Speaker 1: I know our friend Jay Strack is taking an entourage,

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Speaker 1: if you will, about a thousand Christian leaders over to

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Speaker 1: Israel here soon and they're going to be talking about

439
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Speaker 1: a lot of this very thing and what's happening and

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Speaker 1: helping bring build awareness around everything that's happening over there. Todd,

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Speaker 1: are you encouraged by what you see in Israel?

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Speaker 6: I am encouraged. I'm grateful that we are a president

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Speaker 6: that really stood his ground. Hamas knew he wasn't playing around,

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Speaker 6: he wasn't missing words, and that they released all of

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Speaker 6: the hostages. I had the privilege of being with the

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Speaker 6: family of hostages the day before they were released, and

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Speaker 6: just the excitement. There's a new lease on life for

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Speaker 6: the nation of Israel. They wanted, they needed, They had

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Speaker 6: to get their hostages, both alive and dead, back and

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Speaker 6: that was just so important to them. And kudos to

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Speaker 6: our president for making that happen and standing behind Israel

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Speaker 6: on that. But I think there's great optimism right now.

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Speaker 6: Quite frankly, there's really some sweet optimism on where the

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Speaker 6: future holds for Israel.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Todd, you show up where a lot of horrific

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Speaker 1: things have happened. I think about Hawaii and the devastating

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Speaker 1: fly fires over there. I'm thinking about Los Angeles and

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Speaker 1: the fires we saw out there. You went to Israel,

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Speaker 1: You've been in the middle of everything over there, You've

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Speaker 1: been to Ukraine. You just show up. Recently, you were

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Speaker 1: in Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa came through there, wiped that place out.

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Speaker 1: I think fifty four people confirmed Dad as a result

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Speaker 1: of that. But Todd, what'd you see and what were

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Speaker 1: you guys doing there?

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Speaker 6: Well, Melissa did ravish Jamaica. Unfortunately didn't get a lot

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Speaker 6: of airtime and playtime here with legacy media. Forty two

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Speaker 6: percent of their country was devastated by this hurricane. Let

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Speaker 6: that thinking. Could you imagine if forty two percent of

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Speaker 6: America was affected by a storm and it literally ravished them.

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Speaker 6: I will tell you that they're still in active search mode,

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Speaker 6: and it's not search and rescue now, obviously, but they're

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Speaker 6: still weeding through all of the devastation in the mountains.

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Speaker 6: Thank god, it didn't hit in Kingston. That it did move.

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Speaker 6: It did move towards the west, and it hit a

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Speaker 6: lot of the mountainous areas. But there are a lot

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Speaker 6: of hurting people. I mean, building code was not stellar

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Speaker 6: to begin with before this, and so they're gonna need

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Speaker 6: a lot of help. They're going to need help from

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Speaker 6: not only the United States but the world. By the way,

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Speaker 6: Israel they are stand up when it comes to disasters.

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Speaker 6: They're always there first, front and center making it happen

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Speaker 6: as well, along with the United States. So food is needed,

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Speaker 6: clothing is needed. We have crews coming in from all

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Speaker 6: over the country, working with our Compassion Collective, with City Serve,

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Speaker 6: with World Vision, National Faith Advisory Board, Paul white Mans,

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Speaker 6: all of these are coming together. And of course, obviously

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Speaker 6: our friends with Samaritan's Purse, they're always just a wonderful

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Speaker 6: present in time of need as well. So it's the

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Speaker 6: body of Christ coming together to help the hurting. That's

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Speaker 6: what it's all about. Tim.

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Speaker 1: They said there was a staggering amount of homeless people there, Todd,

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Speaker 1: I just it's hard to believe in today's world, you

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Speaker 1: know that, But hey, hey, the hands and feet of

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Speaker 1: Jesus being the hands and feet of Christ is what

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Speaker 1: this is all about. Todd. Always appreciate the great work

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Speaker 1: you're doing and appreciate you. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: joining me.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, Tim.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next. President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference,

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Speaker 1: Sam Rodriguez is with us.

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Speaker 3: For more encouragement and to stay connected, follow doctor Tim

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Speaker 3: Clinton on Facebook, Instagram, and X. We love being a

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Speaker 3: part of your life.

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Speaker 1: Join us now, Sam Rodriguez. He's the president of the

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Speaker 1: National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, the world's largest Hispanic Christian organization.

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Speaker 1: Is also a lead pastor of New Seasoned Church in Sacramento, California.

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Speaker 1: Say and welcome back. Thank you for joining me.

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Speaker 5: Great to be with you, my friend Sam.

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Speaker 1: A lot to talk about, but I want to go

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Speaker 1: to Arlington, Texas. This past week transgender participation in sports continue.

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Speaker 1: Man wins the World's Strongest Woman contest this week, Sam, unbelievable,

512
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Speaker 1: blowing up social media. It's just hard to put words

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Speaker 1: to this.

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Speaker 5: Well, you could put word, so let me help you.

515
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Speaker 5: Utter nonsense, utter nonsense. Hence to pushback. One of the

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Speaker 5: major significant reasons that we don't want to talk about

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Speaker 5: is the verbial elephant in the room. Why President Trump

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Speaker 5: WoT the election in twenty twenty four, What was it?

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Speaker 5: It was this right here, my friends, right here. It's nonsense,

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00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 5: absolute nonsense, and it's anti biology, anti human physiology, anti science,

521
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 5: anti common sense. It's illogical. But it's the hard left

522
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Speaker 5: embrace a narrative that is completely logical and nonsensical that

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Speaker 5: is prompting this incredible move, not just in America now

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Speaker 5: but around the world. Can you believe it? A biological

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Speaker 5: man now the strongest woman? How about that batman?

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Speaker 1: You know, when you look at our educational system, you

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Speaker 1: could see how bad it got. Sam. It wasn't about

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Speaker 1: this transgender ideology was it was being railroaded. We're talking

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Speaker 1: about not educating our kids and doctrinating our kids. That's

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Speaker 1: what it was all about. Still some pockets of it

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Speaker 1: going everywhere, Sam, We've got to deal with this craziness.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we have to. Recently, a superintendent of schools was interviewed,

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Speaker 5: and what does a superintendent schools say when they want

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Speaker 5: to ask explicitly what is a man and a woman?

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Speaker 5: The person couldn't answer. Now, this is the person in

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Speaker 5: charge of the educational system in an entire region. Can

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Speaker 5: you believe that, and that person does not having cognitive bandwidth,

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Speaker 5: nor the moral certitude, or just a scientific basic fact

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Speaker 5: of articulating what is a man or a woman? If

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Speaker 5: the church rises up, if every single Christian believer rises up,

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Speaker 5: and we vote according to biblical stand and how about

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Speaker 5: this according to science? Galileo was going like this in

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Speaker 5: his Great According to Science, we would push back against

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Speaker 5: this nonsense, but we have to be vigilant. It is

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Speaker 5: absolutely everywhere, including in children's cartoons.

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Speaker 1: SAM. This week also President Trump designated multiple chapters of

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Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. SAM big deal.

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Speaker 1: Governor Abbott I mean gave some pushback last week, basically

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Speaker 1: said they're not allowed to buy land in Texas anymore.

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Speaker 1: But this infiltration, it's happening. It's serious, and people are

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Speaker 1: starting to wake up to it.

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Speaker 5: It's deliberate, tim and it's not conspiracy theory. Just like

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Speaker 5: the Marxists and the Communists in the early nineteen hundreds

554
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 5: actually met and had an agenda regarding infiltrating the West,

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Speaker 5: it's actually just a matter of fact. Likewise, the extreme

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Speaker 5: Muslim portions of the world, especially those that believe in

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Speaker 5: Sharia law and believe in the abuse of women and

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Speaker 5: believe in the mutilation of little girls. This extreme sector

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Speaker 5: of the Muslim world is invading America in different pockets

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Speaker 5: of our nation. And if we tolerated, Sharia law will

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Speaker 5: replace English common law. Again, this is what's happening in

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Speaker 5: the UK. Don't take my word for it, please. The

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Speaker 5: UK is boiling over with tension, incredible tension, not just

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Speaker 5: in the UK but Germanion, different parts of Europe because

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Speaker 5: they permitted Sharia law. They permitted an ideology that is

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Speaker 5: counterintuitive to Western civilization. How about this put that aside,

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Speaker 5: counterintuitive towards Enaeo Christian value system. We are what we tolerate.

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Speaker 5: Governor Abbott is leading the way righteously, and we need

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Speaker 5: other governors around the country to follow suit.

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Speaker 1: Good word, Sam, Hey, let's go to these six congressional Democrats,

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Speaker 1: by the way, feeling some heat because they were urging

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Speaker 1: members of the military to reject what they called were

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Speaker 1: illegal orders from President Trump. President Trump fired back on

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Speaker 1: so I mean basically said, hey, uh, they are outlaws

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Speaker 1: basically at the highest level, and seditions a serious crime. Sam.

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Speaker 1: People are calling for their arrest. Senator I think Mark

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Speaker 1: Kelly out of Arizona leading the way. Looks like looks

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Speaker 1: like the Department of War is going to come after

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Speaker 1: him or something. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Now, one of those gracious governors, the gentle lady from

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Speaker 5: I believe Michigan, came along recently and said, wait a minute, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 5: no no. President Trump did not issue any illegal order.

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Speaker 5: What we're what we're speaking is it may be hypothetically so,

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Speaker 5: yet they're pushing back. There are consequences when you're an

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Speaker 5: elected official, a senator, mind you, for you to tell

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Speaker 5: the military stop obeying the President of the United States

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Speaker 5: of America. Yep. Yeah, it's it's not just an error

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Speaker 5: in judgment in somehow speaking out of turns out of order.

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Speaker 5: There are consequences, and that's what a vetoric legal consequences.

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Speaker 5: And I believe these senators are about to discover that

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Speaker 5: Dorothy were not in Kansas anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Sam, This lawlessness too, also that we're seeing across

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Speaker 1: the country violence, this upticking crime and violence. You look

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Speaker 1: at Chicago that Christmas lighting ceremony, they start shooting it up.

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Speaker 1: It's craziness, I mean. And you go down to Charlotte,

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Speaker 1: this Operation Charlotte's Web down there, but man, these people

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Speaker 1: coming against ice agents. I mean they're putting some they're

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Speaker 1: going after bad dudes, Sam, they're going after bad guys, okay,

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Speaker 1: and they're trying to get them out of the country.

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Speaker 1: And people are losing their minds over it. What's happening

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Speaker 1: to us, Well, what's.

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Speaker 5: The common denominator? You do your due diligence, please the

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Speaker 5: city with this adult bridled amount of crime, criminality, violence,

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Speaker 5: and so forth. By coincident, by coincidence, it happened to

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Speaker 5: believe in super progressive blue cities. If you believe in

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Speaker 5: defunding the police, if you believe that the police are

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Speaker 5: the much tremala ombrace the bad guys, then you will

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Speaker 5: read chaos and anarchy and you will reap the violence

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Speaker 5: that they are reaping in Chicago and Charlotte in different

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Speaker 5: part of the country. It's that continual rhetoric. So when

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Speaker 5: President Trump says, I will send it into National Guard,

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Speaker 5: because even though I know that people did not vote

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Speaker 5: for me, they are created in the image of God.

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Speaker 5: Watch this, and they deserve to live, save lives. This

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Speaker 5: is President Trump. Now, they did not vote for me,

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Speaker 5: but I love them, and they are American citizens, and

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Speaker 5: they deserve to be protected. This is where we have come,

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Speaker 5: my friend, and we have to once again confront this,

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Speaker 5: and we have to just flip the script and vote

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Speaker 5: in mayors and elected officials who will protect the citizenry,

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Speaker 5: who will put the bad guys in jail and protect

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Speaker 5: the good people.

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Speaker 1: Sam. All this goes back to the open border mess

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Speaker 1: that we had. You know that. Thank god, the borders

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Speaker 1: are shut down right now and be shut down. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and systems need to be put in play where people

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Speaker 1: can come into the country legally. We've got to figure

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Speaker 1: out this deportation issue. Sam. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: I want to go to ICE announcing a brand new

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Speaker 1: operation to conduct welfare checks on those four hundred what

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand kids who the Biden administration put basically with

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Speaker 1: unvetted sponsors. Sam. I know this is a passion of yours.

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Speaker 1: It makes no sense to me that those kids would

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Speaker 1: wind up in these kind of situations.

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Speaker 5: No, Doctor Clinton, Tim, my good friend for twenty plus years,

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Speaker 5: you're hitting me on a soft spot here is I

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Speaker 5: let me get my words together. Letn't put my words

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Speaker 5: together here, Tim, as a pastor of an American pastor

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Speaker 5: of Hispanic descent. I can tell you firsthand, many of

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Speaker 5: these kids have been sex traffick. Many of these kids

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Speaker 5: have been exploited by the cartels. Tim the testimonies that

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Speaker 5: we're hearing in our churches will break your heart. I

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Speaker 5: can't I forgive Joe Biden, I asked to I'm a Christian,

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Speaker 5: I'm a pastor, but for crying out loud twelve million

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Speaker 5: illegal entries and letting for over three hundred thousand kids

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Speaker 5: go missing, kids, little kids go missing, living the consequences

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Speaker 5: of that. Now, how much therapy, how much trauma healing

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Speaker 5: do we have to engage in. It is egregious, malfeasance.

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Speaker 5: It's immoral, it's reprehensible. I argue that it's diabolical, and

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Speaker 5: my goodness, this is why this is so important. I

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Speaker 5: when I see people protesting and with other flags by

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Speaker 5: the way, which you're talking about, elogical, it makes no sense.

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Speaker 5: They don't understand that right now, the number one priority

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Speaker 5: is deporting these pedophiles and these cartel gang members who

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Speaker 5: are raping and abusing little kids.

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Speaker 1: Sam, It's like it makes it leaves you speechless because

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Speaker 1: you think God, God saved, God saved the kids, and

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Speaker 1: we've got to pray that the administration continues to to

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Speaker 1: do everything they can to find these kids and help

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Speaker 1: these kids out. Sad, Sam, I want to I want

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Speaker 1: to close out on Israel for a moment. It's it's

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Speaker 1: confusing to watch some conservatives and the narratives go all

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Speaker 1: over the place where it comes. Oh, Sam, I know

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Speaker 1: you love the nation of Israel, and I guess I

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Speaker 1: just want a word of encouragement to people of faith

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Speaker 1: about the significance of the nation of Israel and how

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Speaker 1: God feels about Israel and where we should be in

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Speaker 1: this hour.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Again, you engage the Word of God, not just

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Speaker 5: the Old Testament, but even in the New Testament. The

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Speaker 5: writing to the Apostle Paul, the Letter to the Romans,

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Speaker 5: of course, primarily chapters nine throughe eleven. It is explicit.

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Speaker 5: It talks about us being the gentiles being grafted in

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Speaker 5: through the finished work of Christ. It talks about us,

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Speaker 5: we're grafted in. Yes, we are now part of this

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Speaker 5: amazing chosen algorithm. Right. The people of the promise, the

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Speaker 5: Promise of Abraham, are ours to the finish work of

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Speaker 5: Christ's Galatians three twenty four and three twenty nine. But likewise,

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Speaker 5: Romans nine three eleven says, but I'd forgotten about Israel.

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Speaker 5: Has God forgotten about Israel? There is that covenant down

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Speaker 5: Nolan Boyd. He says, absolutely not. God never forgets the

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Speaker 5: promises he makes to his people. It is explicit sure,

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Speaker 5: God has a plan for Israel, and that plan cannot

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Speaker 5: and will not be denied for the Jewish people. The

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Speaker 5: apostle Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, inspired by the

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Speaker 5: Holy Spirit, wrote that explicitly that cannot and will not

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Speaker 5: be denied. So listen this anti Semitic and it's not

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Speaker 5: confused narrative coming even from the right, from conservative sectors,

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Speaker 5: that must likewise not be tolerated, and we can't ignore it.

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Speaker 5: Every vestige of anti Semitism is a vestige and a

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Speaker 5: thread that is antithetical to our Christian worldview. If you

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Speaker 5: are anti Semitic, you are anti Jesus. I just said it.

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Speaker 5: If you are anti Semitic, you are anti Jesus. If

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Speaker 5: you are anti Semitic, you are anti the Gospel of

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Speaker 5: Jesus Christ. So stop it, stop this nonsense. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 5: Love Israel, pray for the Jewish people.

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Speaker 1: Pretty for people, of course, but.

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Speaker 5: Pray for this nation, the sides of New Jersey, surrounded

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Speaker 5: by enemies that want to annihilate her. Pray for that

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Speaker 5: nation because God has a purpose for Israel that cannot

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Speaker 5: and will not be denied, regardless of what you put

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Speaker 5: on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Face book corrects Sam, always great to have you. I

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Speaker 1: see you're getting in the Christmas spirit back there by friend.

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Speaker 1: I like that. Bring it on, That's all I say, Sam,

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining me so much for having me today.

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Speaker 1: As we started, Mercy, we're wrapping up Thanksgiving week here

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Speaker 1: and we're basically full bore on our way toward the

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Speaker 1: Christmas holiday season. What just a little over three weeks

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Speaker 1: to get there, but mercy. Most people describe it as

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Speaker 1: a time of joy and absolute chaos, a lot of

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Speaker 1: mama's stress, Mercy, What are you finding? What are you

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Speaker 1: hearing from people around you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, stress is always this time of year.

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Speaker 2: I think moms feel that specifically a little bit more too,

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Speaker 2: because there's lots more parties and there's lots more things

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Speaker 2: to think about. But the other thing that I'm experiencing

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Speaker 2: this year is grief. You know, I am losing my dog,

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Speaker 2: and so it's very very interesting to see how that

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Speaker 2: stress has even been compounded by losing a pet. But

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Speaker 2: I'm sure it's also compounded for those out there that

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Speaker 2: have lost family members. You know, this is a time

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Speaker 2: when you are missing people. But I want to say

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Speaker 2: too that the wonderful thing to do is to and reflect.

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Speaker 2: I think that that has really helped me, and I

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Speaker 2: encourage other people to do that as well.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people talk about holiday patterns. Be careful

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Speaker 1: of holiday ruts because it's easy to get into old patterns,

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Speaker 1: mercy creating new ones. Time management becomes really important.

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Speaker 2: Yes, of course, And I mean that schedule is one

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Speaker 2: thing that you know, mamas live by basically, so you know,

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Speaker 2: make sure that you're putting it into your schedule, make

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Speaker 2: sure that you are giving yourself enough time to get

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Speaker 2: things done.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that I really really work on

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Speaker 2: is making sure that I have enough time to prep

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Speaker 2: for everything, and I think that that helps me really

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Speaker 2: help the house move smoothly, especially during the holidays. I

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Speaker 2: feel like that's even.

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Speaker 1: More important mercy. If you start out out of control,

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Speaker 1: it's only going to get worse. The more out of

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Speaker 1: control you are, the more out of control you're going

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Speaker 1: to be, because it's just going to snowball on you.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely yeah. And that's when sometimes stopping and really

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Speaker 2: taking a deep breath, really trying to think through logically

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Speaker 2: the things that you need to get done and making

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Speaker 2: sure that you're doing that, but also making sure that

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Speaker 2: you're being present with your family. Sometimes mama's especially, we

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Speaker 2: tend to be so focused on what's the next thing

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Speaker 2: we got to do, the next thing, we got to

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Speaker 2: get everything done, but sometimes it's best to just stop

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Speaker 2: and reflect and to really have time with your family.

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Speaker 1: I heard that TRIPLEA said eighty two million Americans we're

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Speaker 1: traveling fifty miles or more during the Thanksgiving Day holiday season,

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Speaker 1: and think about that number only amping up as you

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Speaker 1: look toward Christmas. Mercy, you guys made a big trip

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Speaker 1: down to Florida. You got to make a big trip

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Speaker 1: back home. Talk to us about Hey, when you're in

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Speaker 1: the car with kids, I mean, whoa, yes, woe.

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Speaker 2: Is a good way to describe it.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that we're doing this year is

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Speaker 2: our kids have really started to enjoy music, so we're

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Speaker 2: going to be doing a lot of singalongs and things

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Speaker 2: like that to just really keep them engaged. But the

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Speaker 2: other thing that I really recommend is books. If you

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Speaker 2: can get your child to listen to books maybe in

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Speaker 2: the car, or even have books that they are able

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Speaker 2: to read, that's really really helpful. And for those older kids,

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Speaker 2: you know, sometimes it's really really great to have some

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Speaker 2: of those learning paths, you know, things that they can

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Speaker 2: draw on or really engage their mind. But also remember

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Speaker 2: that communication, just talking about the things that they're excited about.

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Speaker 2: Are the things that they're looking forward to, or even

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Speaker 2: just how their day was, can really really be beneficial

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Speaker 2: and help that time to go.

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Speaker 1: Chursie, We've talked about this many times, but it seems

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Speaker 1: like during the holidays, tension goes up and families actually

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Speaker 1: tend to fight more. I use that word carefully, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, hey, they mix it up. There's just probably

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Speaker 1: a combination of everything from excitement to the insanity of

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Speaker 1: everything we got to do and all the pressures are

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Speaker 1: coming against us. But what do you? What are you?

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Speaker 1: What are your words for families during this time?

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Speaker 2: I really think that it's really important to live, you know,

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Speaker 2: really stop and listen to what the other person is

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Speaker 2: trying to say, you're trying to communicate, and not just

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Speaker 2: listen to the words, but listen to the heart behind

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Speaker 2: those words. I really feel like that's been very, very

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Speaker 2: beneficial because if you do that, if you really stop

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Speaker 2: and you listen and you listen for what they're trying

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Speaker 2: to say, I feel like the fight kind of dissipates

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Speaker 2: because you understand that they're wanting your good, You're wanting

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Speaker 2: your good. It's just you may be going about in

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Speaker 2: two different ways.

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Speaker 1: Mercy Family traditions are so significant. People are really realizing

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Speaker 1: they're the glue that hold families together. But it's tough

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Speaker 1: to have traditions when it seems like everything's coming against

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Speaker 1: us or working against our love and our connectedness as

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Speaker 1: a family. What do you guys do? What are some

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Speaker 1: of your insights with thoughts for people out there, especially

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Speaker 1: if maybe things are changing or have changed for them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, things are definitely changing for me. I mean, my

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Speaker 2: girls are getting so they're getting more engaged in different things,

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Speaker 2: and we have a lot more responsibilities, so that's been

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Speaker 2: a big difference for me. But I think one of

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Speaker 2: the things that I highly recommend is that you have

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Speaker 2: a few traditions, maybe one or two, that those are

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Speaker 2: the things that you'd never let go of. For our family,

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Speaker 2: we love making kolach. That is something from my husband's family,

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Speaker 2: and that is something that we don't let go of.

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Speaker 2: We make sure that we try to do that every

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Speaker 2: year and again. It's a tradition that comes down from

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Speaker 2: his family, from an older generation, and I think that

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Speaker 2: that's one of the things that's really helpful, is we're

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Speaker 2: connecting our kids back to their history and helping them

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Speaker 2: remember and understand that family is important and that runs deep.

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Speaker 1: Mercy. Before we go, I wanted to spend some time

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Speaker 1: just talking about maybe some doctor Mercy Connor's tips, especially

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Speaker 1: what really works? And what are you recommending to families?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm going to give you two tips this year.

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Speaker 2: The first tip is to pick only a few things

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Speaker 2: sometimes we feel like we've got to do everything, go

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Speaker 2: to every party, go to every event during this holiday season.

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Speaker 2: And I want you to remember that even though the

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Speaker 2: events are wonderful, sometimes the stress involved and that is

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Speaker 2: overwhelming for your children. So I would highly recommend you

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Speaker 2: pick two or three something that's really really important to you.

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Speaker 2: Focus on those two and three, and then if you're possible,

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Speaker 2: go to the other ones. My second tip is to

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Speaker 2: really have quality family time, so that means putting those

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Speaker 2: devices away, doing a board game, read a book. Even

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Speaker 2: those holiday movies are really really great, but highly recommend

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Speaker 2: that you have that time where you're really connecting with

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Speaker 2: your family. You got to remember, even though you know

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Speaker 2: this time of year is often around gifts and events

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Speaker 2: and fun and baking and all of that stuff, you

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Speaker 2: want to make sure that you're connecting with your family.

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Speaker 2: So make sure that you are dividing your time in

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Speaker 2: a way that is giving your attention to your.

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Speaker 1: Children hercy before you go keeping christ thing Christmas. You

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Speaker 1: know me, I love the holidays. We do everything you

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Speaker 1: can do. We celebrate every way you can, but making

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Speaker 1: sure that the kids don't miss what Christmas is all about.

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Speaker 1: Any direction there thoughts that could really be of help to.

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Speaker 2: Families, Yeah, I highly recommend, of course, talking about the

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Speaker 2: Christmas story. I think that's one of the most important

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Speaker 2: things helping them remember that. Also, one of the things

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Speaker 2: that we love doing is that when we run around

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Speaker 2: and look at Christmas lights, we are always trying to

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Speaker 2: spot the nativities and that is really really important because

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Speaker 2: it really reminds our children that the real reason for

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Speaker 2: this Christmas time is that Jesus came to this earth

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Speaker 2: and that he lived the perfect life and he died

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Speaker 2: on the cross for our sins, and that we can

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Speaker 2: have that relationship with him because he did that for us.

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Speaker 2: And so you always want to keep reminding your children

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Speaker 2: of that, not only remind them, but also tell others,

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Speaker 2: because it's so very important that your children see that

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Speaker 2: you are speaking about not only the Christmas story, but

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Speaker 2: also the Salvation story as well with others.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Mercy Connor is always great to have you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining me.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: For more encouragement and to stay connected. Follow doctor Tim

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Speaker 3: Clinton on Facebook, Instagram, and x. We love being a

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Speaker 3: part of your life.

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Speaker 1: So as a wrap up Thanksgiving in head towards Christmas again,

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Speaker 1: what are you thankful for? I know some of you

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Speaker 1: are asking, how do you give thanks when life's not

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Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to be. Here's a simple way again,

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Speaker 1: make a list of five things this week and take

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Speaker 1: time to thank God for them, each one of them

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Speaker 1: every day this week. Watch how it begins to change

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Speaker 1: and transform you and your holiday season. Remember this wise

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Speaker 1: men still seek him. I'm doctor Tim Clinton. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: watching to see you next week on Sunday, The Road

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Speaker 1: Fold Hey by God.