Sports are a part of culture. The left, in their march through the institutions, have tried to destroy the joy we get from sport. Team USA gave us a wonderful show and something to be proud of. It's also a taste of what's to come in heaven.

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Sorry I was gone at the end of last week. I've been a part of a men's Bible group since 2012 when I first moved to San Diego. And we've met pretty much every Wednesday until I moved away from San Diego. A bunch of us have moved since. The group still meets, the guys who We're still back there, but we all, wherever we are across the country, we all get together once a year, at least. So we spent the weekend in Arizona, catching up and studying the Bible. 

It was great. So that's where I was this last weekend. And I missed the hockey game and I was able to stay away from all social media. I was able to watch the game on the plane, but it was awesome. It's about as good as it gets here. If you missed it, or if you want to relive it, I made a little thing to get fired up. 

The guy who scored the goal is 24 years old. Right before the end of the regulation, he got slammed in the face with a stick, lost a bunch of teeth, kept playing. If that happened to someone in the NBA, they'd be out for the year. Keeps playing with no teeth. Then wins the overtime goal. First gold medal since 1980. 

Miracle on ice, which was the exact same day, 46 years ago, which also happened to be on George Washington's birthday. Poor Canucks never stood a chance. This game was really fun because it had a lot of really important themes to it. First it was just very American and just the grittiness of it, the grind, the Canadian players were probably more talented, the team was more talented, and they had, the expression was, the ice was tilted in their favor most of the time, playing on their toes, and we were playing on our heels a lot of the game, but we just never gave up. Just never give up, never give up, just grinding the entire time. 

And the two goals that we did score were so beautiful. And you could just, every time I see those goals, especially the first one, but I just see years and years and years of work put into this craft, and it was sublime to see the excellence of it, especially at that speed. So that was fun. Also, you had brothers, and I want to get back to this point in a minute, but let me play this clip here. There's two sets of brothers. The Hughes, Jack Hughes is the one who scored, and then you had the Kachuk brothers as well, and here they are at the end of the game. 

Okay guys, you told me you're watching Miracle, growing up, dreaming about this. You're living it right now. How does it feel? 

Hockey's our game. Hockey's the United States of America's game. It's the greatest country in the world. We have the best support ever. Hundreds of millions of people back home. So many people in St. Louis. 

Everyone in St. Louis. We could feel the support whether they're hockey fans or not. Everyone's watching. Everyone better be partying right now. Everyone better be wearing the red, white, and blue for as long as they can. It should be like a month mandate where the red, white and blue in the United States and celebrate us and the other Olympian gold medalists. 

Those two, those two brothers, their dad played on the Olympic hockey team 20 years ago. They were there at that Olympics 20 years ago. I was picturing them as kids. And now here they are. They want to go metal with their dad in the stands. I come on. 

And then the Hughes brothers, the one who scored the goal, there's a video of them when they were like 12 years old and they were asked, you know, one day, do you want to play on the same team? Or do you want to play against each other in the NHL? And the 12 -year -old Jack Hughes is like, nah, it'd be way better if we were on the same team because we love each other so much and he's such a good player, I'd rather we be on the same team. And here they are, they just won the gold medal together. This is.. one of the women hockey players. 

We also won the gold in that game, in an overtime goal against Canada too. Here's one of those players right here. 

What were you thinking when you were listening to the anthem, seeing the flag go up? 

I just, I think just taking pride in our country. I just, uh, it was an honor, uh, to win gold is what we came to do. And getting to sing the anthem just made it that much more sweeter. 

Great. 

Uh, and then she was asked this question. 

So much. Uh, I think, um, the Lord, the most for everything and all of you guys. Um, but yeah, you know, God is good and this is awesome. 

God is good. And this is awesome. I want to play one last video here. There is a woman on the women's hockey team who has two, excuse me, three brothers and her brothers get fired up for the games. They get all decked out, Team USA merch, and they recorded a voicemail message for their sister. And the images are all videos from when she was a kid learning how to skate for the first time and all these different times when the three brothers showed up to support their sister. 

Go girl, go. 

Get those feet under you. Go girls! 

Good girl! 

Hey Bugs! 

Hey Jess! 

What's up with your brothers? 

We've watched you on skates before you could even walk and listened to you talk about your dreams of becoming an Olympian since the first time you were asked. 

Now you're living it. 

You continue to impress us daily. Your ability to handle pressure, your ability to smile through it all, and your ability to love through it all. We are just so proud of you. 

Hey, stick with him! 

Continue to be you through all the externals. Continue to trust yourself through the toughest moments and the highest highs and continue to love and be because you are powerful. You deserve everything that's coming. The U . 

S. 

Women's Hockey team deserves everything that's coming to you. You've worked so hard, thousands of shots, all the hours in the weight room, all the early mornings and just everything you've sacrificed. We're sorry we have to be loud sometimes in our support. We just, we can't help ourselves. We can't wait to cheer you on as you continue to push for gold. Watching you get to live out your dream is a blessing. 

No matter the outcome of these games, it doesn't change who you are. You have three older brothers that now look up to you. You will always be our champion. 

Love you, bud. 

Love you, sis. Love you, sissy. 

You can do it. 

You don't even need the bucket. The video's on my Twitter, Slater Radio, if you wanna watch it. I mean, that's one of my prayers right there, to have four kids who love each other that deeply and support each other. That's wealth right there. How do you put a price on that? All right, let's get to the Bible. 

Sports are good. Does anyone listening now, and if you think this and you've made it this far, thank you for listening for so long, but there's a lot of people who are like, oh, who cares about sports? Who cares about hockey? Who cares about? Sports are a part of culture. We wanna win the culture. 

We need to take the culture back. We have to have sports. The left knows. that sports are important as they've marched through the institutions of our country. They were sure to try and have been successful in many ways to take over sports. This is why they had all these pride nights in the NHL. 

Probably like rainbow tape on the hockey sticks and nonsense like that. It was part of the march through the institutions. Colin Kaepernick. No one ever mentions with Colin Kaepernick that he was adopted when he was like six weeks old by two white parents, given everything in the world, including life. And then he turned around and betrayed them. And Conley Kaepernick himself is mixed race. 

His birth mom is white and dad is black, too. The whole thing is ridiculous. His example of his racist parents that raised him, problematic, is his mom, when he was younger, his mom wouldn't let him get cornrows because she said it was unprofessional. Very often, if you press a black person who says they've been discriminated against, the hair is the issue, their hair. So they'll apply for a job. agree to the terms of the job, which means you pay me in exchange for me presenting myself and working on behalf of your company. 

And then they don't present themselves according to rules and regulations. And they say they're discriminated against. And Colin Kaepernick did it on his poor mom. But Colin Kaepernick was a tool to divide people. And to do that in a thing that unites people is particularly insidious, especially because sports is one of the last things where merit matters. It's merit based. 

but they try to DEI as much of it as they possibly can. Anyway, I digress. Let's bring the Bible into this. This Bible is full of metaphors about sports and games and play. 1 Corinthians 9 .24. Do you not know that in a race, all the runners run, but only one receives the prize. 

So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self -control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, that gold medal. But we are, by the way, back in ancient Greece, when Paul was writing this, They got a wreath, like a crown, instead of a gold medal. But we do it for an imperishable thing. We do not run aimlessly. 

I do not box as one beating the air, but I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others, I myself should be disqualified. Hebrews 12, 1. Let us run with perseverance. The race marked out for us. 2 Timothy 4, 7. I fought the good fight. 

I finished the race. I've kept the faith. 2 Timothy 2, 5. An athlete's not crowned. unless he competes according to the rules. So lots of sports references in the Bible. 

Sports are also good because it's good to see joy. When the teams win, I'd say both teams won, men and women hockey team, throwing their helmets in the air, throwing their gloves and sticks and jumping into each other's arms. It's good. I don't know if there's like a Christian mentality, you know, be dour or all that stuff. No, it's good to have joy. Now, this is a secular joy and a thing that, you know, quote, unquote, doesn't matter, but it's a taste of the real joy to come. 

It's a partial, it's a little hint of the joy that we will experience when we're in heaven. A true joy that comes from being in union and abiding with God. One last point on play, and then I want to get back to the joy. Zechariah 8 .5. So this is a prophecy when the Jews came out of Persian rule, they're rebuilding Jerusalem, but it wasn't going well. So Zechariah is here to encourage them with a vision for the future. 

So this is Zechariah 8 .5. Thus says the Lord, I've returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city in the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain. Thus says the Lord of hosts, old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem. Each one with his staff in his hand because of great age, the streets of the city. 

Okay. 

So it's like a good future, Jerusalem, joyful, wonderful. The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. 

Isn't that cool? 

Playing in the streets, fun, joy, play when you, you were to drive around, you see kids maybe playing street hockey in the middle of the street. That's a biblical vision of joy and goodness. These are all just tastes, little hints of the greatest joy that there is, and that is joy of abiding in God and Jesus. John 15, Jesus says, I am the true vine and the Father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. 

And every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word I've spoken to you. Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit. For apart from me, you can do nothing. 

If anyone does not abide in me, he's thrown away like a branch and withers. And the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you. Ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. By this, my father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the fathers loved me, so I loved you. 

Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be full. " It is good to enjoy these little moments of joy. And also in the meantime, to be full of a true joy, which is one of the fruits of the spirit. Knowing also that when this is all over, you're going to heaven. 

And because of that, we should be jumping for joy. Like you just won the gold medal. Mike Slater . locals . com. Transcript commercial free on the website, Mike Slater .

James Talarico is running for Senate in Texas as a Democrat. He goes around quoting scripture and taking it so wildly out of context that he must know what he's doing. On The Late Show, he claimed gay marriage and abortion aren't in the Bible. Yikes. What does the Bible say?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with perspective and peace. There's new headlines every day. Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. 

Early voting is going on right now in Texas for the Senate race. Very interesting on the Republican side. On the Democratic side, it's James Tellarico and Jasmine Crockett. Jasmine Crockett would be hilarious. I can root for her because she's the entertainment value will be off the charts. But James Tallarico is probably going to win it out. 

We've talked about him before, a couple of weeks ago. He claims he's a Presbyterian seminarian. And we talked about him because he was on Joe Rogan's podcast and he said that the Bible justifies abortion. Okay. Abortion is biblical because Gabriel asked Mary permission before she became pregnant with Jesus. And we read Luke and that's just not true at all. 

I can't, I usually like to be able to, I pride myself in being able to see the other side's arguments. Like, oh, like here's how you put that together. Like I get that. This one, I got nothing on this one. That's just straight made up. He is a blasphemer in a really sick way. 

I understand getting things wrong here and there, missing some nuance, maybe not getting the full context of this or the other, it's fine. But to justify wicked, sinful, evil things in the name of the Bible is demonic. He also said as a Christian that Christianity is just one of many faiths. He said this on a New York Times podcast. And it's like the word, it's like a different language and you can have a cup here and there's different words for the word cup in English and Spanish and French and German. and Somalian but it all leads to the same it all describes the same thing and and we all there's all these different religions Buddhism Hindu and they all they're all the same God and they lead to the same place like oh man what are you talking about that's awful how can anyone it speaks to how biblically illiterate unfortunately so many people are that This guy can go two seconds claiming to be a Christian or claiming to be a Presbyterian seminarian, whatever. 

So here's what happened the other day. Here's why we bring him up again. He was on the Colbert show and they recorded the interview as they always do with their interviews, but they didn't air it on TV. And Colbert said it was because CBS blocked airing the interview because of FCC equal time rules. Equal time, it applies to radio and TV, where if you interview a candidate, then you have to interview all the candidates. You have to give them equal time. 

Or don't interview anyone, but if you give some time to one, you gotta give equal time to another. I've never, in my radio days, I've never seen this really ever enforced. Actually, I've never seen it enforced in my life. But CBS was a little on the edge, because the primaries are going on. So they could've seen Jasmine Crockett's people coming out and complaining. So they didn't air it. 

But Colbert talked about it and talked about it as if, you know, oh, this got censored. So it ended up getting way more attention on YouTube anyway than it ever would have gotten if it did air. Like no one watches The Late Show with Colbert, so whatever. But he ended up getting way more attention with it. 

And that's fine because we then got to hear him say just blasphemous stuff. 

this. Well, for 50 years, the religious right, a political movement, that is the perfect description for it. They convinced a lot of our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage, two issues that aren't mentioned in the Bible, two issues that Jesus never talked about. Jesus in Matthew 25 tells us exactly how you and I, and every one of our fellow believers, how we're going to be judged and how we're going to be saved. 

By feeding the hungry, by healing the sick. 

So the Bible says we need more welfare for everyone, is what he then concludes. By welcoming the stranger. Nothing about going to church, nothing about voting Republican. It was all about how you treat other people. Don't, don't, I've said, I've said before, don't, tell me what you believe, show me how you treat other people, and I'll tell you what you believe. And I think in our faith, we've got to get back to those fundamentals. 

My granddad was a Baptist preacher in South Texas. And when I was little, he told me that Christianity is a simple religion, not an easy religion, he would always clarify, but a simple religion because Jesus gave us two commandments, love God and love neighbor. And there was no exception to that second commandment. 

Love thy neighbor regardless of race, or gender, or sexual orientation, or immigration status, or religious affiliation. And it's why I have fought so hard for the separation of church and state in the state capitol in Texas, because... Yikes. We talked about the separation of church and state in just our most recent episode. Reverend Ben Johnson said, does welcome the stranger apply to the stranger you personally created in your womb? 

No, just kill that stranger. I'll also add to love your neighbor means to tell them the truth. So what's broken here? Half truths, false preachers. This is the same guy who did a New York Times interview. And he said, they're talking about transgenderism. 

And he said, well, Paul said there's neither male nor female, which is pretty woke for the first century. Whoa, this is such a clear example of how this guy twists scripture. He's talking about Galatians 3, 27. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek. There's neither slave nor free. 

There is no male or female for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise. He's not saying, obviously Paul's not saying that when you get saved, you I don't know, like a are able to turn into a man or a woman or forget even safer that you're able. There's no such thing as gender. That's not what Paul is saying. This is the same Paul who said that wives are to submit to their husbands. 

Okay, so Paul is saying here that when it comes to salvation, it doesn't matter who you are. Slave free, Jew, Greek, male, female doesn't matter. He's not saying that you can turn into something else or that gender doesn't exist. He's saying it doesn't matter when it comes to salvation. How wonderful is that news? But you see how twisted that is that he can get it. 

You can pull that off. how he can deceive people, what a liar, really twisting scripture in really, really evil ways. So on the point he was making, his opening argument that the Bible never even talks about homosexuality or what was it? gay marriage. Of course it does. Marriage is between one man and one woman. 

Genesis 2 24. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife and they shall become one flesh. Man, woman, end of story. But Jesus affirms it. Matthew 19 4. He answered, have you not read that he who created, this is Jesus talking, he who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. 

So they're no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. " So yes, the Bible talks about marriage and what marriage is, defines it. The Bible defines marriage. On homosexuality, Leviticus 18, 22, you shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination. Oh, so that's Old Testament. Fine. New Testament, Romans 1, 26. For this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature. And the men likewise gave up their natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another. men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error." 1 Corinthians 6, 9. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality. 

" Oh, it doesn't even talk about homosexuality. Of course it does. And then abortion. I mean, like, what do we even say? Abortion is obviously murder. What else would it be? 

Healthcare. Human life begins at conception. There's no other objective time into the development of a human being when it's more human than it was a moment before it. Human life, therefore, must begin at conception. There's no other point in a human's life when you're like, oh, this is when it's actually human. Nope. 

You're human from the very beginning and all the way through to the end. We have different names to define the different levels of development, different stages of a life, embryo, fetus, newborn, toddler, teenager, a seasoned citizen, but you're a human being the whole time. So there's some Bible verses to arm you with the truth. to combat the lies of Telerico and many others. Listen, politically, I'm happy that this is the best Christian that the left could find, because that's what they're doing. Obviously, we got to win in Texas. 

How do we do it? Well, let's find a Christian. Well, we can't. There are no Christians who are running or Democrats. So we don't know what to do. Like, well, find any blasphemer. 

It doesn't matter. Just anyone who can maybe quote a scripture or two out of context and we'll take it. Hopefully, there are not many Christians left in the Democratic Party. So politically, it's fine. But bigger picture, culturally, it makes me sad that anyone could misinterpret the scriptures this badly and not be open to any criticism. Like if I ever misinterpret a scripture or don't provide the full context, I would expect anyone, you and anyone in my church or whoever to come to me and be like, oh, Sutter, you missed this point here. 

You missed on it. And I will come back the very next day and correct the record. He's unwilling to do that. Of course. That makes me sad. I don't know if he is misinterpreting this though. 

I'm certain he's not misinterpreting this. I think he knows what he's doing. 

So what makes me sad then is that there would be anyone who would fall for it, but not you. 

So go spread the word. MikeSlater . Locals . com. Transcript commercial free on the website, MikeSlater .

If you've ever wondered what will come after the Trump era, I pray it's more of what we saw out of Marco Rubio in Germany. 

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. We take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible so that we can walk away with peace and perspective because there's new headlines every day. But Ecclesiastes said there's nothing new under the sun. I want to get to Marco Rubio's speech in Germany this weekend. It was tremendous. 

It was shocking, really. I don't get shocked much, but we should allow ourselves to be shocked that this presidency has only been a year, but Marco Rubio gave such an astounding speech. I'm amazed this is where we are now. And I praise God for it. It's incredible, and this is an important moment. This speech, I encourage you to read it all. 

We only have time for a few parts here, but let me get to it. Again, he's in Germany. It's the Munich Security Conference. So the essence of this is about national security, but he got to the root of it. Marco Rubio, our secretary of state said, for the United States and Europe, we belong together. America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before. 

The men who settled and built the nation of my birth, arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new. " I'm so grateful that we have leaders in America now who will say Christian faith. First of all, it's obviously not Muslim faith, although some think it is or should have been or wish it were. But a lot of people do the cop out and be like, faith. Oh, yes. We have memories and traditions of faith, of ancestors that... 

No, no, no. What faith? Name it. Christian faith. Puritans, known as separatists, carrying the Geneva Bible across the ocean to the New World. Rubio said we are part of one civilization, Western civilization. 

We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds the nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen error. So don't lose it to the Muslims or pagans who want to destroy you from within. It's not what he said, but I think kind of what he was getting at. Two more long quotes here. Rubio says, and so this is why we Americans may sometimes come off as a little direct and urgent in our counsel. This is why president Trump demands seriousness and reciprocity from our friends here in Europe. 

The reason why my friends is because we care deeply. We care about your future and ours. We are connected spiritually. We're connected culturally. We want Europe to be strong. Check out this next line is so good. 

Again, this is at a security conference and he's talking about Western heritage, national security, which this conference is largely about. is not merely a series of technical questions. How much we spend on defense or where, where we deploy it, et cetera. These are important questions, but they're not the fundamental one. The fundamental question we must answer at the onset is what exactly are we defending? So great, you can lose the plot real quick. 

You get focused on defense and after a while you're like, wait, what are we, what are we, why are we doing this? And then eventually you just stop, stop defending it. Rubio said, what are we defending? Because armies do not fight for abstractions. Armies fight for a people. Armies fight for a nation. 

Armies fight for a way of life. And that is what we are defending. A great civilization that has every reason to be proud of its history, confident of its future, and aims to always be the master of its own economic and political destiny. Gosh, this is such an amazing rebuke of last few decades of wokeism, particularly the 1619 Project, where you were told only to be ashamed of everything that America has ever been. Last part, Rubio says, it was here in Europe where the ideas that planted the seeds of liberty that changed the world were born. It was here in Europe where the world, which gave the world the rule of law, the universities, and the scientific revolution. 

It was this continent that produced the genius of Mozart and Beethoven. of Dante and Shakespeare, of Michelangelo and da Vinci, of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. I would have left that part out, but OK. And this is the place where the vaulted ceilings of the Sistine Chapel and the towering spires of the Great Cathedral in Cologne. They testify not just to the greatness of our past or to the faith in God that inspired these marvels. Amazing. 

They foreshadow the wonders that await us in our future. But only if we are unapologetic in our heritage and proud of this common inheritance can we work together to begin the work of envisioning and shaping our economic and our political future. So good. So good. So what's broken in this scenario here? Because the speech was fantastic. 

We have been so demoralized lately. We've been humiliated, shamed and humiliated. And we've let ourselves get to this point. We've been ashamed of our heritage, taught from a young age to be ashamed of it, that it is bad. Ashamed of the pilgrims. And dare I say, shamed to live and proclaim your Christian faith. 

I never learned our heritage. I never learned our history. I lost the memory of it. So of course I couldn't be inspired by it. How could we be? I didn't know who anyone was. 

I didn't know who these people were. Who are the people who came before us? 

I don't know. 

We don't know their stories. Maybe. get little glimpses of the fact that there were stories. King Arthur. I've heard of that. 

It's a Disney movie. 

But were we ever taught who King Arthur was? Who were the knights at the round table? We've been humiliated. Christians were shamed into being silent on incredibly important cultural and political issues because we were told not to judge. Don't force your religion down my throat. And we let the pagans roll in and control everything. 

We've been shamed. I'll give an example, maybe a silly one, but I think it's tied in. I saw a video of Chappelle Roan. Are you familiar with her? Chappelle Roan is the current pop star person. And I saw her before she got famous and she was a beautiful, modest, lovely singer, very talented. 

And now she's just like all of them. She's like Madonna or Lady Gaga or whatever. 

It's sad. 

You're like, oh, why? Why do that? 

Why? 

Christians have been self -silenced, shamed, as our Christian heritage has been ridiculed and forgotten. Here's an example. I got a, uh, let me see if I can find this clip here. I don't know if I played this the other day. This is a documentary in Birmingham, Birmingham, uh, England. A migrant fella walks by. 

Wow. 

What do you think of Birmingham Cathedral? It's shit. But it's, it's a nice place to smoke weed. It's not my ancestors. 

I don't know who's ancestors it was, uh. 

It's not your ancestors, man. 

It's not. 

No, no. No, it's not. Let's go to the Bible. Matthew 5, 15 says, neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel. but on a candlestick and it gives light unto all that are in the house let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven we've been told instead to keep our the candle hidden Charles Spurgeon he said I long for the day Keep this in mind when you remember people telling you to keep your religion to yourself and don't talk about that. Separation of church and state, total nonsense. 

Of course it's backwards. We've gone over a million times. Let's see if I can do it in 10 seconds. I don't think I can do it in 10. Let me see how fast I can do it. Separation of church and state is not in the constitution. 

It is a letter from the Danbury Baptist in Connecticut telling new president, Thomas Jefferson, please don't interfere with our affairs in the church. And Thomas Jefferson, oh, don't worry. I, the government, will not interfere in the inner workings of the church. There's a separation of church and state. I'm not going to interfere with what you do in your church. And that has been spun to be the exact opposite, where people in the church have been told that we're not allowed to have any influence on anything in politics. 

Totally backwards. If Thomas Jefferson came back to life, among other things, he'd say, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's not what I meant. You guys don't totally took that the exact opposite of what I meant. But that's what you've been told. So keep that in mind when you hear Charles Spurgeon. He says, I long for the day when the precepts of the Christian religion shall be the rule among all classes of men in all transactions. 

Spurgeon went on and said, I often hear it said, do not bring politics, excuse me, do not bring religion into politics. That is precisely where it ought to be brought and sat there in the face of all men as on a candlestick. I would have the cabinet and the members of parliament do the work of the nation as before the Lord. And I would have the nation, either in making war or peace, consider it. Watching this speech from Marco Rubio, some have wondered what will happen at the end of Trump's presidency. He's come into the world stage and brought a wrecking ball to it. 

But what comes next? Well, I pray this Marco Rubio speech is a hint of what's to come. I pray that godly men with a Christian conscience and an eternal purpose, leading on the principles of the New Testament, do the work of the nation as before the Lord. Here's to much more talk of our Christian heritage. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript commercial free on the website.  Mike Slater dot locals dot com.