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    It's our Revivus Again, Shareathon on American Family Radio. Psalm 85 verses 6 and 7 read, Will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you? Show us your unfailing love, Lord, and grant us your salvation. It's false, Shareathon on American Family Radio, and we're calling on God to revive us again. Call 877-616-2396 and pledge your support. support. That's 877-616-2396 or give online at aFR.net. It's fall, Sharerathon on American Family Radio. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to this day three of the fall 2024 Sharerathon edition of the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio and let me be among the first to thank you. man this is amazing what God has done. I'll wait as I'm pretty sure some others are going to come in soon and want to share the numbers but it is remarkable. It's remarkable what God continues to do. Thank you to each and every one of you who have used your resources, your hard-earned resources to support the work that God is doing through AFR and as I've said numerous times and I will will say it here now, that work includes you. I want you to see yourself, frankly, as God sees you as a part of this work. This is not something that we're doing separate and apart from you when you hear my voice on the airwaves. I know the Lord would want you to recognize that you are a part of allowing this to transpire, allowing this to happen.

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    It is amazingly, amazingly, wonderful to see, something that provokes rejoicing, and also humbling and sobering. Every time I see what God does through you, it reminds me that there's work to be done. God doesn't allow these types of resources to be made available simply so that we can just glad hand and kiki about this or that, but it is a reminder that there is work to be done. Thank you, thank you, thank you for investing in the work of the Lord in our nation through this particular ministry. If you are listening to me now and you want to be a part You still have some time to do so. The number to call if you want to make your pledge, make your donation is 877-616-2396. That number again is 877-616-2396, or you can give securely online at afr.net. Now, I know, and right now, many of you are making your transition from your part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs cultivate an outcome. I know some people think that I am just naturally optimistic. That is not the case. This is something that is a product of God working in me to view the life that we live, the life that I live from his perspective. And we have the opportunity in our day with all of the forces of wickedness mounting around us, darkness mounting around us. We have the opportunity in our day to be to our day what our ancestors in the faith were to their days. I think about the continuity of the history of the Lord's Church going, first of all, all the way through the Old Testament era up to the time of our Lord's incarnation, through the first century, the second, third, fourth century, on through the time to where Gutenberg was inspired to make sure people had access at low cost to the Word of God for themselves, to read it for themselves should never be lost on us.

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    That level of innovation was pursued to make sure that every single person would have access to the Word of God. I think about people like John Wickliffe and others that gave their lives so that we can have vernacular scripture, namely to be able to navigate the Word of God in the English language. I think about the Septuagint translation, the Hebrew text into Greek, the dominant language at the time. I think about all of those aspects that have brought us to the place where we are right here today in our time to be the hands and feet of our Lord to be his ambassadors in this time. It is overwhelming to consider overwhelming to consider again the number to call to participate to get on the last leg of the share of thaun is eight seven seven six one six two three nine six that number again is eight seven seven six one six two three nine six or you can and give securely online by going to afr.net, that is afr.net. You know, I'm stirred, I moved, I wanna turn our attention right now to the Word of God, is something that is just amazing to have available to us. You know, it's very easy to try to describe what's happening now, merely in terms of natural occurrences, but the facts are that spiritual warfare is real. You know, the Apostle Paul communicates this to us in Ephesians chapter 6. I'm just going to read verses 10 to 13. The Word of God says this finally, finally, this is accumulation point, the culmination point of this Epistle. Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength, the Greek term there is kratos, the kratos of his might. Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. But we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, having done all to stand firm.

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    The Lord through the Apostle Paul communicates to us that spiritual warfare is real. spiritual warfare is real. But the Lord doesn't communicate that to us to provoke fear, trepidation, to make us apprehensive, to cause us to have a ringing of the hands. Simply put, the Lord wants us to be aware of what is transpiring. And then after making that pronouncement, he gets to verse 13 and says, therefore, just like I tell my children, when you see a therefore, what is it there for? This therefore is present in light of what proceeds, verse 13, verses 11 and 10 and the verse of proceeding. Therefore take up the whole armor of God. Now in verse 10 the Lord I re-told us to be strong in the Lord, not in ourselves, not in a fleshly notion of strength, be strong in the Lord and the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God. The tense there in Greek is that the whole armor of God is put on once and for all, never to be withdrawn, never to be taken off. Put on the whole armor of God. Then Paul tells us why. You put on the whole armor of God. Why? so that you can be effective in thwarting, standing against the schemes of the enemy. Paul announces, yes, spiritual warfare is real. Verse 13, therefore, take up the armor, you know, the armor that you put on, never to take off, take up that armor so that you may be able to antihistamine as the Greek phrase there, to antihistamine the devil, the same concept that we have for, you know, You know, you get allergens. What do you do? You take antihistamines to resist the allergens capacity to penetrate. Now the allergens are around, they're floating around, they're present, but they don't have the capacity to intrude when you apply the antihistamine. That is what the scripture is saying to us there. So we don't have to be afraid of it. We are aware of it and we engage and it makes me remember, you know, when Elisha had a servant, you know, the Syrians sent their armies, you know, to go and try to, they were trying to take out Elisha.

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    You know, when Elisha's servant came running early in the morning, my father, my father, they're coming, you know? They're coming, ah, they're happening, happen to please. Elisha said, Lord, open the young man's eyes, that he may say that they're more with us than are with them. And he prayed that, the Lord opened the young man's eyes, and he was able to see, he looked up, he said, the chariots and the horsemen of Israel. Heh heh heh heh heh. surrounding the army that thought that they were pursuing Elijah. Guys, what I'm saying is no matter what it looks like naturally, there is a reality that supersedes our natural perception. And because the strength that we have is not our own, it's not a humanistic self-willed strength, it is a potency that is available by the King of kings and the Lord of lords. And we are encouraged to envelop ourselves, to bind ourselves, if you will, to him to such a degree to where we are empowered by the strength of his might. And so when I look at a survey, what the Lord has done by his divine providence, by his grace, through his people who are tangible means and applications of his grace, I am heartened. You know, there was a time when I was in New Orleans and my wife would tell you, I told you guys before that the first person ever said anything to me about being on the radio was my wife. You know, when she said that was like, for what? I didn't eat it. do anything to me on the radio. I was content. I was content with serving the Lord where he had placed me. But the Lord saw, saw fit for me to make, to make some adjustments. And so, when the Lord does what he does, what he does, it is humbling, it is sobering, but it's also, all right, let's go. It's go time. It's go time. And so when I see what God is doing here and what what he has done and what he continues to do, I am humbled and I am so bird by it. So again, thank you to all of you who have utilized your hard earned resources. Look, I understand the way that things are currently, you know, groceries are very expensive.

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    You know, you guys know I got six children eggs don't cost today what they were costing just about four years ago, you know? So we do not take it for granted. I personally do not take it for granted that you are willing to use your hard-earned funds, hard-earned resources to support this work. It is amazing to see. If there are many of you, others of you that want to get in on this now, you're welcome to do so. The number to call is 877-616-2396. That number again is 877-616-2396 or you can give securely online at aFR.net. is a fr dot net. Yes, I see what's happening around us. But more importantly, God knows what's going on. And he's ordained you and me for this time for his purposes, for his glory. He has not made us aware what's happening. You know, you know, I played the show from D.D. who called from Texas earlier this week. I've had conversations with others and people have conversations that how can we make headway? It's hard talking to people this time. Listen, take heart. God knows. God knows those are context that we're in. But those things that we encounter are not to cause us to become listful, or to cause us to become despondent, is for us to be sobered by it, and to recognize that we cannot persist in our own strength. It is to encourage perpetual volitional dependence upon him to where we live, John 15, 5. He is the vine. We are the branches. Apart from him, we can do nothing. The scripture there is not to say that we can't do tasks or execute things, but we cannot do anything of eternal import, because there's lots of creativity that abounds, but we can also be creative and rebellion. Man has capacity to obey the Lord or to use our God-given potential in rebellion, kind of like the Tower of Babel. But we don't wanna be involved in constructing unauthorized structures. We wanna be a part of building the kingdom of God.

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    And that is how we wanna use our resources. We don't want to be among the ranks of those who are seduced by our environment, that we get lost in the sauce of America's abundance and our prosperity. And we misplaced the fact that, man, it is by God's grace we are who we are. It is by God's grace we live where we live. It is by God's grace that we have access to the resources we do have. We know we have people in our nation who suffer. People suffer in all different types, but I want to tell you poverty in America is not like poverty globally. You know, I say this in people chuckle every time I say it. is the only nation where oftentimes people can be in poverty, but we gain weight. That's not how it is in other places around the world. You know, in poverty, in other places around the world means that you have a statutorily established weight loss plan, you know, but that's not to say, well, our condition is this and their condition is that it's to recognize weight is by God's grace, we are what we are. And we have what we have and we have the access to do what we can do, what we should do, what we must do. How then shall we use that opportunity? How then shall we use those resources? How will we employ what God has placed in our hands? That is what we have the opportunity to respond to. And I'll say along with what Joshua has recorded in scripture saying, as for me and my house, and we're gonna serve the Lord. And if we gonna play, if we in the game, why not be in the game to win? You know, why hold anything in reserve? You know, assisting our church one time, said that I've been saying it ever since. Our sister, Dara, thank you Dara. Shout out to Dara. He said, listen, we're not contending for victory. We can tend from victory. Eternity is out. If eternal life is ours, then why would we have any hesitation? Why would we have any halting between two opinions? Why would we allow any suggestion other than full or investment and commitment to the Lord's purpose is what the time that He's given us? My dad was my first basketball coach. He used to tell us, hey, leave it on the court, man. Leave it on the court. Come home empty. And I'm saying to you that God would have us to the exact same thing, leave it on the playing field so that we come home empty.

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    And on the other side of this, as we engage to be faithful in the here and now, our great hope and eternal expectation is to live in the manifested, glorious presence of our King, along with all of the saints throughout all of human history. Because that is our future, why not live now? Like that is our future. I'm telling you, it's a wonderful privilege to be in the Kingdom of God. It's a wonderful privilege. 877-616-2396. Welcome back to Shareathon on American Family Radio. Call 877-616-2396 to pledge your support. That's 877-616-2396 or give online at aFR.net. It's fall Shareathon on American Family Radio. Welcome, welcome back to day three of the fall 2024 Shareathon edition of the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third year. Again, let me be among the first to thank each and every one of you for your generous contributions to the work of the Lord here through American Family Radio and all of the various iterations of ministry that happened through the American Family Association. I am in studio joined once again by a sister in the Lord who hosts our morning programming here, Jenna Ellis in the morning, and she was gracious enough to join me here to share with with you some of the other things that she is pursuing here through American Family Radio. Jenna, welcome to the show. Thanks so much. And I always appreciate joining you, Abe. And I was listening on my way in, and I got caught by the train, which was really funny, because that never happens when I come in at six in the morning, I was telling you, but I was listening to your opening on the way. And I just have to say, I love how much you just preach on your show. And so many times through the day, I mean, I wake up and I get to talk to all of our listeners in the morning and start the day off great, but you know, things happen during the day.

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    And things that are unexpected or we get discouraged or things that just come up. And what I love about your time slot and your show is that it's always a reminder that as we are leaving the vocation that we make an income, we go home to cultivate an outcome. And even for someone like me who doesn't yet have children, It's a reminder that I'm also cultivating an outcome in myself and my faith, and God is cultivating an outcome in me. And so it's always really encouraging to hear the preaching solidly of God's word, especially putting on the full armor of God. Amen. Amen. Praise God for that. And I do that not only for external face to reality, but also to remind myself because this is not something I'm in it with every single one of us. You know, it's not something that I'm just like detached from because I'm involved in this. My wife will tell you, she was the first one to suggest I need to be on the radio. And when she said that to me, I was like, yeah, get out of here, I need to be on the radio. You know, but God knew better. It was telling me through my wife because this is just really who I am. I've been this exact same way before the Lord ever allowed me to have access to a microphone, simply because we should navigate life from our eternal vantage point and refuse to allow the temporal context that we're in to manipulate us and dissuade us and even in some contexts to seduce us away from the life that God would have us to live. And so I appreciate that encouragement and by God's grace will continue it. Amen to that. And by God's grace we will continue it. And one of the things that I've been encouraged by through the week of Sharethon here, and I always love when I get to come to Tupelo because since I'm in Florida, I'm remote. And so I get to talk to everybody here just remotely but seeing everybody is also such a blessing and encouragement. And a great reminder that the people that we have been well before we had microphones, we will also continue to be well after November 5th. And no matter if this country stays and hopefully returns and has a revival for the Judeo-Christian founding, or if we plunge off the cliff into paganism and cultural Marxism and all the rest, we will still continue teaching the truth of the gospel of Christ.

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    And that's what people are supporting here and why I love being in this ministry, is that we are not dependent on politicians, politics. Kingdoms will rise and fall, but the word of the Lord will remain. Amen. Well said. Which brings me to my next question. One of the things that you are about to, I don't know if it's launched yet, or it's about to tomorrow. Tomorrow is the big day. Well, I will invite you to share exactly what it is because you're taking on another role in addition to the morning show, that as you already alluded to it launches tomorrow. So Jenna, what is launching tomorrow? Yes, I am so excited that we are doing an AFR exclusive weekly podcast, and it is titled On Demand with Jenna Ellis. And so while we get to cover the top trending stories, news of the day, things that people want to hear as they're driving into work, what's going on in the world, there are so many times that, as you know, one hour just is not enough time to do a deep dive sometimes into some topics. And I've had so many listeners say, you know, I wanted you to go further in this topic or explain this more. And so these are going to be the topics on demand. So on demand with Jenna Ellis and we're going to do a deep dive in an open ended podcast. It's a great streaming availability that we're not limited by radio bandwidth. So we could do 20 minutes, we could do two hours, whatever it is with some great guests on topics that are law, constitution, theology, culture, worldview, a lot of things. So for listeners, you've written in with some topics already, but if listeners have a question or something that they want to learn about more, you can write in Jenna at aFR.net and tell me what you'd like to hear on demand. Now, it launches tomorrow. How often can people expect episodes? Every Friday. So listen to Jenna Ellis in the morning during the weekdays, and then you'll have the longer format to stream over the weekend. you, you know, just can't get enough of AFR. I understand exactly what you say. Cause I often when you're saying an hour, sometimes it's not enough because I often say, I'm going to run out of time before I run out of show.

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    Yes. Because I often have a lot to say Bobby is nodding in that formation because he gets a lot of the non time to show when the show is over. Oh, yes. And it was starting. And so it's that that is amazing. And so where can people find it? Obviously, I know what I want you to share with you. Yes, at AFR.net and you can go to our podcast link there at the top and then click on the icon for on demand with Jenna Ellis. And that first episode will drop tomorrow. All right. Excited. And then in addition to that, taking on some other responsibilities here as well. And so I guess formal title is Senior Policy Advisor. So getting to connect with a lot of our legislative and policy side and some of the things that And maybe our radio network doesn't realize that American Family Association is engaged in. I mean, there's so much that you do as well beyond being a wonderful preacher on the air. And I've experienced firsthand some of the great legal battles that you have been involved in and just so many things. And so it's so much more even than just talk radio, but I love being on air and I'm loving expanding the role here with the AFR family. phrase God now I do want to ask you about this and you alluded to it. I've described what we're facing here just electorally and people know if you listen to my show that I know for a fact politics is not going to save us I say it every day. However the Lord has called his body to execute his commission but sometimes I think people underestimate the significance of God also divinely ordained in the context where he's deposited members of his body to execute his commission. You know the Lord very well could have placed us in China in the 21st century, or I could have been a Christian in America in the 18th century. My ability to execute a great commission would have been severely different had I been 18th century Christian with this glorious melon in the Lord has given me versus where I am today. And so with all of that, there's a story here.

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    This is a Christian post story, but I actually pulled the actual study from Dr. George Barna and he's recorded generally over a hundred million people who identify as some faith or another that are not going to participate in this election, but more particularly 32 million professing Christians who frequently attend worship services in the country have communicated that one out. When you hear communications like that, what is your initial reaction? Revive us again, oh Lord. So very timely in terms of our sureth on theme. But really this speaks to a culture that is like a self-entitled spoiled child, where we have known the blessings of liberty that we have taken it so for granted that we expect to persist in that lifestyle without taking responsibility for it for ourselves and actually growing up. So the time for America is to grow up, take responsibility, participate, and understand from whom those blessings flow. And you are absolutely right that no matter what day and age we find ourselves in, God has appointed each and every one of us who lives and breathes right now to this moment. We are called in as you often say, don't miss your moment. And I love that because that's true. It is no accident that we are here in this election if you are of voting age in 2024. I could have been born at a day and age as a woman as well, that I didn't have the ability to do as much for the Lord or do something different. And so we need to recognize that with the blessings of liberty, regardless of the society in which we find ourselves, scripture is replete with Christians who have persisted in the Great Commission in pagan societies, in Christian societies, we must persist in doing the things of the Lord in this day and age. Well said. And yeah, I mean, it is one of the things.

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    It's not exclusive things. It's one of the things that God has made available for us to keep the highway for gospel proclamation and disciple making available. You know, I continue to remark that, I mean, I have friends who are believers in Canada, they cannot do this. They cannot open microphones on the airwaves in Canada and talk about the truth of God's word. They just cannot do it. And we have a say in whether or not we can do that and we'll continue to be able to do that. It's just one of the ways that we're able to do so. Just one. And again, even if the worst happens and we become a pagan cultural Marxist society, that doesn't change our mission as Christians. And so we are not dependent on party or politics or whatever happens after November 5th. We need to take seriously living the Christian life, which requires knowing the person of truth, which is Jesus Christ. And that's why supporting ministries like AFR so important, because we will be here teaching the truth each and every day. Amen, well said. And I've already started the process of thanking you guys for supporting the work of the ministry through American Family Radio and AFA. I know some of you still may want to participate. If you want to, you can. The number to call is 877-616-2396. That number again is 877-616-2396. Or if you want to give online, you can do so securely by going to AFR.net. And you can give right there online. We've now been joined in studio by American Family Radio's president and two of our vice presidents, Tim Wildman, president of American Family Radio, as well as Walker Wildman and Wesley Wildman and welcome fellows, which is a share of thaw tradition. Yes. You guys to come in at the latter part of the day just to help us wrap up today's affairs by God's grace. The Lord seems to still want the lights on. Yes. And the gang's all here. Yes. We're all here. Folks appreciate you calling in over the last three days. I'll have in Jonathan, you may have the totals pulled up, but over 18,000 families have joined us. Over $4 million raised over the past three days, so we couldn't do it without our listening audience.

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    Absolutely. Amen. So is it on microphone? You're on. Loud and clear. Okay. Yeah, so yeah, we want to thank everybody. And you know, like you said, the phone lines are still available. But we got 27 more minutes. with him. You can give them online post-charathon if you want to at aFR.net, aFR.net, but our phone volunteers will exit in about half an hour. So if you want to call and make a pledge and be a generous as you can, what's that phone number? 877 Walker. Let me have one. Just give me one. You know, it's like, how many times do we need the number? We got it here. I'll hold it for you, Wesley. Just so I can be a parlor. Yeah, that's right. That way. Can't just have one one month knows. Yeah. 87616-2396877-616-2396 or go to AFR.net. You know one of the things we've got coming up between now and the next share of thine which will be in the spring is our two new stations that we've purchased. We've got stations going on in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. That's pending approval from the FCC. And of course, we know that George Soros got his stations by really quick. And I know that no tree does the same. No, what? He went to McDonald's, I think, for his. I just knew it. All right. So you know, that's funny because you know, that's one of the things I do. I I do the FCC for our acquisitions. And you know, I've never seen them expedite any transactions for American family radio. I just want to throw that out there. Yeah, I'm not embarrassed. They've never blocked us. They'd just usually just formalities and. Right. Yeah. But we really don't have foreign investment either. But not necessarily subject to a national security. Then they expedite 200. There's over 200 signals. Over 200 signals. Yeah. For George Soros. For George Soros. You know, three of the election.

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    and the law through FCC regulation requires any acquisition with foreign investment that exceeds 25% that 25% threshold, it automatically is subject to not being allowed first and foremost. And secondarily, any amount of foreign investment requires a national security review. Yes. Were they all in the same state? No, no. No, he got that bypassed by the FCC. Yes, that was the application. Waved 25% threshold, waved the national security review. and to be fair, they're saying they're postponing that, but they're allowing the license acquisition and the licenses to be acquired in the meantime, which is something that is never done. How do you undo that, right? Once it's already approved. But we'll be on the air. What I'm saying is between now and next spring, we'll be on the air with two, these people want to know. Yeah, I mean, Lord willing, we should be on the air by the end of the year, probably 60 in the 90 days is average. Yeah, yeah. Before the end of the year. Yeah. So we are expanding our signal folks, our radio signal. But as everyone here listening knows technology is the latest and we can expand our app and our online presence at a fraction of the cost and make it available to people all around the world. So that's what we're doing as well. We're building out and making our app more reliable, easier to use for our users. And we have people listening in California, Illinois, New York, various states where we don't even have signals. Colorado family. Yeah, my dad loves the app. Exactly. And then we've had people call from Europe and other parts of the world. So the Lord is allowing us to use technology to reach people all around the world. And that's where I got the privilege to have Tony on this shareathon on Dr. Nurse Monster program to discuss how we're in the process of getting AFA content on the apps of prisoners, now they use apps.

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    And so, we've been back and forth, there's some things there we're trying to get through, but we are in the process of doing that. We already own the signals in some of the places. I know Lexington, Kentucky is a place where it covers a female prison, I believe that is. And you've had some experience with this, that we are reaching into the unbeknownst to us, you know, all the prisoners right in. Yeah. I've had a few actually, and I actually had somebody write in and I sent it to Kevin or security, because I wasn't sure. And then he said, well, it's because our signals in there was like, oh, okay, it has a picture. So yeah. Yeah, there's a huge one in Texas. You know, there's a couple that we reach into. Yeah, but isn't that great? I mean, so we're also a prison ministry. That's what I've had the privilege of telling people to add to all the things we do intentionally, we, like I said, unbeknownst to us, we've got signals in a lot of these prisons. So, people are reaching out in there, writing into us, telling us the impact that we're having in their lives. And that's all because the people right now they're listening have taken the time. And I can't tell you how many people I've talked to over the years, they were a season in their life where they couldn't give financially, but they signed every petition. And they were handing out, they were printing stuff off there. They were taking our stand magazine and handing it out. And so for anybody, all those that are listening, even if for some reason, this particular Sharethon, you couldn't financially participate, I just wanna say on behalf of my primary job, which is build relationships and thank supporters to thank you. Well said. Amen. Well said day three of the fall, 2024 Sharethon is nearing a close. If you want to still get in, you can. You can call 877616 2396, that is 877162396, or you can give securely online at aFR.net, Abraham Hamilton, III here, in studio with Jenna Ellis, Walker Wildman, Wesley Wildman, and Tim Wildman. On the other side of the break, we will be back with the wrap up for this fall 2024, Cherathon.

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    Thank you again to everybody who's given. Thank you to all of you who've wanted to give, but may not be in a position to do so at the moment. Thank you to each and every one of you who prays for our dis-ministory, lifts us up in prayer, continues to exalt the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and to be intercessors for us to be salt and light in this time that God has planted us. And continues on American Family Radio. Call now to make your pledge at 877-616-2396. That's 877-616-2396. Or give online at aFR.net during Sherrithon on American Family Radio. Welcome back. Day three of the fall 2024, Sharon Thon is nearing a close. Abraham Hamilton, III here joined by Jenna Ellis, Wesley Weilman, Walker Weilman, Tim Weilman. We are here to wrap up, Sharon Thon. I want to invite Wesley to talk about one of the major things that's happening. Lots of listeners and supporters over the years have asked for a form of biblical worldview training. And we've been working feverishly to put together what we have now is the activate curriculum. Would you just share with the listeners a little bit as to what is available and what they can expect through the activate curriculum? Yeah, so it is a world view training curriculum, of course. And so, but that said, there's a lot of assumptions and they're probably right. You know, you've got your covering, biblical topics, your covering issues that are core to AFA, but I just wanna fast forward to what you would expect from a biblical or a training course and just fast forward and say what makes it different? What makes it different is in addition to the video content and the booklet that you use to follow along, at each session, each video, it concludes with providing you multiple ways, as many as eight ways that you can apply that what you just learned in real life situations.

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    And it was considered that there may be a few introverts. And we know there's different personalities and some people are more, I guess, vocal or more engaging than others, but we consider both introverts and extroverts and gave you multiple ways that you can apply what you just learn to real life, real life, everyday life. And so that's what makes Unix. So in order to move from one topic, and we cover the five core issues of AFA. In order to move from one core issue to the next, you have to complete the activate side of it. So you have to apply what you learned. And just here's just a couple examples. And yes, some of it's kind of, tentious, but one of the ways. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of it is when you, I believe it's the pro-life section. And this does, this is also the truth for a couple of other units, but you have to ask your pastor what his position and your church's position is on the life issue. And so that would be one of a couple different ways that we say, hey, do one of these things. And that's living. And then on the marriage and family side topic, I remember one of them being to have dinner with someone who has been married longer than you and older than you and just listen and take in some of their experiences, what they've learned, but that's putting yourself in a position that you wouldn't otherwise be challenged in. And so that's what it really sets activate apart. We covered the five core issues of AFA, and we covered them with great phenomenal professors, phenomenal content. We covered it also from an apologetic standpoint, like how we teach ourselves, how can we respond and engage on these issues out in public? But most importantly, what really sets this worldview training apart that AFA and AFS has created is a side that really challenges you to live out what you what you just learned. And how can people access the activate curriculum?

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    Activate.afa.net. That's activate.afa.net. We have three different ways or three different subscriptions. you can purchase it in the small group or you can purchase it in the church group. And on the website it explains the variations of the differences there. So we hope to and we are currently planning on over the next four or five years each summer to have an activate summit here at the headquarters or around the headquarters of of AFA at Chippewa Mississippi. And each year we're gonna cover one of the core issues. And so we'll be able to dive much deeper at the activate summit than we would be able to do in the actual training course. So we've worked for that for many years and prayed about it. And that right there, I'll end with this. That right there, that right there, you like that? That right there is a project. Y'all, y'all listeners asked for and we gave. Yeah. Well, hey, let me give out the number And then I do want to comment on one of my one of my what was one of the most helpful Sessions for me okay 877 616 23 9 6 I know Jonathan our director of radios in the in the sheriff on central saying That's wrong when dad asked you for the number. I was just like in a spit it off Probably 300 times today. Yeah 8 7 7 6 1 6 2 3 9 6 to donate to a far go over to a far net but the life that you covered. That's an entire section of the activate curriculum. Scott Clusendorf is a gentleman that did that. He's a professor. But he answers all the arguments in favor of abortion. Yeah, all the objections. He answers them all point by point and breaks them all down in a very concise and simple manner for people to understand. what understand. Yeah. What are the five core issues? I don't know if you mentioned them. I did not. I didn't want to hog the radio. I didn't want to hog the mic. You got stewardship.

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    That's one of them. You've got marriage and family. You got religious liberty. You got the life issue. And what was the fourth? What was the fifth one? Now you're putting me on the spot. Yeah, we have six core values, but we narrowed this down to five. Right. So you'll have to subscribe to find that's right. That's right. It's a marriage and family, religious liberty, stewardship, that's a marriage and family learning life. And there's a fifth one, walkers point it up. I've already mentioned that. Walkers point it up. I got you. Well, you're thinking of that though. I mean, this is so great. And the example that you just gave about going to your pastor and asking those questions, that is so important. Everyone should be doing that when they either join a church when they're anticipating, need to ask the essential questions of your leadership and know where do they stand on these issues. You don't want to wait a year into it and then suddenly you're going to wait. They've never preached this around life. What happened in sanctity of life Sunday or they say something that then you disagree with or if you've been at a church for a decade and you still don't know where they stand on certain issues. I mean, these are things that are so important so that you know that you are in a fellowship that is promoting the truth and has the right doctrine. I mean, that's so important on the life issue, but also all of theology. So what a great way to put that into practice. Yeah. Yeah. And so IFA at Antraquash and AFA has five core values, and we covered them a few minutes ago. Morale, we have six morality and evangelism and discipleship. But what we did here with activate with morality and evangelism and discipleship as we bundled it in underneath the topic. So we have four core topics covered by activate sanctity of life, marriage and family, religious liberty and stewardship. there is the ones you mentioned. Okay, so I didn't, that's one. You were right. We were just saying five when it was four. That's right. And I have two questions, one for Jen and one for Tim. First, Jen, I wanted to ask you, because it seems providential, that God allowed for Governor Ron DeSantis to still be in Florida, where you had the two storms that hit which, you know, that storms really resonate with me.

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    You guys know my story, thrusted westward because of Hurricane Katrina, but with Hurricane Elaine and then this hurricane, Milton, that made landfall. What has been on the ground, your experience with a Governor's Santises leadership? And I would add in, seems like soon after he announced that the Florida Coast Guard, the state guard, then two other entities and even the Florida Department of Transportation were going to respond to the potential strike by the the port workers. The port strike just kind of evaporated. interesting. So what is that? Like on the ground there with governor, you know, his leadership has just been absolutely phenomenal. And he is somebody who does not care about attribution or attention or negative comments or media, he just gets things done. And I have been really privileged, especially having him almost two years ago, if you believe this now, a resident of Florida, working with his office more closely, you know, getting to know people in his office. And it It is just amazing to me to see how much foresight he has and somebody who works for him close to him told me, you know, he is the guy who sat down, read the entire Florida State Constitution and said, I want to know the provisions. I want to know my powers. I want to know the other powers and who I need to go to if it's not one of my powers. I can exercise and get this done. I mean, that is a leader and somebody who takes that leadership seriously and you have seen him martial those powers and execute them with such precision that even with Florida Amendment for which we should all be in Florida opposing and voting against that's the extreme amendment to the state constitution that would cement a so-called right to abortion in our state constitution. He has had like 17 different ways of attacking this and one of the great things that he prevailed in is having an impact statement that is now on the ballot that is convincing a lot of even pro-choice voters to oppose it because the impact says that likely taxpayers will end up responsible for a lot of the abortions in the state which even pro-choice voters do not want.

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    And so that was something where even though it stayed on the ballot he'd just go, ah well I tried one way. And so what you're seeing with his response to the hurricane is somebody who genuinely cares about being a statesman and imagine if we had that type of leadership in every red state, how much more of an impact we would have with especially Christian leadership. And I love, I was on a phone call and I'll end with this. I was on a phone call with him with other faith leaders about amendment for and not only was he praying, you know, on the phone with, with everyone, but he specifically said as a part of opposing amendment for he said, we cannot, we can't underscore how important it is that every Christian in Florida has to pray. And he said, that is the number one way that we can impose this. I thought, what an amazing thing. Yeah. I have so much respect for him. That's amazing. Let me, I'll give the number one more time for those who still coming in late say, wait, Abe, don't close the gate yet. Well, I'm not closing the gate. The number to participate in Sharethon is 877-616-2396. The number again is 877-616-2396, or you can give securely online at aFR.net. Tim, I want to pass this question on to you because among us here at the desk, you have been a part of the most Sharethons here. When you see how how the Lord continues to move people to support this work, to support this ministry financially, how does that resonate with you having seen the ministry grow first from what your dad started and are you leading it now? And then seeing to where the Lord has brought the ministry to now, how does that impact you, seeing that over the years? And even this particular Sharethon. Well, I'm trying to think back to our first Sharethon, I think it was 1991. I know this one, we went on the air. I don't know if that's when we had our first Sharethon, it went over into 1992, but I want to say the first one was like $75,000 or something like that.

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    Of course, we only had like one or two stations, you know, on the air at that time. And we're going to bump up against $4 million. Well, we're over $4 million pledged for this particular share of thorns. So the money's obviously grown. And the listenership has grown enormously because we're, you know, we have nearly 170 radio stations now. So it just, you know, to be able to able to reach out across America and now with our radio stations and now with the app. The app's been a game changer for us because now people like Jenna's dad can listen in Colorado where we don't even have a radio station. So we're able to accomplish our mission. Our mission is to equip and inform and we tell people about the Lord and the Bible and excuse me. by cutting in and out. You all, I think you speak up a little bit. OK, but anyway, so we're doing everything. You mentioned the five values. We're doing everything now with our microphone that we have to communicate to, especially to the Christian community all across America, how to be involved, how to be engaged, how to know what's going on, how to share your faith, how to stand for the word of God, all those things. It's a comprehensive biblical worldview that we communicate 24-7 here at American Family Radio And we're just excited that we're able to have the funds to be able to do that. Yeah. It's one thing to have a vision. And it's another thing to, to have the means to do it. And so our listeners are continually every share time providing us with the means to carry out our mission. Amen. And you don't just communicate it. You also live it. And I have loved being part of AFA seeing the leadership here actually doing what they're communicating. and I have so much respect for this ministry for that reason too. Amen. For those today's issue listeners that are tuning in right now, is there any, can I use the word, polythera? You can. Yeah, that's a good word. Yes. It's a very common word that we use on today's issue.

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    And we have a lot of fun with it. Bobby, I thought that was our word. Oh, no. Well, Abe's probably got his word. You got a word? Here to four. You got a word from the bombs plus today. Here to four. Here to four. Here to four is traditionally a today's issue. That's a Friday after. That's a fried drivet. Try to save that word. That's right. Try to save that word. We do have the beautiful thing, from one of the beautiful things for me personally is I'm driving home, or if I'm listening to my lunch break, is the plethora of different types of radio content that we offer. The addition just in the last year, Dr. Nurse Mom, Dr. Pekdas celebrated her one year on being on AF-4. Between that particular type of content from Jenna's So there you have a Bible teaching, then you finish with Abe in the afternoon, a little bit of hybrid of both. I mean, you just really get a really good saturation or plethora of Christian worldview content here on American Family Radio that covers all aspects. And it's archived so you can go back and listen to it. If you're not able to be at the radio, when you're one of your favorite shows at all, you can go back and listen to it later. At other program, we just added in the last month or two is Katie Faust with them before us organization podcast. Yes. Yeah. Well, no, she's on the weekend. Okay. Yeah. We started out with a podcast, but she's on Saturdays and Sundays. We re-aired on Sundays, but she's focusing on the right of children to have both their mom and their dad. And she just really holds in on that topic, which is an issue that we're facing today in our society. So yeah, tons of great content and a variety of different topics discussed on the radio. I have one listener, Merle is a frequent avid listener, is still campaigning for us to get a station for Trinidad and Tobago. Okay, all right. Or at least let the app get into Trinidad and Tobago. You guys were mentioning, I get notes from, we have listeners in China. One is a government employee listening under, sees through the app from all over the world, but she said, you better not sell your stations to George Soros.

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    Don't worry about that. Don't worry about that. I'm putting all caps never. Yes, right, yes. You have to read it in that. In that. That's what I was thinking. I typed it when I'm thinking. That's wrong. Yeah. Let me speak to that for a second. I've mentioned before on different programs throughout Sheraton and that first time on this program, there's three reasons that I've concluded after traveling for 10 years and beaten over 16,000 of our financial supporters hand shake face to face three things I've concluded that the reason for the the advancement of AFA and the healthiness of it, is because one pop-all Don Wildman never owed no, never the prescription don't owe no many anything. So we've been there. They're saying hi. They're saying hi. They're saying hi to the kids. I like you. They do. They want to say hi. We've been. That's not me. That's not me. That's no, it's not. I'll go get him. We've been there free. I've lost my train of thought. Sorry. No, no, no, no. Really? What do you think? I wonder why the ministry's been for State Reserve, you say. That's great. The one I was getting to was we had it. We haven't compromised on truth. Amen. No, no, no, no, no. It's me not selling our towers. And I never thought we would end the program with Iraq as barking, top or tie. But, but, but. But cheering for the top or tie reminding you that there's a fight before. That's right. So the Lord has staffed us and let's make sure that our bite is worse than our bark. That's it. Wonderful. If anybody can fix that as I...

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