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Reclaim The Rainbow: Pride Month

May 22, 2023

It's always Pride Month, it seems. How did we get to this point in our culture? Where trans fake nuns are honored at baseball games and men are sexually dancing in front of little girls? One reason is that we confused affections with emotions and let our feelings run the show. Esau is the clearest example. We see it around us every day.

It seems I am unable to post the audio here at the moment. I am reaching out to the fine people at Locals, they're usually quick to get back. Here is the link (it'll be available tomorrow), but you still get the transcript here

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Hey, welcome to Politics by Faith. I'm Mike Slater. Thanks for being here. Friendly reminder that the transcript of this and every episode is on MikeSlater.Locals.com. So if you're interested in that, you can check out that website, MikeSlater.Locals.com. Today's episode is about the month of June. Get ready for Pride Month. You already see it everywhere. Ford, trucks, Adidas. It's only the middle of May. This is like going to Home Depot in October and seeing Christmas decorations. Like, wait a second. It's not even Thanksgiving. We're not even in June and we're getting inundated with Pride everything. It's not just June. It's all year. There's always something. It's always like Transgender Awareness Day or something. They've taken over every day in the calendar. We don't need to go over and bud light right now, but it's amazing.

0:01:02
Their sales are now down 26%. We're on like week five or six. That's the longest sustained conservative boycott I've ever seen. The Los Angeles Dodgers got in a bit of trouble the other day. So they've had a Pride Night for 10 years. But 10 years ago it was just a couple gay guys. Now the entire alphabet train is jumping in on Pride Night. It's the L's, the G's, the B's, the T's, and the Q's. So the Q's started coming out and the Q's are a very different deal than the Gs. So there's this group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and they are a group that mocks the Catholic Church. If I were to describe them in the best light that they would like to be described as, this is a group of men who dress in very elaborate drag to bring awareness against the guilt that is caused by the Catholic Church for who you are.

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And they started in the 80s during AIDS when the church abandoned gay people who had AIDS. So this group was created to help the people who needed help. That's the best description. A worse description, or not as charitable, I think, you decide which is more accurate, is that this is a group of heathens blaspheming the church with not just drag but their open attack on Christianity entirely. So they're gonna honor all these LGBTQ groups and then the Catholic Church said we don't want you honoring this one group and the Dodgers said okay you guys are uninvited so now it's a mess. But this is what happens right and it's the Dodgers fault. When they started Pride Night 10 years ago, it was 2013, a lot's changed in 10 short years. That was before the gay marriage Supreme Court decision. That was in 2015. So gays still couldn't get married. Now the gays have nothing left to fight for. But the train has gotten bigger. The alphabet train's gotten bigger. Now there's the Qs. So the Dodgers still have their Pride Night, which was originally the Gs and the Ls. But now it's the Gs, Ls, Bs, Ts, and Qs and the pluses. And the Qs and the pluses aren't messing around. By definition, their queerness never ends. They will always and must always because their entire identity is based on pushing boundaries and the Dodgers are in a real pickle because if you say no to the Q's and the and the pluses and the T's like you can't you can't be like all right G's L's and B's whatever you are even you guys are allowed in but no T's or Q's you guys are too weird can't do that and the Dodgers don't even know it yet, but in just a couple years, three years maybe, they're going to have the P's, the minor attracted persons, the pedophiles.

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Right now, they're in the pluses right now. They're kind of hidden down there, but they'll come out. What are you going to say? They're wrong. You can say it's wrong to be a minor attracted person. How could you? I just think what the Dodgers are going through right now is such a, what they brought upon themselves is such a nice metaphor for our entire country right now. When you have no lines, you can't then start to draw lines.

0:04:34
Well, I take that back actually. There is a line. The line is anything outside of this country, every brand of the month of June is gonna have a rainbow logo. They take their logo and they make it rainbow. Every company except for their divisions in the Middle East. So Mercedes is gonna have a rainbow Mercedes logo, but not Mercedes Dubai. So they know how to draw lines, just not anywhere in America.

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And don't even get me started on Target. Target is unreal. And they've been doing this for a couple years. A lot of people are just discovering it now, because it gets worse every year, but the front of a Target, the display right there, is this huge private, and now they're really leaning into the transgender kids. So they're selling the girls' bathing suits now, have extra area in the crotch to help little boys tuck.

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It's like insane in Target. But it's insane in our country. In 2012, 3.5% of Americans said they were gay, 3.5. Now it's over 7%. But that's because what percentage of Gen Z do you think says they're gay? Gen Z is 19 to 26 year olds. What percent of Gen Z? 20%! 20%! That's crazy! That's insane! But not surprising. This is what happens when you just have a concerted PR effort of sexual deviance to young people at a younger and younger age. Why do the drag queens not want to read at nursing homes? Have you ever wondered that?

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Why are the drag queens not going to read to the old people? Hmm, why do they want to read to the kids? And this won't stop. Years ago, I was pre-kids, so it was at least six years ago. I went to the San Diego Pride Parade, and we did a couple things. First is we had a couple quotes against gay marriage and we said which bigot said it. And we had a couple choices of Republicans and it was either Hillary or Obama who said each of the quotes.

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So that was the trick of Rueben. But then we also asked people what percentage of Americans do you think are gay? And they were like 40%, 60%. I'm like, what are you out of your mind? It's four. But they're getting closer. They're getting closer. So what's really going on here? What's at the root of this? Well, it's not hard to figure this one out. They literally call their entire movement Pride. It's called Pride. That alone is quite astounding, if you think about it. So let's explain a couple things. So one thing we need to know about the LGBTQ movement is that in our modern world today, you are defined not only by your desires, that's your identity or your desires, but not only your desires, your sexual desires.

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So way back in the day, and Carl Truman does an amazing job of explaining this, he says way back in the day, if someone asked you your identity You would say well, I'm Mike Son of David my dad over there From here, that's where I was born Where I'll live forever my dad's a blacksmith, so I'll be a blacksmith and I'll go to that church that's been there for a thousand years. Your identity was the external things in your life. You defined yourself by external things and then of course you defined yourself by your virtuous, righteous, proper behavior. But then we Then we internalized our identity.

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Now it's all about how I feel. Then you throw in the sexual revolution that says the most important desires that you feel are your sexual desires. And then you throw in a bunch of perversions after that. So now here we are in America where a six year old can say I am gay. Even if they never had any homosexual interaction in any way whatsoever, I am gay. It's an identity statement. That's an important thing about this whole thing that a lot of people miss. It's an identity statement.

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I am. So if let's say a baker denies to bake a cake for a gay couple's wedding ceremony, it's not just this baker denying this couple food, it's denying denying their very existence. This is why you get trans activists who say, trans people exist. And we're like, I mean, yeah, I know you exist, don't want you to go in my daughter's locker room. Oh, you're denying my existence. I'm like, what? But that's what that is.

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Because their identity is that deeply rooted in their sexual desires. It's never been that way. It's very new. There's a term called emotivism. It's this idea that because we threw truth out the window, there's no such thing as truth, who are you to say? We need to come up with another way to determine who's right and wrong. So it's all about who can perform and express the most emotion.

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Let me give you an example of this. This is a state senator in Nebraska. Nebraska just lowered their abortion laws to 12 weeks and also passed some, you know, you can't do sex change operations on kids and no puberty blockers, stuff like that. So there's a bunch of trans activists and allies in the Capitol building in Lincoln, Nebraska, right? So this is a Democratic state Mr. President, trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. That's what they're saying out there. They're standing in a circle in the rotunda saying that over and over again. Trans people belong here.

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We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. I'm just going to skip ahead here to like, let's go a minute in. trans people trans people belong here we need trans people we love trans people trans people belong here we need trans people we love trans people trans people belong here we need trans people we love trans people trans people belong here we need trans people we love trans people trans people trans people belong here. You matter and I am fighting for you and I will not stop. I will not stop today, I will not stop tomorrow.

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You are loved, you matter, you belong here. So it's quite obvious there that there was no argument. It's not an argument there, but she was very emotional. So the activists and the allies, they love it. They think it's great. They're like, oh, it's beautiful. It was moving. It was stunning. It was fierce. It was brave.

0:12:27
It was all right. It's like, well, you didn't make an argument, but they don't care. I'm interested in logic. So that is emotivism right there. Why is she right? Well, she's the most emotional about it. That's not how we should behave. That's not how we should think. That's not what we should value in America. Kevin DeYoung wrote a nice article giving some graduation advice, very opposite of the world.

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All people ever hear is, follow your dreams, march to the beat of your own drummer, be true to yourself. He said, I'd like to offer different advice. Do not follow your dreams. Do not march to the beat of your own drummer, and whatever you do, do not be true to yourself. We see this attitude of being true to yourself, we see it all the time.

0:13:24
I saw this clip the other day of the great Lila Rose, she was on, she's the head of Live Action, wonderful pro-life organization, she was on this podcast, sitting next to, let me describe this guy, he's like an Andrew Tate, kind of like modern day macho man, I can do whatever I want and I can sleep with as many women as possible and all that, and that makes me a man, that kind of nonsense. So here's what she said to him, and listen to how defensive he gets, and the only argument he can come back with is I'm gonna be me.

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Can I ask you one more question? Fire away, honey. Okay. If you have only one place in your heart for one woman, or you want to have one woman in your heart I think you said why don't you just commit to one and she's to be faithful to her I'm just not wired that way I spent my whole 20s trying to fix myself you work out you do business you can possess your own your own power and she's not directed to the way you want to direct it. It's not how I am. You think that might be a limited mindset? I think it's none of your business but I don't want you to think I'm triggered by you I'm not I saw somebody say that I think that's interesting I think you're annoying You are you're annoying in like this goody-two-shoes type way and that's fine I'm gonna live my life on my terms Unapologetically like truly so you can ask me this 85 different ways at the end of the day I'm gonna walk out of here the same man. I also think of Elsa from frozen that let it go song Frozen, the Let It Go song. This author, DeYoung, he makes the point that it should be no surprise that Elsa in this movie is a favorite in the LGBTQ plus community. The song, Let It Go, no right, no wrong, no rules for me. I'm free. That is a nice anthem for it all. Let's lament this for a second. I just hate that we are so broken in our country, that all of this is even such a thing.

0:15:15
Isn't that a shame? I think of that scripture in Isaiah, woe to those, always be careful, woe to those who call evil good and good evil. Because we're not even like, oh, it's normal, it's nothing, it's neutral or tolerate. It's not even, oh, this is a good, you have to affirm the goodness of this. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

0:15:42
What a shame we're here. What a shame we have such a broken culture where this is even such an appealing thing to so many. I saw this interview the other day. This is with one of the directors of The Matrix. The Matrix was written, directed by two brothers. Both of the brothers are now living as women. Isn't that amazing? They're both living as women. And listen to one of the guys talk about his experience as a child.

0:16:12
To be honest, like for me, the people that I saw, the first images that really struck a chord with me were, you know, trans women and pornography. And there was something that unlocked in my brain that I saw these wonderful, fearless performers becoming desirable. And in my head I could take the leap where I felt like, well, if I could be desirable, then maybe I could be loved. And for me, that's like one of the keys that trans people have to like struggle through, you know, will somebody love me? And that clip is so sad to me when he says, yeah, I want to be desirable.

0:17:02
Then I can be loved. And if only he was loved in a healthy way growing up. Well, one thing that's really interesting about this is a lot of girls young girls transition to boys to Desexualize themselves they see an overly sexualized objectifying of women's bodies world and they don't want anything to do with it Or maybe they feel like they don't They're not Beautiful enough and they just don't want to play the game So they think that if they could just become a boy Then that will all go away and a lot of men are the opposite.

0:17:38
Their goal is to be desired in some way. And they think that transitioning to a woman will bring them some sort of sexual, like people will find them attractive or desirable and then that will make them loved. And I mean, he said it right there. Like that's it. And this is all just chaos. That's the theme of all this is just chaos. Chaos.

0:18:03
Now let's get to some history and Bible here. The word homosexual is a modern invention. Isn't that interesting? It was first used in 1869. I found this article, Livius.org. In ancient Greece, there was not a word to describe homosexual practices. They were simply part of aphrodisiac love. I've read a decent amount about ancient Greek people's view on homosexuality. I get a lot of conflicting reports. I don't know what to do with it. And it's very hard to tell exactly what is the cultural norms of a society from thousands of years ago based on looking at drawings on a pot, for instance, right?

0:18:48
But it seems like there's some sort of coming together this idea that there was no concept of homosexuality. It was just this very animalistic have sex with whatever. Man, woman, animal, this you feel it you do it. And it wasn't a part of your identity. So your sexual acts were whatever you felt like doing which is kind of like today. But it wasn't then your identity like I am. That wasn't a thing back in ancient Greece but it is a thing now. In the Christian era there's been a distinction between affections, this is something we're actually talking about in the morning motivation this week, affections and passions. The great theologian Jonathan Edwards, he wrote a book called Religious Affections. Let me quote this from John Rigney.

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He does a good job of breaking down the difference. Understanding what Edwards means by affections requires understanding a bit about his view of humanity. As a human being, you are made up of a body and a soul. Your body has five senses by which you take in impressions from the external world. Your soul has two fundamental faculties or powers. The first is the understanding. It's the faculty by which you perceive, discern, view, and judge. It tells you what something is. The second faculty is the will by which you like or dislike, love or hate, approve or reject, what you perceive with your understanding. Right? So your body, your senses, take it in. Your first, then the next level is understanding.

0:20:26
So we perceive, discern, view, right? And the next level is you judge. Like, don't like, love, hate, approve, reject. So if you go to a football game, it is by your means of your understanding, so it's your physical body that sees the game. Then it's your next level, your understanding that you identify the team in purple and gold as the Vikings and the team in green, yellow, the Packers. But it's by means of your will that you shout and cheer for the Vikings and boo and hiss at the Packers. Crucially, it's the inclination of the will that governs our actions. Now, some inclinations of the will are mild and minor. They barely register at all, like choosing what socks to wear today, but other inclinations of the will are vigorous, persistent, and lively, like choosing whom you're going to marry. Only the latter are teamed are termed affections.

0:21:15
They are the more vigorous and sensible exercises of the will. Why are affections so important? Affections are often the spring of man's actions. They make the world go round. Without lively affections, few of us would do much of anything. What animates our actions is our loves and hates, our fears and desires, our griefs and joys. More importantly, affections reveal the fundamental orientation of the heart. When you see what a person loves or hates, fears, desires, rejoices, and grieves over, you are seeing the bent and tendency of his heart. So if we want to know what kind of heart we have, we need to look to our affections.

0:22:05
Affections are rooted in the soul, in the heart. It's an inclination of will. Emotions are fleeting surface caused by external things. So your affections are internal, they're internal come out and emotions are external and they kind of come in, like something happens and then they cause you to feel a thing, right? And so they come from different places. Now, our western tradition has always said that our lower appetites emotions have to be constrained by reason. And also the grace of God, of course, working within us. Now, here's the key term.

0:22:43
This is it. Total depravity. This is the premise that all of our passions are misleading. All of our emotions are misleading. They're not reliable. It's the idea that this is what I feel like, so this is what I'm going to do. And if you tell me I can't, then I'm going to want to do it even more, and I need to be me. And if you tell me I can't, you're attacking my identity and my personhood.

0:23:10
But that's not what Christianity is. Christianity is about not following those base emotions. It's about rightly ordering your affections. This is what Paul is talking about in Philippians 4.8. Brothers, whatever is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, worthy of praise, think about these things. Get your affections rightly ordered. But our modern culture today says, whatever fleeting emotion you have, that's fine. Just go on that. Let's go to the Bible.

0:23:41
A great story about self-control and not becoming a slave to your passion. Esau. So Esau was the oldest son. He had the birthright when dad passes away. And he went out to go hunting, came back and he was hungry. So let me read it here. Genesis 25, starting with 29. Once, when Jacob, the younger brother, was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. And Esau said to Jacob, let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted.

0:24:14
Jacob said, sell me your birthright now. Esau said, I'm about to die. Of what use is a birthright to me? Jacob said, swear to me now. So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. So a couple things here. I read someone say that it is depicted in the Hebrew like Esau is an animal. He can't control himself. He says, let me eat some of that red stew. Some translation call it red stuff, but in the Hebrew it's written twice.

0:24:43
A-D-O-M, I don't know how to pronounce it, but Adam, Adam. He says it twice. He's a, give it to me, give it to me. I need it, I need it. He's salivating starving he's dying here. But he's not really dying. He's dying like a kid has lunch and then a snack in the car and then so I'm so hungry. I'm starving like that kind of starving. You saw was being dramatic, emotional, impulsive. He was defining himself by his fleeting emotions in the moment. He was like an animal, a complete slave to his desires and therefore made very bad decisions. Let me quote this Bible commentary from Dr. Barnhouse, early 1900s. He said, history shows that men prefer allusions to realities. They choose time rather than eternity and the pleasures of sin for a season rather than the joys of God forever.

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Men will read trash rather than the Word of God and adhere to a system of priorities that leaves God out of their lives. Multitudes of men spend more time shaving than on their souls, and multitudes of women give more minutes to their makeup than to the life of their eternal spirit. Men still sell their birthright for a mess of pottage. Same sentiment here, but this is from Thomas Adams. This would be late 1500s. He was called the Shakespeare of the Puritans. He said, And what, O you Esau-lites! That's you, you're an Esau-lite.

0:26:16
Worldlings are momentary delights compared to eternity. What is a mess of gruel to the supper of glory? The belly is pleased, yes, but the soul is lost. Never was any meat except the forbidden fruit so dearly bought as this broth of Jacob. The great hymnist John Newton, he said, Too often, dear Saviour, have I preferred some poor trifle to Thee. How is it that Thou dost not deny the blessing and birthright to me. No better than Esau I am, though pardon and heaven be mine, to me belongs nothing but shame, the praise and the glory be thine." Instead of being slaves to our emotions, instead of letting our emotions drive the ship, which is what our entire culture is doing and telling young kids to do as well, we need to be slaves, no question, but not to our emotions. We need to become slaves to Jesus.

0:27:14
Paul refers to himself as a doulos to Jesus, and it's often translated as servant or bond servant. It's slave. You are a slave to Christ. Then you won't be a slave to your desires because you can't serve two masters. So what do we do, Sider? What's in my control? First I want to tell you about Patriot Gold Group. Grateful to Patriot Gold Group for sponsoring this podcast, being with me for many years and believing in what we stand for here.

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When we talk about eternity and eternal things, that's what matters the most. There's no question. I believe we're also called to be good stewards here and now on this earth. Lots of decisions can be made about money. I have made many okay decisions. I've made many very bad decisions doing the best I can. When I feel bad about financial decisions I've made that turned out not to be good ones, the best piece of advice I got was, well, did you make the best decision you could in the moment? And I think almost every time that was true.

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0:29:29
We need to reclaim the rainbow. If you see rainbow flags everywhere, depending on the age of course, if they ask any questions, tell them it's about the Bible. Here it is. It's Genesis 9, 12. And God said, this is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you for all future generations. I've set my bow in the cloud and it shall be as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

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When I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature and all the flesh and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the rainbows in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between god and every living creature and all flesh that is in the earth. God said to Noah, this is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth and isn't that amazing that the bank has rainbows all over it, son. If they're old enough to know that this rainbow has been taken over, remind them of the story about how people disobeyed God and God destroyed them all except for the one righteous man, blameless in his generation.

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God saved his life and his family, but even he wasn't perfect, which is why all of us need Jesus today. Just remind them of the true story. You control the narrative in your home. Stop sending your money to these places. Stop going to these places. Stop watching these TV shows. I'm not calling for a boycott. A boycott implies, oh, I really want to go to this store, but no, I just won't. Maybe, no, no, no, it's a boycott.

0:31:07
No, we need to not even want to go. I'm calling for a total rearrangement of priorities in our lives so that we don't even desire to do these things anymore. Romans 12, 1, I appeal to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Here it is. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. And by testing, you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. So what's in your control?

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Everything in your home and the stories you tell so that your kids know what is true. Final thought to think about, 1 John 2.15, do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the desires of the eyes and the pride of life is not from the Father but it's from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires. But whoever does the will of God abides forever.

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I am angry and frustrated. With our Rulers. For getting us in this terrible economy. It doesn't have to be this way.

How could they never learn from past mistakes! This is ANCIENT history, stop printing money...yet, after COVID, we never printed more. Amazing.

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Also, I haven't done any lives anywhere becauase we're hosting a daily TV show "Road to Misterms" on thefirsttv.com, and it's taken all of my extra time. And my wife is giving birth any day now, so...it's been a lot around here. But after the midterms, time will free up.

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October 17, 2022

Politics by Faith: Parkland and the Death Penalty

I've gone back and forth on the death penalty many times over the years. I've recently come down on the other side.

Should the Parkland murderer have gotten the death penalty or life in prison?

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WarriorSandy1@WarriorSandy1

September 30, 2024

This is spot on Mike! We have become dehumanized! You can not read a persons real needs on a screen nor text! A job or passion offers human interaction and I pray these stay at home on our tax dollars find that truth. We have lost our way… People need hugs and love and someone to listen. If we do not have that face to face interaction we will become nothing more than those who can not deal with lives issues.
Our politicians need to stop thinking about themselves and their agenda and think of the country as a whole. My suggestion today is go out and make someone’s life a little better than it is and not with money! And if it is only leave a space better than you found it -imagine if everyone left every place better than they found it. If you did one thing to make another human beings life better and told them you loved them. If we did this every day- what a great world we would have again! Time to get back to this countries MOTTO… if you do not know the counties motto it is ...

Kellypreston78@Kellypreston78

December 05, 2023

Good morning @MikeSlater and all my fellow Slater Crusaders! I've been following Mike for years and after having MANY one way conversations with the radio or podcast, have finally joined the community here on locals.com. I can't wait for the chance to share thoughts and ideas with you all. Thank you Mike for creating this place. I hope we can help inform each other about our world and support growing our relationship and faith in Jesus.

Lavender315@Lavender315

March 08, 2023

Hi @Mike Slater! Are you coming back to locals? Haven’t seen any posts in some time.

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18 hours ago

Hulk Hogan Was A Christian

Politics By Faith, July 24, 2025

Of all the accolades and titles and fame and praise, Terry Bollea wants to first and foremost be known as a Christian.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. Hulk Hogan has passed away. Real name Terry Bollea. 71, heart attack, we're told. People know his wrestling persona, of course.

Jesse Kelly said, I'm not one of these everything was better back in my day people But I cannot properly describe how much different the 80s were than what we have today It was fun and happy and patriotic and ridiculous and over-the-top It was wonderful and Hulk Hogan was a big part of it and he put a picture of Hulk Hogan in there ring holding this huge American flag my wrestling childhood Was after Hulk Hogan that was more of the Rock era

but Hulk of course transcended what was just his peak of wrestling. And then of course more recently people know him as speaking at the Republican National Convention for Trump just a week after Trump got shot remember that and got up there and gave a great speech. But do you know that Hulk Hogan was recently baptized and that he would want you to know him first and foremost as a and gave a great speech. But do you know that Hulk Hogan was recently baptized? And that he would want you to know him first and foremost as a Christian.

Public baptism. You have said the greatest moment of your life.

Yes, without a doubt.

Terry, what did that mean for you?

It broke down that fourth or fifth wall to tell people the truth about my Lord and Savior How you know you should look at things or how you should care for people and not judge people. It set me free It wasn't that perfect vessel that I should be or should have been. Once I was baptized

I felt I was all I knew. It really was a major pivot in my life. These two clips right here. I want to talk about Identity. It's a question we all have to come to terms with. Who are we? major pivot in my life. These two clips right here, I wanna talk about identity. It's a question we all have to come to terms with. Who are we? And where do we get our identity from? And someone like Hulk Hogan

would have a harder time than most trying to figure out who they really are, because he was having to live a dual life always. In this interview he says he knew, because he's a good man, so he wanted to give people what they wanted.

So he knew that people wanted the persona, they wanted Hulk. So he'd be walking down the street and the mailman would say, hey Hulk. And he wouldn't be like, hey Jim. He'd say, oh, what's up Hulk, what's up brother?

Like he'd do the thing, because that's what people wanted. But you do that your whole life and it'd be really easy to not know who you are anymore. But after becoming a Christian, he knew what his proper identity was.

Well, the moment I come home, the headband comes off the bald head. And you know, it's just Terry. Dad, father, husband, friend. I have no wrestling pictures in my house. I have no wrestling belts. Just Terry. The problem is the moment I leave the house, the moment I walk out the front door, the world doesn't want Terry.

I can't imagine the ego that would be built up over the decades of being Hulk Hogan, right? That'll mess you up. You go on Madison Square Garden, you have tens of thousands of people cheering for you. That'll really mess you up. So he was all out of whack, but once he became a Christian,

he knew what his true identity was, and he knew what he brought to the table compared to his creator.

So what Terry brings to the table is a meat suit, you know, a meat suit filled with the spirit of Christ, and it's a testing ground for me. I accepted Christ as my savior when I was 14, but I derailed. It wasn't my life. He has given me the opportunity to prove that I'm faithful,

and I'll never make those same mistakes again.

I never heard this story from, about Hulk before, about Terry. It's about his dad and it ties in so perfectly because we seek approval. We're looking for our proper identity and when it's not in Christ we're so lost we don't know what to do. That's why I was lost but then I was found. But also we seek approval and one of the people we seek approval from the most of course is our earthly father and

Terry never got that and that could cause a lot of trauma a lot of wounds and Really hurt Terry until this happened. This is his answer to the question. What's your most memorable moment as a wrestler?

It didn't have anything to do with being in the ring It had to do with after the match at Madison Square Garden, January 23rd, 1984, where I wrestled the Iron Sheik for the WWF title. Iran had 444 American hostages, and they were keeping our Americans in.

The Iron Sheik, he was the actual bodyguard for the Shah of Iran. He was the real deal, and the fans knew it. And I was the all-american character Hulk Hogan. That night I flew my parents up and and you know my dad and I didn't see eye to eye because I was going to University of South Florida here in Tampa and I was majoring in finance and

management. But when I left college and didn't become an accountant or whatever that degree would lead me to, there was a huge divide as far as communication with my dad and I. You know, so it kind of was a void. And so that night after Madison Square Garden, you know, my dad goes, man, you know,

Terry, I'm very proud of you. You made the right decision. I love you so much, I'm so sorry that I tried to make you do something you didn't wanna do. So that was the greatest night for me, for my dad to say that to me. Because I really didn't know if I was right or not,

it's just I was doing what I love doing. And to me that felt right, but then to have my dad confirm it, but I had to be the main event at Madison Square Garden to get him to break. But that was probably the greatest part of my wrestling career to have that moment with him because I really valued what he thought about me.

A lot of people when they're first becoming a Christian are trying to figure out who God is. And that is very much informed by their earthly father. For better or worse, often for worse. But your heavenly father will never let you down. Your heavenly father is absolutely perfect in every way. Where earthly fathers will surely let their children down, your heavenly father never will. I'm reading John Steinbeck's East of Eden right now.

And I just read this last night. It says here when a child first catches adult out, when it first walks into his grave little head, that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise. They're thinking true. Their sentence is just.

His world falls into panic, desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there's one sure thing about the fall of gods. They do not fall a little. They crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It's a tedious job to build them up again.

They never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It's an aching kind of growing. We realize our father is not God. But how wonderful to know that God is God. All powerful, all knowing, and loves you.

All Christians need to go through this process of finding their true identity in Jesus. Galatians 2 20, I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I

get sick and tired of myself. You know, The two people in my head, the ego and the real I am, I mean, I just surrendered. I just said, I can't do it anymore. And I went back to the Bible and I started reading again. And I'm either all the way in or all the way out with whatever I do.

So if you're with me, there's no guesswork. If I'm with my Lord and Savior, I'm all the way in.

What message do you now convey at this stage of your life?

It's a spiritual war in this fallen world. To turn to the truth, seek him and you shall find. To step outside their comfort zone and accept Christ, knowing that he would heal the land and heal this nation and heal the people. It just seems like such an easy choice for everyone. If you'll just surrender, accept him as your savior.

A lot of people are going to be reminiscing and talking about the legacy of Hulk Hogan, but I think Hulk Hogan would want his legacy to be as one of a Christian

and a slave of Christ. I just read this poem yesterday. It's by St. George Tucker.

It's probably written late 1700s. Let me see here. St. George Tucker, born in 1757, died 1827. So we're gonna go late 1800s or late 1700s. Ready for this poem? George Tucker, born in 1757, died 1827. So we're gonna go late 1800s or late 1700s. Ready for this poem? Just read it yesterday. Gosh, this is true for all of us,

but I just think Hulk Hogan, because of his so much strength, right? In what he was doing as a wrestler, and then we all die. It's called Days of My Youth. It says, days of my youth, ye have glided away.

Hairs of my youth, ye are frosted and gray. Eyes of my youth, your keen sight is no more. Cheeks of my youth, ye are furrowed all over. Strength of my youth, all your vigor is gone. Thoughts of my youth, your gay visions are flown. All those good times, strong, vigorous, our youth, it vigor is gone thoughts of my youth your gay visions are flown." All those good times strong vigorous our youth it's all gone her eyes are her

hair, her cheeks, strength all gone right? Days of my youth I wish not your recall hairs of my youth I'm content ye should fall. Eyes of my youth, you much evil have seen. Cheeks of my youth bathed in tears have you been. Thoughts of my youth, you've led me astray. Strength of my youth, why lament your decay?" So this first stanza, it's like, oh, I'm so sad. I hate that my strength and vigor has gone away. Oh, my youth, I hate that it's gone. And the first stanza, it's like, oh, I'm so sad. I hate that my strength and vigor has gone away. I, oh, my youth.

I hate that it's gone. And the second stanza is, oh, but there was so much pain, actually. There's so many days that I don't even want to think about again. So many tears, so many thoughts that I've had that have sent me in a bad direction. I've seen so much evil in my life. And it ends with this stanza, days of my age. All right, so now here we are, older, reflecting on right now. Days of my age, ye will shortly be past. Pains of my age, yet a while ye can last.

Joys of my age, in true wisdom delight. Eyes of my age, be religion your light. Thoughts of my age, dread ye not the cold sod. Means being buried. Don't dread dying. Hopes of my age be fixed on your God. Can I do this last part real quick?

Eyes of my age be religion, your light. Thoughts of my age dread ye not the cold side. Hopes of my age be fixed on your God. Let's take it from Hulk Hogan that the most important thing in life is being a Christian. Mike Slater dot locals dot com for the transcript and no commercials Mike

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July 23, 2025

You've Already Won

Politics By Faith, July 22, 2205

Christian Scottie Scheffler won the British Open last weekend. What Nike did with his win could be a sign of the cultural shift we need in America. But Scottie's boldness led the way.

I got back this last weekend from a three hour drive with the family and loved it. It was great. I like car trips because we're all together. I came across this clip recently from this TV show called the middle. I've never heard of the show, never seen the show, am not endorsing the show, I know nothing about it.
But I came across this one scene where the mom and dad, I'm guessing they have older kids who are out of the house now or on the way out, and the dad's reminiscing.
You know when I was happiest? I mean really happy? When I was driving everybody. When they were small, I'd be driving, didn't matter where. It was just me at the wheel and you next to me, those three idiots in the back.
I knew everything was okay. I was driving. And I had it.
I had everybody.
We have a nine hour drive coming up in a couple months with the whole family. Can't wait for it. We spent the night at my house my wife grew up in and we love doing that because it's like 1200 square feet and we all camp out in the living room, big slumber party in the living room. Johnny and I sleep in the lazy boy reclined all the way back.
They've never seen a lazy boy before, I guess. So they're like, what is this? So that's just as good as it gets. Did you see the newest Nike ad? I saw it and I thought it was fake. I didn't confirm that it was true.
And indeed is true. So Scottie Scheffler, he won the British Open in golf and after he won, him and all the big wigs are on the final green and up waddles in the scene his one year old son and then he trips on the little hill, the sloped green, falls down, oh the whole crowd.
Dad goes over and gets him and it was a nice little moment. So Nike took that moment as inspiration and they made a new Nike ad and it's a picture of Scottie kneeling down with his putter in front of him and the baby is crawling towards him reaching out for the club and the ad says in the Nike font it says says, you've already won. This could be a data point of a massive cultural shift that's happening in our country.
And I pray that we keep having in our country. Every Monday on Sirius XM show, we have gratitude Monday. People call in the first segment of the show and say what they're grateful for. And guy called in yesterday said he was excited because he's getting married soon it's awesome and and I asked him first are there no oil the old ball and
chain or none of that none of those jokes because it's a beautiful thing and marriage needs to be celebrated and I asked him why why get married why not just yeah keep shacking up Are you just doing it for tax purposes? What's the reason? He said, Oh no, we're doing it so we can help each other get to heaven. He was getting off the night shift at a chemical plant in Louisiana. The answer he had to that question had more wisdom to it than anyone at Ivy League school or wherever.
So Scotty Scheffler, when he won, he said, the first person I look for is my wife. She's always the first person I want to celebrate with. So just a lot of loving your family. A lot of celebrating families. That's a good thing.
I saw this video, I saw like 10 seconds of this video and what I heard, I was like, oh, that's Ecclesiastes. I didn't know he's a Christian or not, but sure enough, his Instagram handle says Christ follower pro golfer. So he has his priorities, right? Oh, one last thing about Nike ads.
This cultural shift, like people have been posting like old Nike ads, actually old, like 2020, 2021 Nike ads where our culture was really leaning hard into ugliness and it'd be like an obese black woman grinding and be like, get on the floor. Nike. I like what, gross. And here's Scotty Shuffler, him, his baby, you already won, you're like, oh yeah, like that's clearly the direction we need to be going in as a country.
So here is Shuffler, this is before he won. This is a couple of days before in the press conference. It's a few minutes long, but it's worth it all.
You know, I think it's kind of funny. I think, you know, I think I said something after the Byron this year about like, it feels like you work your whole life to celebrate winning a tournament for like a few minutes. It only lasts a few minutes, that kind of euphoric feeling. And I like to win the Byron Nelson championship at home.
I literally worked my entire life to become good at golf, to have an opportunity to win that tournament. And you win it, you celebrate, get to hug my family, my sisters there, it's such an amazing moment. And then it's like, okay, now what are we gonna eat for dinner, you know? Life goes on.
Is it great to be able to win tournaments and to accomplish the things I have in the game of golf yet? I mean, it brings tears to my eyes just to think about because it's literally worked my entire life to become good at this sport and to have that kind of sense of accomplishment I think is a pretty cool feeling.
You know, to get to live out your dreams is very special, but at the end of the day, it's like I'm not out here to inspire the next generation of golfers. I'm not here to inspire somebody else to be the best player in the world, because what's the point? This is not a fulfilling life. It's fulfilling from a sense of accomplishment, but it's not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.
There's a lot of people that make it to what they thought was going to fulfill them in life, and then you get there and all of a sudden, you get to number one in the world, and then they're like, what's the point? And I really do believe that, because what is the point? You're like, why do I wanna win this tournament so bad?
That's something that I wrestle with on a daily basis. It's like, showing up at the Masters every year, it's like, why do I wanna win this golf tournament so badly. Why do I want to win the Open Championship so badly? I don't know. Because if I win, it's gonna be awesome for about two minutes. And then we're gonna get to the next week and it's gonna be like,
hey, you won two majors this year, how important is it for you to win the FedExCup playoffs? And it's just like, we're back here again, you know? So we really do, we work so hard for such little moments And I'm kind of a sicko. I love putting in the work. I love being able to practice. I love getting out to live out my dreams. But at the end of the day, sometimes I just
don't understand the point. Because I don't know if I'm making any sense or not. But am I not? It's just one of those deals. I love the challenge. I love being able to play this game for a living. It's one of the greatest joys of my life,
but does it fill the deepest wants and desires of my heart? Absolutely not. I mean, I love playing golf. I love being able to compete. I love living out my dreams. I love being a father.
I love being able to take care of my son. I love being able to provide for my family out here playing golf. And every day when I wake up early to go put in the work, my wife thanks me for going out and working so hard. And when I get home, I try and thank her every day for taking care of our son. It's just, that's why I talk about family as being my priority,
because it really is. I'm blessed to be able to come out here and play golf. But if my golf ever started affecting my home life or it ever affected the relationship I have with my wife or with my son, that's going to be the last day that I play out here for a living. This is not the be all, end all. This is not the most important thing in my life.
And that's why I wrestle with why is this so important to me because I would much rather be a great father than I would be a great golfer. At the end of the day, that's what's more important to me.
But I think that's why I asked the question,
what is losing like for you?
It sucks.
I hate it.
I really do. But that's part of the competition. That is, and I think that's why we try to work so hard to not lose, but golf's a game where you just lose a lot more often than you win. I mean, that's just a simple part of it.
You know, in basketball or football, when there's only two guys out there, you can win a lot more than you lose. But I think I was looking at stats. It was one of the best tennis players. It might've been Federer or Djokovic or somebody.
They only won like 48% of their points or something like that. I mean, playing professional sports is a really weird thing to do. Like, it really is, just because we put in so much effort, we work so hard for something that's so fleeting. I mean, it really is. Like, the feeling of winning just doesn't last that long. You know, when I sit back at the end of the year and, you know,
I kind of try to reflect on things, like having that sense of accomplishment from winning the Masters Tournament, from winning the PGA Championship. I have a deep sense of gratitude and appreciation for it, but it's just hard to explain how it doesn't, it just doesn't satisfy, is how I would describe it. It's an unsatisfying venture. And so I guess what I'm trying to say is this is not the place to look for your satisfaction.
This is something that's where you can have a great appreciation for and a great amount of thankfulness for being able to do this. And it's, I mean, like I said, it's literally one of the most fun things that I can do in my entire life.
I love being able to come out here and play golf and compete. But at the end of the day, it's just not what satisfies me. I'm right here, Jamie, where are you?
You're right there. You could sit there and you could sit that chair if you want. Or you want to come in daddy's lap. He says, I want to go in daddy's lap. Jamie, good timing, by the way, but okay. You could sit right there.
Uh, here is a bit of a more explicit explanation of what does satisfy him.
I would say that, I mean, in the simplest of terms, we have a Creator. You know, God created the earth and he sent his Son to save us. I mean, the Lord covered our sins on the cross and victory was secured over death. We will live forever with Christ when we eventually pass on from this earth and Jesus saved us. He died and saved us from our sins. It's really just as simple as that.
So the victory is secure whether or not I win a golf tournament or never be able to play golf again. You know, my identity and victory secure, know that I'm going to spend eternity with Jesus.
You want me to go downstairs?
Okay.
Jamie, can I just make one last point here?
Okay.
Let me take one last point here. Someone posted on this video.
Hello.
So I'm posting on the video, uh, a quote, if you're not good enough without the gold medal, you're never going to be good enough with it. That is from John Candy in the film, Cool Runnings. It's not fulfilling, of course, none of this stuff is fulfilling because what we are all searching for is eternal meaning
and these earthly things will never give that eternal meaning. The only identity that you can have for eternity is in Christ. And I'll leave you with this because Jamie says, I need to go downstairs.
Second Corinthians 5.17, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old is passed away. Behold, the new has come. Mike Slater dot locals dot com transcript commercial free on the website,
Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Jamie, come here, say hi. He's playing with the printer. Come here. Come say hi, you wonderful boy. Say hi to everybody.

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July 21, 2025

We Don't Want To Live Forever

Politics By Faith, July 21, 2025

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about heaven. With the recent tragedies—devastating floods in Texas, the passing of John MacArthur, and loved ones of friends reaching the end of their lives—it’s only natural to reflect on what comes next. In the midst of it all, I found a poem from the early 1800s that brought me peace and perspective about death. In this episode, I share that poem and explore why we’re not meant to live forever.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I've been talking a lot about heaven lately and how awesome it's going to be. So I'll start it with the disaster in Texas, the tragedy in Texas. There's been a few people in my life who have another friend or family member who have passed away, all old age, and just the last couple of weeks here, old age where it's a relief for them

and everyone involved, and a celebration. John MacArthur passing away the other day, we're doing a TV special on him this week, so just heaven dying in heaven has been on my mind a lot lately.

I read a poem the other day

and I have nowhere else to put it. I have to tell people this poem. And I, I don't know, I don't want to spend, I kind of pushed the limits on what we do on SiriusXM as it is kind of outside of politics. So I don't know if I can just sit here and read a poem, maybe a little much, but I just want to put it here and I could put some politics into it.

I could also save it until we have another tragedy, but I haven't stopped thinking about it since I first read it and I just want to share it here because it is written by William Augustus Mullenberg. Should I give a little background to this first? So I bought this book, it was published in 1896 or something. It's called An American Anthology, and it's just poems.

It's thick, it's huge, it's like 1,000 pages, it's just a poem. So every day I've just been opening it up to a different one and this one is early in the book by a guy I've never heard of, William Augustus Mullenberg. He was born in 1796 in Philadelphia,

founder of St. Luke's Hospital in New York City, all according to Wikipedia. He's known as the father of church schools in America. The poem is called, I Would Not Live All Way. Let me read these first two lines and then I'll tell you what I did to make it make sense.

I would not live all way, live all way below. Oh no, I'll not linger when bidden to go. The days of our pilgrimage granted us here are enough for life's woes, full enough for its cheer. I had no idea what that meant. I would not live all way?

What does that mean? It means I don't want to live forever. So it's an old timey way of saying, I don't want to live forever. I don't want to live for always. I don't want to live all way.

No, no. I will not stay here when I'm called to go. The days of our pilgrimage granted us here are enough for life's woes, full enough for its cheer? Would I shrink from the path which the prophets of God, apostles and martyrs so joyfully trod? Like a spirit unblessed over the earth, would I roam while brethren and friends are all hastening home?

What am I?

I'm not going to go to heaven when I'm called to go to heaven. Are you kidding me? I'm just going to roam around here on earth forever? When everyone else is going home? Going home to heaven? No way, I'm out of here.

I would not live all way. I ask not to stay. Where storm after storm rises dark over the way. We're seeking for rest, we but hover around Like the patriarch's bird, and no resting is found. Where hope, when she paints her gay bow in the air,

Leaves its brilliance to fade in the night of despair, And joy's fleeting angel never sheds a glad ray, Save the beam of the plumage that bears him away. I would not live all way, thus fettered by sin, temptation without, and corruption within. Man, it's so good.

I don't wanna be here forever, held down by sin, temptation everywhere around me, corruption everywhere within me. In a moment of strength, if I ever sever the chain, scarce the victory is mine before I'm captive again. Oh, it's so good.

If I'm ever strong enough in a moment where I'm not held by sin, scarce the victory is mine before I'm captive again. Oh, I could fight against this sin for just a moment, but the victory is mine for just an instant before I'm captive again. Oh, I could fight against this sin for just a moment. But the victory is mine for just an instant before I'm captive to sin again.

Even the rapture of pardon is mingled with fears and the cup of thanksgiving with penitent tears. The festival trump calls for jubilant songs, but my spirit her own misery prolongs. I would not live all way. No, welcome the tomb.

Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom. Why would you be afraid of dying? Where he deigned to sleep, I'll too bow my head, all peaceful to slumber on that hallowed bed. Then the glorious daybreak to follow that night, the orient gleam of the angels of light, with their clarion call for the sleepers to rise and chant forth their

matins away to the skies, singing, Who, who would live all way, away from his God? That's the best thing about heaven, see? Who would live all the way away from his God, away from yon heaven, that blissful abode, where the rivers of pleasure flow over the bright plains and the noontide of glory eternally reigns? Where the saints of all ages in harmony meet, their Savior and brethren transported to greet, while the songs of salvation exultingly roll,

and the smile of the Lord is the feast of the soul. Man, that makes me wanna go there so bad. That heavenly music, this is the last stanza, that heavenly music, what is it I hear? The notes of the harpers ring sweet in mine ear. And see, soft unfolding, those portals of gold, the king all arrayed in his beauty behold.

O give me, O give me the wings of a dove, to adore him, be near him, enwrapped with his love. I but wait for the summons. I list for the word. Hallelujah. Amen. Evermore with the Lord." Come on. How good is that? It's like, I don't want to live here forever. You know, there's that tech guy, that billionaire guy who's doing everything he can to try to live forever, eating just the precise amount of every particular food.

And he's monitoring every single aspect of his body that he possibly, he's worshiping the body. I mean, this is all ancient pagan stuff. Worshiping the self, worshiping the body. And here's someone with a proper perspective. It's like, no, I don't wanna be here.

This life, it's got enough woes. I'm ready to go to heaven. There's one way to get there. Acts 4.11, there is salvation in no one else besides Jesus. And there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

There's only one way. You have to believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, came down in the flesh to die for your sins, was killed on the cross and then resurrected on the third day. If you believe that, congratulations, that's it.

The five solas. Sola is alone. Grace alone, faith alone, Christ alone, scripture alone, glory to God alone. And you will know that you are doing those things when this poem speaks to you in a powerful way, because this poem is the opposite of what this

world of what the world is trying to tell you. The world wants you to live for this world, for the moment, and this is all there is and all that matters. When the Bible tells you this is but a fleeting moment, eternity is what we need to set our eyes on. Mike Slater.locals.com,

transcript commercial free on the website. Again, the poem, if you want to read it yourself or share it or have it William Augustus Mullenberg, M-U-H-L-E-N-B-E-R-G William Augustus Mullenberg, I would not live all way. Mullenberg, I would not live all way. Mike Slater dot locals.com.

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