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Host Shares His Christian Mission And Explains His Injured Ankle
You know, he let me work in dc, let me work with EIB and Hollywood in Silicon Valley, and he's shown me through all those experiences that there is one problem and one solution. And that's why we do this show.
Jeff Chamblee Welcome to a Disciples view with Todd Herman.
Todd Herman When the God of the universe created the world, they snap his fingers or wink his eye. The Lord spoke. God said, let there be light because we believe, we speak about the happenings in this world, mindful of our true home, Jesus Christ and his kingdom. I'm Todd Herman. Welcome to a Disciples view a look, behind the scenes. I sound weird today. Trying to do, a national radio show with my foot elevated. I, I got prideful in the gym. It was crazy. I got has protected me from that. I got a prideful thought in my head and of all things, just going up to do a handstand push up and just in the forward cartwheel, before I even got up to the wall, my ankle went snap. and it's, praise God. I don't think anything seriously broken. Might have a hairline fracture. It's not the Achilles tendon. We've ruled that out. But, yeah, if I sound weird, it's hard to do a radio show with your foot elevated. so I appreciate your prayers, really, just for healing. But, man, I'm far better off than a lot of folks. So I know God's a big listener. He can listen to all sorts of prayers and specifically, I Think this is discipline for getting a prideful thought in my head.
Election Concerns Lead Host To Examine Republican Losses And Voter Trends
I'm not afraid to, to talk about vote fraud. You know that if you've listened to the show, I have little confidence. Well no, that's not true. I have no confidence in the vote by mail system the way it's employed, with the lack of checking id, et cetera. We've talked about this at length and so I wouldn't be afraid to get on the program and tell you I think the election was stolen or rigged. it was rigged in the terms of media coverage, in terms of an activist judiciary trying to stop President Trump at every turn. Really unconstitutional actions that, that's a form of rigging of people's minds. there are some separate countries like Washington State that refuse to let workers have some of the benefits Trump has given them, educational benefits, families aren't getting, minimum wage, no tax on tips, etc. They're just refusing to install those things. That's sort of a form of rigging. But looking at the election results, I'm wondering what lesson God has for us here. I mean there's always trust him, there's always, these are human kings, there's always the faith trust. You know, do we still have faith in God Almighty if the election didn't go your way? And I'm guessing that most of you, or like me, Christian first, constitutionalist second conservative after that, some of you probably, many of you probably identify as Republican. And I'm looking at the numbers from people I trust. So Justin Hart is a good old fashioned numbers cruncher from back in the political days where I met him. Very smart guy, gifted in a lot of realms, mostly on the basis of making data driven decisions and in analyzing data as a data analyst. Very smart guy to him. He looked at polls, he looked at exit polls, he looked at a lot of them amalgamated, together and put it like this. Across the country, the Republicans lost by about 14 points. He attributes that to 7 points to people who stayed home. Trump voters who skipped 20, 26, five who switched, five points to those who switched. About 7% of President Trump's voters, who voted, back to Democrat and two points to new voters. People who skipped 20, 24, and came out and leaned Democrats in this midterm.
Host Argues Political Success Cannot Replace Christian Faith And Discipleship
So what do we learn from this? I mean if we dig a little bit further down into this and we look for God's lessons, I'm sure that there's a godly lesson beyond just trust in him. Maybe it's to look at this and say, are we still, all of us, okay, that this is the outcome. But I think it's probably something more. I think it's probably something more. I mean you can dig further down into this. the Republicans lost grounds. Huge ground with young people. Really, really precipitous. Men under 30 shifted over, 28 points towards the Democratic side. age is 18, 2, 3, 29 was 27, points over. Ages 30 through 44 was 24 points over. And from there on it's not as big of a change, but it is a change towards the Democrat side. Latino men, they, they went the farthest towards towards the Democrats in terms of shift overall. 35 point shift. Why? Well, immigration, of course. No, no, it was the economy. Most of the, Hispanic vote that went for Democrats. The number one topic was the economy. But this is the temporal stuff, the so called secular stuff. Is there less and greater than this? I think there is. I think it's an opportunity for us to fight back and I mean full fisted slamming. I don't, I wish I could tell you that, I mean, yes, in the ballot box. Sure. In terms of voter initiatives, absolutely redoubling our efforts and city councils and county councils and all the elected offices. Sure. I think a big lesson here is you can't vote your way into heaven. You can legislate your way into hell, but you cannot vote your way into heaven. You can lawmake people into hell if people cede their leadership away from Christ to government. You can do that, but we can't vote our way into heaven. I think there's a bigger lesson here perhaps that is this.
Moral And Spiritual Decline Requires Christians To Follow Jesus In Their Response
Everything is spiritual. I've watched people flee, the separate countries. We talk about this a lot. I watched them flee California, Oregon and Washington because I'm closest to that. We receive people like that in our state. In Idaho, at our church, we have a refugee team that greets people who are fleeing those states and they move to places like Texas and they take with them a sickness. And they think that they're fleeing high taxes and high crime. But they take with them a refusal to recognize God's design for who we are. They take with them a refusal to look at humankind as God looks at humankind, which is people he loves, created in his image, male and female. They take the sickness of gender ideology with them and they vote accordingly. Now these were economic issues, right? Didn't they Just say that with Hispanics it was economic. It is. But you can always take the temperature, the moral temperature of a country and track its economic decline. Countries with a bad moral temperature that is unhinged from anything approaching what is actual concrete morality, which would be the word of God, will always be on an either precipitous incline of fake money, conjured digits, or on a precipitous decline with massive debt and money spent on nonsense. And that's where we're at. Because if you're untethered from restraint in one area, how easy is it to get untethered from restraint in another area? So I think one of our lessons here is it's all spiritual. I think another one of our lessons here is you cannot vote your way into heaven. And I think one more lesson is that the illness of sin, life spreads. The illness of refusing to bow down to how God designed things spreads. Therefore, moving away from a place like California, while advisable in some ways, cannot, cannot stop the spiritual war that we men must lead on. This is what I mean by fighting. So how do we fight? First line of business, if we're going to fight, and I suggest we fight, is to figure out who's the general, because we don't all get to be generals. So we have to fight in the way that our general wants us to fight. If we are Christian, we. Our general is Jesus. We therefore need to fight like him. One cannot fight like the devil for the things of God. Just as one cannot legislate their way into heaven or vote their way into heaven. You can vote your way into hell. You can legislate other people's way into hell if they cede their authority to you. But our first battle is who is our general?
Spiritual Audits Repentance And Prayer Are Presented As National Renewal
Once we establish that it's Jesus Christ and we look at this election period, next step for us is to say, okay, but where does the battle back begin? How do we turn this around? How do we now take territory? I would suggest that you begin by looking at your spiritual health. No, I mean it. Wait, wait. Aren't we talking the ballot box? Yep. But you can't vote your way into heaven. But wait, aren't we talking about saving America? Yes, that's the greatest consolation prize in history for, for what I'm about to describe. I'm, looking at a country that is falling under a spell. Communism is satanic. Karl Marx was a Satanist. He hated God Almighty. He designed a system he said would outlast the Bible. The communism is satanic. I believe that Islamism, which Is the political expression of Islam is satanic and it's a false faith. Any faith that doesn't follow Jesus is a false faith. We have how many people now taking office who legitimately cannot take an oath to the constitution because as I understand the Quran, it forbids taking that oath. And yes, they're allowed to lie when seeking conquest. So if that's going on in a country, I'm seeing all sorts of signs of a spiritual battle now being expressed. How many people who pretend to be the other gender were elected? I think it was eight. From state houses to seats in Congress. People who refuse God's design. So before we talk about their spiritual house, let's get ours in order. Let's shut every door through which we've allowed this demonic into our lives. For instance, lack of forgiveness. If you talk to people who are involved in Deliverance ministries, and I'm reading a fascinating book called the Freedom Prayer right now, and it says the same thing a lot of these Deliverance books say their process is a little different. Very biblical. I wouldn't be reading it. Lack of forgiveness is a way demonic forces can attach themselves to you. I didn't say possess you, but harass you. Legalistically take license to harass you. I suggest you do an audit of your home, your life, your abiding with Christ and that of your family and look for any of these open doorways and then repent of them, ask forgiveness for them, repent of the behavior, plead the blood of Christ over demonic protection and go and sin no more. And when you do, instantly repent, as quickly as you can, then look at your family's spiritual health and then your community's. Well, what can you do for your community's spiritual health? You can disciple make. This would be the war. Can you imagine what would happen if 50 million American men went home today and actually wrote out a spiritual audit? Places where they have lack of forgiveness, sin for which they've not repented, sins, their pet sins that they continue to allow, but they manage that, just don't do them a bunch. And then worked with their family on that and then their community, and then took the extra special hard step of sitting down and praying for the Democrats who just got elected that they would see Christ. That would be an amazing battle, wouldn't it? 50 million men did that. Can you imagine how quickly we'd get our country back? You can abide, your way into heaven. You can abide your way to a saved nation. You cannot vote coach your way into heaven. I would suggest if you want your country back, it starts with that spiritual audit. I know I'm doing one. We'll come back under Disciples View.
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Trump Forgiveness Comments Prompt Host To Reflect On Mercy And Judgment
Welcome back to the Disciples. You will get to the Tower of Babbling in a personal note, coming up here. And as well it's special guest Brother Larson's with us. I want to begin this segment, with, an opportunity for you and I to reflect upon our spiritual walk. We were talking about winning, but winning what souls? Our own, our families for Jesus Christ. and I want to take a special opportunity to pray for Donald Jon Trump. The President is a man. And a man with faults like you are a man with faults or a woman with faults like I am. And there are plenty of things we could criticize the President on and we don't. We're not going to do that right now. I want to really focus on this conversation. And I know I'm the hardly the only one at AFR to want to talk about this. President Trump, was asked about his comments made after Erica Kirk forgave her husband's alleged murderer.
60 Minutes interviewer (unidentified) Let's say you pass away, you're entering the next life, and all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey. Nancy Pelosi Anyone who you have expressed hate for over the years. Do you think you can do it?
Donald Trump Well, then I wouldn't be real, would I? I mean, if I said to you, sure, the easy answer to that, oh, yes, I could forgive.
60 Minutes interviewer (unidentified) No, I don't think it's an easy question. I
Donald Trump found them to extremely dishonest people. Very bad people. Very bad for our country. I love our country far more than I can love people. And people like that.
60 Minutes interviewer (unidentified) Is the answer no?
Donald Trump The answer is no. I want to be honest. Before
60 Minutes interviewer (unidentified) the judgment. Throne of
Donald Trump God, before the judgment. No, I think there were very bad people. And, I dislike. I can use the word hate. I do hate some of my enemies. I think they're. They've been terrible. Look what they put me through. The weaponization. I get
60 Minutes interviewer (unidentified) indicted. Mr. President. Mr. President, you have had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime. And you are telling me you couldn't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies? after all that's been given to you,
Donald Trump I mean, it's such an easy answer. All I have to do is say, yes, I can.
60 Minutes interviewer (unidentified) Again, I don't think it's an easy answer. That's why I
Donald Trump asked. Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. No. Because I do hate some of my enemies, and I always will. Foreign.
Todd Herman I'm not going to sit here and pray in public, because then we've had our reward. At least I have, and I don't want to do that. But I. I do just want to take a brief moment to reflect on some things before bring, Brother Jerry Lawson on.
Host Uses Scripture To Encourage Forgiveness And Introduces Christmas Outreach
Who. Who you talk about a servant for Christ. I gave you such a kick out of talking to Brother Larson when he comes on. Lawson comes on the show. I. I look forward to it. just a couple of pieces of scripture. The Lord Jesus taught us to pray in the following way. Our Father, I know, always has to be King James. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. That's the prayer part. Now, that last couple sentences. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Invert that. One of the things you can do with scripture for greater understanding is to invert it. If something is true, it's equal and opposite is true. Do not forgive us our trespasses as we do not forgive those who trespass against us. Now, that's not what Jesus said. But if we're examining the prayer, you could look at it another way. Forgive us our trespasses in the same way, in the same measure that we forgive those who trespass against us. And God could listen to that and say, I accept your terms. I will do that. I will forgive you just as many times as you forgive others. Now, God is not petty, but he also has designed the new heaven and the new earth to be unlike this place that we broke with our sin. One of the fruits of the Spirit is the ability to forgive. Part of biblical love is not keeping lists of grievances. That's one piece of scripture. The other is this. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Again, inverted. Cursed are those who provide no mercy, for they will be shown no mercy. That's not what Jesus said. But for testing the logic of it and trying to understand the scripture, that's another way to look at it. So I would just ask you if it's on your heart that you would pray for President Trump to gain capacity to forgive. I mean, we're headed into a season that we Christians, we Christians see differently than the rest of the world, what with the happy holiday thing and all that. And Brother Jerry Lawson, he has taken on a ministry that is all about this. He is the pastor of Enon Presbyterian Church in Ackerman, Mississippi, and a longtime advocate of using the AFA Christmas buttons as a tool for evangelism. he's, he's the button guy, and he's the champion of this.
Pastor Jerry Lawson Describes Community Ministry And Sharing Christmas Buttons
And Brother Lawson joins us on the Disciples view. Great to have you back, Brother Lawson. Thank you,
Jeff Chamblee Todd. It's great to be with you this afternoon.
Todd Herman Hey, is everything for you. Does your year build up to this? Is this, Is this kind of a big moment in life for you every year? Do you look forward to these times?
Jeff Chamblee It might be a slight gross, but, Todd, I have AFA buttons, Easter buttons, Linton buttons, Christmas buttons, all kinds of buttons. And I wear a button every day, so it's not like I have a high point, but it, it is a little bit of a rise during, this time of season. I love passing them out.
Todd Herman Yeah, yeah. And let me ask you this. Like, what? Give me a day in the life of a guy like you. I mean, your pastor, that, that is. That. Has that become increasingly hard, or do you feel blessed in that? Like, what's that been like for you?
Jeff Chamblee I have been shaped and molded by God in rural Communities. I go in early in the morning and I'll spend four or five hours there at the office taking care of business and things that has to be done there. then I like to get out in the community. I like to go and see people. I like to know in my community, not just in my church, how the people are doing in our city and in our county. And if there's something I can do to help somebody else out, then the Lord will lead me to them. And we want to be. I tell people I wear a head. It's here in front of me now. I am blessed to be a blessing for others. M.
Todd Herman I love that. I love that. And I think that I hear from so many pastors that there have been a hard time seeing brothers fall and. And it seems like Satan's on the march, and yet man, to see the body of Christ join together this time and, and how you do this and talk about these buttons and, and what it's like, to get responses from people when you wear them, because they say merry Christmas and it's, it's. We're spreading the actual gospel message, the actual one. So what's that like when people encounter those?
Jeff Chamblee Well, for me, the button, it's. It's a sparkle, it's ray of light, it's a ray of hope. And, I. I've already passed out 600 this year. I'm going to get 500 more today. And before, we get to Christmas, I'll probably get 500 more. but, passing the buttons out, it brings joy to the people that receive them. But the Lord and I, we're the recipients of the greater joy when we see the response that people have when you give them a button, and tell them this Lord loves them. Hey, my day is always shining bright. There's so many people out there, doom and gloom and sad, and they're worried about the way things are going on. I'm in the palm of God's hand, and I'm not going to worry about it. He's going to hold me tight.
Todd Herman Yeah. And these buttons, by the way, these are packaged in sets of 10. There's free shipping. It's just a great opportunity to spread the word of Jesus, share the gospel of Christmas season. AFA's Christmas buttons. You can order them online at afa.net or call 877-927-4917. would you shy away from offering, a Christmas button to someone, that you, you suspected might be Islamic or Jewish, of another faith? Would you shy away from that?
Jeff Chamblee No.
Todd Herman Yeah. how would you do that?
Jeff Chamblee I mean, of course, in. In the rural town that I'm in, and it's probably about 12, 1500 people. The county might have 6000 people in it. We don't have all these multicultural, you know, individuals coming in and all. But, we do have some Hispanics there. They all love the buttons. And I've got two or three, friends that, you know, I know they have a, a different background and religion than I have. They're always nice to me and all. I'm not going to do anything that's going to insult somebody else, but I like to sit down and talk and visit, with them. And, if they want a button, I'll certainly give it to them, but I'm not going to force anything on anyone.
Todd Herman Well, yeah. And Jesus never did that?
Jeff Chamblee No, no.
Todd Herman I mean, Jesus. Is there any instance, is there been an instance where he even pressured someone to follow him? I mean, I guess you could. He had some harsh words for the, the Pharisees. He made it very clear if you're not for him, you're against him. But I can't think of a time where he pressured somebody.
Jeff Chamblee No, neither can I. I mean, When I was 12 years old, it. I was in a Tuesday morning revival, service at the little church that I was raised in. And it was a spirit that moved me down to the altar. And, I gave my heart to Jesus. And then I went to the ministers that were handling the revival. And I said, I just want somebody to explain to me. I want to understand why somebody died so that somebody else could live. And that's been, really a struggle for me all my life. And now here I am, 74 years old, and I look back and I see how the Lord has shaped and molded my life as I've traveled the pathway of life. I preached my first sermon when I was 14 years old, and I'd love to go back to that church again and get up in front of. And redeem myself. But the Lord. The Lord has blessed me more than anyone else.
Todd Herman Yeah. And here you are handing out these buttons. And again, it's Christmas button season. Go to afa.net, call 877-927-4917 and be like brother Jerry Lawson and hand these things out.
A Christmas Button Sparks Comforting Conversation With A Woman In Distress
You know, I was in the gym the other day, and, a young man. They're from down south. I don't. I think they've. They've lived up here for a couple years. Both of them are in college. and where I live, there's not a lot of black people. and they both happened to be black. They're brothers. And I. I knew, one gentleman because he'd worked out in my other gym for a while. And we'd have conversations here or there. Frighteningly athletic, super kind, unbelievably polite. And he brought his younger brother into the gym, and we were visiting, and I saw on the younger brother a cross. He was wearing a cross. And I hadn't yet asked this other young man about his faith and was warming up to that to start talking a little faith with him. Just curious. And, of course, we're always to make disciples. And I asked this young man, do you have a church home here? And, you know, pastor, he was. He was so polite, said, no, sir. I said, well, I recommend my church, and thank you, sir. And I said, we have a young, adult group, and I'd be glad to get you plugged into that. Thank you so much, sir. The politeness and the joy that he received this with was really just a reminder that we're to go out and share the gospel with the people we meet. And how do you do it? I mean, do you. Do you wear the button? People ask you about them, or. I mean, because I want people to purchase these buttons. Do what you do. So give us a rundown. You're in a, Let's say you're at a grocery store. You're buying groceries. show us the pitch on how you give these buttons away.
Jeff Chamblee Well, the other day, I was in one of these super big box stores. I never seen so many people in a store in all my life. And what really amazed me is I hear people talk about how bad things are, and I see all these people pulling two buggies and husband, and wives filling up buggies. And, I'm thinking, man, we live in a wonderful country. But while I was in there, I ran into four or five different buggies. So I'm thinking, I need to get out of this store. So I rush up to the cash register, and as I'm pulling in, I ram another lady. And, there was a man standing there, and I noticed he was the manager of the store. And I said, sir, my name is Jerry Lawson, and, I want you to take my information down. If y' all teach a class on how to operate a buggy in this store, I want to take that class because I've rammed so many people. And then, Todd, I Looked, and the lady, she was crying. and I leaned over and I said, ma', am, what's going on? She said, well, I got off work yesterday and I had a wreck. And I said, well, I'm going to pray right now for all the people that were injured. She said, well, nobody was injured. I said, well, I'm going to pray that, they have insurance. She said, oh, everybody had insurance. I said, well, I'm going to pray that the damage wasn't too bad. She said, oh, it was just a bump. I said, ma', am, you've got so much to be thankful for and nothing to be crying about. And I said, here. And I reached in my pocket and I pulled out a Christmas button. And I said, jesus wants you to have this button right now, and he wants you to know he loves you. And then she looked at me and smiled and she said, I'm glad I ran into you. I said, no, ma', am, I ran into you. She said, no. God calls this wreck. I don't know that God causes wrecks. But, anyway, most of the time the encounters I have is because God's laid something on my heart. Somebody that's hurting and they just need a sparkle, a ray of hope or somebody to hug them and love them.
Todd Herman Man, what an opportunity. What a great story. Guys, get your buttons packaged in sets of 10 free shipping from AFA. Bre. Like, ah, brother Jerry Lawson. And you don't need to be a pastor to do this. you just need to be friendly and love people. you get them at afa.net or 877-927-4917. I wish this was a quick question. It's not God. Just put this in my heart. Brother Lawson, what's the hardest thing, you think, for Christian men, to come to terms with in terms of abiding under the Lord Jesus Christ. You've done this for a while. What do you think most commonly is the hardest thing?
Jeff Chamblee Well, to me, Acts 2:42, the man is the breadwinner. And men and their egos and their status before the Lord has really taken a hit in recent years. A, good strong Christian man is going to love his wife, he's going to love his family, he's going to be faithful, he's going to provide for them. And I do everything I can to stress to these young men, to be the man that God wants them to be. It'd be a better world if men were godly men.
Todd Herman Yeah, well said, well said. Get Your Christmas buttons be like Brother Lawson. Share the spear, share the, the, this joy. 877-927-4917. Appreciate you brother Lawson. We'll come back on a Disciples view.
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Host Connects His Injury To A Discussion Of Exercise Diet And Health
I'm Todd Herman. We'll get to the tower of babbling interpersonal notes here in just a moment. Sort of a funny irony to what I'm going to talk about in the segments given that as I'm speaking to you, my left ankle is elevated. I. Bizarre way to hurt myself in the gym. Just bizarre. I mean it's my left ankle. And how did that happen? I was getting up into a handstand push up position and felt a snap and some pain. And I don't think anything is completely, irreparably broken. It sure is sore. And I'm actually wearing slippers because I can't wear shoes. and I'll go see my sports med guy and, and figure out what's going on and praise God that it's not, it's not the things that a lot of people deal with. and I, I actually know this was connected to pride. I know it. You know, there was a guy a little younger than me in there, lifting weights and my pride got to me like, oh, I can squat. I can squat more than him. I could, hey, he's doing that. I could do that eight times. He's doing that six and struggling. And I, it's horrible. I, and crazy thing is, I've let the Holy Spirit work that kind of garbage out of me. You know, I don't judge anybody in the gym on a consistent basis. I think anybody in there is, is in there for a good reason. And I don't know their history or where they're at and I don't know what it was about this guy, but I let Satan, you know, work that pride thing and next thing I know, boom. Oh, so this is a little bit ironic and then I'm going to share this with you. this is Dr. Shawn O' Mara and he is a, he's the CEO of and founder of an organization called Executive Biological, you know, Biology Institute. And he's a former ER doc and he Was talking about his time in the ER that, you know, long hours, crazy, stress. People come to him often at the worst time in their life. Bad things happen. And he started to say that bad things started to happen to him. And he was a guy who was pretty unhealthy. he had a, ah, lot of visceral fat. He had a lot of weight on him. He was very healthy. He knew this is a doctor, but he didn't get advice from another doctor. He got advice from a young guy in the gym. And what the young guy in the gym told him to do, he didn't use these words. But what the young guy in the gym told this Dr. Shawn O' Meara to do is use your body as God designed it and eat as God designed us to eat. Listen to this.
Jeff Chamblee And I met this young guy in the hospital gym, and he was in great shape. And I was just complaining about what most people complain about, getting heavy. I was fat and I wanted to lose weight. So he told me, do the Paleo diet, eat fermented foods, start sprinting outdoors. So I did those things. And I did lose weight. previously, I was drinking skim milk with Hershey's chocolate powder in there. Emergency room with a gallon of skim milk. That's what I thought was healthy. And I was eating apples. I wasn't losing any weight. And, I just got sick of skim milk with chocolate and apples. Wasn't losing weight. But when I started eating these fermented foods and when I started to sprint, then I lost weight. But the other thing was, I didn't. Nobody told me this, but I had had, high blood pressure at Athos Cross cardiovascular disease. I had erectile dysfunction. I had a enlarged prostate that I would have to wake up five times the night to pee. I, had to put toilet paper in my underpants. I mean, this is embarrassing to me. I was 48, but I was, you know, draining liquid at the age from urine at the age of 48. And it was humiliating. And I. And I suffered in some silence. The urologist couldn't help me. I was really desperate. And when I started eating these fermented foods and started to sprint, I didn't have any expectation that I was going to get any better. I just thought I was going to lose weight. The other thing I had was precancerous lesions around my esophagus. So I had a condition, in my esophagus called Barrett's esophagus that were, these pre cancerous Changes in the, in the cell type lining my esophagus. So heartburn, years of suffering, heartburn, taking all this medicine, it all went away.
Todd Herman I had the very same experience. when I lost a ton of weight. I had had the, the acid stomach. I had. Exactly describing the acid in the esophagus. I was being prescribed medication for that. and what he's describing is how we are designed to use our bodies. We are designed to be able to run away from something or run towards something. We're not designed to eat in a way where we never have fermented foods because we are hunters and gatherers. God designed us that way. and fermented foods are important. That's why they exist. he also did the Paleo diet, which is largely, meat based. Again, Howard designed post Garden, post, Garden of Eden. Now people hear this and they'll say, oh, good for him. I can't sprint. Sprinting is up to what you think sprinting is. If you can walk a mile in 20 minutes, then lower that time so you can walk it in 18 minutes. So if you can walk a mile in 20 minutes, you can walk, a quarter mile in five. Make an effort to walk that quarter mile in three and maybe walk, 100 meters, as fast as you possibly can and take a break. So there are things we can do to reclaim our health. And that diet is key to this. The body is the temple. And incidentally, that was from Megyn Kelly's Sirius, satellite radio program where, she had him on talking about this. And fitness is a passion of mine. And it is funny that I'm sitting here with a hurt ankle, but that's going to happen. I mean, people get hurt who don't work out. In fact, I get hurt a lot less than my friends who are sedentary. And I wish they'd take this doctor's advice.
Tower Of Babylon Critiques Political Hypocrisy And Replays Vaccine Statements
On this program, we thank the Lord for placing supposedly wise people on tall towers of shaking sand with their feature called the Tower of Babylon.
Jeff Chamblee You know about the biblical truth of the Tower of Babel. A, Disciples View presents the Tower of Babylon.
Todd Herman Well, the answer is. Listen to Bill Gates, Bill's writer about a lot of things, and he set the steep learning curve in global health.
Todd Herman Three sound bites in today's T babbling. That's almost always the case. That's how we do things here. Three sound bites. sound bite number one comes from Hillary Rodham Clinton, who rose to fame and prominence because of her husband. Full stop and she has some interesting advice as a woman who helped run the Clinton foundation, whose donations were at a sky high point when Bill was out giving speeches while she was Secretary of State. And there was this phrase inside the State Department called fob. A friend of Bill. They got special treatment. they lobbied the State Department, some friends of Bill after the a, horrible hurricane and events in Haiti, instead of providing food, they went down and built a wi fi network. Hillary Clinton on Elon Musk.
Hillary Clinton And it's especially important for Elon Musk because his money is made largely through government contracts, government subsidies, government business. And I don't, I don't have an objection to that if we're getting our money's worth. But how do we know that we are if we don't have transparency about you know, what's going out the door and going in the other door for you know, his company and him personally?
Todd Herman Isn't that a fascinating statement from a woman, who deleted her entire email server which was illegally storing classified information and was located in a bathroom in her home that had absolutely no antivirus, or anti hacking software on it. And she actually hired a company called Bleach Bit to make it almost impossible to do any forensic auditing of what she had on her computer. Talking about transparency. And for the record, I, I, I don't, I'm not a guy who thinks Elon Musk is a superhero. I think Elon Musk has some very dangerous ideas. But in comparison to the Clinton foundation, a lot of transparency. Second sound bites in today's tire babbling. Robert Garcia, Representative Robert Garcia was going through and naming some names of people who served in in the Trump, in the Trump White House and work for the President. And we can't we can't go and forget their crimes and we're still coming for them and they need to be investigated. And then he said this, like
Todd Herman we can't forget about these folks that are causing harm. Like
Hillary Clinton you know, I think it's like, I mean maybe it's, maybe it's because I'm, I'm like I'm gay. But like, you know, like, like
Donald Trump pettiness is a thing. Like I, I'm, I am, I'm mad. You know, like, I think like we have to this
Todd Herman maybe it's because I'm gay. Let's try it the other way. Let's try it the other way. If I was interviewing Representative Garcia and I said hey, are you doing this, going after these People because you're. You're gay. Because gay men are petty. Let's try it that way. Last sound bites in today. by the way, I don't think same sex attracted men are, Are uniquely petty. But imagine if I'd said that to Garcia. The, the heart attack that would cause last sound, bite in today's tire babbling. She's not necessarily on tall towers of shaking sand. She's just a. An American woman. Woman. But she's showing something, a symptom of an illness, that people on tall towers of shaking sand have induced in this country.
Hillary Clinton Y' all are rubbing off on me. I was just talking to someone about something I'm going to do on Monday, and I said, inshallah. And they said, huh? And also alhamdulillah. Ah, it's Friday. Go love your neighbor.
Todd Herman Go love your neighbor. there's nothing wrong with learning another language or understanding another culture. if I get in a car, when I used to take a lot of cabs when I was traveling for business, if the driver appeared to be Muslim, I would say, assalamu alaika. And then through the conversation introduce the fact that I'm a Christian, and I believe Jesus Christ is the only way to God. When it. When, you know, when the driver was nice and I would always ask, hey, can we talk about your faith? I'm very curious about it. but there are a lot of and truly liberal white women who are suddenly advocating and defending a faith that would have them wrapped up in, blankets and cloaks, just like the handmaids in Sale they accused Republics in doing. And that's a wrap for today's tower babbling.
Todd Herman You don't have a choice. Normalcy only returns when we watch largely vaccinated the entire global population.
Hillary Clinton You need to get vaccinated. And if you don't,
Todd Herman you
Jeff Chamblee are
Todd Herman going to die. If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy. You have no right not to be vaccinated.
Donald Trump They should be removed from the hospital.
Jeff Chamblee Those who refuse to be vaccinated should be denied health care.
Jeff Chamblee That was the Tower of Babylon on a disciples view.
Host Thanks Veterans And Apologizes For Eroding Freedoms And Civic Principles
Todd Herman Yeah, I went really long today. So, on a, really quick personal note, and, we'll talk more about this tomorrow. But just really briefly, it is Veterans Day tomorrow, and I kind of feel like we should apologize, to the men and women who served in and who had teammates and squad mates who, who paid the ultimate sacrifice, for us. I kind of feel like we owe you an apology. And the apology is this. We have allowed, aspects of our country to rot to such a degree that I don't think it's any longer the country you fought for. In some ways now, it's still geographically the same. it's still America. Ish. But I want to apologize that we are going to ask you, apparently, to fight battles that you already won. For instance, you already won for us and secured for us the ability to practice free speech in this country. you already did that, and we're allowing it to be taken. And I want to apologize for that, because it's not right that we're asking you to. To fight that battle again. It's just not. And I want to apologize that, I, have been ineffective to a degree in trying to convince people, that the leftford march in the country is not just. Is not just political. It's very spiritual. And I want to apologize to you guys for that. I want to thank you most of all for being who you are and being willing to do what you have been willing to do, which is to defend us and our rights that were given to us by God and are inalienable in that sense, which is the only sense that matters. God's sense. Thank you.
Closing Reflection Returns To Creation And Affirms Sincere Words To Veterans
Well, the God of the universe created the world. He didn't snap his fingers or wink his eye. That's what we see at the beginning of the show. He created words. Those words I just said to the veterans. Wrapping the show differently today. I want you to know, I mean every. Every word, Sam.
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Host Shares His Christian Mission And Explains His Injured Ankle
You know, he let me work in dc, let me work with EIB and Hollywood in Silicon Valley, and he's shown me through all those experiences that there is one problem and one solution. And that's why we do this show.
Jeff Chamblee Welcome to a Disciples view with Todd Herman.
Todd Herman When the God of the universe created the world, they snap his fingers or wink his eye. The Lord spoke. God said, let there be light because we believe, we speak about the happenings in this world, mindful of our true home, Jesus Christ and his kingdom. I'm Todd Herman. Welcome to a Disciples view a look, behind the scenes. I sound weird today. Trying to do, a national radio show with my foot elevated. I, I got prideful in the gym. It was crazy. I got has protected me from that. I got a prideful thought in my head and of all things, just going up to do a handstand push up and just in the forward cartwheel, before I even got up to the wall, my ankle went snap. and it's, praise God. I don't think anything seriously broken. Might have a hairline fracture. It's not the Achilles tendon. We've ruled that out. But, yeah, if I sound weird, it's hard to do a radio show with your foot elevated. so I appreciate your prayers, really, just for healing. But, man, I'm far better off than a lot of folks. So I know God's a big listener. He can listen to all sorts of prayers and specifically, I Think this is discipline for getting a prideful thought in my head.
Election Concerns Lead Host To Examine Republican Losses And Voter Trends
I'm not afraid to, to talk about vote fraud. You know that if you've listened to the show, I have little confidence. Well no, that's not true. I have no confidence in the vote by mail system the way it's employed, with the lack of checking id, et cetera. We've talked about this at length and so I wouldn't be afraid to get on the program and tell you I think the election was stolen or rigged. it was rigged in the terms of media coverage, in terms of an activist judiciary trying to stop President Trump at every turn. Really unconstitutional actions that, that's a form of rigging of people's minds. there are some separate countries like Washington State that refuse to let workers have some of the benefits Trump has given them, educational benefits, families aren't getting, minimum wage, no tax on tips, etc. They're just refusing to install those things. That's sort of a form of rigging. But looking at the election results, I'm wondering what lesson God has for us here. I mean there's always trust him, there's always, these are human kings, there's always the faith trust. You know, do we still have faith in God Almighty if the election didn't go your way? And I'm guessing that most of you, or like me, Christian first, constitutionalist second conservative after that, some of you probably, many of you probably identify as Republican. And I'm looking at the numbers from people I trust. So Justin Hart is a good old fashioned numbers cruncher from back in the political days where I met him. Very smart guy, gifted in a lot of realms, mostly on the basis of making data driven decisions and in analyzing data as a data analyst. Very smart guy to him. He looked at polls, he looked at exit polls, he looked at a lot of them amalgamated, together and put it like this. Across the country, the Republicans lost by about 14 points. He attributes that to 7 points to people who stayed home. Trump voters who skipped 20, 26, five who switched, five points to those who switched. About 7% of President Trump's voters, who voted, back to Democrat and two points to new voters. People who skipped 20, 24, and came out and leaned Democrats in this midterm.
Host Argues Political Success Cannot Replace Christian Faith And Discipleship
So what do we learn from this? I mean if we dig a little bit further down into this and we look for God's lessons, I'm sure that there's a godly lesson beyond just trust in him. Maybe it's to look at this and say, are we still, all of us, okay, that this is the outcome. But I think it's probably something more. I think it's probably something more. I mean you can dig further down into this. the Republicans lost grounds. Huge ground with young people. Really, really precipitous. Men under 30 shifted over, 28 points towards the Democratic side. age is 18, 2, 3, 29 was 27, points over. Ages 30 through 44 was 24 points over. And from there on it's not as big of a change, but it is a change towards the Democrat side. Latino men, they, they went the farthest towards towards the Democrats in terms of shift overall. 35 point shift. Why? Well, immigration, of course. No, no, it was the economy. Most of the, Hispanic vote that went for Democrats. The number one topic was the economy. But this is the temporal stuff, the so called secular stuff. Is there less and greater than this? I think there is. I think it's an opportunity for us to fight back and I mean full fisted slamming. I don't, I wish I could tell you that, I mean, yes, in the ballot box. Sure. In terms of voter initiatives, absolutely redoubling our efforts and city councils and county councils and all the elected offices. Sure. I think a big lesson here is you can't vote your way into heaven. You can legislate your way into hell, but you cannot vote your way into heaven. You can lawmake people into hell if people cede their leadership away from Christ to government. You can do that, but we can't vote our way into heaven. I think there's a bigger lesson here perhaps that is this.
Moral And Spiritual Decline Requires Christians To Follow Jesus In Their Response
Everything is spiritual. I've watched people flee, the separate countries. We talk about this a lot. I watched them flee California, Oregon and Washington because I'm closest to that. We receive people like that in our state. In Idaho, at our church, we have a refugee team that greets people who are fleeing those states and they move to places like Texas and they take with them a sickness. And they think that they're fleeing high taxes and high crime. But they take with them a refusal to recognize God's design for who we are. They take with them a refusal to look at humankind as God looks at humankind, which is people he loves, created in his image, male and female. They take the sickness of gender ideology with them and they vote accordingly. Now these were economic issues, right? Didn't they Just say that with Hispanics it was economic. It is. But you can always take the temperature, the moral temperature of a country and track its economic decline. Countries with a bad moral temperature that is unhinged from anything approaching what is actual concrete morality, which would be the word of God, will always be on an either precipitous incline of fake money, conjured digits, or on a precipitous decline with massive debt and money spent on nonsense. And that's where we're at. Because if you're untethered from restraint in one area, how easy is it to get untethered from restraint in another area? So I think one of our lessons here is it's all spiritual. I think another one of our lessons here is you cannot vote your way into heaven. And I think one more lesson is that the illness of sin, life spreads. The illness of refusing to bow down to how God designed things spreads. Therefore, moving away from a place like California, while advisable in some ways, cannot, cannot stop the spiritual war that we men must lead on. This is what I mean by fighting. So how do we fight? First line of business, if we're going to fight, and I suggest we fight, is to figure out who's the general, because we don't all get to be generals. So we have to fight in the way that our general wants us to fight. If we are Christian, we. Our general is Jesus. We therefore need to fight like him. One cannot fight like the devil for the things of God. Just as one cannot legislate their way into heaven or vote their way into heaven. You can vote your way into hell. You can legislate other people's way into hell if they cede their authority to you. But our first battle is who is our general?
Spiritual Audits Repentance And Prayer Are Presented As National Renewal
Once we establish that it's Jesus Christ and we look at this election period, next step for us is to say, okay, but where does the battle back begin? How do we turn this around? How do we now take territory? I would suggest that you begin by looking at your spiritual health. No, I mean it. Wait, wait. Aren't we talking the ballot box? Yep. But you can't vote your way into heaven. But wait, aren't we talking about saving America? Yes, that's the greatest consolation prize in history for, for what I'm about to describe. I'm, looking at a country that is falling under a spell. Communism is satanic. Karl Marx was a Satanist. He hated God Almighty. He designed a system he said would outlast the Bible. The communism is satanic. I believe that Islamism, which Is the political expression of Islam is satanic and it's a false faith. Any faith that doesn't follow Jesus is a false faith. We have how many people now taking office who legitimately cannot take an oath to the constitution because as I understand the Quran, it forbids taking that oath. And yes, they're allowed to lie when seeking conquest. So if that's going on in a country, I'm seeing all sorts of signs of a spiritual battle now being expressed. How many people who pretend to be the other gender were elected? I think it was eight. From state houses to seats in Congress. People who refuse God's design. So before we talk about their spiritual house, let's get ours in order. Let's shut every door through which we've allowed this demonic into our lives. For instance, lack of forgiveness. If you talk to people who are involved in Deliverance ministries, and I'm reading a fascinating book called the Freedom Prayer right now, and it says the same thing a lot of these Deliverance books say their process is a little different. Very biblical. I wouldn't be reading it. Lack of forgiveness is a way demonic forces can attach themselves to you. I didn't say possess you, but harass you. Legalistically take license to harass you. I suggest you do an audit of your home, your life, your abiding with Christ and that of your family and look for any of these open doorways and then repent of them, ask forgiveness for them, repent of the behavior, plead the blood of Christ over demonic protection and go and sin no more. And when you do, instantly repent, as quickly as you can, then look at your family's spiritual health and then your community's. Well, what can you do for your community's spiritual health? You can disciple make. This would be the war. Can you imagine what would happen if 50 million American men went home today and actually wrote out a spiritual audit? Places where they have lack of forgiveness, sin for which they've not repented, sins, their pet sins that they continue to allow, but they manage that, just don't do them a bunch. And then worked with their family on that and then their community, and then took the extra special hard step of sitting down and praying for the Democrats who just got elected that they would see Christ. That would be an amazing battle, wouldn't it? 50 million men did that. Can you imagine how quickly we'd get our country back? You can abide, your way into heaven. You can abide your way to a saved nation. You cannot vote coach your way into heaven. I would suggest if you want your country back, it starts with that spiritual audit. I know I'm doing one. We'll come back under Disciples View.
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Trump Forgiveness Comments Prompt Host To Reflect On Mercy And Judgment
Welcome back to the Disciples. You will get to the Tower of Babbling in a personal note, coming up here. And as well it's special guest Brother Larson's with us. I want to begin this segment, with, an opportunity for you and I to reflect upon our spiritual walk. We were talking about winning, but winning what souls? Our own, our families for Jesus Christ. and I want to take a special opportunity to pray for Donald Jon Trump. The President is a man. And a man with faults like you are a man with faults or a woman with faults like I am. And there are plenty of things we could criticize the President on and we don't. We're not going to do that right now. I want to really focus on this conversation. And I know I'm the hardly the only one at AFR to want to talk about this. President Trump, was asked about his comments made after Erica Kirk forgave her husband's alleged murderer.
60 Minutes interviewer (unidentified) Let's say you pass away, you're entering the next life, and all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey. Nancy Pelosi Anyone who you have expressed hate for over the years. Do you think you can do it?
Donald Trump Well, then I wouldn't be real, would I? I mean, if I said to you, sure, the easy answer to that, oh, yes, I could forgive.
60 Minutes interviewer (unidentified) No, I don't think it's an easy question. I
Donald Trump found them to extremely dishonest people. Very bad people. Very bad for our country. I love our country far more than I can love people. And people like that.
60 Minutes interviewer (unidentified) Is the answer no?
Donald Trump The answer is no. I want to be honest. Before
60 Minutes interviewer (unidentified) the judgment. Throne of
Donald Trump God, before the judgment. No, I think there were very bad people. And, I dislike. I can use the word hate. I do hate some of my enemies. I think they're. They've been terrible. Look what they put me through. The weaponization. I get
60 Minutes interviewer (unidentified) indicted. Mr. President. Mr. President, you have had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime. And you are telling me you couldn't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies? after all that's been given to you,
Donald Trump I mean, it's such an easy answer. All I have to do is say, yes, I can.
60 Minutes interviewer (unidentified) Again, I don't think it's an easy answer. That's why I
Donald Trump asked. Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. No. Because I do hate some of my enemies, and I always will. Foreign.
Todd Herman I'm not going to sit here and pray in public, because then we've had our reward. At least I have, and I don't want to do that. But I. I do just want to take a brief moment to reflect on some things before bring, Brother Jerry Lawson on.
Host Uses Scripture To Encourage Forgiveness And Introduces Christmas Outreach
Who. Who you talk about a servant for Christ. I gave you such a kick out of talking to Brother Larson when he comes on. Lawson comes on the show. I. I look forward to it. just a couple of pieces of scripture. The Lord Jesus taught us to pray in the following way. Our Father, I know, always has to be King James. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. That's the prayer part. Now, that last couple sentences. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Invert that. One of the things you can do with scripture for greater understanding is to invert it. If something is true, it's equal and opposite is true. Do not forgive us our trespasses as we do not forgive those who trespass against us. Now, that's not what Jesus said. But if we're examining the prayer, you could look at it another way. Forgive us our trespasses in the same way, in the same measure that we forgive those who trespass against us. And God could listen to that and say, I accept your terms. I will do that. I will forgive you just as many times as you forgive others. Now, God is not petty, but he also has designed the new heaven and the new earth to be unlike this place that we broke with our sin. One of the fruits of the Spirit is the ability to forgive. Part of biblical love is not keeping lists of grievances. That's one piece of scripture. The other is this. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Again, inverted. Cursed are those who provide no mercy, for they will be shown no mercy. That's not what Jesus said. But for testing the logic of it and trying to understand the scripture, that's another way to look at it. So I would just ask you if it's on your heart that you would pray for President Trump to gain capacity to forgive. I mean, we're headed into a season that we Christians, we Christians see differently than the rest of the world, what with the happy holiday thing and all that. And Brother Jerry Lawson, he has taken on a ministry that is all about this. He is the pastor of Enon Presbyterian Church in Ackerman, Mississippi, and a longtime advocate of using the AFA Christmas buttons as a tool for evangelism. he's, he's the button guy, and he's the champion of this.
Pastor Jerry Lawson Describes Community Ministry And Sharing Christmas Buttons
And Brother Lawson joins us on the Disciples view. Great to have you back, Brother Lawson. Thank you,
Jeff Chamblee Todd. It's great to be with you this afternoon.
Todd Herman Hey, is everything for you. Does your year build up to this? Is this, Is this kind of a big moment in life for you every year? Do you look forward to these times?
Jeff Chamblee It might be a slight gross, but, Todd, I have AFA buttons, Easter buttons, Linton buttons, Christmas buttons, all kinds of buttons. And I wear a button every day, so it's not like I have a high point, but it, it is a little bit of a rise during, this time of season. I love passing them out.
Todd Herman Yeah, yeah. And let me ask you this. Like, what? Give me a day in the life of a guy like you. I mean, your pastor, that, that is. That. Has that become increasingly hard, or do you feel blessed in that? Like, what's that been like for you?
Jeff Chamblee I have been shaped and molded by God in rural Communities. I go in early in the morning and I'll spend four or five hours there at the office taking care of business and things that has to be done there. then I like to get out in the community. I like to go and see people. I like to know in my community, not just in my church, how the people are doing in our city and in our county. And if there's something I can do to help somebody else out, then the Lord will lead me to them. And we want to be. I tell people I wear a head. It's here in front of me now. I am blessed to be a blessing for others. M.
Todd Herman I love that. I love that. And I think that I hear from so many pastors that there have been a hard time seeing brothers fall and. And it seems like Satan's on the march, and yet man, to see the body of Christ join together this time and, and how you do this and talk about these buttons and, and what it's like, to get responses from people when you wear them, because they say merry Christmas and it's, it's. We're spreading the actual gospel message, the actual one. So what's that like when people encounter those?
Jeff Chamblee Well, for me, the button, it's. It's a sparkle, it's ray of light, it's a ray of hope. And, I. I've already passed out 600 this year. I'm going to get 500 more today. And before, we get to Christmas, I'll probably get 500 more. but, passing the buttons out, it brings joy to the people that receive them. But the Lord and I, we're the recipients of the greater joy when we see the response that people have when you give them a button, and tell them this Lord loves them. Hey, my day is always shining bright. There's so many people out there, doom and gloom and sad, and they're worried about the way things are going on. I'm in the palm of God's hand, and I'm not going to worry about it. He's going to hold me tight.
Todd Herman Yeah. And these buttons, by the way, these are packaged in sets of 10. There's free shipping. It's just a great opportunity to spread the word of Jesus, share the gospel of Christmas season. AFA's Christmas buttons. You can order them online at afa.net or call 877-927-4917. would you shy away from offering, a Christmas button to someone, that you, you suspected might be Islamic or Jewish, of another faith? Would you shy away from that?
Jeff Chamblee No.
Todd Herman Yeah. how would you do that?
Jeff Chamblee I mean, of course, in. In the rural town that I'm in, and it's probably about 12, 1500 people. The county might have 6000 people in it. We don't have all these multicultural, you know, individuals coming in and all. But, we do have some Hispanics there. They all love the buttons. And I've got two or three, friends that, you know, I know they have a, a different background and religion than I have. They're always nice to me and all. I'm not going to do anything that's going to insult somebody else, but I like to sit down and talk and visit, with them. And, if they want a button, I'll certainly give it to them, but I'm not going to force anything on anyone.
Todd Herman Well, yeah. And Jesus never did that?
Jeff Chamblee No, no.
Todd Herman I mean, Jesus. Is there any instance, is there been an instance where he even pressured someone to follow him? I mean, I guess you could. He had some harsh words for the, the Pharisees. He made it very clear if you're not for him, you're against him. But I can't think of a time where he pressured somebody.
Jeff Chamblee No, neither can I. I mean, When I was 12 years old, it. I was in a Tuesday morning revival, service at the little church that I was raised in. And it was a spirit that moved me down to the altar. And, I gave my heart to Jesus. And then I went to the ministers that were handling the revival. And I said, I just want somebody to explain to me. I want to understand why somebody died so that somebody else could live. And that's been, really a struggle for me all my life. And now here I am, 74 years old, and I look back and I see how the Lord has shaped and molded my life as I've traveled the pathway of life. I preached my first sermon when I was 14 years old, and I'd love to go back to that church again and get up in front of. And redeem myself. But the Lord. The Lord has blessed me more than anyone else.
Todd Herman Yeah. And here you are handing out these buttons. And again, it's Christmas button season. Go to afa.net, call 877-927-4917 and be like brother Jerry Lawson and hand these things out.
A Christmas Button Sparks Comforting Conversation With A Woman In Distress
You know, I was in the gym the other day, and, a young man. They're from down south. I don't. I think they've. They've lived up here for a couple years. Both of them are in college. and where I live, there's not a lot of black people. and they both happened to be black. They're brothers. And I. I knew, one gentleman because he'd worked out in my other gym for a while. And we'd have conversations here or there. Frighteningly athletic, super kind, unbelievably polite. And he brought his younger brother into the gym, and we were visiting, and I saw on the younger brother a cross. He was wearing a cross. And I hadn't yet asked this other young man about his faith and was warming up to that to start talking a little faith with him. Just curious. And, of course, we're always to make disciples. And I asked this young man, do you have a church home here? And, you know, pastor, he was. He was so polite, said, no, sir. I said, well, I recommend my church, and thank you, sir. And I said, we have a young, adult group, and I'd be glad to get you plugged into that. Thank you so much, sir. The politeness and the joy that he received this with was really just a reminder that we're to go out and share the gospel with the people we meet. And how do you do it? I mean, do you. Do you wear the button? People ask you about them, or. I mean, because I want people to purchase these buttons. Do what you do. So give us a rundown. You're in a, Let's say you're at a grocery store. You're buying groceries. show us the pitch on how you give these buttons away.
Jeff Chamblee Well, the other day, I was in one of these super big box stores. I never seen so many people in a store in all my life. And what really amazed me is I hear people talk about how bad things are, and I see all these people pulling two buggies and husband, and wives filling up buggies. And, I'm thinking, man, we live in a wonderful country. But while I was in there, I ran into four or five different buggies. So I'm thinking, I need to get out of this store. So I rush up to the cash register, and as I'm pulling in, I ram another lady. And, there was a man standing there, and I noticed he was the manager of the store. And I said, sir, my name is Jerry Lawson, and, I want you to take my information down. If y' all teach a class on how to operate a buggy in this store, I want to take that class because I've rammed so many people. And then, Todd, I Looked, and the lady, she was crying. and I leaned over and I said, ma', am, what's going on? She said, well, I got off work yesterday and I had a wreck. And I said, well, I'm going to pray right now for all the people that were injured. She said, well, nobody was injured. I said, well, I'm going to pray that, they have insurance. She said, oh, everybody had insurance. I said, well, I'm going to pray that the damage wasn't too bad. She said, oh, it was just a bump. I said, ma', am, you've got so much to be thankful for and nothing to be crying about. And I said, here. And I reached in my pocket and I pulled out a Christmas button. And I said, jesus wants you to have this button right now, and he wants you to know he loves you. And then she looked at me and smiled and she said, I'm glad I ran into you. I said, no, ma', am, I ran into you. She said, no. God calls this wreck. I don't know that God causes wrecks. But, anyway, most of the time the encounters I have is because God's laid something on my heart. Somebody that's hurting and they just need a sparkle, a ray of hope or somebody to hug them and love them.
Todd Herman Man, what an opportunity. What a great story. Guys, get your buttons packaged in sets of 10 free shipping from AFA. Bre. Like, ah, brother Jerry Lawson. And you don't need to be a pastor to do this. you just need to be friendly and love people. you get them at afa.net or 877-927-4917. I wish this was a quick question. It's not God. Just put this in my heart. Brother Lawson, what's the hardest thing, you think, for Christian men, to come to terms with in terms of abiding under the Lord Jesus Christ. You've done this for a while. What do you think most commonly is the hardest thing?
Jeff Chamblee Well, to me, Acts 2:42, the man is the breadwinner. And men and their egos and their status before the Lord has really taken a hit in recent years. A, good strong Christian man is going to love his wife, he's going to love his family, he's going to be faithful, he's going to provide for them. And I do everything I can to stress to these young men, to be the man that God wants them to be. It'd be a better world if men were godly men.
Todd Herman Yeah, well said, well said. Get Your Christmas buttons be like Brother Lawson. Share the spear, share the, the, this joy. 877-927-4917. Appreciate you brother Lawson. We'll come back on a Disciples view.
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Host Connects His Injury To A Discussion Of Exercise Diet And Health
I'm Todd Herman. We'll get to the tower of babbling interpersonal notes here in just a moment. Sort of a funny irony to what I'm going to talk about in the segments given that as I'm speaking to you, my left ankle is elevated. I. Bizarre way to hurt myself in the gym. Just bizarre. I mean it's my left ankle. And how did that happen? I was getting up into a handstand push up position and felt a snap and some pain. And I don't think anything is completely, irreparably broken. It sure is sore. And I'm actually wearing slippers because I can't wear shoes. and I'll go see my sports med guy and, and figure out what's going on and praise God that it's not, it's not the things that a lot of people deal with. and I, I actually know this was connected to pride. I know it. You know, there was a guy a little younger than me in there, lifting weights and my pride got to me like, oh, I can squat. I can squat more than him. I could, hey, he's doing that. I could do that eight times. He's doing that six and struggling. And I, it's horrible. I, and crazy thing is, I've let the Holy Spirit work that kind of garbage out of me. You know, I don't judge anybody in the gym on a consistent basis. I think anybody in there is, is in there for a good reason. And I don't know their history or where they're at and I don't know what it was about this guy, but I let Satan, you know, work that pride thing and next thing I know, boom. Oh, so this is a little bit ironic and then I'm going to share this with you. this is Dr. Shawn O' Mara and he is a, he's the CEO of and founder of an organization called Executive Biological, you know, Biology Institute. And he's a former ER doc and he Was talking about his time in the ER that, you know, long hours, crazy, stress. People come to him often at the worst time in their life. Bad things happen. And he started to say that bad things started to happen to him. And he was a guy who was pretty unhealthy. he had a, ah, lot of visceral fat. He had a lot of weight on him. He was very healthy. He knew this is a doctor, but he didn't get advice from another doctor. He got advice from a young guy in the gym. And what the young guy in the gym told him to do, he didn't use these words. But what the young guy in the gym told this Dr. Shawn O' Meara to do is use your body as God designed it and eat as God designed us to eat. Listen to this.
Jeff Chamblee And I met this young guy in the hospital gym, and he was in great shape. And I was just complaining about what most people complain about, getting heavy. I was fat and I wanted to lose weight. So he told me, do the Paleo diet, eat fermented foods, start sprinting outdoors. So I did those things. And I did lose weight. previously, I was drinking skim milk with Hershey's chocolate powder in there. Emergency room with a gallon of skim milk. That's what I thought was healthy. And I was eating apples. I wasn't losing any weight. And, I just got sick of skim milk with chocolate and apples. Wasn't losing weight. But when I started eating these fermented foods and when I started to sprint, then I lost weight. But the other thing was, I didn't. Nobody told me this, but I had had, high blood pressure at Athos Cross cardiovascular disease. I had erectile dysfunction. I had a enlarged prostate that I would have to wake up five times the night to pee. I, had to put toilet paper in my underpants. I mean, this is embarrassing to me. I was 48, but I was, you know, draining liquid at the age from urine at the age of 48. And it was humiliating. And I. And I suffered in some silence. The urologist couldn't help me. I was really desperate. And when I started eating these fermented foods and started to sprint, I didn't have any expectation that I was going to get any better. I just thought I was going to lose weight. The other thing I had was precancerous lesions around my esophagus. So I had a condition, in my esophagus called Barrett's esophagus that were, these pre cancerous Changes in the, in the cell type lining my esophagus. So heartburn, years of suffering, heartburn, taking all this medicine, it all went away.
Todd Herman I had the very same experience. when I lost a ton of weight. I had had the, the acid stomach. I had. Exactly describing the acid in the esophagus. I was being prescribed medication for that. and what he's describing is how we are designed to use our bodies. We are designed to be able to run away from something or run towards something. We're not designed to eat in a way where we never have fermented foods because we are hunters and gatherers. God designed us that way. and fermented foods are important. That's why they exist. he also did the Paleo diet, which is largely, meat based. Again, Howard designed post Garden, post, Garden of Eden. Now people hear this and they'll say, oh, good for him. I can't sprint. Sprinting is up to what you think sprinting is. If you can walk a mile in 20 minutes, then lower that time so you can walk it in 18 minutes. So if you can walk a mile in 20 minutes, you can walk, a quarter mile in five. Make an effort to walk that quarter mile in three and maybe walk, 100 meters, as fast as you possibly can and take a break. So there are things we can do to reclaim our health. And that diet is key to this. The body is the temple. And incidentally, that was from Megyn Kelly's Sirius, satellite radio program where, she had him on talking about this. And fitness is a passion of mine. And it is funny that I'm sitting here with a hurt ankle, but that's going to happen. I mean, people get hurt who don't work out. In fact, I get hurt a lot less than my friends who are sedentary. And I wish they'd take this doctor's advice.
Tower Of Babylon Critiques Political Hypocrisy And Replays Vaccine Statements
On this program, we thank the Lord for placing supposedly wise people on tall towers of shaking sand with their feature called the Tower of Babylon.
Jeff Chamblee You know about the biblical truth of the Tower of Babel. A, Disciples View presents the Tower of Babylon.
Todd Herman Well, the answer is. Listen to Bill Gates, Bill's writer about a lot of things, and he set the steep learning curve in global health.
Todd Herman Three sound bites in today's T babbling. That's almost always the case. That's how we do things here. Three sound bites. sound bite number one comes from Hillary Rodham Clinton, who rose to fame and prominence because of her husband. Full stop and she has some interesting advice as a woman who helped run the Clinton foundation, whose donations were at a sky high point when Bill was out giving speeches while she was Secretary of State. And there was this phrase inside the State Department called fob. A friend of Bill. They got special treatment. they lobbied the State Department, some friends of Bill after the a, horrible hurricane and events in Haiti, instead of providing food, they went down and built a wi fi network. Hillary Clinton on Elon Musk.
Hillary Clinton And it's especially important for Elon Musk because his money is made largely through government contracts, government subsidies, government business. And I don't, I don't have an objection to that if we're getting our money's worth. But how do we know that we are if we don't have transparency about you know, what's going out the door and going in the other door for you know, his company and him personally?
Todd Herman Isn't that a fascinating statement from a woman, who deleted her entire email server which was illegally storing classified information and was located in a bathroom in her home that had absolutely no antivirus, or anti hacking software on it. And she actually hired a company called Bleach Bit to make it almost impossible to do any forensic auditing of what she had on her computer. Talking about transparency. And for the record, I, I, I don't, I'm not a guy who thinks Elon Musk is a superhero. I think Elon Musk has some very dangerous ideas. But in comparison to the Clinton foundation, a lot of transparency. Second sound bites in today's tire babbling. Robert Garcia, Representative Robert Garcia was going through and naming some names of people who served in in the Trump, in the Trump White House and work for the President. And we can't we can't go and forget their crimes and we're still coming for them and they need to be investigated. And then he said this, like
Todd Herman we can't forget about these folks that are causing harm. Like
Hillary Clinton you know, I think it's like, I mean maybe it's, maybe it's because I'm, I'm like I'm gay. But like, you know, like, like
Donald Trump pettiness is a thing. Like I, I'm, I am, I'm mad. You know, like, I think like we have to this
Todd Herman maybe it's because I'm gay. Let's try it the other way. Let's try it the other way. If I was interviewing Representative Garcia and I said hey, are you doing this, going after these People because you're. You're gay. Because gay men are petty. Let's try it that way. Last sound bites in today. by the way, I don't think same sex attracted men are, Are uniquely petty. But imagine if I'd said that to Garcia. The, the heart attack that would cause last sound, bite in today's tire babbling. She's not necessarily on tall towers of shaking sand. She's just a. An American woman. Woman. But she's showing something, a symptom of an illness, that people on tall towers of shaking sand have induced in this country.
Hillary Clinton Y' all are rubbing off on me. I was just talking to someone about something I'm going to do on Monday, and I said, inshallah. And they said, huh? And also alhamdulillah. Ah, it's Friday. Go love your neighbor.
Todd Herman Go love your neighbor. there's nothing wrong with learning another language or understanding another culture. if I get in a car, when I used to take a lot of cabs when I was traveling for business, if the driver appeared to be Muslim, I would say, assalamu alaika. And then through the conversation introduce the fact that I'm a Christian, and I believe Jesus Christ is the only way to God. When it. When, you know, when the driver was nice and I would always ask, hey, can we talk about your faith? I'm very curious about it. but there are a lot of and truly liberal white women who are suddenly advocating and defending a faith that would have them wrapped up in, blankets and cloaks, just like the handmaids in Sale they accused Republics in doing. And that's a wrap for today's tower babbling.
Todd Herman You don't have a choice. Normalcy only returns when we watch largely vaccinated the entire global population.
Hillary Clinton You need to get vaccinated. And if you don't,
Todd Herman you
Jeff Chamblee are
Todd Herman going to die. If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy. You have no right not to be vaccinated.
Donald Trump They should be removed from the hospital.
Jeff Chamblee Those who refuse to be vaccinated should be denied health care.
Jeff Chamblee That was the Tower of Babylon on a disciples view.
Host Thanks Veterans And Apologizes For Eroding Freedoms And Civic Principles
Todd Herman Yeah, I went really long today. So, on a, really quick personal note, and, we'll talk more about this tomorrow. But just really briefly, it is Veterans Day tomorrow, and I kind of feel like we should apologize, to the men and women who served in and who had teammates and squad mates who, who paid the ultimate sacrifice, for us. I kind of feel like we owe you an apology. And the apology is this. We have allowed, aspects of our country to rot to such a degree that I don't think it's any longer the country you fought for. In some ways now, it's still geographically the same. it's still America. Ish. But I want to apologize that we are going to ask you, apparently, to fight battles that you already won. For instance, you already won for us and secured for us the ability to practice free speech in this country. you already did that, and we're allowing it to be taken. And I want to apologize for that, because it's not right that we're asking you to. To fight that battle again. It's just not. And I want to apologize that, I, have been ineffective to a degree in trying to convince people, that the leftford march in the country is not just. Is not just political. It's very spiritual. And I want to apologize to you guys for that. I want to thank you most of all for being who you are and being willing to do what you have been willing to do, which is to defend us and our rights that were given to us by God and are inalienable in that sense, which is the only sense that matters. God's sense. Thank you.
Closing Reflection Returns To Creation And Affirms Sincere Words To Veterans
Well, the God of the universe created the world. He didn't snap his fingers or wink his eye. That's what we see at the beginning of the show. He created words. Those words I just said to the veterans. Wrapping the show differently today. I want you to know, I mean every. Every word, Sam.
After reflecting on a disappointing election, Todd Herman asks what Christians should take away from the results—and argues that lasting change begins not at the ballot box, but with spiritual renewal. He explores forgiveness, discipleship, family and community, and the importance of following Jesus in the way we engage with the world.
Pastor Jerry Lawson joins Todd to talk about sharing the Christmas message through simple acts of kindness, including handing out AFA Christmas buttons. He tells the story of a chance encounter that turned a difficult day into an opportunity to offer encouragement and remind someone that Jesus loves them.
The episode also considers how everyday habits can affect health, features a discussion of a doctor’s experience with diet and exercise, and closes with a Veterans Day reflection on service, sacrifice, and the freedoms worth protecting
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