August 31, 2025 • 43 mins
current events, Catholic School shootings, power of prayer. Also trips with our sons to baseball games.
Concludes w/ update on the Temple Mount and comments on Cracker Barrel, a business that did not know their customer base!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Usa.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Hi everyone, I'm David Chadwick and this is News Talk
eleven ten, ninety ninety three WBT.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
In case you don't know, this is a faith and
values program that tries to intersect faith and values with
what's going on locally and globally. Thank you for listening
now for over twenty five years. Many thanks to Perry's
Find Jewelry for your sponsorship of this show. Without you,
I could not do this on a weekly basis. Well,
I've asked ed Billick to open his microphone and join
(01:56):
me for this hour. Happy Labor Day weekend. It's a
wonderful time of year. I'm going to spend some time
in just a little bit explaining to you the history
of Labor Day and its purpose, and also the value
of work and how God created work is a good thing.
You might not like getting up and going to work,
but it sure is better than the alternative laziness simply
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brings nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Ed.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Good morning to you. Thank you for joining me.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Morna were David, and tomorrow welcome to September already.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Already it's hard to.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Believe see you in September.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I'll not let you sing that one to me. Let's
take a moment and just start today's show with a
reflection on the shooting that happened this week. Do you
remember a little bit of the history of it where
it happened, And also it happened in a Catholic school,
and you of are the Catholic tradition, and I know
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this must have touched you as well.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I was in Minneapolis a couple weeks ago, and I
think we'll talk about that a little bit later. But
this is not far from my son's house. And the
Catholic community in many Apolis is extremely strong. There's Catholic colleges,
there's numerous Catholic parishes. And yeah, usually in Wednesdays in
Catholic schools, the kids go to mass. We used to
do the same, and that's where all this occurred.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well, and the shooter identified as trans, And I'm going
to make this statement. I often go where angels fear
to tread, but I really believe trans people have mental illness.
You know, when God created people, he created the male
and female in Genesis one, verses twenty six and twenty seven,
and any alteration of God's original intent must have some
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kind of rebellion against God's order and that disorder we
would call mental illness, and him killing two kids and
then wounding another seventeen in Minneapolis is a sad event,
but also is something we need to recognize as not normal.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Well, David, you know that being said, the demonic exposures
this young person had and influences, I mean, there is
a degree of mental illness there.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That was just horrific.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, and the apostle Paul said, we're not warring against
flesh and blood, the powers and principalities of the darkness.
Who knows demonic influences and so many of these bizarre cases.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
That person needed a lot of help, and it's amazing
us in a society we can't see that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well. And then we have Jen Psaki going on television
and former Biden communications director, and she makes this bizarre
statement that what people don't want today are people's prayers.
They want action and probably gun activism and the relinquishment
of guns in people's possessions. And I just want to
make a statement right now, my prayers cannot change someone's
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free will. God gave us free will, And if a
mentally ill person takes a gun and wants to shoot children,
because of whatever reason, I can't change his free will. Well,
what I can do is pray for God's comfort to
come to the people who are going through agony, for
God's grace to give them ministering life, and hopefully somehow,
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some way the prayers do make a difference. But to
eliminate prayer from the public arena on something as horrific
as this, to me, is an awful statement about who
she is in her heart regarding faith.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I don't think she understands the power of prayer.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I don't think I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Pass judgment, but she needs to understand what the power
of prayer is.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
So we about to pray for.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Her right and all of us around the nation who
are concerned about this. What else can we do except
offer our prayers and condolences to the families and continue
to pray that people would come to faith in God
and make the right decisions about their life and order
their lives in accordance with God's order, especially in creation
design in Genesis chapters one and two.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I also think we ought to be disciples to others
and for those that need that are all in the darkness,
needs some help, reach out.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
To them absolutely, well, it's Labor Day weekend. Where in
the world did Labor Day come from? Well, interestingly, it
was formed, as I understand it, in eighteen ninety four
as the union bosses all throughout America decided to get
together and celebrate their hard work in making America, especially
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in its industrialization, a great nation and all the prosperity
that was coming to us by then. There was a
parade in New York City during that time period, which
then led to Grover Cleveland being offered a chance to
make this into a national holiday, which he did so.
Since eighteen ninety four, the first Monday in September has
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been called Labor Day. Why in the world is it
the first Monday in Labor Day being our date in Americas,
Because that's when the first parade happened. That's when Grover
Cleveland signed this declaration into past six.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Time of the year, summer vacations or over kids going
back to school, it's time to get back to work.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And actually a lot of people think that was the
plan between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, to give
a holiday where people could just do whatever they wanted
to do, have faith, family parades, whatever, just have a
time period where they could do whatever they want to do.
And honestly, ed, you just said something very important. Labor
is a gift from God. We see work being given
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to us in that creation design in Genesis one and two,
and God called it good manual labor, dress, tilling and
keeping the land. Mental labor, the idea of naming the
animals given to Adam. Mental and manual labor are both
gifts from God. We need to celebrate Labor Day tomorrow
and say it's a gift from God to work. And
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when you accomplish something, just like God did at the
end of creation, he said, this is good. When you
accomplish something, it feels good.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Well, David anove an endorp from but your counselor, I mean,
I trimmed the shrubs this week. How's down on my
hands and knees cleaning out the beads, trim and shrubs.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I felt good about it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Absolutely. And you look at a job completed, you say,
good work. And that is why labor is a good
gift from God. We should celebrate Labor Day accordingly. When
we come back, let's you and me talk about a
way we celebrated family. Recently, you took your boys on
a Midwest trip to baseball games. I took my two
sons last week to New York City to watch two
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New York Yankees versus the Red Sox games. Great times
with kids, great times with baseball. Let's talk about that
as a value in our lives. I'm David Chadwick, will
be right back.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Blessed my soul, Oh, my soulship his wholely name.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Si f.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So worship. There's just something powerful about praise. When we
do so, it causes the problems to get less and
less in our lives. However, you one. I'm David Chadwick
and this is News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine three WBT.
(09:37):
Welcome back to the show. Let me just take a
moment say this, Hey Charlotte, It's time for the sixth
annual WBT Little Heroes Blood Drive. On Thursday September, the
fourth WBT and one Blood Big Red Bus will be
at the Doghouse in Uptown Charlotte from ten am to
three pm. We'll be broadcasting live and encouraging you to
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make a life saving blood donation. It's the sixth annual
WBT Little Heroes Blood Drive. Thursday September the fourth at
the doghouse in Uptown. Let you help give life to
another person. Well, I have my friend ed Billick with
his microphone open during this time period and especially this
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segment ed because recently you decided to do special, special
something with your son in the Midwest. Talk about that please.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
He lives in St.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Anthony Park, David's between Minneapolis and Saint Paul, and he
moved there here a couple of years ago. But he
still has a lot of his stuff, like a lot
of you do you hold your kids stuff, you become
a storage unit. Anyhow, he wanted all our vinyl albums.
I don't play the vinyl albums anymore, so my wife
and I said you can have them. Okay, so you
have those. They're heavy, there's boxes of them, and it's
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some furniture and some other personal items he wanted to
take to his house. We've been planning this all summer,
but the premise was why we are tripped there. We
have he hit two or three major league ballparks. He
flies in celebrates his mom, Jackie's birthday. We take off
Thursday morning. We drive to Pittsburgh. We see Paul Skenes
in the Pittsburgh Pirates play the Cincinnati Reds. Being a
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big Pittsburgh guy, we stayed downtown right across from the
William Penn Hotel. It just brought back a lot of
memories us still building and all that. Next morning day
we get up and we drive to Milwaukee. Well, how
far is Pittsburgh for Milwaukee. It's a good ten hours
Ohio Turnpike going an easy pass. Here's the first Well,
there's a lot of God moments. Of course, in great conversations.
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You and I know the card time is special.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Can't spell love t I am Oh.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
He just told stories and reminisced.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You know.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Now he's forty two, so his remembrances when he.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Was a child and all that. But patience.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
The Indiana Tollway was a mess with construction, and you
use the ways app to say, okay, what time we're
gonna get there. Well, I figured we get there two
hours before the game. We can relax, have dinner, Da
da da, And so I'm starting to say we going
to really make make the game. San prayers myself and
the patients. With all the construction. We got out of Indiana.
We get into Chicago. In the Chicago Expressway, there's a
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car on fire. So waves took us through these neighborhoods.
We're in like we're we're like in front of golf courses.
When are we gonna get back on the highway. We
get the Milwaukee David and it was special. The Milwaukee
Brewer fans there's still they're still recognizing Bob Buker. They
did a celebration for him last week. I've never been
to Milwaukee at the stadium. It was wonderful. Forty three
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thousand people. The sausages ran around. You know, we're rooting
for the sausages in Pittsburgh. The parogi's are running around.
But you know, here's the first. The other thing, there's
a lady sitting next to me, and you know, first impressions,
you're talking to person probably my age. You guys, do
I want to get in a conversation. I finally broke
the ice and said hello to her. My son's talking
to another guy about his age. Her parents had season
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tickets to the Milwaukee Braves back in the sixties.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
She has working on and oh Uber dead all those guys.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
So we have wonderful conversations.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
And then she's telling me about when the Brewers came
in there just there was a whole history. It was
just wonderful. Her and I become like buddies. They're talking David.
After they sing take me out to the ballgame. They sing,
roll out the barrel and they hold their beverages, roll
out the barrel. It was just a wonderful time. The
uber driver took us back to the hotel, had a
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lot of stories about Bob Buker.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
It was so wonderful.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
The next day we drive to his house in St.
Anthony Park, rained all the way through Wisconsin. Uh, just
just great times, you know, having again more West Costin sausages.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
We go to the.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Twins Royals game on Sunday. I said to him, going
to Park, I'd love to see some of the old timers,
Tony Oliva. I hope I run into them once. You know,
there's Tony o Leva in the dugout, off to the dugout,
signing on the kidd. Guy goes to me, how was Tony.
My son goes, who's Tony o Leva. He's eighty seven
years old now, but he's out there signing.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
On the great hitters in all of baseball history.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Quality time with my son. It was wonderful. I flew
back on, you know, on on Tuesday, went to a
wonderful Catholic mass there in Minneapolis. So I mean just
it was just good time spent.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
How about you. Well, you know we didn't do this
planning our summers together. But let me just go back
real quickly in my life. When I was growing up
here in Charlotte, North Carolina, there was a minor league
baseball team called the Charlotte Hornets. It was the affiliate
of the Washington Senators who played way back.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
For We went to Minnesota Original Center, you remember, second
Senators went to Texas.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
But this is moving on.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I'll never forget when I was a kid, my dad
came home and he was a pastor, very busy trying
to build a church. One day, out of the blue,
he said, do you want to go to watch one
of the Charlotte Hornet baseball games? And I said, man, Dad,
I'd love to. And we went to the game. I
can remember getting out of the car walking with him
hand in hand, you know, trying to jump up and
look over the fence to see the big ball. We
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went to the game that night, and then Dad made
that a regular part of our lives together. Yet I
can remember end of the sixth inning, we'd go have
a snow cone together. He'd get grape, I'd get orange,
and we'd go sit in the same seats every single game,
and repeatedly we went to see those games. And I
didn't have this planned with you either. But some of
the players who came through the Charlotte system and ended
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up in and with the Nationals were Harmon Killerbrew, Joe Nassik,
the center field who played in the major leagues. And
the other one I remember more than ever, Tony Oliva,
who played here in Charlotte and became a great Major
League player and a wonderful person. As I understand, at eighty.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Seven years old, he's still signing on a bus.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Just amazing to me. So Dad and I had a
love affair with baseball that we shared together, and even
when he was ready to die at the age of
ninety one, he was watching the Atlanta Braves on television
on a regular basis. So baseball is entrenched in my heart.
Is something that I loved with my father. So this summer,
I have a friend of mine who is a partial
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owner of the New York Yankees, and he said to me,
would you ever like to come to a game in
New York and bring your boys with you?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
And have you ever been before?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I'd never been before, so I said sure. So this
past week we flew up to New York, my two
sons and I and we spent forty eight hours. We
got to see two New York Yankees and Red Sox games,
which I think in baseball might be the most fierce
rivalry that there is in the Yankee Stadium in the
Owner's box. And then around that we also went to
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the Statue of Liberty on the Ferry Ellis Island. We
went to Ground zero. We also went to the top
of the Empire State Building. So in forty eight hours
we crammed a lot of life into that along with
two you and yours, my two sons, and we just
had the greatest time together. Like you, we just sat
and talked and we walked off from the Central Park.
We just talked about all of our life together, that
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which had happened over the last you know, thirty plus years,
as both of them have entered into their thirties and ed.
It was just a wonderful time together. And I just
sat there and went I shared with my boys what
my dad and I shared together for years. And I
would just encourage every dad out there to find something
that your sons love and go do it together and
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just spend that precious time together. For I still have
memories of going to baseball games with my dad. My
boys have now written me both and said, Dad, that
was one of the most fun times we've ever had
in our lives. As we moved through the rest of
our lives together, they'll always remember that and it was
an encouraging moment I'll never forget, I'm sure for you as.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Well, you know, And I was just thinking of this.
You're talking about quality time, spending memories. Just think about
Jesus spending time with his disciples and those quality moments
that he had, well he was on this earth, I mean,
the church grew from them.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, and there might be a dad out there, so oh,
I've lost these moments with my kids. They're now adults. No,
Jesus had three and a half years with these guys,
and he changed the world.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Create new ones, use new.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Ones, now, find a common interest that you just love.
And we also had some time interesting ed to pray
together up in New York and to develop that spiritual
life together, which I find so meaningful as well. Bottom line,
we'll never forget those forty eight hours together. They literally
were life transformed. Like a father's day show here, well,
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it's a labor day show and there's a lot of
work that goes into parenting. It's one of the greatest
works of all is to give yourself to your children.
Just remember, dear listeners, that one of the greatest labors
that we can give our children is to spend time
with them, and that means carving out time in your schedule.
I did that for forty eight hours. My boys did
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that as well. Both of them have their own careers
right now, but we spent that time together, and together
we reflected on our lives in the past years and
then it brought up a new focus and love together
for a future together. And baseball was that cement that
brought us together. For you Ed as well with your son.
It is a memory that we'll never forget. And here's
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what I said to my wife. Yeah, it costs a
little bit of money, but I like to pay money
to create memories. That is money well spent. I'm David
Chadwick and we will be right back.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
There's a joy that over all our souls because we
don't our God is.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
A console of the fot.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
What's your favor for?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Every day is a great day, because just a day
that the Lord has made. Hi everyone, I'm David Chadwick
and this is News Talk eleven ten, ninety ninety three WBT.
Welcome back to the show. And if you'd like to
hear this program in its entirety, go to WBT dot com.
Scroll down to the weekend shows, look for the David
Chadwick Show and you can hear this one kind of
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Poe Piie Labor Day show that looks at a bunch
of different topics through the lenses of faith and values.
If you didn't hear the last segment on Ed's and
My trip to baseball time with our boys Ed in
the Midwest, Me and New York City, you will really
enjoy that.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Oh, there were so many other stories that go into
that that we can spin off, but we got to
move on.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
We could spend a whole show on that one alone.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
But it was a special time with children.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Special times, Yeah, for sure. You know what. That's what
I've learned through the years that when they're younger, you're
their father. As they grow up, you become their friend.
And that's a pretty cool thing. Well, listen, let's change subjects.
And you know, a couple of weeks ago, I did
a program on the Temple Mount. And the reason I
did that is because I believe with all my heart,
as you look at different Bible prophecies, we're always told
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to look at the mid East. And I've always believed
that as you look at prophecy and in times and
those kind of things, look at Israel. And Israel is
the face of the clock. The minute hand is the
city of Jerusalem, and the second hand is the Temple Mount.
All three of those Israel, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount
have to do with Biblical prophecy. So I did that
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show on looking at the Temple Mount because just getting
a lot of attention today, I talked about how amazingly
there are signs in Jerusalem right now, brown signs pointing
to it says on the signs the Temple on the
Temple Mount. Well, people ask the question, I don't think
there is a third temple yet, is there? I mean,
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there was the one built by Solomon, then destroyed, then
rebuilt by Zerubabul and Herod now destroyed, and the Temple
Mount only has the Alaska Mosque, which is the third
holiest site of all of Islam. There's no temple on
the Temple Mount.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
When you say signs physical.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Sign physical road signs that say to the Temple on
the Temple Mount. In nineteen eighty seven, the Temple Institute
was formed with the whole idea of rebuilding the Third Temple,
that being Israel's most holy site. Not it's third like Islam,
it's most holy site. They want to rebuild the Temple,
and in nineteeneen eighty seven the Temple Institute began studies
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and plans to rebuild the Third Temple. Well, it's causing
problems internationally because the Muslim Arab world is saying, no,
we don't want that temple up there. It's our third
most holy site in all of our world. It's not
going to happen. The Jews are saying, yes, it will.
In nineteen sixty seven, the Jordanians were given control of
the Temple Mount by the Jews because they knew that
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was a potential international conflagration, a fire starter, if you will.
But over the last couple few years especially more and
more Jews are going on the Temple mount and starting
to lay prostrate before the Lord, also to pray before
the Lord and before and Marylyn and I were just
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there a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Well physically sits there.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
It is the Alaska Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Okay,
the third most holy sites for all of Islam. And
when Marilyn and I were there for two years ago,
we saw Jordanian guards walking around with AK forty seven's
telling people you can't pray unless you're a Muslim praying
on this holy site. Well, what's happening now is more
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and more Jews are going up there actually challenging those
Jordanian guards and praying. Well, they're not going to do anything.
They're not going to cause a problem by firing upon
those Jews who are praying. One of them has been Gavier,
one of the most orthodox members of the Kanesset, who's
going up there to pray. But ed, here's my point.
This past week a person went up there, and some
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people say it's the first time in two thousand years.
I don't think so. I think it's the first time
in several years. But there's only been one or two
times this has happened. But a person went up there
and blew the show far. Now what's the show far?
That's a rams horn that if you look at biblically,
for example, in Isaiah twenty seven thirteen, there's this verse,
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and it shall come to pass on that day that
a great show far shall be sounded, and those lost
in the land of Assyria and those exiled in the
land of Egypt shall come, and they shall be lying
prostrate before the Law on the mount in the Holy
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Place in Jerusalem. Now that's just an amazing verse to
declare that when the show far is blown on the
Temple Mount, it will symbol lies to all of those
people who've been taken captive and are dispersed all around
the world to come back to Jerusalem. And it's a
sign that that is going to be the beginning of
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the building of the Third Temple on the Temple Mount.
Now what's so fascinating to me as well, is right
after this sho far was blown by a significant rabbi,
an important person in Orthodox Judaism, the Temple Mount came
out with just a simple three word statement, it is happening.
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That's all they said. It is happening. Now, the response
from the Arab world they call this as provocative and unprecedented,
as a violation of the agreement between the Jews and
the Muslim world, particularly letting the Jordanians oversee the Temple Mount.
They're saying that prayers and singing where there is a
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mosque dedicated to Islam is only inviting all kinds of
potential conflict between Jews and Arabs. Yet, with us understanding
what the Temple Mount said, it is happening, it causes
all of us to pause as we look at the
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Temple Mount and the potential intense problems that will be
there if the Jews continue to persist, first of all,
going on the Temple Mount. And now there are thousands
going on the Temple Mount, prostrating themselves, worshiping the Lord,
praying to the Lord, and now blowing the show far,
which is the symbol of calling Jews to worship, calling
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them to repentance, and biblically calling them to war. And
with the blowing of the show far, and this statement
it is happening, is that the it being the rebuilding
of the Third Temple, You're just looking again at a
potential international problem that will allow the Jews to say, no,
we don't want a two state solution, which I think
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is going to come up in September. More and more
through the United Nations pressure on the Jews to have
a two state solution. They don't want a two state
solution because if you allow a Palestinian state to exist
right next to them, a state that does not want
the Jewish nation even to exist, you're only inviting more
international problems. Benjamin Netan, Yahoo, the Kanesse and all Jews
know that's going to be a problem. So that's why
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you may see more and more the establishment of a
Jewish state without another Palestinian state fighting against the two
state solution, only causing more international pressure in that part
of the world. Again, I keep asking myself, why does
the Bible teach that that part of the world, this
little sliverer land the size of the state of New
Jersey being the focus of all of prophetic events, And
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that's what's happening exactly today.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
At any thought, David, we're I mean, an average American
is not even paying attention to this. Yeah, well, where
can you get where do you find this information? And
to make it sound so intense. Should we be concerned
as Americans?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Well, I think so, because what will happen there will
invite the world to be drawn into that conflict. We
have some prophecies in the Bible regarding a group of nations,
a coalition of nations basically revolving around Russia, Iran, and Turkey,
and also some nations from the South coming against Israel.
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And as you look at that, you're seeing some strange
ideologies coming together from the Russians, the Iranians, and the
Turkey people, and they're all coming together with this common
hatred of Israel, thus fulfilling some kind of prophecy that
we read in Ezekiel thirty eight. So, yes, Ed, I
think we need to continue to look at this, and
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I think we need to look at the nation of Israel,
the capital city of Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount as
a focus of international tension. The Bible says so, And
we're seeing it happen before our own.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
This conflict there's just passed down through generations, through generations,
we teach our young this and it's just it's it's always.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Scary, yeah, And everybody's trying to find an answer, some
kind of peace and security that will exist in that
part of the land.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
We've been trying for how long it's.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Been going on since day one, and certainly in nineteen
forty eight when Israel was formed, it has intensified for
the moment the entire world granted Israel a homeland on
May the fourteenth, nineteen forty eighth. The very next day,
seven Arab nations surrounded Israel and tried to extricate them
from the land. And you've seen this kind of conflict
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happen in the fifties and in the nineteen sixties, and
then of course the Six Day War in nineteen seventy three,
when the Jews took back Jerusalem and the Temple mount
then allowed the Jordanians to oversee it. You've just seen
this conflict going on and on and on and on
to the point on October the seventh, October the third
excuse me, twenty twenty three, when Hamas invaded Israel at
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being of great intensity and great global terror. And now
we have this as being a part of our obvious
reality today. So Ed, you're right, we need to pray,
we need to ask for God's peace upon that area
of the world. Psalm one, twenty two verse six, as
pray for the peace of Jerusalem. It is supposed to
be in our prayers. Regularly. My wife sets her alarm
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clock every day at eleven fifty nine to pray for
the hostages. I hope all of us will continue to
pray those hostages would be released. If they were our children,
we'd want them released. And God again bring peace to
that area of the world. I'm David Chadwick and we
will be right back.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
There's peace, third old last darkness.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Hope that's it. Daughter, there's future Greeks.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
That's my daddy.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
That Jesus Christ is on.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
So I can face tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
For tomorrows in your Oh me you love prove Just
think you alwaisa.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
And it's a great word that's coming up. We're fighting
battles that God has already won. No matter no matter
what comes our way, we have overcome. We don't know
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what God's doing in our moment, but we do know
what He's gone. We're fighting battles, dear friends, that God
has already won.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Everyone, I'm David Chadwick and this is News Talk eleven
ten ninety nine to three WBT. What a great word.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Uh, you know folks, We don't practice this stuff. It
just comes from his heart.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Well, my heart is I have to trust the Lord,
because where else can I go? You know, in all
the difficulties of this world, where else can I go
except to him?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
There's no other place.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
He only holds the words to eternal life and hope
in this world. Well Ed, thank you for joining me
in this show today. And I think I probably would
be remiss if I don't just comment on the Cracker
Barrel fiasco that has been going on this past week.
You know, this is a faith and values program that
tries to intersect faith and values with what's going on
in the world locally and globally. And the truth is,
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Cracker Barrel has lost over the past week one hundred
and forty three plus million dollars ten percent of its
guaranteed income lost totally because of this rebranding that has
gone on by a fairly aggressive CEO and others that
are trying to make it more contemporary, maybe more woke
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as well. They have taken Uncle Herschel, as he has
been affectionately nicknamed, off the logo. He's now been put
back on. By the way, at the end of this week,
in response to the tremendous financial loss that has occurred.
And this has been very interesting to follow for me
because it's yet another example of I think Middle America,
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where a lot of these cracker barrels exist, rising up
and saying no, we don't want this to be rebranded.
We don't want one of our traditions from the past
that honors a cultural America that was more traditional, more conservative.
We will not allow this to happen. It'll be interesting
how it gets played out in the next weeks, but
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I think this will cause leadership of cracker barrel to
pause and to say, wait a minute, maybe we went
too far. And you know, we spent a segment earlier
today talking about baseball and how you took your son
to three different Major League Baseball games in the Midwest.
I did the same thing in the last week with
my two boys up to New York City to watch
the Yankees. Baseball is a traditional part of American life.
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It's like apple pie. And why at the middle of
the seventh inning around the country at baseball games, to
people rise for what's called the seventh inning stretch. Yeah,
and then everybody sings. Take me out to the ballgame.
They did that at Yankee Stadium last week. My guess
is they did that in the Yeah, it's just part
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of tradition. And if people tried to change that tradition
in baseball, you'd have baseball fans by the millions all
around America saying no, that's a part of our life.
So there are traditions in America that woke politicians and
people cannot take away from, particularly the center parts of
American life, the traditional values in the planes, if you will,
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in the non coastal areas where liberalism seems to prosper.
And I just believe Cracker Barrel is experiencing the divide
that's in America to day between Red states and blue states,
and whether you like it or not, the Red States
elected President Trump and other people as well, and there
is that desire for tradition to still be a part
of our American life.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
At first, I thought us as a big deal about nothing,
and then when you really understand the history, and then
I'm sitting here listening to you. You know, I grew
up with heinz Ketchup. That's the same label. Would I
be upset if they change the label? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
I got other things to worry about.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
It Freedo's Cornships. That's the same label from nineteen thirty two.
There are certain values faith and values show that people
gravitate to and the loyalty that people have with cracker
Barrel that that was a slap in their faces.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I can see it now. And what why do you
go down those words?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
I do that?
Speaker 5 (38:57):
Why do you upset your clientele? Do you not know
your customer base?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
And you know what's interesting as well, there is an
immense return to faith among gen Zers. As we have
seen people walk away from faith in the last years,
politicians and others are surprised at how many gen Zers,
the younger denomination, are returning to faith because they know
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without faith, people will go awry to all different places,
and eventually our society will erode and will not be established.
So I just think there is an interesting phenomenon going
on right now on college campuses all throughout America. Right now,
there are thousands of students gathering in the public places
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on those college campuses and they're worshiping, They're singing praises
to Almighty God. Something's going on in our nation where
younger people and I think older people as well, like
you and me Ed, are saying we cannot let the
traditional values erode from our nation, things that made this
nation great. We've got to reclaim them, reassert them as
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a part of our lives. And I think cracker Barrel
is merely a microcosm of the macrocosm I think we're
seeing in the pushback there a pushback in America in
general among a lot of people like Ed Billick and
David Chadwick, and our children and our children's children. Because
I now have ten grandchildren soon to be twelve with
two new births coming, I see among my three children
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a real desire for traditional American faith and values to
be a part of their family's life. So let's make
sure we do so. I think this is a part
of what we need to do. We need to push
back and say no, that's not what we believe. We
believe something different. And when that pushback comes, and it
especially affects the pocketbook, you'll have people change according to.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
Where do I spend my money?
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Now? That kind of thing. Hey, it still talks, don't it.
Certain money does reflect a lot of things. When we
only have a couple of minutes left in the program ed,
I'd like just to spend this time saying to everyone,
in whatever is going on in your life, turn to
the scripture and find words of comfort there. I recently
did a study of the Book of Psalms, all of
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the one hundred and fifty, and I looked at each
time there's a phrase that says my about God. And
I want to end our programs in the weeks and
months to come with those promises that say, for example,
in Psalm twenty eight to eight, that God is My strength.
For all of you out there who feel exhausted and
you just can't keep going on, you feel so tired.
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Life has built you some horrible blows. Would you believe
that God is your personal strength, that He will come
alongside you today and give you the strength you need
to move forward? Or Psalm three to three that God
is your shield. A shield protects people in battle. As
you feel the battles raging around you, would you believe
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that God is your personal shield, as David said in
Psalm three to three, for you, O Lord, are a
shield for me my glory and the lifter of my head.
That God will lift your head in all that you're
going through. Would you dare to believe in Psalm eighteen
to two that God is your fortress, that you can
go to Him, close the gate around you, and God
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will protect you from all of the enemies that surrounds you.
Would you also believe in Psalm eighteen to two that
God is your deliverer whatever you're going through, that He
will deliver you from those problems, for that is His
promise to him. Where David said God is my deliverer,
he will be your deliverer as well. Cling to these
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personal promises, and as you do so, you will know
that God is your sustainer and will take care of
you and give you hope in a despairing world. Dear friends,
believe it today, claim it today, and walk in great faith.
Love God, love your neighbor. Do those two things you
have a lifetime's worth of work to do. I'm David Chadwick.
Talk with you all next week.
Usa.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Hi everyone, I'm David Chadwick and this is News Talk
eleven ten, ninety ninety three WBT.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
In case you don't know, this is a faith and
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I could not do this on a weekly basis. Well,
I've asked ed Billick to open his microphone and join
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me for this hour. Happy Labor Day weekend. It's a
wonderful time of year. I'm going to spend some time
in just a little bit explaining to you the history
of Labor Day and its purpose, and also the value
of work and how God created work is a good thing.
You might not like getting up and going to work,
but it sure is better than the alternative laziness simply
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brings nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Ed.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Good morning to you. Thank you for joining me.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Morna were David, and tomorrow welcome to September already.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Already it's hard to.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Believe see you in September.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I'll not let you sing that one to me. Let's
take a moment and just start today's show with a
reflection on the shooting that happened this week. Do you
remember a little bit of the history of it where
it happened, And also it happened in a Catholic school,
and you of are the Catholic tradition, and I know
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this must have touched you as well.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
I was in Minneapolis a couple weeks ago, and I
think we'll talk about that a little bit later. But
this is not far from my son's house. And the
Catholic community in many Apolis is extremely strong. There's Catholic colleges,
there's numerous Catholic parishes. And yeah, usually in Wednesdays in
Catholic schools, the kids go to mass. We used to
do the same, and that's where all this occurred.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well, and the shooter identified as trans, And I'm going
to make this statement. I often go where angels fear
to tread, but I really believe trans people have mental illness.
You know, when God created people, he created the male
and female in Genesis one, verses twenty six and twenty seven,
and any alteration of God's original intent must have some
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kind of rebellion against God's order and that disorder we
would call mental illness, and him killing two kids and
then wounding another seventeen in Minneapolis is a sad event,
but also is something we need to recognize as not normal.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Well, David, you know that being said, the demonic exposures
this young person had and influences, I mean, there is
a degree of mental illness there.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That was just horrific.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, and the apostle Paul said, we're not warring against
flesh and blood, the powers and principalities of the darkness.
Who knows demonic influences and so many of these bizarre cases.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
That person needed a lot of help, and it's amazing
us in a society we can't see that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well. And then we have Jen Psaki going on television
and former Biden communications director, and she makes this bizarre
statement that what people don't want today are people's prayers.
They want action and probably gun activism and the relinquishment
of guns in people's possessions. And I just want to
make a statement right now, my prayers cannot change someone's
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free will. God gave us free will, And if a
mentally ill person takes a gun and wants to shoot children,
because of whatever reason, I can't change his free will. Well,
what I can do is pray for God's comfort to
come to the people who are going through agony, for
God's grace to give them ministering life, and hopefully somehow,
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some way the prayers do make a difference. But to
eliminate prayer from the public arena on something as horrific
as this, to me, is an awful statement about who
she is in her heart regarding faith.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I don't think she understands the power of prayer.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I don't think I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Pass judgment, but she needs to understand what the power
of prayer is.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
So we about to pray for.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Her right and all of us around the nation who
are concerned about this. What else can we do except
offer our prayers and condolences to the families and continue
to pray that people would come to faith in God
and make the right decisions about their life and order
their lives in accordance with God's order, especially in creation
design in Genesis chapters one and two.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I also think we ought to be disciples to others
and for those that need that are all in the darkness,
needs some help, reach out.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
To them absolutely, well, it's Labor Day weekend. Where in
the world did Labor Day come from? Well, interestingly, it
was formed, as I understand it, in eighteen ninety four
as the union bosses all throughout America decided to get
together and celebrate their hard work in making America, especially
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in its industrialization, a great nation and all the prosperity
that was coming to us by then. There was a
parade in New York City during that time period, which
then led to Grover Cleveland being offered a chance to
make this into a national holiday, which he did so.
Since eighteen ninety four, the first Monday in September has
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been called Labor Day. Why in the world is it
the first Monday in Labor Day being our date in Americas,
Because that's when the first parade happened. That's when Grover
Cleveland signed this declaration into past six.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Time of the year, summer vacations or over kids going
back to school, it's time to get back to work.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And actually a lot of people think that was the
plan between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, to give
a holiday where people could just do whatever they wanted
to do, have faith, family parades, whatever, just have a
time period where they could do whatever they want to do.
And honestly, ed, you just said something very important. Labor
is a gift from God. We see work being given
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to us in that creation design in Genesis one and two,
and God called it good manual labor, dress, tilling and
keeping the land. Mental labor, the idea of naming the
animals given to Adam. Mental and manual labor are both
gifts from God. We need to celebrate Labor Day tomorrow
and say it's a gift from God to work. And
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when you accomplish something, just like God did at the
end of creation, he said, this is good. When you
accomplish something, it feels good.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Well, David anove an endorp from but your counselor, I mean,
I trimmed the shrubs this week. How's down on my
hands and knees cleaning out the beads, trim and shrubs.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I felt good about it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Absolutely. And you look at a job completed, you say,
good work. And that is why labor is a good
gift from God. We should celebrate Labor Day accordingly. When
we come back, let's you and me talk about a
way we celebrated family. Recently, you took your boys on
a Midwest trip to baseball games. I took my two
sons last week to New York City to watch two
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New York Yankees versus the Red Sox games. Great times
with kids, great times with baseball. Let's talk about that
as a value in our lives. I'm David Chadwick, will
be right back.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Blessed my soul, Oh, my soulship his wholely name.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Si f.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So worship. There's just something powerful about praise. When we
do so, it causes the problems to get less and
less in our lives. However, you one. I'm David Chadwick
and this is News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine three WBT.
(09:37):
Welcome back to the show. Let me just take a
moment say this, Hey Charlotte, It's time for the sixth
annual WBT Little Heroes Blood Drive. On Thursday September, the
fourth WBT and one Blood Big Red Bus will be
at the Doghouse in Uptown Charlotte from ten am to
three pm. We'll be broadcasting live and encouraging you to
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make a life saving blood donation. It's the sixth annual
WBT Little Heroes Blood Drive. Thursday September the fourth at
the doghouse in Uptown. Let you help give life to
another person. Well, I have my friend ed Billick with
his microphone open during this time period and especially this
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segment ed because recently you decided to do special, special
something with your son in the Midwest. Talk about that please.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
He lives in St.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Anthony Park, David's between Minneapolis and Saint Paul, and he
moved there here a couple of years ago. But he
still has a lot of his stuff, like a lot
of you do you hold your kids stuff, you become
a storage unit. Anyhow, he wanted all our vinyl albums.
I don't play the vinyl albums anymore, so my wife
and I said you can have them. Okay, so you
have those. They're heavy, there's boxes of them, and it's
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some furniture and some other personal items he wanted to
take to his house. We've been planning this all summer,
but the premise was why we are tripped there. We
have he hit two or three major league ballparks. He
flies in celebrates his mom, Jackie's birthday. We take off
Thursday morning. We drive to Pittsburgh. We see Paul Skenes
in the Pittsburgh Pirates play the Cincinnati Reds. Being a
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big Pittsburgh guy, we stayed downtown right across from the
William Penn Hotel. It just brought back a lot of
memories us still building and all that. Next morning day
we get up and we drive to Milwaukee. Well, how
far is Pittsburgh for Milwaukee. It's a good ten hours
Ohio Turnpike going an easy pass. Here's the first Well,
there's a lot of God moments. Of course, in great conversations.
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You and I know the card time is special.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Can't spell love t I am Oh.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
He just told stories and reminisced.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You know.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Now he's forty two, so his remembrances when he.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Was a child and all that. But patience.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
The Indiana Tollway was a mess with construction, and you
use the ways app to say, okay, what time we're
gonna get there. Well, I figured we get there two
hours before the game. We can relax, have dinner, Da
da da, And so I'm starting to say we going
to really make make the game. San prayers myself and
the patients. With all the construction. We got out of Indiana.
We get into Chicago. In the Chicago Expressway, there's a
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car on fire. So waves took us through these neighborhoods.
We're in like we're we're like in front of golf courses.
When are we gonna get back on the highway. We
get the Milwaukee David and it was special. The Milwaukee
Brewer fans there's still they're still recognizing Bob Buker. They
did a celebration for him last week. I've never been
to Milwaukee at the stadium. It was wonderful. Forty three
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thousand people. The sausages ran around. You know, we're rooting
for the sausages in Pittsburgh. The parogi's are running around.
But you know, here's the first. The other thing, there's
a lady sitting next to me, and you know, first impressions,
you're talking to person probably my age. You guys, do
I want to get in a conversation. I finally broke
the ice and said hello to her. My son's talking
to another guy about his age. Her parents had season
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tickets to the Milwaukee Braves back in the sixties.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
She has working on and oh Uber dead all those guys.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
So we have wonderful conversations.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
And then she's telling me about when the Brewers came
in there just there was a whole history. It was
just wonderful. Her and I become like buddies. They're talking David.
After they sing take me out to the ballgame. They sing,
roll out the barrel and they hold their beverages, roll
out the barrel. It was just a wonderful time. The
uber driver took us back to the hotel, had a
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lot of stories about Bob Buker.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
It was so wonderful.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
The next day we drive to his house in St.
Anthony Park, rained all the way through Wisconsin. Uh, just
just great times, you know, having again more West Costin sausages.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
We go to the.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Twins Royals game on Sunday. I said to him, going
to Park, I'd love to see some of the old timers,
Tony Oliva. I hope I run into them once. You know,
there's Tony o Leva in the dugout, off to the dugout,
signing on the kidd. Guy goes to me, how was Tony.
My son goes, who's Tony o Leva. He's eighty seven
years old now, but he's out there signing.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
On the great hitters in all of baseball history.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Quality time with my son. It was wonderful. I flew
back on, you know, on on Tuesday, went to a
wonderful Catholic mass there in Minneapolis. So I mean just
it was just good time spent.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
How about you. Well, you know we didn't do this
planning our summers together. But let me just go back
real quickly in my life. When I was growing up
here in Charlotte, North Carolina, there was a minor league
baseball team called the Charlotte Hornets. It was the affiliate
of the Washington Senators who played way back.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
For We went to Minnesota Original Center, you remember, second
Senators went to Texas.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
But this is moving on.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I'll never forget when I was a kid, my dad
came home and he was a pastor, very busy trying
to build a church. One day, out of the blue,
he said, do you want to go to watch one
of the Charlotte Hornet baseball games? And I said, man, Dad,
I'd love to. And we went to the game. I
can remember getting out of the car walking with him
hand in hand, you know, trying to jump up and
look over the fence to see the big ball. We
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went to the game that night, and then Dad made
that a regular part of our lives together. Yet I
can remember end of the sixth inning, we'd go have
a snow cone together. He'd get grape, I'd get orange,
and we'd go sit in the same seats every single game,
and repeatedly we went to see those games. And I
didn't have this planned with you either. But some of
the players who came through the Charlotte system and ended
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up in and with the Nationals were Harmon Killerbrew, Joe Nassik,
the center field who played in the major leagues. And
the other one I remember more than ever, Tony Oliva,
who played here in Charlotte and became a great Major
League player and a wonderful person. As I understand, at eighty.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Seven years old, he's still signing on a bus.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Just amazing to me. So Dad and I had a
love affair with baseball that we shared together, and even
when he was ready to die at the age of
ninety one, he was watching the Atlanta Braves on television
on a regular basis. So baseball is entrenched in my heart.
Is something that I loved with my father. So this summer,
I have a friend of mine who is a partial
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owner of the New York Yankees, and he said to me,
would you ever like to come to a game in
New York and bring your boys with you?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
And have you ever been before?
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I'd never been before, so I said sure. So this
past week we flew up to New York, my two
sons and I and we spent forty eight hours. We
got to see two New York Yankees and Red Sox games,
which I think in baseball might be the most fierce
rivalry that there is in the Yankee Stadium in the
Owner's box. And then around that we also went to
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the Statue of Liberty on the Ferry Ellis Island. We
went to Ground zero. We also went to the top
of the Empire State Building. So in forty eight hours
we crammed a lot of life into that along with
two you and yours, my two sons, and we just
had the greatest time together. Like you, we just sat
and talked and we walked off from the Central Park.
We just talked about all of our life together, that
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which had happened over the last you know, thirty plus years,
as both of them have entered into their thirties and ed.
It was just a wonderful time together. And I just
sat there and went I shared with my boys what
my dad and I shared together for years. And I
would just encourage every dad out there to find something
that your sons love and go do it together and
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just spend that precious time together. For I still have
memories of going to baseball games with my dad. My
boys have now written me both and said, Dad, that
was one of the most fun times we've ever had
in our lives. As we moved through the rest of
our lives together, they'll always remember that and it was
an encouraging moment I'll never forget, I'm sure for you as.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Well, you know, And I was just thinking of this.
You're talking about quality time, spending memories. Just think about
Jesus spending time with his disciples and those quality moments
that he had, well he was on this earth, I mean,
the church grew from them.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, and there might be a dad out there, so oh,
I've lost these moments with my kids. They're now adults. No,
Jesus had three and a half years with these guys,
and he changed the world.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Create new ones, use new.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Ones, now, find a common interest that you just love.
And we also had some time interesting ed to pray
together up in New York and to develop that spiritual
life together, which I find so meaningful as well. Bottom line,
we'll never forget those forty eight hours together. They literally
were life transformed. Like a father's day show here, well,
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it's a labor day show and there's a lot of
work that goes into parenting. It's one of the greatest
works of all is to give yourself to your children.
Just remember, dear listeners, that one of the greatest labors
that we can give our children is to spend time
with them, and that means carving out time in your schedule.
I did that for forty eight hours. My boys did
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that as well. Both of them have their own careers
right now, but we spent that time together, and together
we reflected on our lives in the past years and
then it brought up a new focus and love together
for a future together. And baseball was that cement that
brought us together. For you Ed as well with your son.
It is a memory that we'll never forget. And here's
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what I said to my wife. Yeah, it costs a
little bit of money, but I like to pay money
to create memories. That is money well spent. I'm David
Chadwick and we will be right back.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
There's a joy that over all our souls because we
don't our God is.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
A console of the fot.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
What's your favor for?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Every day is a great day, because just a day
that the Lord has made. Hi everyone, I'm David Chadwick
and this is News Talk eleven ten, ninety ninety three WBT.
Welcome back to the show. And if you'd like to
hear this program in its entirety, go to WBT dot com.
Scroll down to the weekend shows, look for the David
Chadwick Show and you can hear this one kind of
(21:39):
Poe Piie Labor Day show that looks at a bunch
of different topics through the lenses of faith and values.
If you didn't hear the last segment on Ed's and
My trip to baseball time with our boys Ed in
the Midwest, Me and New York City, you will really
enjoy that.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Oh, there were so many other stories that go into
that that we can spin off, but we got to
move on.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
We could spend a whole show on that one alone.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
But it was a special time with children.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Special times, Yeah, for sure. You know what. That's what
I've learned through the years that when they're younger, you're
their father. As they grow up, you become their friend.
And that's a pretty cool thing. Well, listen, let's change subjects.
And you know, a couple of weeks ago, I did
a program on the Temple Mount. And the reason I
did that is because I believe with all my heart,
as you look at different Bible prophecies, we're always told
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to look at the mid East. And I've always believed
that as you look at prophecy and in times and
those kind of things, look at Israel. And Israel is
the face of the clock. The minute hand is the
city of Jerusalem, and the second hand is the Temple Mount.
All three of those Israel, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount
have to do with Biblical prophecy. So I did that
(22:51):
show on looking at the Temple Mount because just getting
a lot of attention today, I talked about how amazingly
there are signs in Jerusalem right now, brown signs pointing
to it says on the signs the Temple on the
Temple Mount. Well, people ask the question, I don't think
there is a third temple yet, is there? I mean,
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there was the one built by Solomon, then destroyed, then
rebuilt by Zerubabul and Herod now destroyed, and the Temple
Mount only has the Alaska Mosque, which is the third
holiest site of all of Islam. There's no temple on
the Temple Mount.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
When you say signs physical.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Sign physical road signs that say to the Temple on
the Temple Mount. In nineteen eighty seven, the Temple Institute
was formed with the whole idea of rebuilding the Third Temple,
that being Israel's most holy site. Not it's third like Islam,
it's most holy site. They want to rebuild the Temple,
and in nineteeneen eighty seven the Temple Institute began studies
(23:50):
and plans to rebuild the Third Temple. Well, it's causing
problems internationally because the Muslim Arab world is saying, no,
we don't want that temple up there. It's our third
most holy site in all of our world. It's not
going to happen. The Jews are saying, yes, it will.
In nineteen sixty seven, the Jordanians were given control of
the Temple Mount by the Jews because they knew that
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was a potential international conflagration, a fire starter, if you will.
But over the last couple few years especially more and
more Jews are going on the Temple mount and starting
to lay prostrate before the Lord, also to pray before
the Lord and before and Marylyn and I were just
(24:33):
there a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Well physically sits there.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
It is the Alaska Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Okay,
the third most holy sites for all of Islam. And
when Marilyn and I were there for two years ago,
we saw Jordanian guards walking around with AK forty seven's
telling people you can't pray unless you're a Muslim praying
on this holy site. Well, what's happening now is more
(24:58):
and more Jews are going up there actually challenging those
Jordanian guards and praying. Well, they're not going to do anything.
They're not going to cause a problem by firing upon
those Jews who are praying. One of them has been Gavier,
one of the most orthodox members of the Kanesset, who's
going up there to pray. But ed, here's my point.
This past week a person went up there, and some
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people say it's the first time in two thousand years.
I don't think so. I think it's the first time
in several years. But there's only been one or two
times this has happened. But a person went up there
and blew the show far. Now what's the show far?
That's a rams horn that if you look at biblically,
for example, in Isaiah twenty seven thirteen, there's this verse,
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and it shall come to pass on that day that
a great show far shall be sounded, and those lost
in the land of Assyria and those exiled in the
land of Egypt shall come, and they shall be lying
prostrate before the Law on the mount in the Holy
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Place in Jerusalem. Now that's just an amazing verse to
declare that when the show far is blown on the
Temple Mount, it will symbol lies to all of those
people who've been taken captive and are dispersed all around
the world to come back to Jerusalem. And it's a
sign that that is going to be the beginning of
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the building of the Third Temple on the Temple Mount.
Now what's so fascinating to me as well, is right
after this sho far was blown by a significant rabbi,
an important person in Orthodox Judaism, the Temple Mount came
out with just a simple three word statement, it is happening.
(26:46):
That's all they said. It is happening. Now, the response
from the Arab world they call this as provocative and unprecedented,
as a violation of the agreement between the Jews and
the Muslim world, particularly letting the Jordanians oversee the Temple Mount.
They're saying that prayers and singing where there is a
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mosque dedicated to Islam is only inviting all kinds of
potential conflict between Jews and Arabs. Yet, with us understanding
what the Temple Mount said, it is happening, it causes
all of us to pause as we look at the
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Temple Mount and the potential intense problems that will be
there if the Jews continue to persist, first of all,
going on the Temple Mount. And now there are thousands
going on the Temple Mount, prostrating themselves, worshiping the Lord,
praying to the Lord, and now blowing the show far,
which is the symbol of calling Jews to worship, calling
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them to repentance, and biblically calling them to war. And
with the blowing of the show far, and this statement
it is happening, is that the it being the rebuilding
of the Third Temple, You're just looking again at a
potential international problem that will allow the Jews to say, no,
we don't want a two state solution, which I think
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is going to come up in September. More and more
through the United Nations pressure on the Jews to have
a two state solution. They don't want a two state
solution because if you allow a Palestinian state to exist
right next to them, a state that does not want
the Jewish nation even to exist, you're only inviting more
international problems. Benjamin Netan, Yahoo, the Kanesse and all Jews
know that's going to be a problem. So that's why
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you may see more and more the establishment of a
Jewish state without another Palestinian state fighting against the two
state solution, only causing more international pressure in that part
of the world. Again, I keep asking myself, why does
the Bible teach that that part of the world, this
little sliverer land the size of the state of New
Jersey being the focus of all of prophetic events, And
(28:57):
that's what's happening exactly today.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
At any thought, David, we're I mean, an average American
is not even paying attention to this. Yeah, well, where
can you get where do you find this information? And
to make it sound so intense. Should we be concerned
as Americans?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Well, I think so, because what will happen there will
invite the world to be drawn into that conflict. We
have some prophecies in the Bible regarding a group of nations,
a coalition of nations basically revolving around Russia, Iran, and Turkey,
and also some nations from the South coming against Israel.
(29:36):
And as you look at that, you're seeing some strange
ideologies coming together from the Russians, the Iranians, and the
Turkey people, and they're all coming together with this common
hatred of Israel, thus fulfilling some kind of prophecy that
we read in Ezekiel thirty eight. So, yes, Ed, I
think we need to continue to look at this, and
(29:57):
I think we need to look at the nation of Israel,
the capital city of Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount as
a focus of international tension. The Bible says so, And
we're seeing it happen before our own.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
This conflict there's just passed down through generations, through generations,
we teach our young this and it's just it's it's always.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Scary, yeah, And everybody's trying to find an answer, some
kind of peace and security that will exist in that
part of the land.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
We've been trying for how long it's.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Been going on since day one, and certainly in nineteen
forty eight when Israel was formed, it has intensified for
the moment the entire world granted Israel a homeland on
May the fourteenth, nineteen forty eighth. The very next day,
seven Arab nations surrounded Israel and tried to extricate them
from the land. And you've seen this kind of conflict
(30:46):
happen in the fifties and in the nineteen sixties, and
then of course the Six Day War in nineteen seventy three,
when the Jews took back Jerusalem and the Temple mount
then allowed the Jordanians to oversee it. You've just seen
this conflict going on and on and on and on
to the point on October the seventh, October the third
excuse me, twenty twenty three, when Hamas invaded Israel at
(31:07):
being of great intensity and great global terror. And now
we have this as being a part of our obvious
reality today. So Ed, you're right, we need to pray,
we need to ask for God's peace upon that area
of the world. Psalm one, twenty two verse six, as
pray for the peace of Jerusalem. It is supposed to
be in our prayers. Regularly. My wife sets her alarm
(31:29):
clock every day at eleven fifty nine to pray for
the hostages. I hope all of us will continue to
pray those hostages would be released. If they were our children,
we'd want them released. And God again bring peace to
that area of the world. I'm David Chadwick and we
will be right back.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
There's peace, third old last darkness.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Hope that's it. Daughter, there's future Greeks.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
That's my daddy.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
That Jesus Christ is on.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
So I can face tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
For tomorrows in your Oh me you love prove Just
think you alwaisa.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
And it's a great word that's coming up. We're fighting
battles that God has already won. No matter no matter
what comes our way, we have overcome. We don't know
(34:53):
what God's doing in our moment, but we do know
what He's gone. We're fighting battles, dear friends, that God
has already won.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Everyone, I'm David Chadwick and this is News Talk eleven
ten ninety nine to three WBT. What a great word.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Uh, you know folks, We don't practice this stuff. It
just comes from his heart.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Well, my heart is I have to trust the Lord,
because where else can I go? You know, in all
the difficulties of this world, where else can I go
except to him?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
There's no other place.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
He only holds the words to eternal life and hope
in this world. Well Ed, thank you for joining me
in this show today. And I think I probably would
be remiss if I don't just comment on the Cracker
Barrel fiasco that has been going on this past week.
You know, this is a faith and values program that
tries to intersect faith and values with what's going on
in the world locally and globally. And the truth is,
(35:51):
Cracker Barrel has lost over the past week one hundred
and forty three plus million dollars ten percent of its
guaranteed income lost totally because of this rebranding that has
gone on by a fairly aggressive CEO and others that
are trying to make it more contemporary, maybe more woke
(36:14):
as well. They have taken Uncle Herschel, as he has
been affectionately nicknamed, off the logo. He's now been put
back on. By the way, at the end of this week,
in response to the tremendous financial loss that has occurred.
And this has been very interesting to follow for me
because it's yet another example of I think Middle America,
(36:37):
where a lot of these cracker barrels exist, rising up
and saying no, we don't want this to be rebranded.
We don't want one of our traditions from the past
that honors a cultural America that was more traditional, more conservative.
We will not allow this to happen. It'll be interesting
how it gets played out in the next weeks, but
(36:58):
I think this will cause leadership of cracker barrel to
pause and to say, wait a minute, maybe we went
too far. And you know, we spent a segment earlier
today talking about baseball and how you took your son
to three different Major League Baseball games in the Midwest.
I did the same thing in the last week with
my two boys up to New York City to watch
the Yankees. Baseball is a traditional part of American life.
(37:21):
It's like apple pie. And why at the middle of
the seventh inning around the country at baseball games, to
people rise for what's called the seventh inning stretch. Yeah,
and then everybody sings. Take me out to the ballgame.
They did that at Yankee Stadium last week. My guess
is they did that in the Yeah, it's just part
(37:42):
of tradition. And if people tried to change that tradition
in baseball, you'd have baseball fans by the millions all
around America saying no, that's a part of our life.
So there are traditions in America that woke politicians and
people cannot take away from, particularly the center parts of
American life, the traditional values in the planes, if you will,
(38:05):
in the non coastal areas where liberalism seems to prosper.
And I just believe Cracker Barrel is experiencing the divide
that's in America to day between Red states and blue states,
and whether you like it or not, the Red States
elected President Trump and other people as well, and there
is that desire for tradition to still be a part
of our American life.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
At first, I thought us as a big deal about nothing,
and then when you really understand the history, and then
I'm sitting here listening to you. You know, I grew
up with heinz Ketchup. That's the same label. Would I
be upset if they change the label? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
I got other things to worry about.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
It Freedo's Cornships. That's the same label from nineteen thirty two.
There are certain values faith and values show that people
gravitate to and the loyalty that people have with cracker
Barrel that that was a slap in their faces.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I can see it now. And what why do you
go down those words?
Speaker 2 (38:56):
I do that?
Speaker 5 (38:57):
Why do you upset your clientele? Do you not know
your customer base?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
And you know what's interesting as well, there is an
immense return to faith among gen Zers. As we have
seen people walk away from faith in the last years,
politicians and others are surprised at how many gen Zers,
the younger denomination, are returning to faith because they know
(39:23):
without faith, people will go awry to all different places,
and eventually our society will erode and will not be established.
So I just think there is an interesting phenomenon going
on right now on college campuses all throughout America. Right now,
there are thousands of students gathering in the public places
(39:43):
on those college campuses and they're worshiping, They're singing praises
to Almighty God. Something's going on in our nation where
younger people and I think older people as well, like
you and me Ed, are saying we cannot let the
traditional values erode from our nation, things that made this
nation great. We've got to reclaim them, reassert them as
(40:05):
a part of our lives. And I think cracker Barrel
is merely a microcosm of the macrocosm I think we're
seeing in the pushback there a pushback in America in
general among a lot of people like Ed Billick and
David Chadwick, and our children and our children's children. Because
I now have ten grandchildren soon to be twelve with
two new births coming, I see among my three children
(40:27):
a real desire for traditional American faith and values to
be a part of their family's life. So let's make
sure we do so. I think this is a part
of what we need to do. We need to push
back and say no, that's not what we believe. We
believe something different. And when that pushback comes, and it
especially affects the pocketbook, you'll have people change according to.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
Where do I spend my money?
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Now? That kind of thing. Hey, it still talks, don't it.
Certain money does reflect a lot of things. When we
only have a couple of minutes left in the program ed,
I'd like just to spend this time saying to everyone,
in whatever is going on in your life, turn to
the scripture and find words of comfort there. I recently
did a study of the Book of Psalms, all of
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the one hundred and fifty, and I looked at each
time there's a phrase that says my about God. And
I want to end our programs in the weeks and
months to come with those promises that say, for example,
in Psalm twenty eight to eight, that God is My strength.
For all of you out there who feel exhausted and
you just can't keep going on, you feel so tired.
(41:34):
Life has built you some horrible blows. Would you believe
that God is your personal strength, that He will come
alongside you today and give you the strength you need
to move forward? Or Psalm three to three that God
is your shield. A shield protects people in battle. As
you feel the battles raging around you, would you believe
(41:57):
that God is your personal shield, as David said in
Psalm three to three, for you, O Lord, are a
shield for me my glory and the lifter of my head.
That God will lift your head in all that you're
going through. Would you dare to believe in Psalm eighteen
to two that God is your fortress, that you can
go to Him, close the gate around you, and God
(42:20):
will protect you from all of the enemies that surrounds you.
Would you also believe in Psalm eighteen to two that
God is your deliverer whatever you're going through, that He
will deliver you from those problems, for that is His
promise to him. Where David said God is my deliverer,
he will be your deliverer as well. Cling to these
(42:43):
personal promises, and as you do so, you will know
that God is your sustainer and will take care of
you and give you hope in a despairing world. Dear friends,
believe it today, claim it today, and walk in great faith.
Love God, love your neighbor. Do those two things you
have a lifetime's worth of work to do. I'm David Chadwick.
Talk with you all next week.
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